Live New York Web (And Sound) Cam

Because the only thing more informative than watching a shut down New York get blown (away) by Sandy, is hearing it live. Watch, and listen, as downtown New York, very much unprepared for what may be a record flood surge, gets the Venice treatment.

Comments

[therearetoomany...]

Bill Shatner does, though...

Tyler:  Who would you fight?

Protagonist:  Shatner!

Tyker:  Good one..

[DaveyJones]

Had a friend who directed a Shatner commercial.  Said all he was interested in was his dogs and the young assistant's boobs. Wait a minute, that's most men.  

[Arkadaba]

Listened to an interview with him last year. Just hope when and if I reach his age, I am half as active and engaged:

http://www.cbc.ca/q/blog/2011/11/02/william-shatner-on-q-1/

[IridiumRebel]

It's already flooding areas that were barely flooded from Irene and we have not even had the storm yet. Battery Park already has a foot and it has not even started raining. 

.....but hey! You're a tough guy living hundreds of miles away with an internet connection so you know more than most.

[IridiumRebel]

I downvoted me too.....

[earnyermoney]

look at all the "tough" guys dismissing a Cat 1 storm. You'll be amazed by the damage of this storm.

[IridiumRebel]

Category measures WIND velocity. The problem is water and up here in CT people are beginning to notice as streets down near the water are getting flooded. It has not even rained yet. 

[mayavision2012]

If we see a tall building suddenly "collapsing" here, no doubt Larry Silverstein will interrupt the live stream and proclaim, "We thought there might be too much loss of life, so we just PULLED it."

[Gert_B_Frobe]

Can't wait for the rats to start moving to the surface from the underground flooding. Ah, the four-legged kind ... plenty of other rats have been milling about on the surface for years.

[Quinvarius]

Pretty soon the water level will rise high enough for the mutant hobos to swim out out of the trap pits that the dept of sanitation set up for them in the sewers back in the 80's when they were eating club kids.

[pods]

Things get serious when the CHUDs come up.

pods

[Gert_B_Frobe]

Excellent obscure flick reference! Been a couple in this thread already.

[therearetoomany...]

Cannibalistic Humanistic Underground Dwellers....that movie changed my life. 

[Things that go bump]

They sound like Morlocks to me.  

[pods]

Wall Street already evacuated all the Eloi, so they are safe.

pods

[buzzsaw99]

Ask Florida if 35 mph constitutes a hurricane. Ask California if the yankee scumbags should get more taxpayer $. Ask Texas how much they got when the entire frikken state burned down. Friggin' msm is playing this up to help east coast elitist scumbags shake down the rest of the country for money.

[Flakmeister]

Out of character for you...

Simple question, what fraction of the US population will be impacted by this storm?

As for California, the 80 cents on the dollar that they get back on the Fed. taxes is because they are subsidizing the heartland Red States.... You know, the ones that get a free ride and don;t even realize it?

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/11/states-federal-taxes-spending-charts-maps

[buzzsaw99]

Free ride? That's laughable. Take away the federal reserve printing press and those yankee scumbags ain't worth JACK SQUAT! New York City produces nothing but fraud and worthless paper. They have a license to steal from the rest of us. hahahahaha!!

[ManOfBliss]

To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.

To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.

To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.

To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.

To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.

And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.

[juangrande]

To cajuns, anything north of Alexandria....

[Orly]

I thought it was Monroe!

Ooops!

[John Wilmot]

Nice, I'm a Pennsylvanian and I approve this message. The Yankees are WASPs who crawled out of the back country of New England and spread their post-millennial filth across the upper Mid-West. Notable Yankee cocksuckers include all members of the Rockefeller family, Woodrow Wilson, and Abraham Lincoln.

[Bobbyrib]

I've pointed this out before, they don't like it when you point out their subsidies. Maybe ZH will do an article on red states being subsidized by cities worth "Jack Squat." Balance your motherfucking budget before you become fiscal conservatives. 

[blunderdog]

The Indians were put on reservations.  The inbred are warehoused in states full of military bases and defense contractors.  It's easier than trying to integrate them into the modern world.

[therearetoomany...]

boy, there musta been a new talking point issued because i'm seeing this everywhere....

[Vooter]

Why are you reading and/or watching the mainstream media?

[Manipulism]

Maybe they want to pull whole Manhattan

[vincent van goo]

I wonder if the German gold auditors can scuba dive?

[fuu]

Simian Salvage Services stand by ready to assist as needed.

[IridiumRebel]

It was the most horrible thing.......I was just sandbagging the house with all of my gold and silver bullion and a rogue wave came ashore and took it all out to sea! It was nuts! Oh well.......

[earnyermoney]

22 ft. wave heigth at following buoy: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=44009

[Gert_B_Frobe]

Barney Frank thinks that's nothing compared to his boys.

[Vooter]

Never checked open-ocean-buoy wave heights during a hurricane before, eh?

[earnyermoney]

all the time, as they're rather frequent for the outer banks.

[Orly]

Dag!  I could tell a story about the Inner Banks but I've said too much already...

[Trimmed Hedge]

I'm getting scared..

Please hold me, Taylor...

[therearetoomany...]

'Cause I'm praying for mayhem;
I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom, please, flush it all away.
I wanna see it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.

                         -Maynard

[IridiumRebel]

You're like the sixth dude to quote this song. 

[therearetoomany...]

Nice, I appreciate you didn't call me a douchebag or something like that.

Anyway, I went through the thread...didn't see any other quotes.  Guess I bit on that one.   Good work!

[Monedas]

Douchebag !   

[IridiumRebel]

You would Monedas.....You're the sandpaper on these threads. Everyone loves an anonymous asshole. 

[Monedas]

I'm the sandpaper on your stem cells !

[WAMO556]

Douche, I am the copper jacketed lead to your sandpaper. Sandaway bonerass! There fixed that little problem.

[Monedas]

I am a unique voice .... one of GHWB's thousand points of light !

[therearetoomany...]

It's amazing to me that the party of Barney Frank is SO into Bush

[IridiumRebel]

Love Maynard, Love Tool, Love the Song.

The posts were on other threads. I try not to call names but I will drop the occasional FUCK.

I got nothing but love for my fellow ZH'rs.

[therearetoomany...]

Ah, well thanks...me too.   See 'em quite a bit going back to 92ish....

Peace to you!

[Monedas]

Can anyone grasp how much CSI evidence is destroyed and washed to sea by a hurricane ?    It's like a "New Deal" reset for crimminals ?

[Griphook]

The entire East Coast, from D.C. to Portsmouth N.H. needs a good rinse, but I'll settle for this.  Certainly if you wanted to give the U.S. an enama the East River would be as good a place as any to shove the nozzle.

[Monedas]

That's ENEMA  ....  as in FEMA  ?

[therearetoomany...]

No...it's Aenima!

[Monedas]

I was using the King James Bible !

[fuu]

Your bank is closed today isn't it?

[Monedas]

My bank is the Federal Reserve Bank .... I dunno if it's open ?

[Curt W]

Overheard at Long Island Home Depot.

Customer: I need a generator.

Clerk: Gas or diesel?

Customer: Do you have any I can just plug in?

[IridiumRebel]

I know this post is real. Long islanders are considered the dumbest in the area next to Staten Islanders.

[machineh]

Prolly was a TV anchor who just got off work.

[earnyermoney]

Probably Kevin Henry's girlfriend.

[robertocarlos]

Edit: Already reported.

[news printer]

Yep

[Flakmeister]

Some recent commentary I came across:

It appears Sandy has about 4 hours left before crossing the sharp SST gradient defining the Gulf Stream. That will signal the end of intensifying any further, tropically. But this is when baroclinic energy will really start hitting the storm.

It almost defies logic, this storm. Think about it...

For the last 4 days there's been something going against this storm which would have killed off most other storms but, conversely, there was also some atmospheric mechanism at play counteracting its main hindrance.

It went through the roughest terrain of Cuba, but did so as an intensifying, accelerating storm. Came through on the other side only 5kt weaker than she went in.

Then Sandy met the upper low over the southeastern Gulf. Extremely dry air through a deep layer of the atmosphere, 50kts of shear. Piece of cake. She'll just place herself within the divergent sector of the shear pattern to maintain.

Found a small niche and changed just enough, structurally, to develop an inner core just as she hit the Gulf Stream, to maximize as best a storm of this size could, the additional heat energy provided.

This brings us to where we are at present and in the near future. Leaving the Gulf Stream, yes, but entering a baroclinic environment ripe for explosive development of a cyclone transitioning from tropical to extra-tropical.

Every time this storm met a challenge; mountains, shear, dry air, cold waters, it not only shrugged it off, but grew stronger. It's like this storm is destined to chart a course for the worst-case scenario.

That brings us to tonight when the storm is expected to make landfall. High tide. High astronomical tide. Right angle to the coastline. Bottlenecks and bays. Most densely populated region of the country. Record IKE. A once-in-200 year wind event in a region inland clear cut since the last big event such as this (before any reliable records were kept).

[Monedas]

Just funnin' !

[Vooter]

Oh, well, gee--I guess it must just be possessed by Satan, then... I guess I'll just keep sitting here in NYC, trembling at Satan's approach...

[Flakmeister]

You really should get out more often...  The commentary was from an NHC employee noting the unusual development of the storm... e.g. Normally 50 kts of shear shreds a system....

In all likelihood, you did not understand the post....

[DutchR]

"entering a baroclinic environment ripe for explosive development of a cyclone transitioning from tropical to extra-tropical"

Mkay,

This guy should run for office.

[Orly]

Doesn't "extra-tropical" simply mean outside the tropics?

:/

[Flakmeister]

Nope... it has to due with how the storm "fuels" itself...

During extratropical transition, the cyclone begins to tilt back into the colder airmass with height, and the cyclone's primary energy source converts from the release of latent heat from condensation (from thunderstorms near the center) to baroclinic processes. The low pressure system eventually loses its warm core and becomes a cold-core system. During this process, a cyclone in extratropical transition (known across the eastern North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans as the post-tropical stage)^[13][14] will invariably form or connect with nearby fronts and/or troughs consistent with a baroclinic system. Due to this, the size of the system will usually appear to increase, while the core weakens. However, after transition is complete, the storm may re-strengthen due to baroclinic energy, depending on the environmental conditions surrounding the system. The cyclone will also distort in shape, becoming less symmetric with time.

Somehow I am not surprised that you don;t get it...

[Vooter]

Uh, sorry, I've been on the Wunderground forums for years...maybe you should at least PRETEND that you've been through a tropical storm before...

[Flakmeister]

5 and counting, hurricanes that is...

[Orly]

2926947

Funny that's not what you said last night...

"Good for you... however it seems that certain lessons were lost on you...

As for me, Irene, Juan, Kyle, Jose and now Sandy.... Thrice I have been in the wrong place at the wrong time..."

Make up my mind, moron.

[Flakmeister]

That *is* 5.... what is your problem?

I have no doubt that I will be around long enough to experience another...

[MsCreant]

Maybe the part about Thrice? 

I don't care, I just noticed that.

[Orly]

It's so nice to see you again, Ms. Creant.

I don't really care, either, but this youngster is all rolled up in a lather and I'm giving him as much rope as he needs...

:D

[Flakmeister]

Three times I was caught while travelling....  Jose while I was in Jamaica, Kyle when I was out at Cape Cod, Juan when I was in Halifax....  Now twice while in Westchester.... 

Kyle was nothing much as it was off the coast, Juan was a real bitch it came right up the Hfx. harbor.... Fortunately for Jose, I had a lot of Appleton's handy to ride her out....

Sometimes I forget that some ZH members are incapable of abstract reasoning and connecting the dots.... My bad.... 

[Orly]

You didn't forget.  You just didn't realise that we can all see that the storms you mention are really "nothing much."

I have no idea what an Appleton is and it doesn't take much "abstract reasoning" to be scared out of your mind and not sleep for 36 hours straight.  Seems like you've not experienced that yourself.

Keep digging, please.

:D

[Flakmeister]

You have demonstrated that you have no idea what a lot of stuff is...

Go back to your "wet" dreams you hateful little prick....

[One eyed man]

So you admit that death and destruction follow you wherever you go.

Have you considered making a sacrifice to Neptune? Supposedly a bull often works. Coming up with bull shouldn't be a problem for you.

[semperfi]

Krugman must have a huge boner thinking of all those broken windows

[krispkritter]

Maybe, but we know Bloomy does for sure:

http://instagram.com/p/RV2bkIMevm/

Is that a microphone in your pants or are you just glad to see us?

[mt paul]

sure hope

all the gold in the Fed's vault

doesn't float away

with the storm surge ...

[semperfi]

does tungsten float ?

[sickofthepunx]

thanks for sending some great surf to FL this weekend Sandy.  i hope you guys all drown up there.

[giggler123]

Does gold float?  Well everyone else is sand bagging, wonder what the FED is doing with its vaults well under sea line in NY?

[muppet_master]

memo II to Sandy:

give NYC the ATLANTIS treatment....bury them in 100 ft of water...never to be seen again...specially Soho and central park area, where the RAPISTS QEorganizer "bailed-out, bonused-out" "geniuses" live...

that, that that's all foks !!

porky porkulus !!! LOL !!!

[Flakmeister]

Anything of actual substance to add, or just juvenile rantings?

[Rusty Shorts]

Aww Shit!!! HMS BOUNTY, used in the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Mutiny on the Bounty", apparently has sunk...

http://www.uscgnews.com/go/doc/4007/1591447/Coast-Guard-responds-to-vessel-in-distress-160-miles-from-hurricane-s-center

[Orly]

Oh, my!  What a shame.  Of course, the original ship was burned and sank in the Pitcairn Islands.

Long live the Bounty and long live Leftenant (later Vice-Admiral...) William Bligh!

If you haven't seen The Bounty with Anthony Hopkins and Mel Gibson (and other now-famous British actors...) you should see it in honour of her sinking.

Pray for the lives of the two missing sailors.

:(

[Gert_B_Frobe]

Long on Tahitian native girls

[Orly]

I'm long breadfruit!

[Monedas]

I'm long a recent foto !

[TheFourthStooge-ing]

Orly said:

If you haven't seen The Bounty with Anthony Hopkins and Mel Gibson (and other now-famous British actors...) you should see it in honour of her sinking.

The 1935 film Mutiny on the Bounty with Charles Laughton and Clark Gable is a must-see classic.

[Orly]

Laughton mumbled out of his jowls.  Couldn't understand a word and the pace of the film was, shall we say, slow.

In The Bounty, there was real tension, dilemmae on all sides.  The scenery was beautiful and the direction first-rate.  The acting was second to none.

(And Mel Gibson was cuter than he wanna be!)

:)

[TheFourthStooge-ing]

Orly said:

Laughton mumbled out of his jowls.  Couldn't understand a word and the pace of the film was, shall we say, slow.

Oh, you young whippersnappers and your fast paced movies.

;)

+1 anyway for being well rounded enough to have seen the film and having an opinion.

[Frank N. Beans]

how about reading the book, it was better than the movies.  the Tahitian ladies were actually topless in the book

[TheFourthStooge-ing]

.

the Tahitian ladies were actually topless in the book

Ummm, I think that was an issue of National Geographic.

[Orly]

Oh, no.  In the film with Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian, his Tahitian girl was a real stunner.  Very nice.  It is quite authentic to the book, according to your definition.

It is funny because Captain Bligh was awarded one of the King's wives as a trophy to go below and...you know.  He instructed Mr. Christian to concoct some emergency after he'd been below with her for five minutes.  She was a buxom lass, to say the least, as I would imagine an island King's wife would be.

Taking his time, Mr. Christian finally says, "Captain Bligh, sir!  The ship is afire!"

Did I mention the music was by VanGelis, of Chariots of Fire and (the new...) Metropolis fame?  Eerie sounds, perfectly drawn. 

It was a wonderful picture.  If you haven't seen it, you really should, as it seemed right out of the history books.  Also co-starring a couple of newbies, Daniel Day Lewis as second mate, Mr. Fryer (who really should have been first mate...no, dammit!  Captain!) and Liam Neeson as the roustabout Churchill.

One excellent and highly under-rated film.  Damn near a masterpiece, if I may say so.

:D

[earnyermoney]

The Graveyard of the Atlantic.  may she rest in peace along side Queen Anne's Revenge.

[Flakmeister]

That would be Sable Island.....

[earnyermoney]

added just a little embellishment ...

[MsCreant]

Long time no see Rusty! <3

[Rusty Shorts]

Hey there MsCreant!!

[DaveyJones]

Looks like you haven't aged a bit

[Blue Horshoe Lo...]

Send in Jack Black!

[Blue Horshoe Lo...]

I mean Jack Sparrow.

[IridiumRebel]

Shit! My gold was on that ship.

[Frank N. Beans]

whoever is holding the camera, would you please hold it steady?

[q99x2]

Looks like the guy holding the camera needs a drink.

[Monedas]

He's just jackin' off .... into the wind .... be over in a minute !

[walcott]

get the fuck out of there bitchez!

[walcott]

the eye of that hurricane looks like the eye of horus. 

[GoldbugVariation]

NYC evacuation plans (Zone A only, at present) look woefully inadequate compared with the forecasters' predictions of storm surge.  "Zone A" evacuation is a standard NYC response to any Category 1 hurricane.  But Sandy is not just any Category 1 hurricane, the danger should not be judged by wind-speed alone, due to the size of the storm and geography of its landfall, the storm surge is predicted to be massive.

[buzzsaw99]

Maybe this storm will allow poor people to do some looting for a change.

[Blue Horshoe Lo...]

Hey!  Looting is only allowed when it's bankers, the Federal Reserve, the government, or corporations.  When it's poor people, it's illegal!

[IridiumRebel]

Yes but the poor may be arrested whereas the banker-Füx get a free pass.

[Fix It Again Timmy]

Lived near a creek and crossed it one summer evening, it was 6" deep; about 45 minutes later, a thunderstorm cell got wedged in a valley - cars, hot water tanks, portions of homes were being washed down that formerly placid 6" creek.  Bad things can happen very quickly....

[Gert_B_Frobe]

"Bad things can happen very quickly"

Said the same thing 4 years ago.

[SilverRhino]

Thunderstorms, gulley washers, marriages, elections .... shit happens. 

[XitSam]

<- God hates Nanny Bloomberg

<- God hates NY Fed

[Pampalona]

This Hurricane has been created by military specialists. Using a special electromagnetic generator they have perfected a secret meteorological weapon, capable of striking from any distance.

[Gert_B_Frobe]

That and thermite paint

[Tinky]

This hasn't been pinned on Iran yet?

[Pampalona]

Mossad have leaked their latest intel: its a new terrorist even scarier than all the previos ones - he goes by the name Saddam Bin Ladendinnejad

[yogibear]

Traders wanted a couple of days off, close the markets and think where you can spend all that huge year-end bonus money.

[jplotinus]

You forgot to add "George Bush's" storm

That was Katrina.

[resurger]

Irans Fault!

[Martel]

In the world I see - you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway.

[Things that go bump]

Your leather clothes will last you the rest of your life because your life expectancy is about 30 years.  

[John Wilmot]

For the duration of which you will be smelling of shit and dirty leather clothes.

[Jugdish]

Ya but the 30 extra years you live now sitting in front of a television and jerking off to porn you won't have to endure."I'd rather live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep" - Barry Soetoro

[muppet_master]

LIE-beral media:

"its all Bush's fault" LOL !!!

yup, its all his fault, that STUPID idiots, fail to heed evacuation orders...its his "fault" ROFLMAO !!!

also....The DEVIL (QEorganizer PRINT BABY PRINT to "save" the fat cats  = the 1%) giveth from the poor to the rich...... and MOTHER NATURE TAKETH from the RAPISTS 1%..

anymore printing = raping of the 99%??...mr. stupid idiotic uuuh, uuuuh, fart, print baby print idiot?? LOL !!!!

back to work...my day job......start my shift in CA in a few hours....not watching "financial news"...watching disney channel....more informative and educational...LOL !!! i love their MONSTOBER shows !!! LOL !!!

[muppet_master]

correction !!

its all MY FAULT..."yes i can" control the weather...quick stupid QEorganizer, sick holder on me...i know your reading ZH posts...quick have holder the "objective" fool, fast n furiously put me behind bars....LOL !!!

go ahead and do that...= huge meteor showers to appropriate locations !! i also control the rocks in the sky...ROFLMAO !!!!

[Atlantis Consigliore]

the Fraud the Fraud!!! the RATS, the RATS!!!! NY Financial Fraud mkts: theme song

Fraudity Island

 http://youtu.be/1x_QbVDlLbI

[muppet_master]

sandy's origins part II

4 angels were given permission to damage the land and sea

4 angels = 1) sandy 2) cold western front c) north artic front from canada d) moon tides.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-28/life-so-far-hurricane-sandy#comment-2926538

comment #2926538 on page 3..I WISH ZH WOULD JUST TAKE U DIRECTLY TO THE COMMENT...but if comment not on page #1 (ex. 2,3 or 5)....link takes u to page #1...then u gotta dig it by searching all the pags...not fun !!

[Money 4 Nothing]

Totally man made storm via HAARP. Search: HR 2977 and check out Dutchsensi web site for more info.

http://sincedutch.wordpress.com/

[Zer0head]

this isn't part of Romney's White Horsehit is it?

[Zer0head]

Geraldo reports that rain is pelting his outside window

[DaveyJones]

Funny

Have you ever heard Bette Midler's take on Geraldo's version of their torrid love "affair?"

We got drunk and he groped me in the bathroom for five minutes

Geraldo is the ultimate symbol of modern america. A lying has been with no talent & a big ego who does very little but bug everyone around him.

[foodstampbarry]

HYPE.

[Money 4 Nothing]

No sir, very real, were flooded here in New Jersey already, LBI is underwater and the bay met the ocean and the storm isn't even here till 06:00

[Zer0head]

up to ms. liberty's pits

http://www.ballardian.com/images/statue_planet.jpg

[Professor Fate]

Amateurs!  We don't even put on raincoats in Florida until a cane hits Cat 3.  Clearly, however, Sandy is a BIG RED hurricane.  She's gonna rip/shit a whole bunch of blue states. 

[Orly]

Snap!  A BIG RED Hurricane.

Now I get it.

Sorry Flak.

;?

[Louie the Dog]

Amateurs!  We don't even put on raincoats in Florida until a cane hits Cat 3. 

I put on a raincoat for a Cat 3 just to go to the store to stock up on beer in case it goes all Cat 5 on us.

[Atlantis Consigliore]

http://youtu.be/1x_QbVDlLbI  "the Fraud the Fraud"  Tattoo Bernank;   under live Cam!!!

[Flocking swans]

Things will get a lot more interesting when those waves/whitecaps start going towards the city.

[realtick]

New York Harbor entrance wave height buoy data now sporting 18' handle http://chartistfriendfrompittsburgh.blogspot.com/2012/10/baba-booey-new-...

[lolmao500]

Meh. All that was predictable, ask the mayans.

[Translator]

Its awl Busch's fault an Chenies an that Halliburton Weather Machine that cauzed Katrinka......

[muppet_master]

2 days b4 katrina hit

i remember Pres. Bush told them to EVACUATE..they ignored the Republican President...LOL !!! nice going !!!!

its Bush's fault that fools ignore warnings...they say " what me worry"

its his fault:

throughout recorded history that fools ignored:  a) risks b) warnings

[helping_friendl...]

Can't buy gas or bus tickets with EBT cards. Poor people can't evacuate.