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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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blu, you are a perfect fool. This country needs morons just like you to keep us strong. Piss off. Come up with a solution rather than blaming some gubby agency you tool. I also notice you post a lot of pointless comments to others also. Maybe yoou should consider running for local government. The world needs more retards like you blaming everyone for their own problems.
Okay so that made just about no sense whatsoever. Pointless in fact, I think was your term.
But the leaping pointlessness of it gave me an idea for a story! In the end of course your troubled character will be messily devoured, becoming part of the food chain in the process. It's important to be part of something, I always say, and from each according to their ability.
The aircraft carriers are going in now. Troops on the way . (this is not a joke)
The place is one huge blast zone. And the cops eat people. Of course the troops are on the way.
Escape From New York City - A Mass Exodus Begins Now http://chartistfriendfrompittsburgh.blogspot.com/2012/11/escape-from-new...
Could be. Almost happened after 9/11.
Why would there be an exodus? The conventional wisdom is that this is a fluke and will never ever happen again evar.
And besides, anyone who leaves sells their home to a buyer who doesn't think there is a problem.
No. I'm confident the wharfs, streets and sandbars will be just as packed next time as they were this time.
We're 30 years away from anything like evassive action.
I don't blame 'em for leaving. When the looting really gets under way, those innocent people will be shot down in their tracks by cops aiming for the looters.
am i wrong in saying the jersey coast needed a good flushing?
OMG ... BROOO-TALL!! (I like it!)
Was it actually necessary to exaggerate the distinctions by underexposing each and every one of the "after" photos? It's like a cheap weight loss ad, in which the subject looks dejected "before", and elated "after".
Or the pictures were taken on a cloudy day. Maybe there was a storm in the area.
Right, and it's so awfully difficult to adjust the exposure in post-processing these days...
My thoughts were along the same lines. Frankly, from looking at the pictures, I do a lot of analysis from satellite imagery, I can't see much more than 3 or 4 houses deep on the beach that sufffered extreme damage as opposed to Katrina, Rita and Ike to name a few where damage extended inland for over a mile. Rita cleared one small town in LA completely. That was Holly Beach, LA, look it up. Used to be between Cameron and the Texas border.
From what I see in these photos, NJ ought to dancing in the streets. At least they still have streets.
Lesson from Sandy: "Do not build your dream castles on sand."
Martial Law for everyone.
I'm already sick of all the 24/7 media histrionics about "Frankenstorm". Nature always wins, but arrogant human beings never seem to get it. Build a major city on a sea level coastline... what the fuck do you expect?
You would need 3000 Sandy's to equal the damage the federal reserve cost the US since 1913.
I was wondering how long it would be before the shock overcame the awe. I've chased 38 hurricanes over the past 18 years for NYC's biggest paper, and for the largest paper in SE FL; been in the eye of 30 of them. So please take this with the experience I have while writing about this topic.
Bloomberg was another Nagin with his completely unrealistic predictions about when things would "get back to normal." Nagin said New Orleans would be up and running in 90 days. Bloomberg had the transit system running in "2 or 3 days," - that's by tomorrow! - and the electrical up in "3 to 5 days," an equally delusional prediction. Why do they tell such lies?
You people are a combination of Ivan and Katrina. If you want the Real World of what to expect, read up on them. The pictures of your area could substitute for the devastation photographed in Pensacola from Ivan, and Mississippi and Louisiana from Katrina. It will take years to rebuild. More than you can now expect will never be rebuilt.
I am, like many of you, amazed at the cold, callous, judgment of Bloomberg about the Marathon and other priorities. You have people who are beyond destitute - and the top priority is not them. It is taking care of his fellow banksters and Wall Streeters; the everyday people be damned.
Let me give you the Reality Check that Bloomberg, et al. won't give you: 1) It will be at least two weeks before you are done rescuing people. You'll know it's over when they go from people sniffing dogs, to cadaver sniffing dogs; 2) You'll be lucky if you have electricity restored everywhere in two weeks; don't be surprised if some areas are out for nearly a month.; 3) As supplies of food and fuel disappear, it's going to get violent; 4) As the police begin to drop out from their 80-hours shifts, the looters will be out - look for the National Guard or US Army to finally restore order; 5) The insurance companies are going to withhold every penny they can from you - the truth is they don't have the funds to pay out what it will cost to pay off policies and I'm sure incredible numbers of people don't have flood insurance because they never thought it would ever flood, a la New Orleans; 6) Price gouging will be widespread as supplies dwindle; 7) Rebuilding will take years because of a) lack of people to do the work, and b) lack of money to pay for it - see the remark about the lack of flood insurance to understand why; 8) Some will never rebuild, a la New Orleans and Pensacola; 9) Drug and alcohol abuse will skyrocket, and with them domestic and street violence as people find no other outlet to dissipate stress and depression; 10) The use of mental health facilities, and stress related illnesses will also skyrocket, putting major demands on money for medical and prescription costs; 11) Bankruptcy of cities, townships, counties, and maybe even the state will become the only way out for over-burdened governments; 12) Bankruptcy will also sweep through all the marginal businesses in the area - they won't survive the timeline that they need to restore cash flow - and you can count on the banksters to do absolutely nothing to help them. The banksters aren't about to lend out the money they can write to themselves as multimillion dollar bonuses.
That's the top of the list for you. It's the Real World that you about to live. There is no easy way out - only the toughest will survive - the rest will end up dead from the stress, from suicide, from drug overdoses, or simply move away unable to cope with the devastation.
I pray for every one of you. There is no way to sugarcoat what you are about to experience.
May God, or the Goddess, or your Higher Power, or whatever you believe exerts influence over your life, be merciful to you. You are only beginning to experience Hell on Earth.
-30-
The real world sounds much less enjoyable than the make-believe world that I've been conditioned to think I live in.
MarsInScorpio - thank you! You offer a rare combination of realism and compassion.
Yup. I was telling my wife the same thing this morning when I read the projections. No way they will have this straight before winter, just when the cold comes and buries them under 8 feet of snow.
You should see how surly and stressed people get here in DC when the power goes out for several days....Starbucks turns into a psych ward....the scene in NY/NJ in the aftermath of this storm will be in the news in a big way through the election. If I lived there, I'd use whatever vacation time I had accrued, blow out of town for a long vacation.
BTW, was on I-95 in Viriginia Tuesday and today, and there is an *army* of thousand and thousands of bucket trucks, ServPro vehicles, electrical utility vehicles, cranes, campers, etc. headed north...there is money to be made...
At the cost of what?
Your communities.
You should take your meds before you hurt yourself.
aptly named Mars in Scorpio, unique perspective (here), and a reminder of the real costs beyond financial. . .
I remember stories of New York/northern "developers" swarming on the South post-Katrina, buying up the devastation for pennies on the dollar, hoping to cash in on the removal of many folks from an area they'd occupied for generations.
seems almost karmic now. and yet we all know it's not the wealthy who suffer the most. . .
Indeed. After Katrina, I along with a group of guys (on our own dime) would take a week off work and go yearly to Mississippi to help clean-up and rebuild. After the fourth year we stopped going, there was a lot still left to be done.
What most fail to take into account is that in the aftermath of such disasters and after the money is distributed, in come the construction sharks who will take the money and run. Hence, it took much longer to rebuild.
It was sad, we heard that same story from so many people. They had their lives completely destroyed and some scumbag comes in and fleeces them, one has to be a real POS to do that.
HOLY COW! That puts it in perspective. Of course ...
Who really cares about the 1% that this impacted, mostly?
They'll be fine as long as Helicopter Ben is flying around dishing out money!
BO's in a bad spot ... if he offers Federal Funds for cleanup, he's ENDORSING the 1% ... poor guy, it's always something ... and he usually does nothing :)
He won't announce the money until November 8th. If he's smart.
We had the fiscal cliff, jobs and Europe to worry about prior to the storm. The storm came, and two days later Europe has been fixed, unemployment and consumer confidence has improved, Obama has a mortal lock on a 2nd term and the Dow is up 130 points.
...What the fawk???
Europe hasn't been fixed, jobs hasn't been fixed, and the fiscal cliff is still there. Dow is up 130? Big deal, transitory at best.
They have been calling him President Obama, instead of just obama, since the crisis started, so that does bode well for him. He does have to fend off any superdome and 'Barack Obama hates black people' moments until the election, but at this point it does appear that this massive destruction is a win for team Obama.
Obama's toast by 3-5% pop vote and in the electoral college, done in by same forces that 'surprised' with the landslide in 2010...
The MSM already reported Obama won 43% to 40%. Take that to the bank.
This is why I laugh at all the efforts to "preserve beaches".
Nature will put beaches where ever it wants them.
Nature, and Dubai, Jumeriah Beach, hm.
If this was a third world disaster the Liberals would be pleading for dollars. 1-800-MUST-HELP
They are. They're even pushing new boundaries. The ATM's have big 'push this button to donate' screens this time around.
Like I'm gonna trust a bank with a donation! They'll just use it to pump out their own basement!
Any thoughts on how the Chicago boys will use this crisis? Seize all the coast for hotel entrepreneurs? Privatize the subways? I need to get in on this, my money has been on the sidelines too long. Can't let this crisis go to waste!
read up on the history of New Orleans and surrounds, post Katrina. . .
it won't surprise you.
ok so houses bult on sand get washed away, who the fuch cares. oh wait, dont they use tax dollars to bring in more sand ?
That looks overall closer to 500 bln than 50 bln damage to me.
This is your neighborhood...
And this is your neighborhood on AGW.
Any questions?
Just one: Why's it so damned cold outside?
Oh that's easy. Energy inputs into the Arctic are having an effect on the jet stream, the ring fence holding back Artic air, and letting some of it through. Data suggests the jet stream around the Arctic is actually slowing down (due to the decrease in temperture differentials between higher and lower latitudes, as these drive the winds) and as it slows it starts to meander like a river slowing down on the flats. The meander loops south fill with cold Arctic air from the north of the jet stream (and the meanders north fill with warmer continental air of course, but that's beside the point) and when one of those meanders comes far enough south to hit a population area you end up with a lot of people breathing Arctic air who, frankly, just are not prepared for that. Now while the Arctic is indeed warming, it is still mo'fo cold up there. So unless you happen to be an Aelutian visiting the lower 48 on vacation, you can't deal with it. The ice, the snow, the hellish cold all head-slap the normally temperate areas so that everyone wonders what the fuck is going on. Well what's going on is that there is Arctic air outside the Arctic and this will continue and worsen as the Arctic continues to respond to global warming.
This is all cutting edge research by the way, so you won't hear much about it in the MSM. However it you keep your ear tuned you might catch a weather-or-not-man mentioning something about the jet stream slowing, and the ring fence failing a little, and Arctic air coming down, and stuff like that. Well now you understand the link to global warming. And thus, you'll understand why people living in the New England states and around the Great Lakes may as well kiss their asses goodbye because the Arctic Circle is about to come home for Christmas.
Jeez. I'd have just said: "'cause it's the start of November."
Gov Chris Christie just said call FEMA and in 48 hours they will come by and give you money. PRINTING PRESSES ON FULL STEAM
ya lives by da beach...ya dies by da beach.
Mother Nature WILL kick our asses 100% of the time.
Chrisite speaking now about how bad things are and how he and FEMA and O are fixing things fast.
One comment tubby made was on the devastation of the transit system in NJ.
The biggest isse - half the fucking rail cars are underwater in the Hoboken yard
Did this dipshit not know that was a low lying area in danger of flooding? Reminds me of the geniuses at Bellevue that located the fuel system for the emergency generators in the basement
I would say that FEMA is going to emerge from this 10 times more powerful than before
They're trying to get the American taxpayer to pay for NJT. They're trying to get federal money. They're going to overexagerate the damage to NJT and the NY Subway, and then demand that DC pay for it. And they don't give a fuck that someone Colorado is paying for a new NJT system. New York and New Jersey are the parasite states. Everything about their states is unsustainable.
The national flood insurance programs covers the 1% that lives on the coast at huge loss every year, and every year they build out into the ocean a little bit farther, then claim "sea rise" and "global warming" while cashing their 3rd or 4th NFIP claim check and demanding Congress guarantee more debt for the FNIP, they also put all their old electronics on the ground floor and leave any insured but unliked cars in the garage.
Hurricanes used to be great for the construction industry too, guaranteed lucrative paid jobs almost every year, but with the illegal alien labor invasion, "available jobs" are meaningless with unlimited cheap illegal labor, all legetimate contractors get run out of business like good money replaced by bad.
Krugman says a disaster like this is good for the economy. How about several more destructive events?
If Krugman is the next economic adviser he can have Obama blow up some towns. More destruction is better right?
There are countries that hate the US and are willing to destroy American cities for no charge.
Krugman, just call on those we deem as enemies and they will be happy to destroy buildings for nothing. They'll even supply the bombs. You can have your economic stimulus and the terrorist can have their satisfaction of destroying American cities.
This is no different than it has ever been. Long Beach Island NJ was cut into 5 pieces back in 62. Houses were floating around in the bay. If you must build that close, build 20 feet up on piles. Even then you are at risk. People get complacent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Wednesday_Storm_of_1962 Barnegat Light used to have a first and second street. They were long gone by the early 50s.
Time to read Rachel Carson !
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson
People died.
Yeah, the President left them swinging in the breeze over in Libya. The slimy sack of shit refused to allow the military to do it's job and save American lives. I can assure you just about every man and woman in uniform took notice.
Obama is the worst President ever. May he serve another full term.
Why the hyperventilating from conservatives on Libya? They shouldn't be there anyway. Wrong place, wrong time.
they got their marching orders and dont have much else in the playbook
sure sign that TPTB are using Mitt as a prop
Who is a conservative here and what does that have to do with undefended Americans left to die?
I guess 700 billion still isnt enough of a budget to protect everyone.. triple it and put army recons at every street corner in the world
The first pair of photos is of Seaside Heights, NJ. Zillow shows prices in the $500K to $1M range.
they may finally have to update their photos
"I had always wanted my new home to be on the waterfront!"
-Mantoloking resident
That is what i excepted to happen on The Jersey Shore from the moment MTV aired it
If you are going to build on the beach you certainly can't erect the same type of structure you would at a location 25 miles inland, and yet they do and do and do with our tax dollars after each catastrophe....
Pretty fucking stupid to build major infrastructure and housing along a fucking floodzone.
Only in America are they that technologically advanced.
Idiots....
And guess what...???
They can rebuild...!!!
...the horror ...the horror'' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKcAYMb5uk4
I'm thinking ''Apocalypse Now 2012'' should have Colonel Kurtz's son in New York saying the new lines, ''the Harbinger ...the Harbinger'', just before the screen flashes to total white light and the movie ends.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEJl_zpqBok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iYC1vCxJVM&feature=related
Funny thing, the Antichrist assholes have people talking about the global warming claim, now ''climate change'', LMAO, because of Sandy, the ''new'' political dead baby the political devil loves to hold up and kiss in front of the crowd. The intent behind this is clear, it is all about placing another claim of dominion upon the host of freedom and liberty, as a new world order mark or tax upon labor, as a result of any event that can be used to do so, a global borderless one in the name of ''Carbon Tax'', blah ha haaa. Such contempt is obvious to anyone with half a brain, and 99.9999% of Fight Club Members. The New World Order, out of Chaos, bla ha haa, single voice out of many assholes, love the offer(s) of temptation. Destruction and death, and the unthinking reaction from the human hosts of the same ''Vote 2 Party'' coin, the ''Debt Note'' ''In (g)od We Trust'', AKA Presidential Host of Lucifer, combine for the pathetic display of evil distraction. The FACT is, if you listen to the dipshit Democrats talk about the increase in frequency and intensity of storms etc..., and watch the idiot reaction from the Republicans, you will not see and hear any mention of the FACT that they sound like they are reading from the prophetic scriptures of the Bible, which perfectly defines that this would happen to this generation. Nobody wants to speak about this FACT, but it's true. Even the occult Masonic Boys, Aztec, Mayan Egyptian etc... image of Lucifer, as the ''White god of Sirius'' that rises from 2012's new age of Aquarius water(sign), like the Phoenix of Atlantis, defines the same time and natural, political etc... time of great tribulation.
...2012, Sandy, Full Moon, High Tide, NYC 911 Ground Zero Floods, all combines with the Presidential Election sandwich, oh I'm sure this is not prophetic. LMAO, yeah riiigt.
Shrug. Not very severe if you ask me. Try the hurricane of 1933 sometime. Storms like this have happened for thousands of years. I used to own property on the Beach. It's the chance you take, everyone down there knew it. That's why they built everthing with wood - easy to rebuild.
''shrug''. OK bud, lmao. This one storm is not the point, dipshit, and you know it. I will not bother to make the list of events for you and the time frames for the prophetic last generation, it may destroy the third computer in two years that I have melted, lol. I will just mention it, so your dusty ass has to do the work for yourself. Take heed, you do not have the time to do so, idiot. Get your dusty ass squared away now, with The Truth and sustaining Mercy and image of our Father in Christ, or your dusty ass shall perish ...long before this generation would see another 5 years. You shall be going through the Great Tribulation, about to begin it's due season, in the new age of Aquarius. If not, scripture is false and so are all the other discriptions of the time, like from other cultures that have declared the same time, but to anyone paying attention and watching, like me, you know that scripture and the events upon this generation perfectly fulfill prophecy and declare the season end. Jerusalem is the key point of order and time. Get a clue, I want to kick your ass in Heaven too, you dipshit, but not if you don't love it. LMAO.
Dipshit? WTF are talking about moron? Take your meds or something. Don't bother to reply.
''Take your meds'', um yeah, you are a dipshit, no place for you.
-50 And how is your moronic rant even remotely Christ-like? You know, it's self-righteous hyporcrites like yourself that give a bad name to just about everything.
TSA Gropee, lmao, it's ''like'' your dusty ass responded and you were compelled by the power of Christ, and here you stand in agreement with the mirror image of what? LMAO. Your claim is 100% pathetic. A soft word turneth away wrath and a hard word brings forth wrath from who exactly? Do you really think a dipshit that walks into a room full of Heaven, claiming in 2012, Sandy ain't that big and denying the prophetic season is upon this generation, is not a dipshit that inspires laughter? In the coming months and years, are you going to forget being told you are a dipshit for not being able to see the tribulation upon this generation? LMAO. The reaction to (me) being an asshole is the result of a provocation, the mirror image confirms the likeness. How do you look? do yuh look like the baby you held up in defense, Christ? LMAO. Man you you are fallen. Time to rise, dipshit, lol. get a clue.
Morons around here build and buy homes at edges of sea side cliffs, in drought ridden fire prone mountains, in river and flash flood runoffs, and then wonder why natural recurring events like fire and rain cause so much destruction. What's worse is local MSM puts these yokels on the news when their house fills with water or is left to a pile of ashes where they cry about how unfair it is and how they lost precious family heirlooms. Then they rebuild it all over again the same way.
Every one who says this is good for the economy/broken window bullshit needs to be punched in the cock.
These before/after photos bring me no emotion, but I'm sure plenty out there with their human arrogance are proudly proclaiming with a tear running down their cheek and an American flag waving behind them "We will rebuild... never forget Sandy..." etc. Nauseating.
+1
I save my sympathy for real victims...children who are abused, innocent people killed when two nations decide to hold a war in their backyard, kids born to crack-addled sluts, etc. Dumbshits who keep building flimsy wooden shacks five feet from the tide line? I've got nothing left for them.
Yup. Add barrier islands, which naturally erode and move, on the East Coast - westward. So the residents complain they are losing beach, the Army Core of Engineers comes in and they start these projects to fight beach erosion. A ludicrous waste of money, that's now become an "entitlement". It just makes the storm damage worse. They have to repair mansions instead of simple shacks, which is what should have been built on an eroding beach.
...where does the sewage go? i mean, what is it's route to the sea...or do they pump it inland???
back to McDonalds
Between the tolls,police state,and fucked up laws,fuck em.Peoples Republic of N.J..Yeah,Jersey strong.
http://rt.com/news/canada-mask-bill-riots-759/
Hurricane Sandy
a/k/a
Illegal Alien Full Employment Act
I thought climate change was Bush's fault. I heard it on PBS so it must be true. Right?
/sarc
Anyone else getting popups on their mobile device from this site now? Started a couple weeks ago for me. very annoying.
Yep,annoying.
The good news is ... well the inventory of existing homes (for sale or not) shrinked by a fair amount over the past couple of days. Some will certainly need a build/buy a new house or repair the damaged one, triggering upward demand conditions, prices, employment and wages in the construction industry. Therefore, in theory, housing statistics would improve in the process.
The bad news is, those who lost their house (or part of it) and are uninsured will take a big hit on their assets. If you have a mortgage but no house, you're fucked. Therefore and unless you have plenty of cash to buy/build a house, how can you possibly pay for a new one with your balance sheet and cash flows prospects in such a bad shape? Or am I missing something?
I asked my insurance company could I exclude flood damage.... they said NO
I said I didn't want cover for flood damage... they said NO you have to have it
Freedom? Must have this or do that, permits, licenses, state ID's, no big gulps, no... It would appear that we haven't been truly free for a very long time. It's the frog in the blender story. Ribbit...
You gotta love all the folks with nice homes on the barrier islands. These are just shifting sand bars put up and taken down by the sea. Yet folks build their homes out there, then are amazed that they are victims of disaster!
Look, in this game Mother Nature bats last, and it just hit it out of the park. It is hard to know how widespread damage really is, the media is a worthless bunch of corporate whores. On the night of the storm they sent idiot reporters to stand all night long at the beach and talk about how windy it was and that the sand was blowing. Hour after fucking hour of that shit. They didn't have a team of reporters out in the different areas and they didn't have reporters working at police and fire headquarters where reports were coming in.
I have no idea what the scale of damage is, but it appears that those who built on the beach got their asses kicked, you see them in the above photos, sometimes 8 to 10 houses inland all wrecked.
Taxpayers will have to pay for all the under insured and uninsured. And that is a lot. If power remains down for a week or more, then it gets serious, especially if winter weather moves in. It is November after all!
Harrumph!!!
no worries, perfect time to kick Agenda 21 into those areas
Is it couargeous or stupid for homes to be rebuilt on the same sites?
Suspend sales taxes, business licenses and the food and clothing with rush into the area.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/11/were-going-to-die-staten-i...
Three days. HAHAHA.
There are a lot of Americans that are helpless. They're like a half-hour from complete disaster at any time. If you don't give them entertainmennt, disgusting food, or alcohol, they go through withdrawl and beg for the government to help them. And they don't mind the paternalist state, because they've never grown up. They're still living like children. They want structure. They want to be told what to do. They want to feel like someone will bail them out when they get in trouble.
Chris Christie "Auesterity!!!!"
First sign of trouble "Please Obama, send me $$$ ill suck your dick ill do anything!"
Boy........imagine this fat puke fuck running for president. Of course the republicans are so out of touch with thinking what people want vs. what they want they'd be stupid enough to let him run.
I'm still at the part where he is sucking the Big O
Tyler...situation getting very interesting here in Putnam county NY. 50 miles north of Manhattan on the Hudson River. Just about every gas station is out of gas, lines are 1/2 hr long minimum at remaining stations with fuel. Most of the shortage up here from Westchester and Jersey residents scouring the region for gas. Getting a real weird feeling a food crisis is next. Right around Election Day
The after pictures all look darken... ah, no lights.
not to doubt the MSM meme on how NYC is slipping into the Ocean but here is a live cam of Times Square
Note the homeless, the darkness, the looters etc
the cars floating down 42nd
http://www.myfoxny.com/category/237033/live-video-on-myfoxny
(edit -they went and subbed a live cam of an Obama FOrward rally) but the scene was of a vibrant and busy Times Square all lit up)
I have often wondered how a population could stand idly by (or participate) when tens of thousands of their neighbors were herded on to rail cars for a destination unknown) watching that rally, it all makes sense now
I thought all hardcore end-timers would be excited to test out their skills necessary for surviving the apolcalypse/worldwide collapse/etc... Why do you complain so? A couple weeks without power phffff! Pussies.
Consider this a "dry" run.
Wasn't complaining cunt. Just an observation. Let them bring it, I am in pretty good shape.
I'm on day 4 in darkness. Genny is doing just fine. We are doing just fine. I got the interwebs and have been catching up with movies and teaching my baby daughter how to walk. It's been a vacation. I've prepped for this knowing it would probably never happen and alas my prepping was necessary this week. Everyone in my family thinks I'm a badass, but i was just prepared; nothing more, nothing less. I feel for the Ones who are still homeless and/or missing loved ones. The thing this taught me and everyone else I hope is that in the end YOU MUST BE ABLE TO RELY ON YOURSELF. Those who rely on government, die on government. Fuck cradle to grave. My baby made me think about this shit. We were MILDLY tested this week. We did just fine. Reading some of the people on the local news channel bitching and saying "When will help come?" are pathetic. This whole event shows just how worthless some people are. How unprepared they are. It's scary, I fear for when a REAL event happens. I hope it does not. My wife wondered why I stored gas. She wondered why we had a generator. Why we had food and batteries and flashlights and other emergency stuff and cash on hand. All it takes is the power going out which isnt a crazy or unlikely event. It happens. It happened. Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance. Learn it, live it. I knew some people have been saying, "Those fuckin New Yorkers deserved it the arrogant Füx!" Don't say that. Most the people who had this come down on them hard were good people and need your well wishes. Their lack of, preparedness, however, is their fault but the disaster wasn't "deserved". I hope people have awakened to the fact that in the end it truly is all on you. I've lived all over and the people in this area usually good. Just cuz we got some cocksucker bankers amongst us doesn't mean the whole lot of us are shitty. Be prepared bitchez.
+1 Well said.
I, for the most part quietly prepare and mention occasionally to others that they should as well. And even with Katrina and now Sandy, I'm still seen as somewhat of a tin-foil hat paranoid, but having listened first hand to people in Mississippi talk about their experiences after Katrina, I'll err on the side of caution thank you very much.
Lastly, in my area where there are really no earthquake, tornado, or hurricane fears, I think there's a heavy state of normalcy bias. It'll take just once to get caught with your panties down and I'd rather not go there so I'll stick with my TFHP...
Power goes out on LI whenever there's a light breeze cause the fucking hapless imbeciles love their overgrown trees right next to their homes and power lines (god forbid they bury those like they do in civilized places!), like standing in a thunderstorm holding a lightning rod and then getting upset and surpirsed when lightning strikes. Every few months, every fuckin year.
Too stupid to live. Same goes for those living on a waterfront and acting surprised when a flood occurs. Sympathy only encourages this moronic behavior.
I'd metal detect the shit outta that.
'tis a flesh wound!
To :
Jack Burton
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The core samples from ice created 1000 millineum ago will show the Earth's atmostphere had 60 times the CO2 in the atmostphere than exist today.
The juxtaposition suggest, by Al Gore, Obama and now Bloomberg, every barrel of oil + every bit of Nat. Gas+ coal extracted is converted from a solid; innocuous, state to the monster that melts million years old glaciers.
Sooooooo.............!
We can surmise every barrel of oil pumped and refined, converted by combustion to CO2 and H2O adds heat to the oceans, 2/3 of the worlds surface, the ultimate heat sink.
What are we to do?
A tax is an assinine suggestion because this will not stop the Standard Oil Cartel from pumping and warring to protect the petro-dollar!
Any green solution takes rare Earth metals which take more diesel fuel to extract than the device offsets. Mining rare Earth metals contributes to global warming because it takes more fossil fuel to extract than the green device offsets.
Lesson:
You can not go against nature
because if you do
go against nature
it is part of nature too!
Deal with it and stop trying to figure the makers way!!
Just enjoy being able to give, enjoy the blessings offered.
In my world these are few and far between.
We have the luxury to ponder such inequities but it is; in the end, fruitless.
Fight for those who don't experience our philisophical pleasures because of the daily grind for survival.
Count your blessings.
Welcome to New York ... aka "New Amsterdam"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiihJzYZlQQ&feature=g-all-lik
The value of beach property in Myrtle Beach just went up.
This storm is most likely powered by HAARP - the timing and severity could be coincidence - but I'm not a strong believer in coincidences.
Let's stick with the science and forget the crazy conspiracy theories...
http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee321/doodabides/demsinblack.jpg
what do you think will happen to your house, built on the beach, when the seas over step their boundaries? I love the beaches here in Florida, but don't want to live on them. I love the streams here too, but if I lived near them I would build on stilts to protect myself against such things. people want the beauty of living next to the water, but don't want to suffer the consequences of living next to the water.
Oh no. Where yous guys gonna play stickball?
All I've heard for 2 damn days is that New Yorkers can't get gas, last tanker deliveries were a mere few days ago. Prices up, miles-long lines, fights, stations wiped out, state police called in. News anchors falling over themselves to make light of it and ensure everyone the gas is on it's way! These fuckers literally could not possibly be less prepared for a gas supply shock let alone supply collapse - they'll be absolutely done, Golden Horde Zombie status inside of a week.
Pay attention to the news, this is a small-scale preview of what happens when the status-quo is disrupted.
Staten Island is a literal disaster zone ala Katrina and upper east side Manhattanites are complaining of lack of Starbucks, Oh, the humanity!
upper east side Manhattanites are complaining of lack of Starbucks,
Where'd you see that?
The before / after pictures of the culture up there is what may prove more stunning.