----> Hurricane SANDY. Possible catastrophe for New York City and Boston! <-----

[NaturalBornHustler]

Anyone who isn't concerned about this shit obv has never lived on the East Coast and had this type of storm hit them. Isabel was further out to sea and was mainly storm surge, and that slut drowned the entire East Coast and put coastal areas under 10 feet of water.

This one is tracking closer to land and could be worse, and it looks like where I am is going to take a direct hit.

And LOL at anyone who thinks damage can't be done because it isn't cold enough. GTFO of here, where do you live in Vegas or something?? Never experienced a thunderstorm? One that lasts 2 fucking days??

I hope this shit bangs a right hand turn, or else the whole east coast is going to be fucked.

[WillieMcFML]

bottomset is GOD

DON'T EVER DOUBT HIM

[Walter Sobchak]

Im just saying, as someone who has lived on the east coast on and off since birth, Ive gotten used to hearing all this before and being ruthlessly disappointed during execution.

Its just not the right season for this to have any substantive impact.

I suppose anything is possible and I guess Ill stock up on food because frankly I have to anyway since Ive been fishing up north for months basically.

Generally these type of storms defy reality. You are taking a HUGE tropical system and mixing it with cold weather. Right now the track is between DC and Boston. Basically point center is right over the Verrazono.

I'd really consider stocking up on bottled water. You can use it as currency when things deteriorate.

I would not be trading posts about steaks in Queens at this time. You have a window to get shit done, because if the reports are right about Sandy, you won't even be able to park at your local Wal Mart / Target.

Come on man don't you know on Druff's forum hurricanes are always way overhyped.

[LLL]

Here in central NJ I can't recall the last time that I was without power for more than an hour. 10+ years at least.

[NaturalBornHustler]

Holy shit, watching weather channel now and that fucker is going straight for mid atlantic coast right in the middle of all the major cities. Looks like eye will be hitting Philly/Baltimore/DC/Delaware direct hit with it actually not bending out to sea but continuing inland after it hits.

[sonatine]

Holy shit, watching weather channel now and that fucker is going straight for mid atlantic coast right in the middle of all the major cities. Looks like eye will be hitting Philly/Baltimore/DC/Delaware direct hit with it actually not bending out to sea but continuing inland after it hits.

not unlike your mother


BOOM.

[NaturalBornHustler]

WASHINGTON (AP) — An unusual nasty mix of a hurricane and a winter storm that forecasters are now calling "Frankenstorm" is likely to blast most of the East Coast next week, focusing the worst of its weather mayhem around New York City and New Jersey.

Government forecasters on Thursday upped the odds of a major weather mess, now saying there's a 90 percent chance that the East will get steady gale-force winds, heavy rain, flooding and maybe snow starting Sunday and stretching past Halloween on Wednesday.

Meteorologists say it is likely to cause $1 billion in damages.

The storm is a combination of Hurricane Sandy, now in the Caribbean, an early winter storm in the West, and a blast of arctic air from the North. They're predicted to collide and park over the country's most populous coastal corridor and reach as far inland as Ohio.

The hurricane part of the storm is likely to come ashore somewhere in New Jersey on Tuesday morning, said National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecaster Jim Cisco. But this is a storm that will affect a far wider area, so people all along the East have to be wary, Cisco said.

Coastal areas from Florida to Maine will feel some effects, mostly from the hurricane part, he said, and the other parts of the storm will reach inland from North Carolina northward.

Once the hurricane part of the storm hits, "it will get broader. It won't be as intense, but its effects will be spread over a very large area," the National Hurricane Center's chief hurricane specialist, James Franklin, said Thursday.

One of the more messy aspects of the expected storm is that it just won't leave. The worst of it should peak early Tuesday, but it will stretch into midweek, forecasters say. Weather may start clearing in the mid-Atlantic the day after Halloween and Nov. 2 in the Northeast, Cisco said.

"It's almost a weeklong, five-day, six-day event," Cisco said Thursday from NOAA's northern storm forecast center in College Park, Md. "It's going to be a widespread serious storm."

With every hour, meteorologists are getting more confident that this storm is going to be bad and they're able to focus their forecasts more.

The New York area could see around 5 inches of rain during the storm, while there could be snow southwest of where it comes inland, Cisco said. That could mean snow in eastern Ohio, southwestern Pennsylvania, western Virginia, and the Shenandoah Mountains, he said.

Both private and federal meteorologists are calling this a storm that will likely go down in the history books.

"We don't have many modern precedents for what the models are suggesting," Cisco said.

It is likely to hit during a full moon when tides are near their highest, increasing coastal flooding potential, NOAA forecasts warn. And with some trees still leafy and the potential for snow, power outages could last to Election Day, some meteorologists fear.

Some have compared it to the so-called Perfect Storm that struck off the coast of New England in 1991, but Cisco said that one didn't hit as populated an area and is not comparable to what the East Coast may be facing. Nor is it like last year's Halloween storm, which was merely an early snowstorm in the Northeast.

"The Perfect Storm only did $200 million of damage and I'm thinking a billion," said Jeff Masters, meteorology director of the private service Weather Underground. "Yeah, it will be worse."

But this is several days in advance, when weather forecasts are usually far less accurate. The National Hurricane Center only predicts five days in advance, and each long-range forecast moves Sandy's track closer to the coast early next week. The latest has the storm just off central New Jersey's shore at 8 a.m. on Tuesday.

As forecasts became more focused Thursday, the chance of the storm bypassing much of the coast and coming ashore in Maine faded, Cisco said.

The hurricane center's Franklin called it "a big mess for an awful lot of people in the early part of next week.

[mulva]

there's plenty of time for this storm to boomerang away from the tri-state area. let's hope it does. my town is littered w/ scenic roads w/ mature trees that always come down.

last october i lost power for over 1 week when we got almost 3 feet of snow

[NaturalBornHustler]

there's plenty of time for this storm to boomerang away from the tri-state area. let's hope it does. my town is littered w/ scenic roads w/ mature trees that always come down.

last october i lost power for over 1 week when we got almost 3 feet of snow

It isn't boomeranging anywhere but smack into the east coast, all the models are in agreement. Usually they will bounce off the coast and head out to sea, but this one is doing the opposite heading right AT the coast not skirting it. High pressure north and jet stream up the coast trapping it, nowhere else to go.

[mulva]

there's plenty of time for this storm to boomerang away from the tri-state area. let's hope it does. my town is littered w/ scenic roads w/ mature trees that always come down.

last october i lost power for over 1 week when we got almost 3 feet of snow

It isn't boomeranging anywhere but smack into the east coast, all the models are in agreement. Usually they will bounce off the coast and head out to sea, but this one is doing the opposite heading right AT the coast not skirting it. High pressure north and jet stream up the coast trapping it, nowhere else to go.

i am completely fucked then. my roof is shot. this storm could rip it off like in the wizard of oz. not to mention the 30 gigantic pines close to my house in my backyard

i think i might have to go west into nw jersey or pa

[chinamaniac]

This quite possibly is the Perfect Storm. In a rare event, you have a POWERFUL hurricane getting ready to collide with a cold front in the Northeast. The system as far as size will be enormous and will cover multiple states. When a large tropical system hits a cold front, BOOM.

Trees are heavy in that they are losing their leaves. This will cause many trees to collapse, causing widespread power outages. If the forecasts are correct, the Northeast will not lose power for weeks, but rather months as winter arrives.

Human suffering could rival that of Katrina, or worse.

Updates will follow. Forget the Weather Channel, CNN or Fox News for coverage on Hurricane Sandy. All you need to know is what I post here, on Poker Fraud Alert.

Here is the latest track. China, begin stocking up on water, non perishable food and get yourself a couple 1/5ths. You will need the booze to stay warm.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at3...large#contents

Thanks for the update. I'm actually going to go and stock up now big time.

Appreciate the update

[Dan Druff]

Generally these type of storms defy reality. You are taking a HUGE tropical system and mixing it with cold weather. Right now the track is between DC and Boston. Basically point center is right over the Verrazono.

I'd really consider stocking up on bottled water. You can use it as currency when things deteriorate.

I would not be trading posts about steaks in Queens at this time. You have a window to get shit done, because if the reports are right about Sandy, you won't even be able to park at your local Wal Mart / Target.

Come on man don't you know on Druff's forum hurricanes are always way overhyped.

[Dan Druff]

You're on Long Island, Sonatine?

Im actually in the Catskills right now but I should be back in LI in the next few days.

I may actually cop a generator off Amazon because why the fuck not, honestly.

My mom spent a few summers in the Catskills with her family, as a teenager in the early '60s.

Was kind of like Dirty Dancing, except she didn't have sex with Patrick Swayze, and nobody put her in the corner.

She saw a then-unknown Rodney Dangerfield performing, and he was getting paid $12 per week plus room and board. That is still less than $100 by today's standards.

She thought that he sucked big time and had no chance of making it. I believe that his act probably did suck back then, and he likely refined it in subsequent years.

About 30 years later, I hacked Rodney's answering machine to celebrate this.

[sonatine]

Im actually in the Catskills right now but I should be back in LI in the next few days.

I may actually cop a generator off Amazon because why the fuck not, honestly.

My mom spent a few summers in the Catskills with her family, as a teenager in the early '60s.

Was kind of like Dirty Dancing, except she didn't have sex with Patrick Swayze, and nobody put her in the corner.

She saw a then-unknown Rodney Dangerfield performing, and he was getting paid $12 per week plus room and board. That is still less than $100 by today's standards.

She thought that he sucked big time and had no chance of making it. I believe that his act probably did suck back then, and he likely refined it in subsequent years.

About 30 years later, I hacked Rodney's answering machine to celebrate this.

Rofl yeah there is a long history of not-famous-at-the-time comedians making the rounds in various ski resorts and whatnot up here, especially the Poconos, but I havent heard about it much since the 80s.

[fatman548]

I am at work and do not have access to the Weather Channel, but if this is really serious, the forecasters always take off their sports jackets. Do they have them off and their sleeves rolled up?

[sonatine]

I dont think so no.

[sonatine]

That said Im not by a tv.

[Dan Druff]

Right now Monday is forecasted to be 60 degrees in NYC, with 37 mph winds and heavy rain. That's the worst day in the forecast.

[Jasep]

This thread right now is actually the first time I heard about any of this Hurricane stuff, anyone know what is going to happen and when it is going to happen in the Rhode Island / Connecticut area?

[NaturalBornHustler]

This thread right now is actually the first time I heard about any of this Hurricane stuff, anyone know what is going to happen and when it is going to happen in the Rhode Island / Connecticut area?

Watch this.

http://www.weather.com/weather/video...sandy-go-31851

This fucker is massive, and will cover pretty much the entire East Coast.