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Author Topic: Hurricane Sandy Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 10-28-2012 06:03 PM                     Surprised that there doesn't seem to have been any mention of it. It's 23:00 here in London and our clocks went back this morning, so the MTA transport shutdown should be starting about now. I hope everybody on that part of the East coast that can be is home and safe, and that everybody will be ok.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-28-2012 07:49 PM                     I just canceled my call for tomorrow/Tuesday due to Sandy. Our Governor (Maryland) has declared a state of emergency...closed the state government for Monday and also is shutting down all mass transit...bus, train...you name it. In case you don't think it is serious...Atlantic City has closed the Casinos!!!!  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 10-29-2012 03:42 AM                        There was also a tsunami warning for Hawaii over the weekend, but thankfully it turned out to be essentially a false alarm. The weather seems to be weird everywhere. Although, admittedly, it's nothing like as big a deal as what is happening on the east coast of the US, we had our first snow of the winter here in north-east England on Friday. I can't ever remember it being this cold as early as late October. And this is coming after one of the wettest years in Britain since records began. And south-east California had an unusually hot summer, too: I was in Loma Linda from late July to early September, where the temperature went well into three figures (of fahrenheit) every day. Everyone was talking about it, not least when the electricity bills for the air conditioning started hitting doormats. Hoping that everyone stays safe and that the disruption is minimal.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 10-29-2012 06:52 AM                        It would appear that Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas are relatively safe as of Monday at 7 am. Virgina may be more troubled. Besides what the talking heads mention, heavy rain saturates the ground. Lack of tree pruning, keeping old poles in place 25 years past their replacement dates, and heavy wind are likely to cause troubles due to trees becoming uprooted. I do not see heavy flooding near Washington D.C.. Much worse Northward. Louis  |  IP: Logged Kerry Fleming Film Handler Posts: 46 From: Boynton Beach, FL, USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 10-29-2012 08:35 AM                        We dodged the bullet down here in Florida again. Sandy passed by us several hundred miles off shore. Tore up the Bahamas. Few days of higher than normal winds & some rains (not as wet a tropical storm as Iasac) was all we got thank God. Sandy has evolved into a different storm since. Folks in the northeast are in for a rough ride!  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 10-29-2012 11:55 AM                     We are starting to see the winds and alittle rain now. Between 4-8pm tonight it's going to get worse and landfall around Atlantic City area around midnight. Hurricane Sandy sank the Tall ship H.M.S. Bounty off the North Carolina coast last night. They used this ship for the 1962 film remake with Marlon Brando.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 10-29-2012 03:30 PM                        The Tsunami warning in Hawaii was not a false alarm Leo because a series of very small waves did strike the islands especially at the harbor at Kahului on the island of Maui with a five foot wave at about 10:30 Saturday night. I was watching DRACULA on Blu Ray when the civil alert alarm went off at about 7:30 in the evening. I stopped watching the movie and tuned in to all the news reports until it was determined that there were not going to be any destructive wave actions in Hawaii Sorry to hear about the sinking of the replica of the HMS Bounty that was used in MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY, Bill. When the Blu Ray of the movie was released several months ago, I was very intrigued with the documentary about the construction of the vessel. -Claude  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 10-29-2012 05:58 PM                     Pulled this off a friends FB page:  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-29-2012 10:21 PM                     That's a Photoshopped fake. There's various other fakes being passed around on the 'net. The folks making these things need a slap across the mouth.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-29-2012 11:09 PM                     It's the wrong kind of cloud for a hurricane. That's a picture of a supercell. (A giant thunderstorm that often generates tornadoes.) Up here, we're just getting rain and lots of wind. It's supposed to get up to around 50 kts. tomorrow. I was supposed to have a school group at the TREC tomorrow but they cancelled on account of weather. On the other hand, there was a school group, today, that got rained out of the outdoor activity they had planned so they came to the theater to get out of the rain. So, all together, it balanced out. I'm not minimizing this storm in the least bit but I'm getting fed up with all cries of, "The sky is falling" that are plastered all over the news! I'm sick of people here in Pennsylvania screaming about the hurricane that's coming. No, we're not going to get a hurricane. We're going to get the remnants of a post-tropical depression. I'd like to see a hurricane that can make it over the Appalachians get this far inland. I'm not saying this isn't bad weather. Yes! It IS bad weather! Pretty DAMN bad weather! But, up here, all we have to do is pull down the storm windows, batten down the hatches and stay inside until it blows over. If we're lucky, we won't have any big trees come down. And pray for the people in New York City and New Jersey!  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 10-30-2012 07:28 AM                     From the pictures we're seeing here this morning it's looking pretty bad. Water pouring into Hoboken PATH station, so its tunnels are probably flooded. Several Subway lines flooded, Brooklyn-Battery tunnel (Can't remember the new name for it) flooded several feet deep. Queens-Midtown tunnel closed. Holland tunnel flooded, not heard anything about the Lincoln tunnel. A 12 foot high underground car park entrance flooded to within a few inches of the top. Most of lower Manattan likely to be without power for several days. A fire at ground level; not sure what that is, gas pipes? Underground transformer vault? A number of deaths, several from falling trees, one electrocution from wires brought down. It's going to take a lot of work to put this right; I hope everybody is safe.  |  IP: Logged Alan Plester Expert Film Handler Posts: 209 From: great yarmouth england Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-30-2012 08:20 AM                     For anyone round the area,just hoping you will all be safe, my thoughts are with you.I cannot begin to imagine what it must be like. This is going to take a very long time to fix.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 10-30-2012 08:25 AM                     Stephen the tunnels new name is Hugh L. Carey tunnel. The Lincoln Tunnel was still open. In Manhattan most of the power outage is 30th Street going towards downtown to Battery Park. All transit is out for now (MTA, New Jersey Transit, Path). Right now it's just raining and some wind here.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 10-30-2012 09:05 AM                     a report from a BBC crew said that they were around 33rd Street, and just about everything South of there was out, so that sounds about right. From the picture of Hoboken PATH station by the ticket gateline at the East end of the station it doesn't look like that's going to be open for a while. There was also a picture of a Subway station flooded at track level much further North, 86th Street I think it was. There seems to be some fairly serious damage to electrical infrastructure. When the PATH tunnel was flooded between the WTC site and Exchange Place it took quite some time to fix the damage and get Exchange Place station open again; I know that time they were doing other work as well as fixing the flood damage, but this time the flooding seems to be much more widespread. Obviously, the main bridges would have been closed during the high winds but there is no information as to weather there is any structural damage. Presumably they will have to be fully inspected before they can be re-opened. When you've got a city made up mainly of islands it's bound to rely heavily on bridges and tunnels and if several of them are out of service for some time that's going to cause real problems. I fear it's going to be a long time before everything is fully back to normal. My thoughts are with you people over there.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 10-30-2012 10:35 AM                     The mayor just said it might take 3-4 days for some of the MTA subway to be restored to some service. The PATH will take longer to return to service. Limited MTA bus service will slowly start today with no fares. All bridges will reopen around noon today except one or two on east side. The Holland tunnel will remain closed because of flooding. All train service to the city will remain down because of flooding.  |  IP: Logged

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