Sunday Night: Hurricane Sandy and Open Thread

By Jeralyn, Section Huricanes Katrina and Rita
Posted on Sun Oct 28, 2012 at 07:35:58 PM EST
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Sending good thoughts to all of you in the path of Hurricane Sandy. Let us know how you are doing, especially if you were asked to evacuate but decided to stay put.

Although I'm safe and dry here in Colorado, TalkLeft's servers are near LaGuardia airport. If they go down, here is TalkLeft's backup site -- you may want to bookmark it now because otherwise it will be hard to find.

Some links: National Hurricane Center Sandy Advisories; The weather channel's Hurricane Sandy page; the Wall St Journal live updating page. On Twitter: The Weather Channel's Hurricane Central; @FEMA @CraigatFEMA @Readydotgov @RedCross @NHC_Atlantic

. Or watch the Weather Channel's live streaming coverage on You Tube.

Mayor Bloomberg's response to a question about the protecting the inmates on Riker's Island: "Don't worry about anybody getting out." Is he term-limited yet? [More on the Rikers prisoners][More...]

You can also watch the storms on NY webcams. Here's Times Square. Also check out Instacane, updating the story of Sandy through photos posted by New Yorkers to Instagram (via Twitter.)

Update: Goodnight, New York. Here's a live webcam shot of the statue of liberty.

Check out the larger version here.

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We are far enough away from (5.00 / 3) (#4)
by Zorba on Sun Oct 28, 2012 at 08:33:46 PM EST

the coast that it won't (I hope) be devastating here, except for possibly some downed trees and branches, but I have gotten warnings from our phone and cable companies that there may be outages here because of flooding and high winds (nothing is underground here). These, plus loss of electricity, are to be expected out here.
We are prepared, as we have been for many years because we live way out in the boonies. My best wishes are with those closer to the coast.
And I am a bit worried about Daughter Zorba, who lives in Manhattan. Fortunately, she is not in the mandatory evacuation zone, and she is on the seventeenth floor of her building.
Be safe, everyone in the path of Sandy!

: I would have thought that, near Chicago (5.00 / 2) (#9)
by Towanda on Sun Oct 28, 2012 at 10:36:47 PM EST

we would be far away, as well.
But there are gale warnings on the Great Lakes, with forecasts for waves as high as 33 feet! with lakeshore flood warnings in Chicago and more on up the Lake Michigan western shoreline for hundreds of miles. We even are on the "possible power outages" map. I guess the lines will be starting here, too, for flashlight batteries, bottled water, etc.
I am just so happy to already have opted out of a conference this week, with the thousands of flights cancelled. I was going to have to get on a flight from NYC stopping here in the Midwest and then heading to the West Coast, where I was going to have to hop another flight for Vancouver . . . where the aftershocks continue from the big quake north of there.
A good week to stay home, I thought. But now -- gale warnings, flooding, power outages, yikes.

: Do you have a generator? (none / 0) (#23)
by Yman on Mon Oct 29, 2012 at 11:50:13 AM EST

We're right on the coast in NJ, but my in-laws are evacuating to the Poconos. We've been told to prepare for up to 7-10 days without power, but they were told it could be several weeks in their semi-remote area in PA.
Hope all