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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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nothing so Biblical required to bring down the bankrupts of Goldlman, much more mundane..
Taxpayers... Stop Paying Tax ...zero Tax = zero Govt = zero GS
I'm in New Jersey, we faired pretty well, I'm still waiting on my home owners insurance represenative to tally the damage. Power was just restored. Could have been worse.
-BD
More photos from NY
http://rt.com/usa/news/new-york-sandy-fires-549/
We lost power yesterday and so far we don't have any idea when it will be restored. Upstate NY.
Unless they just got lucky, the FD did a great job to get those fires under control.
WTF - thanks for the good photos.. hope your power is restored soon, how you coping?
SOS - did the FD put out the fire at the 50 houses before or after they were all burnt down?
In that wind, it could have ended up being thousands of homes. It was spreading fast.
Sandy brought down one of those fake cell tower trees near Trenton: http://photos.nj.com/the-times/2012/10/hurricane_sandy_aftermath_merc_21.html
BREAKING: Just in from the FED: due to lack of regular food source, rats have eaten through a significant portion of the gold that were definately in its vaults right before the flood.
Obama is planning a trip to NYC with blowhorn in hand
But people keep saying that you can't eat gold.
And I don't think rats have sharp enough teeth to eat through tungsten.
So what, Sandy was a big hurricane... I think it only reached Cat 1.
That's NOTHING compared to some of the historic hurricanes that have hit other parts of the east coast... yawn.
Aha ...do you know if this hurricane season has ended or is there likely 1 or 2 more?
Sitting here on the West Coast it seems like a really bad idea to have all of the U.S. markets go through a "weak link" across the continent. One hurricane or terroist attack should stop the entire system.
Sandy was nothing less than a terrorist strike against the heart of this nation's financial system by that arch-terrorist herself: Mother Nature. When she isn't at work cooking up another deadly plague or virus, she is busy perpetrating another earthquake or hurricane or volcano.
Quick! Launch the drones! This will not stand! We must eliminate Mother Nature ASAP.
And we must immediately draw up lists of Mother Nature's sympathizers and put them on the no-fly list.
nuke the whales, bomb canada
Why don't the POS Banksters pony up some money, (our BAILOUT money btw), to clean up this mess..???? The mutherF*uckers have a chance to redeem themselves. Any chance of that happening?
Five shutdown nuke plants.......Long diesel.
What does the supply side look like in NY? Perhaps the mayor should give executive order to ration or have the guard take over supply centers and manage the distribution. I don't think NYers are prepared. What about tourists and visitors that can't get out? Where do they stay and how are they being fed? The lack of reporting is not good news.
Two near misses in two years. Only a fool or an idiot will think this is a statistical anomoly.......
Combined sea level rise - global sea level rise (SLR) of up to 2 m by the end of the century
combined with localized sea level rise anomaly for the eastern seaboard of North America
Exposed assets in Port Megacities - A global sea level rise of 0.5 m by 2050 is estimated to
increase the value of assets exposed in all 136 port megacities worldwide by a total of $US
25,158 billion to $US28,213 billion in 2050. This increase is a result of changes in socioeconomic
factors such as urbanization and also increased exposure of this (greater)
population to 1-in-100-year surge events through sea level rise.
Exposed assets on NE coast of the US - The impact of an additional 0.15 m of SLR affecting
the NE Coast of the US as a result of the localized SLR anomaly means that the following port
megacities may experience a total sea level rise of 0.65 m by 2050: Baltimore, Boston, New
3.2.4 Insurance and finance implications in NE USA
Issues at a glance
Event description: Accelerated sea level rise
Region: NE America ( in particular).
Socio-economic effects: Higher storm damage, erosion, transport disruption.
Timing: 2050 onward.
Warning: Potentially a strategic surprise in respect of storms.
Counter-measures: Sea walls/managed retreat.
Type of business
Risks Opportunities
Property Flood & weather damage More demand
Casualty Advisory liability. No.
Life/health Mainly uninsured. No.
Other Interruption/travel/transport More demand
Investment/savings Real estate Construction sector.
Key: Major impact
Minor impact
Accelerated SLR will compound with a pre-existing, but underestimated, issue in northeast
USA, namely storms. In fact the region is vulnerable to summer storms
(hurricanes) and also winter storms (61). Previous risk analyses have been disjointed
for two main reasons: insurance coverage is split into public (the National Flood
Insurance Program mainly for small/medium residential properties), private sector (for
storm and commercial flood), with a large element of uninsured properties, particularly
for flood. Next, studies have been performed for different purposes: some for SLR, and
some for hurricane risk. There is also disagreement on the future hazard profile for
hurricanes.
This present investigation focuses on New York, because of the high density of assets
located there, but as the scientific analysis above shows, the issue affects many other
conurbations on the USA eastern seaboard, e.g. Boston.
Awareness of flood risk is low at present in the NE USA. Although $US 2,400 billion
value (61 per cent) of the property located in New York state is in coastal counties7, the
highest penetration of flood coverage of residential properties is just 22% in Bronx
County, and for the affected counties of New York State as a whole, coverage is in the
region of just five percent. Similar considerations also apply to adjacent states (New
Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island).
This low awareness is not just a matter of general ignorance. A major study by the
respected Wharton Business School (62) arrived at the remarkably low values for the
cost of an extreme storm in the New York area as follows:
Return period (years) 100 250 500
Gross cost ($US billion) 2.4 5.8 9.4
This is reflected in the relatively low level of protection in the design of the sea
defences, at just 1:100 years for New York, compared to major coastal cities in other
developed nations (61). It is worth noting that in fact north-east hurricanes tend to
cluster in time, indicating that there is climatic process involved. Data provided by EQE
The Tipping Points Report was commissioned jointly by Allianz, a leading global
financial service provider, and WWF, a leading global environmental NGO.
Contact:
WWF (World Wide Fund For Nature)
Thomas Duveau, Climate and Finance, WWF Germany
Reinhardtstrasse 14, D-10117 Berlin, Germany
E-Mail: duveau@wwf.de, Phone: +49-30-30 87 42 36
Allianz
Nicolai Tewes, Corporate Affairs, Allianz SE
Koeniginstrasse 28, D-80802 Munich, Germany
E-Mail: nicolai.tewes@allianz.com, Phone: +49-89-38 00-45 11
seen elsewhere... "I just got off the phone with a friend who lives in North Dakota near the Canadian border. He said that since early this morning the snow has been nearly waist high and is still falling. The temperature is dropping way below zero and the north wind is increasing to near gale force. His wife has done nothing but look through the kitchen window and just stare. He says that if it gets much worse, he may have to let her in."