Global Warming

[dogboy]

...is going to screw up my morning coffee

[Rumbas]

Looks like my basement last summer. Enjoy the show.

[littleman]

Damn!  So, is yours fixed at a curtain height while your neighbors have floating  docks?

[dogboy]

Nope, everyone has fixed docks.... mine just isn't as high as my neighbors that just added 1' to their seawall, and put in a brand new dock.  The house was built in 69, so whether the sea level rise is man made or not (I believe it is) it is definitely higher than what they were thinking 50 years ago.

I'm lucky that storm passed us by.  If it would have hit us, I think things would have been really bad here. I imagine its going to really cause some havoc up North. Millions are going to be without power.  You cant have that much wind, without trees taking out the power-lines in places like DC. I'm sure rc is already on heightened alert.



...the tides are as high as I've seen them in 5 years down here.  A1A (the road along the beach) is still flooded with seawater in Lauderdale.  Miami had worse flooding.  But this is nothing compared to what the mid-atlantic is going to see.  This thing is going to paralyze them with water and downed lines and trees.  As you get into the mountains of WV and PA they are looking at 1-2' of snow on top of trees that still haven't lost their leaves.  Its going to a bad one, I'm afraid.

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[hungrygoose]

that last pic makes florida look tiny.

[dogboy]

Sandy, a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 85 mph early Monday, was blamed for 65 deaths in the Caribbean before it began traveling northward, parallel to the Eastern Seaboard. As of 5 a.m. Monday, it was centered about 385 miles south-southeast of New York City, moving to the north at 15 mph, with hurricane-force winds extending an unusual 175 miles from its center. [...]  Forecasters said the combination could bring close to a foot of rain in places, a potentially lethal storm surge of 4 to 11 feet across much of the region, and punishing winds that could cause widespread power outages that last for days. The storm could also dump up to 2 feet of snow in Kentucky, North Carolina and West Virginia.
Airlines canceled nearly 7,500 flights and Amtrak began suspending train service across the Northeast. New York, Philadelphia, Washington and Baltimore moved to shut down their subways, buses and trains. Those cities shut down their schools, as did Boston. Non-essential government offices closed in the nation's capital. [...]  "I think this one's going to do us in," said Mark Palazzolo, who boarded up his bait-and-tackle shop in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., with the same wood he used in past storms, crossing out the names of Hurricanes Isaac and Irene and spray-painting "Sandy" next to them. "I got a call from a friend of mine from Florida last night who said, 'Mark, get out! If it's not the storm, it'll be the aftermath. People are going to be fighting in the streets over gasoline and food.'"

...and for the record, I'm not Mark's friend:)

But yeah, this looks like it's going to be a catastrophic storm. It's basically the entire Eastern seaboard.

[Gurtie]

well good luck all of you in the path. Hope it's not a bad as you fear.

[dogboy]

by all accounts, it appears it will be worse...

Water is already into Battery Park in NY, and they are expecting the big surge to come later tonight...

[dogboy]

this storm is even larger than Hurricane Katrina was. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has categorized the destructive potential of this storm to be 5.8 on a scale that goes from 0 to 6. So don't be fooled when you hear that this is only a "category 1 storm" or that the maximum winds will only be around 80 MPH.

It is the unprecedented size of this storm and the mind boggling storm surges that it is producing that truly make it dangerous. It is being reported that Hurricane Sandy is more than 1,000 miles across from one end to the other. Meteorologists have never seen anything quite like this before, and we are most definitely in unprecedented territory. One meteorologist is already projecting that this megastorm could cause 100 billion dollars in damage, but the true amount of devastation will likely not be fully known for weeks.

[hungrygoose]

Had news on all day.  They were saying in some areas the sea level may raise 10 foot, cannot imagine the devastation that could cause.  Could this delay the elections?

[dogboy]

It might.  And depending on how well the government responds, it could easily have a huge bearing on how the 60M people being affected could vote.

[dogboy]

Soldiers of the 3rd Inf Reg. continue to stand guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, despite adverse weather conditions. The tomb has been guarded continuously since 1937.

"They will not abandon their post," an employee who answered the Arlington Cemetery's phone confirmed to Yahoo News.

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