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Con Ed Expects 'Record' Outages As Tides Threaten Shut Down In Lower Manhattan
Con Ed's SVP John Miksad just hosted a call with some relatively ominous comments. As they expect record outages from wind and rain damage, it is the tides and the flooding that is of most concern as the executive noted that they may cut power to Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan if tides reach forecast ranges:
- *CON ED EXPECTING `RECORD' OUTAGES FROM WIND, RAIN DAMAGE :ED US
- *CON ED MAY SHUT DOWN LOWER MANHATTAN SYSTEM DUE TO HIGH TIDES
- *CON ED: `NOT OKAY' IF TIDES REACH FORECAST 10-12 FOOT LEVEL
- *CON ED: 6,500 NYC BUILDINGS, 2800 BROOKLYN CUSTOMERS AFFECTED
Flood surge map and power outage links below...
Click Map for link to strom surge forecasts...
and here is NOAA's current forecast for tides...
and outages so far:
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DEAR SANDY, PLEASE SWEEP THE BERNANK OUT TO SEA. THANKS
And provide the sharks with an ample supply of Tums... Amen
What is the over/under on the storm used for earning disapoints thru March, April, May June,,,,,,,,,?????
I'd say it's a Lock
How much can a Black Swan poop after it has had its fill?
I'm sure everything's going to be just fine.
"The Tide Is High"
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
I'm not the kind of girl who gives up just like that
Oh, no
It's not the things you do that tease and wound me bad
But it's the way you do the things you do to me
I'm not the kind of girl who gives up just like that
Oh, no
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
Number one, number one
Every girl wants you to be her man
But I'll wait my dear 'til it's my turn
I'm not the kind of girl who gives up just like that
Oh, no
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
Number one, number one
Every girl wants you to be her man
But I'll wait my dear 'til it's my turn
I'm not the kind of girl who gives up just like that
Oh, no
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
[Repeat and ad lib until fade]
Ahhhh. The Good Ol' Days, when chicks could be skanky-hot without resorting to tats and body piercings as props...
She was no stranger to needles.
Or cigarette burns.
“He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.”
James Woods would never say that...
hunh.. i thought that was kelly ripa
Debbie Harry...smokin hot, great pic, thanks for sharing.
I enjoyed "Hanging On The The Telephone"
How long will the ObamaPhones last without a recharge? When they die expect the chatty degenerates to go apeshit.
No crisis here since NYC was in need of a good pressure wash anyway.
Although "dumpster diving" will now require scuba gear...
father, is that you father? oh happy day we thought you were roadkill
Remember...
Nine lives Junior!
"Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets"
- Travis Bickle, 1976
Not enough!
What I can't wait to read is, how many hundreds of billions the rest of the Country will be on the hook for, because 5% or less of New Yorkers/Jersey residents have rain and flood damage insurance!!! "
Who da fuck needs that shit yo, when's da last time it flooded in New York and Jersey, huh"
Dont worry East Coasters, daddys got your back, you can still sit in the middle of a fucking hurricane zone, just like your idiot cousins in the gulf, and the rest of us will pay the fucking bill! Now go fucking vote for Romney on early voting so you can get back home in time to fill out all those FEMA papers and National Insurance forms, so you can get your fucking money your "owed and entitled" too, right???
Oh your insulted?? What.......Government ONLY sucks when it's those other poor motherfuckers you dont like getting the free shit, the welfare, the entitlements, the subsidies, the FEMA checks.......but when its you New York, Jersey assholes who need it, holy shit you watch how many fucking rich ass hands go in the air and scream its gods will, now give me my money to rebuild!!!!
Just another day in the life of the American Hypocrisy!!
Do you guys in the midwest have tornado insurance? How about earthquake insurance on the west coast? I'm not being a wise ass, I'm actually curious.
I actually own property in both the Midwest and California amazingly, and I know for a fact that a majority of property owners in both the SF Bay area and LA bason do have earthquake insurance, it's pretty easy to do, it's just check the box and pay the increased premium! In the Midwest, it's a little trickier, because wind damage is standard to most policies, we did a claim last year for both wind and a damn lightning strike, however tornados involve rain as well and the insurance companies love to play games with that shit, so if you live in the Midwest, you need to make sure your policy covers tornando damage!!!
Which was my "wiseass" point in the original post, you live on the ocean, but you don't think a hurricane will hit you, but when it does, 95% of upper east coasters will believe in their hearts, it's not their fault they lost everything, AND it's therefore the govts job to make them whole again!!!!
And after the checks are written, they'll head back to their "new York way of life" and probably have the opinion, the problem with America is fucking food stamps!!!! Arrogant, self centered, hypocrisy at its finest!!!!
Here(IN - CMI hdqtrs) we're covered for tornado/wind damage but you have to pay extra for flood damage coverage. As many found out the hard way in 2008. The way I understand it the average homeowner's policy doesn't cover flood damage anywhere.
My basement was always getting flooded out. I did everything - drain tiled, put in a sump pump, laid a cement floor in the root cellar (I could have had a nice patio for that), landscaped. Still the water came in. The only flood my insurance company covered was for the time the pipes froze.
This is a prime oportunity for politicians to bolster our infrastructure and boost the economy. Don't take this the wrong way, but I truly believe that the fiscal response to this natural 'disaster' could be the flame that lights a fire under the global recovery.
Yea. And let it burn. Burn it real good.
Not as good as an alien invasion, but I think he is on to something.
I'm going to go the other way and just say "burn it down." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySCRrMKru94
"CON ED EXPECTING `RECORD' OUTAGES FROM WIND, RAIN DAMAGE :ED US"
Don't you need rain to have rain damage?
I just had to check in to yawn.
>>YAWN<<
Where were all the glamour microphone squeezers when Sandy hit Haiti?
Mayor Bloomberg should, immediatly after the storm, launch a program to build a 30-foot seawall around Manhatten. This will massively stimulate the New York area economy, creating many thousands of new construction jobs.
If re-elected, Obama should announce that the battle with global warming has been lost, and launch a nationwide program to build similar seawalls around all major cities in low-lying areas. For the more spread-out places, new cities should instead be designed and created nearby on areas more than 50 feet above sealevel.
With GDP growing over 10 percent per year as a result, the country can easily afford to run an 8 percent per year deficit, while still lowering debt-to-GDP; we'll grow our way out of debt!
Perpetual motion rules! +1
"Mayor Bloomberg should, immediatly after the storm, launch a program to build a 30-foot seawall around Manhatten."
And then pump in seawater to fill the fucker to the brim ;o)
That would be devastating, considering that his election supposedly marked the "moment where the rise of the oceans began to slow." Lol.
Romney should run with that, showing video of the east coast under water with voiceover from Obama's ridiculous promise. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0tuAJkbUWU
+1 BTW
+1. Your post started with italics, so I couldn't green arrow you.
perfect, just like the wall on the border, or in israel, or berlin. But it might be a good way to keep wall street jailed?
I agree with your suggestions Matt. However I disagree that the fight against climate change has been lost. Why not finance the infrastructure spending with green technologies?
So your saying the wall should be made if trees and grass instead of concrete and steel?
Yeah, let's give MORE taxpayer dollars to companies like Solyndra. Genius!!!!
The only 2 green technologies that would make a difference - thorium reactors and converting garbage into oil - have been shut down.
Perhaps even rename the city Palestine?
I'm pretty sure it's been proven disasters add nothing to an economy, in fact the opposite takes place. Productive dollars are spent -- in fact twice -- on the same thing. You may have an uptick in spending and employment, but it's temporary.
Disasters, proven or not , add to power. Disaster-mongering, proven by media covering of a little hard rain and winds for effect, add to total power. Shut down the tunnels! Rediculous! Shut down discovery channel so
to mangage birth control !? Not just total power, any power seems to corrupt, disaster-mongering clearly shows the ugly face of government controlled disaster.
I'm sure there will be a number of fires lit as a result of this storm...
So what is the impact to insurers?
Lots of insurance claims. Therefore, massive outflows of money. Therefore, massive drop in stock price. At least, that's the idea.
MDB,
BREAKING: Paul Krugman in post masterbatory coma. In the end, all the broken windows did him in. Let us pray...
What a way to distract investors from a horrible earnings season. Brilliant.
Goldman Sachs all sealed up, probably with sandbags full of money: https://twitter.com/GregRoumeliotis/status/262937739681464320/photo/1
Weeeeee!!!!! GDP positive or negative?
Would truly suck if some rogue state decided to act agressively during this time of crisis.
It would be even worse if Obama decided to act.
His entire presidency has been an act.
-1 for redundant
he already said rogue state
Give it up Gully Fool.
Exactly what a rogue state would say...
Like the Iranians with their secret weather machine...
Did they steal it from Karl Rove?
It's not the Rove Mark III "Rainmaker" that I am worried about...
It's the unseen Iranian landing craft that are being blown ashore towards Wall Street under the cloud cover that have me biting my nails...
GF,
Keep your eye on Texas. A very rouge state.
Yeah, lots of rouge on them Texans.
"There's only two things come from Texas...";o)
".........and you ain't no steer, boy!"
Of course. Our government would never waste a crisis.
Good idea to pull cash from your ATM, just to be safe.
And nothing of value was lost.
Consistent with tide table, full moon @ 3:50pm
High tide battery park; 12:50 A.M.
Wonder how much gold will disapear as a result of this disaster. Gold does disolve in water doesn't it?
Still - as long as the Fed says it's there that's all that apparently matters.
Especially with Aqua Regia
Dissolve is the new vaporize.
Seas are choppy today. A boating accident sounds plausible.
She's already claimed The Black Pearl
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/1029/The-story-behind-the-HMS-Bounty-sunk-by-Sandy-off-N.C.-coast-video
All that gold held on behalf of foreign non-nation vasall states has had disolveled upon herself into a state of her own. Kind of divine, you know, where sovereignty as a last resort is
just a straw you got to drink the free coke of. Germans won`t choke, they are done by for a century and by now and just about dying off of old age.
I assume you mean besides the U.S.? Right?
So I wonder what crimes the politbureau are committing while our attention is on Sandy. Besides stealing the rest of Germany's gold.
Here's a bunch of power outage maps:
http://modernsurvivalblog.com/weather-preparedness/power-outage-maps/?ut...
Sorry Germany the NY Feds basement was flooded and all of your gold was ruined by the flood water. It had to all be thrown out. Hopefully you had it insured.
Gold and water never mix well. One always sinks to the bottom, often never to be seen again. Or so i've infered by multiple boating accidents descibed here at ZH
And miraculously all our fiat survived! Here, have some!
Here is a gif that compares Irene and Sandy:
http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/hurricane-sandy-compared-to-hurricane-irene-gif.452726390/
The comments in that thread are murder. Worth it for that alone. :)
What the hell is up with that taco?
Let no good crisis go to waste...signed, the wasters of the country...
"the wasters of the country"
Is that like "The Coward of the County"?;o)
I'm confident my Spanish company Ibradrola owned utility, NYSEG, will provide me with their best service possible here upstate NY.
Right -- they've transferred all their non-paying accounts to the 'bad bank'.
LATEST:
2PM(EST) Current loc 38.3N 73.1W
Sorry, i dont have a GPS handy.. What does that mean?
Latitude and longitude coordinates for the center of the storm.
Wave height paints a 19 handle at the entrance to NY harbor. Intereating to see these numbers in 6 to 9 hours.
High enough to wet the knees of Lady Liberty?
How will the savages behave when the power is out for days?
Should be nice preview for upcoming events.
It's sounding more like Katrina every hour -- it wasn't the winds that did the big damage; it was the flooding afterward.
it's gettin nasty now. lots of power outages on Long Island. the good news is i may finally get to see a reporter blow away mid report. always wanted to see that.
You were kidding about the kayak weren't you?
Bloomberg said technically I could kayak at my own risk. I may bring a 20oz soda with me on the kayak and put the ball in his court.
Relax Aquaman and his sea creature friends will devise a plan. This is just a replay of a superfriends episode.
When the sewer system is flooded, will all the toilets back up?
I've been watching the Point Pleasant, NJ live feed over on Fox.. really scary.
"Hey, you guys remembered to fill up the diesel tanks to keep the generators powering the cooling system for the reactors and spent fuel pool right...?"
"...I thought you were on that...?"
but...but...but...Kim K is gonna be okay, right?
Inventories will go down without retail sales going up, cue up alley monsters.
Apparently some huge crain that was working on a bunch of luxury high rise condo's are is about to fall down.
how'd ya like to be up there trying to secure the thing
Not good. I'd attach a bit of thermite to it and take it down.
its called con ed for a reason
meanwhile
Betty Loop of BBG now blaming the crane collapse at W57th on sandy
This is just perfect for getting Germany's last bit of gold out of the city without any camera or interuptions.
3PM
HURRICANE CENTER LOCATED NEAR 37.5N 71.5W AT 29/1500Z
POSITION ACCURATE WITHIN 20 NM
PRESENT MOVEMENT TOWARD THE NORTH-NORTHWEST OR 330 DEGREES AT 16 KT
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCMAT3+shtml/291433.shtml?
Wave height paints a 23 handle at the entrance to NY harbor.
last time it was tried, the pile of rotten, sodden debris did not burst into flame...this time, a little nuclear nudge may be necessary...
Strom surge? Is Strom Thurmond rising from the grave?
nuclear reactors, anyone?
Good grief. I sure hope the fed chairman remembered to test the sump pump out downtown.
Let's test new highs in 3..2..1..
http://hudson.dl.stevens-tech.edu/SSWS/d/index.shtml?station=U207
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