Hurricane Sandy

[Atticus Finch]

You'd think they would have checked the weather forecast before sailing around in that area...

Yes. You'd think. I mean they call this place "The Graveyard of the Atlantic" for good reason.

AF

 

[KilroyCD]

The wind is really howling here. I wonder how much longer I'll have pow

 

[sheeplady]

You'd think they would have checked the weather forecast before sailing around in that area.

There is some Coastguard video on The Weather Channel of them winching up survivors from the Bounty.

Things seemed to gotten quieter here for the last half hour or so - of course as I type this, I hear the wind again and the lights do that flickery thing...

I think they were trying to outrun it. Hurricanes are pretty damaging to boats left in port and it's likely with a hard hit the boat would have been destroyed- sometimes captains try to out run the storm. Apparently the ship was taking on 2 feet of water an hour- that is some scary stuff. Abandoning ship is the last thing you do- after you've tried everything else- as you're safer on the vessel than off most of the time. Things must have been horrific to make that call. I feel really sorry for the two people who died, but thank goodness they had gumby suits and were able to make it on the emergency raft and it wasn't a total loss of ship and crew.

I've known a lot of people who work on the remaining tall ships, and it's a sad loss for the community of shipmen and shipwomen to lose one of their own, possibly two.

 

[Atticus Finch]

News now reporting that there is three feet of water on the trading floor of the NYSE.

AF

 

[Yeps]

Gonna go down to the river and see if it is flooding yet. I'll try to get a picture or two.

 

[Zemke Fan]

Funny, boy, you be Chris.

 

[KilroyCD]

Funny, boy, you be Chris.

I was wondering if anyone would catch that...

 

[Yeps]

Down at the Delaware river.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

The complete HMS Bounty rescue:

[video=youtube;UDlc1slA8PA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDlc1slA8PA[/video]

 

[TM]

You know, being in California, I really prefer earthquakes. There is no notice, and then it's over.

NOT like what we are seeing now on the east coast!

I hope the Loungers at risk there come out all right. I'm worrying about you.

Tony

 

[Auld Edwardian]

At present it's 50F. with a light rain and gusts up to 57 MPH. There were a few times earlier this evening that we thought that we were going to lose power, as the the light have flickered several times. The last flicker was just a few minutes ago. I have also heard some "bangs" outside from time to time, but nothing has hit the house as far as I can tell. We have a friend that lives only three blocks from here that lost power around 8:00 PM. I'm hoping that the large trees around our home stay put, and the power stays on.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

The Bounty's last reported position: Time now 2012-Oct-29 19:27 UTC. Position N 34°22' W 074°15'.

-dixon cannon

 

[DanielJones]

http://news.yahoo.com/ap-photos-images-east-coast-superstorm-180927443.html
Plenty of images here.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[Dixon Cannon]

More good images: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49560895/displaymode/1247/?beginSlide=1

-dixon cannon

 

[Kishtu]

Frightening stuff. Please look after yourselves, ladies and gentlemen. You're all too precious to lose.
(And besides, you know too much...)

 

[Quigley Brown]

The wind at around 12:30 this morning was incredible! I have no idea of its speed, but it was buffeting my house so bad as I was laying in bed I was expecting it to become detached from its foundation. I'm on the third floor and I was being rocked back in forth....it didn't put me to sleep, though.

 

[esteban68]

sadly the Bounty has gone more sadly too is the reported loss of two crew members ...one a lady crew member died later on shore the other the captain has not yet been found...stay safe people.

 

[Harry Gooch]

Role Call - How did everyone do during "Sandy"?

Wore my cloth cap this morning. Not really wide brim weather in Toronto.

A building on Queen Street in Toronto burned down last night. Extra firefighters were needed to contain the embers during the high winds.

How about members in the more severe path of the storm?

Snow in West Virginia?

Sing out.

High regards to all,

Harry.

 

[MrAcheson]

Lots of rain and wind in Delaware. We lost power at 5pm on Monday night and didn't get it back until 8am this morning. But we've been pretty lucky. Our only loss is a bunch of food in the fridge that spoiled.

 

[Hoyt Clagwell]

I lost a drive shed to the wind at about 2 this morning. Im wearing a toque today.