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Postcards From An Underwater New York
Once the surge levees break, the water level just soars and covers everything in a "reverse Titanic" as the following pictures demonstrate:
Ground Zero (via AP)
Hoboken PATH station (via @garywhitta)
Avenue C and 13th Street (via iWitness Weather):
Lower East Side:
The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel is flooding... (via @NewsBreaker)
The Belt Parkway fully underwater
Stunning view of the lower manhattan black out (via @nicksummers)
14th Street Transformer exploding! (via @georgeweld)
Floating Cop cars in lower east side (via David Schulz)
More as we see it.
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- Brooklyn Fire Dispatch reporting 300 patients in a nursing home... taking on rising water, need immediate evacuation.
Very sad...
- NYC 911 getting 10,000 calls per half hour (WNYC)
Liberals shocked that 911 can't save them... reality hitting statists... ain't reality a bitch?
- Mayor Bloomberg said he'd been assured NYU hosptal backup generators would work. They did not. Evacuatns underway. #sandy @takeactionnews
Great success.
"NYC 911 getting 10,000 calls per half hour (WNYC). Liberals shocked that 911 can't save them"
Did you really say that precisely below "Brooklyn Fire Dispatch reporting 300 patients in nursing home ... taking on rising water, need immediate evacuation"?
And you don't even see the disconnect, do you. The nursing home owner probably didn't want to spend private money moving patients, you think? And a lot of people calling 911 are probably other old people who couldn't leave and it has nothing to do with their politics. Oh, I forgot. No Tea Party member has ever been in need and turned to the police, fire, etc. What a fucking joke you people are.
Actually no. Never called the cops or the firemen.
Subsidized medicare doctors (and even privatized medicine) refused to treat an endocrine, metabolic disorder. Where do they get their funds from? THE GOVERNMENT.
WHO CURED ME? ***I DID!!!***
I am entitled to that subsidy. The doctors and esp. BIG PHARMA exploiting medicare getting subsidies for botox for "migraines" and uh, medical marijuana stiffed me, a taxpayer for adequate care.
It took 2 years, but I'm better now. Fighting unemployment, inflation, etc. but I got better for $150-200/year in vitamins, exercise, research... and some for doctor visits, blood work, xrays. Much less than the thousands I would have to pay for the surgery they wanted me to get in order to just diagnose the damn thing.
I took the initiative, without "permission" from the medical community and fixed my own health. I've been blocked by some support groups getting tax breaks that I should be entitled to; by exploiting MY illness and suffering.
Why do I owe them any money? I saved them A LOT of money. I know how to save the country A LOT of money in care for diabetes and endocrine/autoimmune issues now.
They owe ME what I paid in medicare since I started working.
The government not only wastes that money, they embezzle it. The fraud I dealt with on a grand scale is embezzlement. This is why I vouch for smaller government.
The consumers need and are entitled to more control.
The point is, all else being equal, the State will always do a shittier job of providing any given service than private enterprise, and perhaps the failure of emergency services in NYC tonight will help a few Leftists appreciate that fact: a small silver lining to an otherwise unfortunate event.
And in regard to your holier than thou attitude...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee6Raji8ojc
Rush, is that you? Pretty bird want a cracker?
So tell me again how the emergency services failed? What would private enterprise do -- hire Aquaman? Build a 20 foot wall around NY to prevent a historic flood? Or is there a company of Mermen that would save everyone? You are a joke. Blow it out your own ass.
It is impossible to say in detail how private emergency services would differ from those provided by the State, but it can be stated with certainty that they would meet the demands of the consumers of emergency services better than the State.
Why?
1. The State has no competition. This means that no matter how poorly it performs, consumers of its services have no option of turning to a competitor for those services. Moreover, since there are no competitors, consumers don't even have a basis of comparison for determining whether or not the State-provided service is shitty.
2. The State externalizes its costs. That is, if the State loses money in providing some service, no matter, as it can always increase taxes. A private firm has to be economical, if they make losses, the owner loses his investment. Whereas, a State can afford to make losses indefinitely with essentially no consequences (for itself, that is).
3. Rational economic activity is based on market prices and calculation of profits and losses. The State usually does not even try to operate on a profit-loss basis. They ignore costs (since they're externalized anyway), and they don't care about profits (since no one owns the State), and so they decide whether and how to conduct some operation (whether a service or infrastructure project or anything else) on an essentially arbitrary basis, a political basis. Any private enterprise which operated in the manner of the State would go out of business. But the State cannot go bankrupt because (a) it can externalize its costs, and (b) it has no competitors.
The end result is that consumers are forced to buy services from the State which are of lower quality and/or of higher price than what could be produced on the market by private firms.
They should call 311.
Go figure. Were those generators were manufactured in Fukushima
Bloomberg's behaviour is disgusting.
Add that to the things-that-are-certain-in-life list... taxes, death...and Bloomberg's disgusting behavior.
This s**t happens when there is flood of liquidity, a natural (pictured) or a super natural, as the one created by Bernankstein.
10,000 911 calls in 30 minutes. 5-6 per second.
Apparently NYC is receiving 20K calls to 911 -- per hour..
Coney Island 'completely under water'. Not at all accessible.
Coney Island hospital reported on fire. Engine crew refusing the call. Cannot access.
Noooooooooooooo this is bad...
Surrounded by 3-4 feet of water...
And no boats available...
That's Zone A, supposed to be evacuated, remember? Of course looking at the Zones, flood waters long pushed past A, B, and C in Manhatten.
We are in uncharted terrority.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/26/nyregion/new-york-city-hurricane-evacuation-zones.html
Hundreds of people trapped in the water in Brooklyn...
I thnk the call was refused when Benghazi called too
CNN could not confirm your story as of 11pm Eastern time. Thats 35 minutes after you posted that.
It's a 100 year storm. Next time move all the people and cars out of the evacuation zone. Then send in the NG.
it's a 100 year storm which the NY State has had 100 years to prepare for
look at the amount of damage to infrastructure, tunnels, tube, property, cars etc etc and tell me that wasn't worth some minimal investment in something more than a pitiful 5 foot sea wall 'defence'
Where did all those trillions that we spent for infrastructure in the last few years go?
Well, for one evening New York can claim to be "the Venice of North America". My sympathies to the residents of NYC.
Yep, we've just had 4 years of epic shovel ready public spending
where DID New Yorks investment go?
Am I the only one who doesn't like New York? Or Chicago? Or LA? Or any other statist/crappy/liberal city...
Cops.
at least the baseball stadiums didn't flood
risk management, worst case senario and action plan
This is how you know shit is gettin' real:
http://gothamist.com/2012/10/29/starbucks_stops_service_for_sandy_b.php
How many people will drown for lack of a "Big Gulp" cup to bail out the water?
Well, at least I am protected from 32oz soft drinks. Guess I'll be OK.
May get worse. Next high tide is tomorrow morning...and it's still raining.
Lots of flooding around the shorelines, but not a whole lot more in the rest of the city. We got lots of wind, very little rain and no flooding in the Bronx, and as far as I know, only one person has died in NYC, earlier in the evening from a falling tree in Queens. A strong storm, but certainly not a city-wide catastrophe, at least as far as I can tell...
don't spoil this panic fest, Manhattan is underwater
I have a picture to prove it
http://jarrodhart.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/new-york-under-water.jpg
I'm sure the 20,000 911 calls per hour are nothing. I just heard on the scanner a house collapsed in the bronx and police cant get there without boats.
double
Al Gore, is that you?
Would "Fat Al" lie to you?!? After all, he invented the internet!
Their flood insurance premiums will make fine collateral for the Carbon Credit derivatives.
Dear heavenly father, we pray that this storm ends. Father, please be with everyone in need.
Stop bothering the Heavenly Father, he's busy helping those in need.
Who is this Heavenly Father?? Does he ride on a green & white unicorn??
Who is this Heavenly Father?? Does he ride on a green & white unicorn??
Who is this Heavenly Father?? Does he ride on a green & white unicorn??
NYSE Floor Not Underwater - DJIA Longs Underwater
http://chartistfriendfrompittsburgh.blogspot.com/2012/10/nyse-floor-not-...
When this is over, the politicos will bluster for a bit but down deep New Yorkers will be thinking, "Wee we're good for another 100 years.
unless...
How long does hurricane season last each year?
please god flood the NYSE completelyt and render their computers unusable
also please drown Bernanke , Blankfein and Deomon
How could you forget Bloomberg?! Hopefully Cuomo if he's visiting.
but mostly Bernanke...twice
................And also please drown as many members of the Satanic Tribe that infests NYC as possible!
Well my ZeroHedgers it looks like it is over (the storm). The floods should recede by midnite EST according to Mayor Bloomberg and likely things will be back to normal by Wednesday (Thursday at latest).
But it this nothing short of a huge win for both A) Obama winning a second term & B) 1st & 2nd Quarter GDP should be over 6% (in each quarter) from rebuilding??
Fiscal cliff is coming. That is a for sure. The rest is one expensive pipe dream a bankrupt nation cannot afford. NY will have to do with broken down infrastructure for a while. Just like so many other places in the world that got hit by desaster and couldn't throw billions from nothing at each and every problem.
There is no room in the budget for the massive expense needed to restore NYC back to the same level of service as yesterday. If anything, the effort will take allot more time than most here are willing to realize.
I'm not even going to mention the fact that insurers and re-insurers will need to liquidate from their holdings in order to make massive payouts on claims. Imagine liquidation in a volumeless market on anything from real estate, equities, bonds to commodity futures contracts.
AIG is still being sued over their failure to payout after Katrina. This is 7 years later. The money was worth more in 2005 and we embarked on a good period of growth. There was credibility and confidence in the markets. Insurance companies had no problems raising liquidity.
Even the Fed can't monetize 'em all.
Are you joking? Heck, all of the costs will be securitized and sold to the Fed at a premium by Monday.
That's so pre 2008. All eyes are on the Fed and on DC where a fiscal cliff is approaching. It's difficult to try and pull this off.
can you trade this?
how about some flood default swaps.
I made a bet that manhattan would get flooded i want my money
I'm wondering how one can find the bonds backing this and how you can short them.
Greene National Flood Insurance
http://www.nationalfloodinsurance.com/NFIP/about.htm
National Flood Insurance
www.nationalfloodinsurance.com.
Bullish on HAARP and other weather manipulating thingimijigs ie. iWeather
Are the gold vaults flooding?
Nope, still empty ;)
I bet all those gold coated tungsten bars somehow float away and are lost in the storm!
has bennie's printer been damaged?
has bennie's printer been damaged?
Mission accomplished Sandy!!
She drained the WS rats with "LIQUIDITY" LOL !!!!
would have been cool to see the rats on live tv drowning trying to make "a trade" ROFLMAO !!!
Sandy would u please return like.....in 1 week? pretty please...to NYC again. This time come as a cat 5.
ZH...thanks for the POSTCARDS...i'm sure i won't see them on any stupid cheerleading "mainstream media" websites...
get ready for the new and used car markets in south,midwest,and west to be "flooded" with "funny" smelling cars
It's my choice if I want to evacuate during the storm of the century.........but I can't buy an extra large Big Gulp! Fuck you, Bloomberg!
It'll be interesting to see how the communist state spins this one...
They may use it to concentrate state power even more..
Only time will tell. The slippery slope from capitalism to socialism to communism can be so subtle no one notices.
A few of us have.................
I wonder if they NYFED Gold vaults are water tight. hmmm
the perma bears are back in control...carry on folks. When the Mkt finally opens again ur going to see what a flood looks like!
I'd be very careful about buying any used car from New York over the next few months.
Sort of Biblical in its message washing away the sin of the Nyse and Nyc ! I felt an earthquake in Ny a week ago first time I ever felt that here and it is definitely strange but awesome. You feel rather small lets say.
kind of sublime you might say, like being @ Niagra Falls. Wow, what's that gonna look like the next few days.