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The East Coast In Pictures: The Morning After
Stunning pictures of the devastation the east coast wakes up to the morning after.
First light over Manhattan as New York wakes up on Tuesday. Much of the island is without power and much of the city remains closed. The Goldman building once again boasts the best power generators and is a true beacon of what NYC is all about.
Whitehall Subway Station (via Andrew Cuomo)
Streets in New York are littered with debris as the floodwaters subside. A record storm surge of more than 13 feet (4m) deluged lower Manhattan.
Residents continue to be evacuated from their homes along the coast. Many had chosen to ignore the mandatory evacuation notices issued on Monday.
Early morning in Cape May, New Jersey, the clear-up begins. Earthmovers clear sand from the coastal road flooded by the storm surge.
Much of New York's public transport network was flooded. Here the waters burst through a lift shaft in a rail station in Hoboken, New Jersey. It could be days before it is fully functioning.
Firefighters were hampered by the floods in their attempts to bring under control a large fire which destroyed more than 50 homes in Queens, New York.
The damage caused by Sandy extended over a huge swathe of the East Coast. In Washington DC, early morning traffic rolls past an uprooted tree.
The replica ship HMS Bounty sinks beneath the waves off the North Carolina coast, photographed by the US Coastguard who rescued 14 people from the ship.
Buildings in Breezy Point, NY have completely burned down.
And...????
Courtesy of BBC, AP, Reuters, AFP and Getty Images
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Ok.......so who were the idiots that decided to stay on the ship? Thanks for saving them so they can continue breeding.
I was on the Bounty when it visited my city in May. It had a big diesel engine and a huge propeller. The crew had all the characterists of carnival workers, not sailers. The ship was recently put up for sale and I don't understand why it headed out in the storm.
http://www.southporttimes.com/community/2012/20120514001.html
Blatant criminal stupidity on the part of the now missing captain perhaps??
In a STORM, one does not want a ship banging against the pier it's moored to. You get underway to SAVE the ship by outrunning a storm. If engines/sails fail, and you've not gotten far enough away, that's what happens. Not idiocy, their number came up, for the shit-storm. Unfortunate and tragic for two sailor's families, and an insurance company's pissed too. It's not a fuckin' ski-doo, you assholes(fuckin' lubbers, back to your latte and CNBC)!
That ship had zero chance of outrunning this hurricane. Zero. Don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
"The vessel left Connecticut on Thursday with a crew of 11 men and five women, ranging in age from 20 to 66. Everyone aboard knew the journey could be treacherous."
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/10/29/Hurricane-claims-famo...
To head into that ship into that storm was insanity. There'll be lawsuits.
They weren't trying to outrun the storm. They took the ship far out to sea - east - to get to the other side of the storm. and then headed south from there. Obviously they didn't get east enough. They had a show in St. Petersburg, Florida to get to (so they say). The water where they sank is 80 degrees; some hold out hope of finding the Captain alive.
I'm not talking to you, I'm typing. BTW we're at fight club, you will fight(type?)!! Those are peoples lives, I don't know them, but if I did, I'd belittle you more. Don't type about a dead Captain, "like he's stupid", Miss. Read my former post again.
(btw...I was USN 20yrs 21days)
OK Sailor...Can you explain leaving Connecticut on Thursday (going to Florida) after looking at this hurricane tracking map from Wednesday 10/24?
http://media.naplesnews.com/media/img/photos/2012/10/24/sandy_track_wed_...
Because he didn't have you on board, you obviously know every fuckin' thing there is about sailing. You and Breitbart. I suggest you find his survivor's address' and write, maybe tell them what he should have done, they should have done. I mean, you were onboard, for that tour once, and would have done such and such, based on this retained vast knowledge of the vessel. Hope that goes well for you, mate!
Nah, me thinkest it may have to do more with insurance...
rsnoble:
It's all about the bonuses.
I am sure the lawyers are getting busy....ready to file lawsuits...as its someone´s fault of course...
I hope Germany's gold is safe and didn't float away like the Fed's balance sheet.
I would love to see pics of New Yorkers all over the city sipping on big gulps, their middle finger extended right into the camera.
Yeah man, total chaos.
That would send Bloomberg into an epic rage. Unmistakeable signs of terrorism. Martial Law.
Time to break out the Broken Window Fallacy! All this devastation will be great for the economy.
Any event - or non-event - is good for the economy and bullish. It's just how things work now.
Didn't Krugman say a disaster would be good for the economy? He's pprobably gloating this morning.
funny news not mentioning the looting.
No electricity, no EBT transactions. After the shock, novelty and adrenaline wear off, November 1st and the next few days could be interesting.
How do I charge my iCrap.
Send it to the Squid's ( Goldman) dungeons where crap belongs
Be Prepared
Henry, good points. I was thinking too the Street down maybe 'till Monday, reopen to big slide in DOW, insurers? Wealthy NYers need their funds from the market for re-build? Drop ala 9/11, markets closed brings big slides, or the algos march on??
Gangs Plan Hurricane Looting Spree Via Twitter
October 29, 2012
Since the entire storm is a hoax there will be no looting. Well, nothing beyond the normal everyday looting done by New Yorkers.
Of course not...now we will get never ending propoganda about how Obama has everything under control. Glad that you weren't swept out to sea btw.
Who do you think is going to win as of today?
With Kevin's ramp today it would be Obama...
According to some studies if Sep & October Dow is up then the incumbant will win! 89% of the time.
I still think Obama will win. I believe we will get a reversal of 2000. Romney will win the popular vote and Obama will win the electorial college. This is all planned of course so that everybody loses faith in the system.
It think any Obama win will bring a shit storm of bad mojo from the cattle corraled on the right side of the pen. What you're suggesting would be a really big shit storm.
I've said before that I enjoy foul weather, but weather+poop=yuck (as we're seeing).
I think (today) that Romney will complete the upset (both popular and electoral) and the right-side cows will be calmed. The left-side cows don't like guns, so I wouldn't worry too much about them.
I think you're right Spastica. With a lot of Dems not being able to get to the polls maybe Sandy was just god doing god's work.
At Goldman the lights never go out, and they never lose or back a loser. They want Romney and we will get him and his neocons whether we like it or not - not that it makes much difference. We can all lose faith in the system under either asshole.
Are things ok By you?
Hope your "Fuck You Kevin" sign wasn't damaged!
Oh, by the way, another billion in Pentagon accounting is missing?
How about magic trick?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K3E5tLoado&feature=fvwrel
"I'm going to make this pencil disappear."
"Ta da!
It's...gone."
Maybe I've become overly cynical, but does anyone else think NYC will be repaired in record time to make sure the polling stations are open next week?
I can't think of a single major disaster recovery in the US that didn't beat initial time predictions, and exceed cost estimates, by a long shot.
How long until they postpone the election to capitalize on his leadership to reverse the falling polling numbers...
The Rain Has Stopped Falling - Income Growth Has Not http://chartistfriendfrompittsburgh.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-rain-has-st...
How about the welfare offices? Not GS, but the welfare offices for the millions of dregs that inhabit the NYC area?
Actually, the biggest moocher is the state of Mississipi.... follow the money...
All NY buildings need to be re-engineered with power generators on the roof. not that Cumbre Vieja cares about it , but it would protect from the next once in a 100 year event, so there is time....
Shalom Ben has been swimming in dollar notes.
Now he has water added to drown easily.
Krugman idolizes Keynes. Krugman is a happy man this morning.
Keynes said that all disasters have a silver lining of economic growth. He reasons that rebuilding efforts represent a net gain to the overall economy. One can often hear this idea repeated in the modern economic debate, especially after Katrina and now after the Japanese tsunami. After 9/11, super-pundit Paul Krugman wrote in his NY Times column After the Horror ,
Just add more to the natinal debt.
That last pic looks like something you'd see in Civil War books.
Thats gotta be Brooklyn. Most there look like civil war soldiers minus regalia supplanted by skinny jeans housing heroin.
"Sandy" is such a "lily-white" sounding name...Hurricane LaSandra is more appropriate. Signed, S. Jackson Lee
Good one.
Pack your things and wait on the corner.
It's off to the FEMA camps we go!
That line for Homeland Security wrist bracelets.
This line for FEMA body bags.
All lines must praise The Leader. Spontaneous praise chants welcome!
The lit GS building is a metaphorical middle finger to God and the entire world. You are muppets, afterall. GS survives all.
Oh, my.
Grab the popcorn, cuz, God is a vindictive SOB. Sandy was the roadie crew for warm up band. Getting medieval on your ass would be a spa treatment for what lies ahead. Gonna wipe that cheezey, greedy, smarmy smile right off that cueball Lloyd.
So when do we find out if the nuclear power plants survived intact?
Six to nine months, tops.
[But the spokesperson looked Japanese...]
Obama knew about Hurricane Sandy and did nothing
You have to do what you do best. Don't want to break anything.
the waters receeded. Obama is a healer.
Every single light is on, a shining beacon to the poor huddled masses who must of course stay outside. Thank you GS for all you do. [/sarc.]
Does anybody know if the storm washed the omnipresenet, rank stench of urine out of NYC?
A post from someone over on abovetopesecret.com.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread894524/pg1
<I live in a bustling rural town in Pennsylvania called, "Union Dale".
It's population is about 500.
I work in a distribution center, but not just ANY distribution center, THEE distribution center. McLane Distribution.
It services New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Guess what states are getting pounded with the Hurricane Sandra (lol) Superstorm? Us three.
Well this morning, in the a.m., a transformer blew-up. Meaning? No power. The largest distribution center in the Continental United States cannot bring their customers product. Who are their customers?
Walmart, K-mart, Target, Nearly every local gas station from Sunoco's to 7-11's, etc.
Where does everyone go before/during/after a storm to get products? Well, now you see it.
The Walmart in Dickson City, PA is literally completely empty of milk, bread, and eggs. When I mean literally, I mean to the fullest extent of the word.
Keeping a simple pantry avoids ALL of the pain now being felt; it also helps to keep 20 gal or so of gasoline in the garage with some stablizer in it...
Sounds to me like Mclane Dist. is ripe for a gubbermint takeover; presidential EO - Food and distributuion.
Two comments on the last pic:
1) I thought Jesus walked ON water?
2) Scuba Gangnam Style!
THE devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy can only be fixed with a new wave of unregulated investment banking, Mitt Romney has claimed.
The Republican candidate said there was no need for the New York Fire Department to deal with the large crane arm dangling over Manhattan as it could be placed gently onto a huge pile of money made by Goldman Sachs.
He added: "You then lower it gradually to the ground by removing money at the bottom of the pile and paying it out as bonuses. Voila!"
One handing out food.
The other handing out phones.
"appreciate your vote!"
Next disaster... Zombie Invasion!
http://www.firehouse.com/news/10821484/responders-prepare-for-mock-zombi...
12/21/12 is getting close...
The lights in the Goldman building can last a long time; they are burning FRN's in a boiler furnace and steam-generating electricity - Uncle Bernanke makes sure they have plenty of "fuel"...
NYC on a REALLY bad day-or Detroit on a typical day?!?
Sorry I'm late, guys...
FUCK YOU BERNANKE
When are people going to accept that sandbags just dont work? Its such a pointless exercise...show me one photograph of sandbags actually holding back liquid !
Sometimes is futile.
People often use just sandbags in situations where they are effective. But, are sort of worthless with out the special plastic barriers (forget the name).
A good pic...
http://i.imgur.com/FLrLH.jpg
Hopefully the little guy made it safely..
Ummm.....yeah, we are gonna need a little more cynicism from you. This shows a humane caring that the cynics and sadists don't care for here.
*my wife is a nurse in the ER in NY and she heard about the Evacs at NYU and she knew right there it was very serious. I actually appreciate the humanity of your post. I look forward to the quips of these cocksuckers who make fun of us and that helpless baby.
Well people ought to remember that we were all once like that...
" We tried to move and save the Goldbars by putting them in the hold of the MSS Bounty. Unfortunately that ship has sunk" "We regret not be able to serve you better..." Have a good live!
There's got to be a morning after... if we can hold on through the night...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msgxhVgUc6I
Now thay can say, "Zee gold was on the Bounty on his way to Gemany".
*Someone beat me*
Jesus doesn't walk on water, Jesus walks through water!
The Asian guy is his accountant
You had your choice if you wanted to stay in NYC during the "Storm of the Century." But you can't buy an extra large Big Gulp!
TMZ's paparazzi will even wear snorkels to get photos of Joaquim Phoenix' latest meltdown.
Bloomberg just announced he will allow black cars to pick up people in NYC...FEMA is running drills again!
"A hobo on a cell phone and an Asian kid in snorkel gear armpit deep in raw sewage walk into a bar..."
That's not a hobo, that's John Corzine in his "go to the grocery store" disguise.
Duplicate post
Punch line...... And asks the bartender to give him a double Sandy on the rocks, but very dry. Bartender says 'ok' that will be 90 billion dollars.
how does a hobo get a cell phone??
It's an Obama phone!
He gonna do more. Ya know !
Even in high tides, the Dude abides.
Shut the fuck up Donny! You are out of your element!
Hows that song go,oh yeah "On my way to Cape May,i fell in love with youuuu".
For some of the more erudite out there...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/opinion/an-oyster-in-the-storm.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
Ah I love the smell of turd in the morning.
Looks like the NY Fed will have to move to chicago for a while.'
Lets all go down to the GS building and see if we can use the facilities. I mean they have lights, they must have working toilets too. Shit I can smell the rat meat on the grill. Anyone for some ratburgers?
Obama's polling unchanged, prepare for worse disaster by week's end.
They will not call the election until people from these areas are able to get their ballots in....I think...maybe.
...this is going to give the globalists a mandate for a global tax related to global warming.
Wow... that's really scary!
What idiots wouldn't put watertight doors on the subway system? Oh. Idiots who expect a bailout from the Feds.
You clearly don't have a clue about the NY subway system....
There are many places where you see the tracks through grates on the sidewalk....
....next up will be scenes of looting
The wife and I are actually preparing to move BACK to NYC on a military promotion/xfer....after living in flyover land since 2000.
I'm hoping this is a temporary killshot to the local rental market so we can get a better deal in January.
And any poopooing my wife was doing about have emergency plans/bags GTG at all times is now silenced.
Dupe.
Honestly, who down votes a dupe?
The real question is "why do you care?"
So.....Obama get up late this morning?
I realize he was likely up during the night getting updates, etc.
But, I find it odd that even His Royal Ineptness has been so quiet -- hmm, I'm thinking the people who have batteries in their radios might need to hear from their fearless leader about now. It would seem like the Presidential thing to do.
I guess there is no back-up generator power available for the teleprompter, eh?
HAARP. we now have atomospheric war
I enthusiastically welcome any entity who can produce that much energy, and control it thusly, as our new Overlords. Can't do worse than Obama, Geithner, Bernake, et al.
No you don't - old hard-line communist party Russian types - and the Yakuza - they don't like us very much.
If the choice is near-infinite energy propogation vs near-infinite fiat printing...
Have you heard of God???
We've had weather war for 50+ years now, before HAARP - Russians were first.
"Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves… So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations…It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts." *
Secretary of Defense William Cohen at an April 1997 counterterrorism conference sponsored by former Senator Sam Nunn. Quoted from DoD News Briefing, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, Q&A at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy, University of Georgia, Athens, Apr. 28, 1997.
Okay so the 80 homes burning down really sucks for those people. Assuming it wasn't a condemned section of town that was intentionally burned down under the guise of hurricane damage to make room for some new development. But other than that, have we lost all sense of proportion? I see nothing stunning or really approaching devastation in those pictures. Well, okay, if that guy's iPhone would quit working that might be close. But still...
You don't understand water . . or the role of utilities infrastructure.
Neither do you understand the corrosiveness of salt water. Worked with a group of volunteers rebuilding some homes in Mississippi after Katrina and one of the locals showed me his prized collection of silver pocket watches that was one big clump of nasty metal. There was not only dollar value associated with them but there was also incalculable sentimental value. The assessment of the true damage to property and lives is yet to be really started...
Electrolysis is a bitch.
Any dis-similar metals touching one another will fuse/corrode like an old alkaline battery was leaking all over them. Nearly every electrical piece of equipment touched by the seawater will be ruined and need to be replaced.
My guess it could be weeks before power can be restored in some of the inner city areas hit.
Including lost business and wages, this will be a $100 Billion natural disaster. Sandy was the equivalent of a series of strong tropical storms or Cat 1 hurricanes making landfall every 40 or 50 miles from CT to VA. It's not the damage in a series of dramatic photos but the totality of hundreds of miles of shoreline, hundreds of towns and cities, and millions of affected people that need be tolled.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/liveblog/files/2012/10/original.gif
I think it's about that time for a BANZAI rendition of the following....
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082340/
where's the Charging Bull???
The New York subway and sewers have a 100 years of crud to wash out and float up.
So we should see the carcas of a few hookers float by shortly?
That was a sad post...sorry.
Coumo and Bloomturd are probably sitting in "beach chairs", with electric "space heaters" on the roof of [ G.S.], with binoculars looking for people drinking out of anything larger than 16oz cups.
The Goldman Sachs building was prepared for city infrastructure breakdown. Only them. What does that say?
Lloyd for Mayor..??
How long until the media lights candles for his handling of the situation?
It's a desaster for NY. The media hype is actually still downplaying the problems this city and the people will have to endure in the days and weeks going forward. Many here have simply no clue how important electrical grids and mass transportation systems are to the economy of a mega city like NY. Tonight will get interesting when the power is still out. God forbid the power is out longer than 2 days, 2 nights.
The power is most important. No power, no fridges, no coolers, no heating, no elevators. No television, no cell phone chargers, no cordless phones. No electronic payment transactions. Folks, think about it.
Then comes the problem of restoring mass transit to 5 million riders of the NY subway system on a daily basis. The people that make the city work don't live in Manhattan. The people that service those who are able to afford the expensive real estate in the city, do not live in the city. Think about that. What good is a city and expensive real estate if it doesn't function because the most important cogs of the wheel are several miles outside?
Next comes food supply.
I get visions of London during the air raids or Berlin during the Russian embargo. Not anything I'd ever want to be a part of. My advice to those living there would be to leave and stay with relatives outside of the city. Although that might be impossible at this point as there are no flights or trains going either. If you can afford to leave, you're better off in the short and midterm and you're also not a drain on the rest of the city who can't afford to go. Something like that.
Mayor Bloomberg is holding back. I can tell from his style that he knows it's much worse than he's able to admit. Panic has to be avoided as long as possible.
Good post. Some people on this site think that if it doesn't visually outdo the last Hollywood megadisaster flick then it's a "overhyped" and not worth screen time. More evidence how stone ignorant these media sotted boobs are.
You and I have had our differences, but your post is bang on...
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Dito. I've been to NY numerous times. Mostly business. Not all NYers are bankers. And most bankers are wankers anyway. 9/11 was bad in a shock and awe kind of way but it galvanized the people and let's not forget, it affected only a small part of the city directly. As much as 9/11 brought out the best of NY, Sandy will bring out the worst. I'm sorry to say and hope to be proven wrong. Cheers.
<props>
Sandy has indeed exposed the worst in people, in so many ways
it's exposed the Govt tragedy for all to see. That High Priest of public health and safety focused on bullying people and commerce but naked having done absolutely zip to protect NY's sea walls
While they eulogise and subsidise garbage (trains, tubes and rail) by robbing cars and truckers of tax it is the public transport that's crippled and the cars and trucks that'll carry the workload in these dark days that the anti-car toerags of politics should suck on
so political mistake (crap sea defence) compounds on political mistake (rubbish public transport). The only saving grace is there wasn't a further 2 mega political mistakes as exposed at Japans Fukinshambles, going nuclear and planting it on a tsunami facing seaboard
The private sector will ultimately have to pay the bill for not only New Yorks mistakes in regulatory incomeptence in banking but also New Yorks mistakes in transport and dealing with simple environmental threats to the city
ZG, gotta hand it to you, spot on:
I am absolutely appalled at the hateful shit I have seen spewn here at ZH...
I am absolutely appalled at the hateful shit I have seen spewn here at ZH...
Really? Because you personally are responsible for a huge amount of it. Example: You called Orly a bitch because she dared to point out that the number of hurricanes that you claimed to have gone through was growing from post to post. I really wish ZH had a way to filter out selected posters like you because your crude and insulting comments add nothing to this forum.
Buddy, I suggest you follow the exchange from the beginning (an earlier ZH article) where she basically implied that Sandy be a nothing burger because there were not going to be enough bodies...
BTW, she has a reading comprehension problem, 5 'canes, thrice while travelling from home, pretty clear to me...
The rule of thumb around here is that you give as good as you get and for me it is nigh on 2 1/2 years here for me...
So why don't you take your sanctimonious claptrap elsewhere....
Next comes food supply.
With the sewers and subways flooded, there will probably be lots of rats running around above ground...
Rats and Bankers
The key here would be "no people"... the fookers should have gotten out days before the 'cane hit. Don't go back until the city can support basic needs.
Shit, I've been through many hurricanes... lost everything I owned in one of 'em. But I had brains enough to get the fook out of it's way. Shit, if you live on a piece of land called an "island" and you can take a bridge to get off you have no excuse for being stuck in the shit after it hits.
Are you suggesting the entire city of NY should have been evacuated? I think that's what you're saying? Try and evacuate a city with the size of a population bigger than most flyover states as a whole?
This would also be a good time for the working Class folks that New York's Vampire squids have been preying off of to think about calling in sick. The Banksters have had such a good time robbing them blind, it would be a sight to behold when they are trying to deal with things like overflowing toilets and all the other aftereffects of a hummming city that has had the on switched to off.
Also a real good time to talk about shared sacrifice in a more meaningful and urgent manner.
Leverage bitchez
That's the only thing those assholes understand.
The banksters are bringing things back online out of hubris. They are going to show the world how fast they can recover as they test out various recovery systems. Tomorrow might be a good day trading kind of day.
NYC in the coming days may be a preview of things to come when Mises' Crack-Up Boom finally arrives.
What do y'all think all those baggy pants, cockeyed hatted, hoodlums are going to do while the lights are out?
If they get hungry, whose food are they gonna steal? NYC could get very ugly in the coming days, especially at night.
Now you know why I left the East Coast for a remote corner of Montana. Some of us saw shitstorms like this hurricane and the Crack-Up Boom coming a long time ago.
You can make a very strong argument that the crack-up-boom has already occured and we are staring firmly at the backside....
So the HFT adapted but "Forgot" to turn thee APPLe into iCE?
hmm me though the HillyWoood always followed the sQriPT!
-anyWays: Good to see not all was lost to the shite we call How could HELL be any Worse.
You All take care now...Its Not gonna be a fun ride...Nov 6 - dicator. vs . dictator.
regards
R_J
In case anyone wonders, that's my wedding cake in the 2nd picture, just floating past in a plastic box.
Why don't they just send in the crews that clean up after the New Year's party in Time Square every year? Whole city would be set & ready to go in about 6 hours time.
Where's the all important picture of the Apple Store? Hedge fund managers need to know.
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." - Some Zionist
FINALLY.........jobs.
"The Goldman building once again boasts the best power generators and is a true beacon of what NYC is all about."
New York all up Shit Street without a paddle and Goldmans shining bright amoungst the carnage
pretty much bubble Bens Fed strategy for the US economy to the letter
Clearly more than God & Nature - even in combination - will be necessary to take down the 'Goldman Tower of Evil'. Perhaps SATAN will need to rise from the NYC subway system to trurn it to rubble as IT has turned this nation...