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Hurricane Sandy Satellite Photos: Before And After
While New Yorkers living south of 34th Street have to live in cold and dark for an indefinite period of time (ConEd has been firm electricity will be restored by the weekend, it has been far more vague just which weekend it had in mind), the biggest devastataion from Sandy took place further south, primarily along the New Jersey coastline. In order to get a sense of the devastation that has taken place, we present images from the NOAA's satellite photo tracker, which shows aerial comparisons of the Jersey and Delaware coastline before and after. Because while one can contemplate navels in very broad terms if any wealth is created or destroyed due to Sandy breaking many windows at the macro level, any and all people who lived in the affected territories below will have a far more practical answer to this stupid question.
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I like how "green tech" will create "jobs for the poor".
Presumably, you'll need qualifications to work in this field just as well as you need to work in the oil or nuclear sector.
Qualifications?... you need to be jewish...
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Jews to Americans travesty of the day..."Don't fuck with our efforts to commit genocide"...
http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.fr/2012/11/1500-too-jewish-supreme-court-us.html
What makes doofus MDB think the poor want jobs, especially when they can get all their Bernanke Bucks for free from Obama and Uncle Sammy. Still haven't gotten your free Obama cell phone yet?
He obviously knows a lot more about "the poor" than you do.
Greenie Tech bichez!!!
Were can I finds me some of dat Solyndra stox???
Yes, companies like Solyndra are our future. That is to say bankrupt.
Now now, that's not entirely true. Green companies perform a valuable service to the world! Without Fisker, we never would have known that A123 batteries explode when they come into contact with sea water! What, you expect them to just take batteries out and drop them in the ocean to test them? That would be grossly irresponsible and very deleterious to the environment!
Last I knew was that the Govenment was stopping free energy because they would loose control, but yes we do need to stop killing the planet , thast why I am for Agenda 21 and affordable living and I will move into one of these new appartments right after TPTB have moved in and not untill.
Gawd MDB, that's some funny shit!
Are you actually suggesting that mankind shelf exploration for alternative sources of fuel? Wind, sun, water, magnetic? Just shut the door and continue as we are? Is that what you are suggesting you stupid son-of-a-bitch?
Woot! Mad Dog Bupkiss on fi-yah... yes.
If I could manipulate my input and output data points, as well as cherry pick my statistical methodology while ignoring the past I too could prove that what I do or don't do determines the future.
What you're talking about is a very common practice. It's called 'fitting the data to the model'. Normally, you should 'fit the model to the data' if you want usable results. However, when you want to prove a theory, you often try to fit the data to the model. This is where the peer review proccess comes in. Unfortunately, in climate "science", the peer review process which should be a control has been usurped.
There is another field where fitting the data to the model is widely used - finance. It is often used in pricing exotics and complex 'hedges' employed by big banks selling dogshit to suckers or trying to prove that the dogshit they hold has value. It works great when you have no standards, are not properly audited, and have an infinite taxpayer backstop.
You do realize that the most abundant green house gas is Water Vapor (H2O), not CO2, correct?
Aw shit, I just fed the troll. Now only if there was a way of poisoning comments like one can poison food...
Umm, you realize that MDB 100% <sarc>, right?? Not even Al Gore could be that much of a tool...
Life (and this blog) would be much poorer without MDB.
He is a classic, and gives me a smile (almost) every time.
Long Live MDB.
Doesn't water vapor reflect sunlight? So while it traps heat from Earth going up, it prevents new heat from arriving from the sun?
Also, are you suggesting that water vapor levels have been steadily rising?
Not much ... the effect however in the LWIR spectrum region can be noticed as hot, humid nights do not radiatively cool off like a DRY (lower humidity) night ...
Remember, WV is a GAS (in a gasous state vs liquid)
Clouds during the day reflect sunlight, don't they?
They certainly do help retain heat at night, which is really appreciated in winter, keeps it above freezing here.
Wrong! It was all Bush's fault.
As far as im concerned MDB - you are a traitor to the good people of the world.
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A traitor is worse then being an enemy...
I think he is probably a blast at parties
Unless, of course, your guests dont appreciate good sarcasm
Nah.... Alumninum and Barium....
That's a pretty deep blow hole you got MDB. I dropped a piece of shit down it, and still no faint thud?
Hey Million Dollar Hardon what cause the last Ice Age 12,000 years ago?
And what caused end. Cow Farts?
It was too many Clovis Indians running around in Cadillac Escalades (even though they were warned by DC Fusor)...
francis_sawyer
Damned casinos!
Scientists have recently confirmed it was all those stupid mammoths' unhealthy diet's fault! Their refusal to eat GMO grass had catastrophic consequences.
(Is a /sarc tag necessary?)
Some people don't get sarc so tag it , we have to look after the dumb people the Government said so .
Fuck Government and those who unquestionably believe in it!
What are the odds of one person be on the wrong side of EVERY issue?
Pretty good if you attended Harvard or Princeton...
Absolutely STUNNING if posters a.k.a. is: MillionDollarBonus_
Nah...me just kidding... BIG.
Shes the iEMO - iMTv Generation iBOT.
Just a coded algo to wind us all up and distract.
NO one can be that daft...No One!... well maybe bNanke oh and Krugman...Oh NOOOO..., there´s to many to mention on this short time that we have left...
125%, if your surname is Krugman or Bernanke.
I'd like to nominate MillionDollarBonus_ to be the first human to pay to breathe. When your poor your gone.
we should tax lying
it's the next fastest way to bring Govt to its knees..
...2nd to everyone Not Paying Tax, let the parasites suck on air
At least one more. Me? You? I vote you.
It's amazing how such an obvious troll can get 50+ responses...bravo sir, bravo.
MDB - Stop farting.
Jesus Christ what a bore
Hey dumb ass, at a minimum it was the Sun!! At a max it was man made via HAARP, either way it was not based on a mass humanity causation, ie CO2. Either way, Sandy WOULD have occurred...
Just wait untill next year ( the atlantic belt has stoped) they will say again where did that come from.
The inability of so many people to detect satire is proof positive of the declining average IQ at ZH.
So....are you trying to say MDB is just trying to be funny? All this time I thought he was just a stupid troll!
HAARP BITCHEZZ!
Are you sure it was only 10^99999999999999999999 Monte Carlo solutions? I thought they had it to the point where the probability was a certainty! You know Al Gore is always right! Right?
So the only way to make one theory more likely than another is to simulate every molecule on the planet?
When it comes to carbon emission, it can be much simpler than that. Just use your high school chemistry knowledge, and try to answer this question: What will happen if you add an unlimited amount of CO2 to the atmosphere? Will everything just stay the same?
when the epi center of the system is is devastated = east hampton - things will change
First thing I do when I open a new post is check for the Million Dollar Bonus post so I can upvote it.
Then I read the article.
BreakingNews,
.....OH, you were serious!
You sounded like one of those spoofs of the alarmists.
I support an International Bounty on MillionDollarBonu$$.
Just kiddin' Boner, I think you're great.
And that's why we need chemtrails to fight climate change. We have to spray the atmosphere with aluminum particles to reflect the sunlight that is warming our earth. The dramatic increases in the rates of Alzheimer's recently is just a small price that we must pay in order to save our earth. Don't just take it from me. Do your research as science backs this. Search Fora.tv.
Hey MDB...would these be the same "scientist" that say SAG (Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering) AKA ,Chemtrails does not take place,and HAARP has nothing to do with nothing....????
Fucking dolt.
How many hundreds of millions of people have to die before left wingers understand that socialism and central planning never work, except for the dictators?
You're funny dude! I always uptick you!
trite and no respectful. MDB over the line. putz!
Again, this begs the question: How many people need to die before right-wingers support an international tax on carbon emissions?
Even if there is some truth to AGW, how would a tax on CO2 emmissions reduce CO2 emissions?
And what would be done with revenue from said tax? How much of it would go toward technologies that reduce CO2 emissions?
The answer of course is zero. None of said revenue would be applied to reducing CO2 emissions. It would be used like all other taxes to simply give government more money to spend.
AGW isn't about climate. It's about money. Just another way to tax people. And create another trading market for Wall Street, trading "carbon credits".
Some here believe MDB is tongue-in-cheek humor. But carbon taxes aren't funny to people having to pay them ...not to mention all the oppressive regulations that go along with it.
We laugh it off here. We know AGW is nonsense. It's not science. It's an agenda for more control over people and more taxes, promoted with pseudo-science.
AGW is "proven" by computer simulations. But computer simulations aren't science.
Computer simulations showed the subprime bubble wouldn't burst in '07. Computer simulations showed the financial system wouldn't crash in '08.
Computer simulations can show any fantasy happening. Computer simulations can show pigs flying.
And even if there was some small amount of truth to AGW, taxes and "carbon credits" won't fix it.
Some believe AGW is the pathway to global government, NWO, whatever. MDB says "international carbon tax".
Why international?
The power to tax is the power to control (and loot, plunder, pillage, and destroy).
An international carbon tax gives the taxing authority international control over people.
Sounds like global government to me.
As the colorful (yet misguided) cartoon I post above illustrates.
69 pluses and counting. The fact that so many gave this idiotic statement a plus is telling. CO2 is naturally occuring. What's the next culprit, O2? /sarc
People are upping him b/c he is being sarcastic (we assume).
Million dollar - I'm certain you are bright enough to realize this is not a political issue, nor is it a CO2 issue. Satellitte imagery shows clear chemtrail and chemdump deposits on the storm, along with HAARP disturbances to provide evidence this storm was agrivated and intensified by man's efforts, not by your really naive (or malicious) assertion that the storm was caused by CO2.
If this man-caused evidence is valid, it shows clear criminal activity by unidentified persons inside government at this time. The reason for the storm changing directions and not dying out as expected may have been motivated by the pending elections. That is to be determined later. As I'm certain you also know, man has been able to control the weather at some levels since the 1950s. The use of chemtrails and HAARP are just the latest tools.
For you to encourage the new world order tax on carbon emissions tells me you are part of the problem we face as a country. That tax is political, and that tax is unconstitutional. But you know that already, don't you.
we are to the gods as flies to wanton boys...the Keynesian wet dream must be cleaned up.
53% less crap-hole!
Is Snooki OK?
OK? Hasn't she been damaged goods for a very long time?
Hey...she is someone's mother now! Take it easy.
My God....she reproduced. What the hell is this world coming to?
These are just iPhone 5 maps gone awry. Nothing to see here.
Sorry Apple, I have to repair my beach home, I do not have any money for the new iMac.
After has a much nicer sea view if you are a couple of rows in.
Oh, sure, sure. Great sea view, if you can ignore the six blocks of utter devastation that precedes the sea view.
.. and the mongo algos say "ALL IS CLEAR"
let's go ahead
It will look cleaner after they remove the summer cotages of the rif-raf from the sand bars.
Only multi million dollar cottages allowed in the flood zones.
It's just getting worse and worse, soon to have rioting.
BULLISH!!
Some serious Mother Nature PMS.
I've been listening to the Maritime Mobile Service Net 14.300.00 USB this afternoon. Lots of hams from Long Island and New Jersey checking in, running on emergency power, describing the devastation. This got me to wondering.
Whenever there is a natural disaster anywhere in the world, we're the first to contribute food, emergency supplies, money, medicine, etc., regardless of politics.
Where are all those countries that we helped now, when we have a natural disaster? Maybe a bag of rice or a case of beans for the folks in Long Island or New Jersey would be a nice gesture.
No good deed goes unpunished.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwv-dndrMDE
Oh Israel is sending over some Palestinians to help out . Seems they have a surplus they want to get rid of and killing them is a lot of work. Been at it for 64 yrs and there are still a lot left.
Whenever there is a natural disaster anywhere in the world, we're the first to contribute food, emergency supplies, money, medicine, etc., regardless of politics.
Not really, but the MSM sure makes it sound that way.
Sandy makes landfill in NJ. Film at eleven.
Looks like most of the hypodermic needles are gone from the beaches.
Yeah, but they washed up into the mainland.
Looks like Bin Laden's body washed up right next door to Snookies house...
Nice! He gets tortured afterall. Finally, something good from this devolving society.
Lost Wages
Reminded me of Bubbles advice to the undercover cop, how he didn't have enough broken crack vials in his shoe tread.
I can't find one ounce of sorrow for anyone who built their shitbox on the beach and even less for those who will rebuild in the same exact spot.
Cocksuckerz like FEMA make sure idiot decisions are repeated & repeated & repeated.
How quaint and naive. Maybe you can find an ounce of sorrow for yourself, assuming you are a taxpayer, because you are providing subsidies for people to live in flood prone areas.
This policy is a favorite of both parties I might add.
Took a course in college on buying Ag land.
Prof was a land realtor. Lesson #1 he drummed into his class:
"Never, ever buy land on a flood plain to build a house. If it flooded 100 yrs ago, it will flood again"
It used to be that banks would not give you a mortgage if you were in a flood plain, unless you prepaid a shitload of insurance.
Those days are long, long gone.
Step 1: dig a large pond
Step 2: build a raised area with the soil
Step 3: compact it
Step 4: build your house on the newly raised area, well above the highest recorded flood height
Step 5: don't forget to use vegatation as erosion prevention around your raised area
Farmers farm in flood plains because the floods bring in nutrients; crops grow much better in flood plains.
Atlantic City looks better now that the water washed out all of the dirt and trash.
Krugman will probably put all these pics together in a blown-up "photo collage", and tape it the ceiling above his bed...
Krugman jacks off to "War of the Worlds" & "Independence Day" reruns when they come on TV...
LOLmantaloking
shitball
See what happened to Jersey Shore?
This is what happens when you put Snooki on TV.
Next time, God won't be so nice.
Show us some 'Hampton's' devastation & brighten our day...
http://southampton.patch.com/articles/aerial-photos-sandy-wreaks-havoc-on-hamptons-shoreline#photo-11982895
"In Wainscott, at least one shoreside home — believed to be that of Ron Lauder's daughter — was completely demolished." (Estee Lauder cosmetics heir)
Oh My God! 2012 Is Real!! VIDEO PROOF!!
http://investmentwatchblog.com/oh-my-god-2012-is-real-video-proof/
You don't own beach front property; you rent it from Mother Nature for an indefinite period of time.
"You don't own any property; you rent it from the government until you don't pay your property taxes."
Fixed it for ya.
Sandy, the mother of all job creators.
Eh..ehehehe...Beavis? ...This blows... heheh...hehehe...blows...
Heh Heh... He said "Head"...
The litmus test will be insurance premiums:
Premiums up = Krugman is a potato
Premiums down = Nobel prize
While Sandy will most likely be used as the industry wide excuse to raise premiums yet again, in reality over longer periods of time it is interest rates that most effect premiums.
Overall there is an inverse correlation between rates and premiums, meaning when they are low, rates go higher at a faster rate and vice versa. If the insurance companies can't make as much on their invested "reserves" they charge more for the pleasure of pooling your premiums with your neighbors.
Good point, CD. One more of the seven ways from Sunday, we are getting screwed.
You're exactly right. Insurance companies make money on the float.
Lady Liberty is definitely getting blown around, but not from Sandy as much as from those blowhard cockroaches in DC and on Wall Street.
A wonder the scrappers haven't carried lady liberty away to sell at the scrape yard.
Brilliant!
Watching the news and the Military is flying boom power pole trucks from CALIFORNIA!
Loaded on huge transport planes.
All they gave New Orleans after Katrina was Blackwater.
Oceanfront property in Arizona doesn't have this problem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwVHOl4-Ndw
Well...it's a start.
Just talked to a buddy of mine who has an office and storage space in newark, NJ. They are about 3,000 yards from the water and they got 2 ft. of water. Lot's of equipment got destroyed. Today was their first day back. He said it's bad there, traffic is horrible, 3 hr wait for gas. People fighting. 40 ft. shipping containers all over the place because they floated away. Kind of like a preview to the economic collapse!
Be nice to stockpile a couple of those containers for when TSHTF...
I wonder if one ends up in your yard--does it and its contents belong to you? Would be a cool way to get an iranian nuke.
What am I going to do with 50,000 back issues of Vibe?
If you live on or near the beach you know the risks or you are a fool.
Moreover if your beach house is frame construction on a slab WTF do you expect.
New construction featruing pilings and proper elevations would ve standing even after a Cat 5.
1962 Nor'Easter Photo Gallery
http://www.capemay.com/Editorial/september08/noreaster1962.html
They aren't fools, they are incentivized. They get taxpayer subsidized flood insurance for $200/yr plus a FEMA check in the event of a disaster.
Proper constructin techniques are way more expensive than that.
speaking of FEMA, everyone's favorite fromer SEC boss who has been trapped in the revolving doors at Goldman / Carlyle and Bloomberg had his lovely sea side home in Westport Conn on Long Island Sound devasted by the surge. Seawall - gone | House in shambles | little dogs - safely evacuated
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Arts+Place+Before+Sandy&06880+&hl=en&ll=41...
Well according to Senators' "Lower Manhattan" the entire rebuild "will be paid by FEMA." So rather than just trailers this time we will get a 50 billion dollar transit authority with that! I mean c'mon, everyone knows these borrowing authorities are just slush funds for real estate speculations. Once the authority goes kaput "because the trains don't run period" then how do I monetize said asset? (and no eliminating all MTA employees and no longer cutting the retirees there checks and denying them health benefits doesn't work either Mr Mayor.) anywho that's one hell of a trillion dollar asset that has to be ignored "for the forseeable future."
Mississippi river overflows and spreads toxic waste into the farms all around and water table for a far wider area. Happens every so many years.
The land is industrial waste sludge. The folks eat it, drink it and consider it prime real estate. Don't mind the glow at night.
The restoration will really boost the economy in the first half of 2013. I predict that by hook or crook insurance companies are going to have to pay out to make everyone whole -- that means alot of people will be buying new cars, furniture and building materials.
also, consumer confidence is at a 4 year high. before the storm & now the malls & stores have been packed.
I think you are correct if O wins - maybe one of those BP Gulf Spill fireside chats where they cough up $20b - I hear Ken Feinberg has been dispatched to set up a check cashing shop on the Jersey Shore
It's a shell game. Money is moved from one part of the economy to other. Works out well for furniture stores, home depot, and builders, but others suffer where that money would have been spent.
yes?
Relax folks, it's ok, the Jersey Shore house survived intact!
http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/celebrities/jersey-shore-house-safe-after-sandy-shore-store-hit-hard-1.4174997
Must have been the buoyancy of all them tittays.
I think it's more to do with the fact that silicone repels water.
I guess building homes on a spit of sand wasn't a good idea after all.
Does Flood Insurance cover water damage caused by a Wind Storm event ?
Well, a house at the beach with an ocean view sure seemed like a good idea at the time
$100B is nothing. In the most recent report, the Fed quietly reveals that it is buying TWICE as much in MBS as it had announced.
Sep 14 - Oct 11, 2012 "The Desk plans to purchase approximately $37 billion in its reinvestment purchase operations over the noted monthly period."
http://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/ambs/ambs_schedule.html
Actual total face value purchased, after removing the Roll transactions, per Results excel file = $74.4 billion.
Shouldn't Hoffa's body shown up somewhere by now? It couldn't have been buried that deep. Drudge had an article that a corpse appeared when the roots of a big tree had been pulled out of the ground. Is that you Jimmy?
stateside
Generators and Chainsaws Baby and four, 5 gallon cans of the good 'ol Petrol......
Some learn from watching TV, ie: coverage of past hurricanes on CIVILIZATION
Others do not learn......
While it's true we should not succumb to the broken window fallacy, what about the subsidized window fallacy? How many of these sea-level, ocean-view homes would exist if not for the Fed-stimulated housing boom, and the federal and state govt underwriting of home insurance in flood-prone areas where market insurance rates had been "unfairly high"?
Destruction is never good, but much of this development came at the destruction of capital.
How many of these sea-level, ocean-view homes would exist if not for the Fed-stimulated housing boom, and the federal and state govt underwriting of home insurance in flood-prone areas where market insurance rates had been "unfairly high"?
You should be smart enough to realize you've answered your own question. The houses were there well before the Feds started subsidizing the insurance.
It'd be funny if you weren't serious. Instead it's just sad.
"The houses were there well before the Feds started subsidizing the insurance"
Really? The National Flood Insurance Program was instituted in 1968. How many of those beach-front homes are older than that?
And when do you intend to respond to the Fed-stimulation part of my post. That has certainly been going on much longer than those houses existed.
I must've misunderstood you. I thought you were using the worst flood of the past hundred years as a basis for complaint about the Federal government, ignoring the fact that people have been settling in floodzones throughout human history.
Perhaps you're rational and sane. Please do elaborate. Are you suggesting that if there hadn't been a housing boom caused by reckless money expansion by the Fed in the '90s, there WOULDN'T be millions of people dealing with the catastrophic fallout from Sandy?
I wonder how long people have been living on Manhattan, the Jersey Shore, and Long Island...if only there were a way to find out this sort of information...
You continue to dodge my responses. Rather than acknowledge you were wrong in your prior post, you fall back to trying to attack a strawman. I have no way of knowing what New York and New Jersey would look like if not for the countless government interventions and manipulations of central planners over the last century.
But I can point to those specific examples that I cited in my original post, as clear evidence that the devastation is worse than it would have been, because people were incentivized to build in dangerous areas. Likewise for New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina. Feel free to connect the dots, or continue to pretend that I am arguing something that I am not.
You haven't cited specific examples of anything. You've used your *ignorance* of specifics as a means of pretending to say something.
sandy was government issued
I saw a truly heartbreaking interview with a woman who through teary eyes recalled that she had not been to her home on this sandbar in several months.
Why are we building million dollar shacks on sandbars?
hilarious.
I challenge MDB to stay in character and say something that won't bore me.
Attn Geniuses:
Question: Put a shit load of people and build a shit load of houses right on/near the beach, at the open ocean, and guess what?????
Answer: Every once in a while a big bad storm comes and wipes out the houses and toys that were built in its natural path.
If you're unwilling to roll the dice, move a bit further from the shore line. Otherwise, deal with it.
But how can anyone be expected to make smart, tough decisions without regulations in place and regulators on the job to ensure that they're followed? Surely the more regulations and the more regulators the better.
I used to work in public education. I learned what I know there.
where did you find bob?
These developments are all approved by local government, on property zoned for residential construction. People move in thinking it must be fine.
The government goons turning the gears of industry make a nice salary and get a little something on the side from their buddies in the housing industry, the developers sell cheap land at a substantial markup, and the crooks evaporate into the night before anything bad happens.