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A very prominent and respected National Weather Service meteorologist wrote on Facebook last night, “I’ve never seen anything like this and I’m at a loss for expletives to describe what this storm could do.”
This sounds quite terrifying...
Yes, I've never seen anything like it either nor have our modern meteorological tools. As I wrote yesterday afternoon, we don't know whether our tools are up to the task because no storm of this nature has occurred in the modern meteorological era.
Originally posted by heineken
reply to post by awakehuman
can somebody pls summarize the video since im at work and got no audio :/
i will appreciate it!!
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON HURRICANE SANDY
FEMA Headquarters. Washington, D.C.
1:55 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Well, good afternoon, everybody. Obviously, all of us across the country are concerned about the potential impact of Hurricane Sandy. This is a serious and big storm. And my first message is to all the people across the Eastern seaboard, Mid-Atlantic, going north, that you need to take this very seriously and follow the instructions of your state and local officials, because they are going to be providing you with the best advice in terms of how to deal with this storm over the coming days.
We just had an excellent meeting with the FEMA team here, the various agencies that are in charge, including the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy and others that are going to need to respond very quickly.
Under Craig Fugate’s leadership here at FEMA we’ve had a chance to talk to the regional officials as well. And I just had a phone call with the governors of the potentially impacted states, as well as some of the major cities in the region.
At this stage, everybody is confident that the staging process, the prepositioning of resources, commodities, equipment that are going to be needed to respond to this storm are in place. But as Craig has emphasized, this hasn’t hit landfall yet, so we don’t yet know where it’s going to hit, where we’re going to see the biggest impacts. And that’s exactly why it’s so important for us to respond big and respond fast as local information starts coming in.
I want to thank all the members of the team for the outstanding work that they’re doing. But the other thing that makes this storm unique is we anticipate that it is going to be slow moving. That means that it may take a long time not only to clear, but also to get, for example, the power companies back in to clear trees and to put things back in place so that folks can start moving back home.
So my main message to everybody involved is that we have to take this seriously. The federal government is working effectively with the state and local governments. It’s going to be very important that populations in all the impacted states take this seriously, listen to your state and local elected officials.
My message to the governors, as well as to the mayors, is anything they need, we will be there. And we’re going to cut through red tape. We’re not going to get bogged down with a lot of rules. We want to make sure that we are anticipating and leaning forward into making sure that we’ve got the best possible response to what is going to be a big and messy system.
So again, thank you, everybody. Craig, would you like add to something?
Originally posted by heineken
from the statue of liberty cam things are not looking good at all
edit on 29-10-2012 by heineken because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by awakehuman
Originally posted by heineken
from the statue of liberty cam things are not looking good at all
edit on 29-10-2012 by heineken because: (no reason given)
Situation will get bad as day progresses
Originally posted by bellagirl
roughly what time is it expected to hit new york ?
A superstorm threatening 50 million people in the most heavily populated corridor in the nation gained strength Monday, forecasters said.
The National Hurricane Center said early Monday that Hurricane Sandy increased its top sustained winds from 75 mph to 85 mph, with higher gusts, and was picking up speed.