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After The Flood Comes The Freeze: "Tens Of Thousands Need Housing" Says Cuomo, As Nor'Easter Approaches

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First the flood, now the freeze (and the lack of fuel and gas and heating just making it much worse). And for tens of thousands of residents of New York and New Jersey this means that as many as 40,000 will need to find alternative housing, especially ahead of Wednesday when a Nor'easter formation is expected to hit the Tristate area and bring even more freezing rain and cold to the region. From Reuters: "Tens of thousands of people affected by superstorm Sandy could soon need housing as cold weather descends on the state of New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday. Cuomo, in a televised press conference nearly a week after the storm hit the U.S. East Coast, said the fuel shortages are improving but problems will persist for "a number of days."" Elsewhere, and also from Reuters: "Victims of superstorm Sandy on the U.S. East Coast struggled against the cold early on Sunday amid fuel shortages and power outages even as officials fretted about getting voters displaced by the storm to polling stations for Tuesday's presidential election. Overnight, near-freezing temperatures gripped the U.S. northeast. At least two more victims were found in New Jersey, one dead of hypothermia, as the overall death toll from one of worst storms in U.S. history climbed to at least 112. Fuel supplies continued to rumble toward disaster zones and electricity was slowly returning to darkened neighborhoods after a storm that hit the coast last Monday. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it would be days before power is fully restored and fuel shortages end."

All of this will be exacerbated as a Nor'easter moves along the Eastern Seaboard and is expected to hit New Jersey and New York in several days:

A "significant" nor'easter is likely to hit Sandy-battered areas of the Northeast by Thursday, the National Weather Service said in an update Sunday.

 

FEMA and Red Cross officials have ordered more resources ahead of the storm, while New York City is dealing with a shortage of fuel oil and steam to heat buildings as temperatures began dipping into the 20s and power remained out for hundreds of thousands.

 

At the very least, the service's prediction center stated, there is "a very real possibility of heavy rain and strong winds along the coast from Virginia to Maine."

 

Snow is likely in the interior and some models "do bring some snow all the way to the coast as far south as Virginia," it warned.

That all of this is happening two days ahead of the presidential election is merely adding to the chaos:

President Barack Obama, neck-and-neck in opinion polls with Republican challenger Mitt Romney, ordered emergency response officials to cut through government "red tape" and work without delay to help affected areas return to normal.

 

Officials have expressed concern about getting voters displaced by Sandy to polling stations for Tuesday's election. Scores of voting centers were rendered useless by the record surge of seawater in New York and New Jersey.

 

New Jersey is allowing voters displaced by Sandy to vote by email. Some voters in New York could be casting their ballots in tents.

 

An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released on Sunday found that 68 percent of those surveyed approved of how Obama handled Sandy and just 15 percent disapproved.

 

"I'm not thinking about the election too much right now," said Frank Carrol, 59, a retired New York City transit worker who lives in Staten Island. He planned to vote, but did not know if his local polling station would even be open. "We'll stop by and see what happens," Carrol said.

 

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie ordered county clerks to open on Saturday and Sunday to accommodate early voters and ensure a "full, fair and transparent open voting process."

And while most appear content with the crisis response to date, with the apex being Mayor Bloomberg's cancellation of the marathon due to massive popular outcry (we are confident all those who spoke up are now taking part in the recovery efforts), the DOE just announced that 25% of New Jersey is still without power. This led to Martial Law being declared in the town of Seaside Heights which has been totally destroyed, as we showed in the Hurricane Sandy before and after satellite pics.

We expect more regions of NJ to be declared uninhabitable in the coming days as the situation continues to deteriorate.

 

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Sun, 11/04/2012 - 18:34 | 2946895 Flakmeister
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Ahh... the true colors start to emerge...

Just another hateful bigot at the Hedge....

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 20:14 | 2947129 flacon
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Yeah I used to work in a screw factory in Carteret, NJ, just across the river from Staten Island. The place is riddled with niggers, wiggers and Polish hard workers. So what's your point? Are you from Springfield, Missouri or something?

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 20:50 | 2947239 Flakmeister
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Nope.... and that was very very funny...

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 21:03 | 2947274 Raymond Reason
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He is honest, you are not. 

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 19:30 | 2947028 CPL
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Every gas station I've ever been too always has a hand powered pump.  I would even bet there are gas station attendant training manuals on the subject.

 

Oh wait they do.  Here's the NJ Retail GAS and Regulations...includes employee requirements and station requirements.  Hand pumps are also needed to prime a tank.  I'm guessing you've never worked retail.  You would not believe the level of insane detail any employee is actually required to know...in a gas station attendants, using a hand pump to help pressurize a tank when I tech arrives.  It's a two person job for safety process requirements, the tech primes and the attendant is supposed to keep people advised that a huge tank of voilite liquid is present. 

 

http://lwd.dol.state.nj.us/labor/lsse/laws/Retail_Gasoline_Act_and_Regs.html

 

Telling me that the techs couldn't make it to the station?  They would have thrown a fucking parade when any station tech showed up, the evening news filled with girls with Jersey accents promising unending blowjobs on command to gas techs.

 

Why is it offensive to you is my question?  Does running out of something scare you that much?  This is just the beginning of the show.  Grab a chair, beers in the fridge.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 12:36 | 2946121 redpill
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Then one could say recovery is.....afoot?  That it should add a few more....digits to GDP?

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 19:32 | 2947034 CPL
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QE Infinity + Infinity?

 

 

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 16:59 | 2946732 Gully Foyle
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?

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 19:00 | 2946957 Van Halen
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At least Obama has Eva Longoria and all her hot... cash to keep him warm in Vegas. It's good to be the king!

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 20:16 | 2947139 Simon Endean
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"especially if ER room visits increase. any extraction of savings and income will do."

 

Of course, under EMTALA, the ER will be forced to render treatment for free.....

 

 

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 12:38 | 2946126 max2205
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Retired at 59, sure he doesn't care. Got a nice warm hotel room on the backs of a $100,000 pension. The people freezing paid for that

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:03 | 2946185 I think I need ...
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I think FEMA is there, everything is under control,,,,,,,

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:51 | 2946294 NoDebt
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Cue the FEMA Trailers!!

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:01 | 2946331 Bagbalm
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The basic bottom line mission of FEMA is three hots and a cot if it is needed, and they can't do it.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:15 | 2946370 Urban Redneck
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The basic bottom line mission of FEMA is to fatten the bottom line of already fat government contractors, with taxpayer dollars. 

The Guard is much better at three hots and a cot.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:43 | 2946435 PLira
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I'd say this situation kinda blows a large hole in the whole "FEMA Camps" meme.

Guess we'll find out.

Mon, 11/05/2012 - 00:44 | 2947835 Flakmeister
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LMAO, I must have missed this earlier...

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 16:22 | 2946666 Zero Govt
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FEMA is doing what precisely?

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 18:57 | 2946949 Ms. Erable
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Screwing the pooch in a grandiose manner while servicing the 'first responders' (i.e., themselves).

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:36 | 2946420 Matt
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Not yet, the technology to regow toes doesn't exist. But if you lose and arm or a leg, getting a brand new prosthesis certainly boosts GDP.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 18:17 | 2946858 SWIFT 760
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Jersey Shore, mouthpiece of Northeast. Perhaps freezing temps will shut up the fat malcontents. 

Reap the Karmic whirlwind...REAP IT !!! 

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 16:36 | 2946688 Gully Foyle
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uh

Mon, 11/05/2012 - 00:03 | 2947760 Dingleberry
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DOn't worry.....Obama will give everyone free gas, free housing, free food and a free cell phone once he wins the election!!

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 12:25 | 2946087 Zombie Investor
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Not being a New Yorker, I was wondering why there is such a vast difference in the help received by those in Manhattan (quite good) versus the helped received for those in the boroughs of Queens and Staten Island (deplorable)? 

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 12:26 | 2946089 vast-dom
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do you really need to wonder that?

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 12:35 | 2946102 redpill
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Barack. Obama. does. not. like. poor. white. people.

/Kanye

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 12:43 | 2946133 Precious
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Ben Shalom and his band of Barry men.  Rob from the poor to give to the rich.  

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:36 | 2946263 ParkAveFlasher
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Those who don't know NYC need to know that there are neighborhoods within neighborhoods.  In Rockaway for example there are projects, there are towers for pensioners, there are beachside neighborhoods, bayside neighborhoods, and everything in between.  Everyone is affected, rich and poor.  The fact is that Bloomberg is a deer in the fuckin headlights and his notoriously poor treatment of the outer boroughs - and the sociopathic implications of his Manhattan-centrist attitude - is coming to full view.  The governor, I didn't vote for him, at least he is on the scene and saying what needs to be said.  Christie as well.  Obama took time off his busy schedule of baby kissing to take a few pics of him handing out Jesus hugs and right back on Air Force 1.  The media insists on pushing sporting events like a fukin Knicks game bussing in warm bodies to fill the seats.  fucking orwellian propaganda at its worst. 

They are freezing down in Rockaway!

So I have trunkload of supplies but unfortunately the local civic organizations - they are many - are doing what the city and feds are failing at, they are organizing support.  The problem is with the gas shortage and rationing, citizens can't/won't get inthe car and waste a half tank going out there and back to deliver.  Local set up points have been designated not city state and fed but by local civic orgs and citizens themselves.  This is aided by the internet.  Of course the Staten Island civil leaders have lambasted the city and national orgs for their lack of response. 

Public transportation is not at all efficient for the shorefront communities.  The MTA subway map makes it look like a small city but it isn't, not by any measurement.  You have to drive.  Roads are washed out as well.  It's a true disaster that is not being at all reported.  Thanks for Bloomy and his "everything is now normal" managerial culture  - I say managerial, which is not a leadership culture - well I just hope leaders emerge soon.

For those ZHers patting themselves on the back for their comparative preppiness, I should say that its not Bloomberg and Dimon who are suffering.  Fuck your redemption fantasy scenarios, it is nothing like that at all.  It's everyone.  I have a cousin up in the nice areas of North Shore and they are out of their home as well, powerless.  NYC outer boroughs and Jersey is also proving what the future will look like for you, across the nation.  Abandonment of not poor districts but middle class ones as well.  I'm posting fast because I'm moving quickly I have a trunkful of stuff and looking for a place close by to drop it.  I can't waste gas with a noreaster on the way, I have two kids and my closest hospital - NYU in midtown, although I am in western Queens however they have shut the nearest places indefinitely - is offline I have to prep for the worst.  God Forbid

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:18 | 2946380 Totentänzerlied
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5th Ave, the Upper East Side, the Hamptons, all the good neighborhoods are fine. What are you on about? The millionaires are fine, everyone else got shafted or got lucky and dodged a bullet. The whole response is INSANE. They're sending cops to control traffic and crews to fix the subways while people have no heat, power, food, or even homes - sociopaths. These leaders should be lined up and shot for this total bungling - but the media won't shut up about how brilliant their "leadership" has been - gag me. Just like Katrina, the best thing these megalomaniacs could do is shut up and disappear for a month, let the people and the market sort this out. But, but, but, the subways are back! The NYSE is open! Starbucks above 30th are open! The lights are on at Gracie! Obama said no red tape! It's all fixed!

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 15:14 | 2946496 PLira
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PAF,

RE: NYU , check out this Reuters tweet:

NYU hospital outpatients back Monday, emergency room closed

Stay safe brah

 

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 22:29 | 2947531 DaveyJones
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thanks for the post. DemocracyNow did a decent piece on the ignored lower east side and how FEMA has basically ignored it. We are talking about the same people who will lie and kill for raw resources or even more important, (in their mind) to win an election.  

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 15:26 | 2946521 Iwanttoknow
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True dat.Neither does Romney.Staying home.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 16:15 | 2946649 TWSceptic
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Shameful strategy to get the votes, that's all it is.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 17:20 | 2946772 disabledvet
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that's all this is. "Get out the votes" by providing free gas and free public transportation. "Shameful" should be changed to "harmful." This in fact makes the crisis worse not better. I'm sure the people of New York City find it ironic that the "big hero of this catastrophe is public transportation." Anywho...we'll see just how many vote for FEMA come election day. FEMA don't pay for the deductible...only responsible Governors working together to strong arm insurance companies into paying will do that. (No, that's not going to be Mayor Bloomberg. "It was YOUR fault Hoboken! YOU did this...

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 18:48 | 2946927 Zero Govt
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Disabledvet  -  you say public transport is being made to be the "big hero", how, it's not working yet is it, either tubes or trains??

Next Que: why is it Hoboken's fault, what did/didn't he do?

Final Que: has anyone anywhere anyplace yet questioned why New Yorks sea wall defence was so piss poor? Any media asked the question, are New Yorkers asking the question on the ground?

 

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 21:09 | 2947296 Matt
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1) some of the service is back online, according to their website:

http://www.mta.info/nyct/

2) Hoboken, New Jersey is a city. He's saying that other places / people will take the blame, rather than Bloomberg accepting any himself.

3) Because they never thought this would happen. A Full moon with a late season hurricane landing at high tide, mixed with a low pressure front is a pretty low-probability event.

Mon, 11/05/2012 - 06:39 | 2948064 merizobeach
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"...a pretty low-probability event."  Really?  How about two in a row?  I heard Jim Rickards lost his boat during Irene...

What is it with full-moon hurricanes? The odds against are 28:1 and we've now had two in a row.

Mon, 11/05/2012 - 19:21 | 2950187 Matt
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What are the odds of that happening? Well, 100 percent, now.

 

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 12:40 | 2946130 hairball48
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ROFLMAO!! Right on! :) That lower Manhattan would get help first was the most predictable outcome of this entire storm mess.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 12:33 | 2946095 bloostar
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Ben's printing press is located in Manhattan, Queens and other areas don't concern him except for mass human storage of zombie sheeples to spend it all on imported plastic junk.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 12:40 | 2946128 LawsofPhysics
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Not the sharpest tool in the shed are you?

Where are the banks and financial houses?  It isn't in Queens, that's for sure.

Please wake the fuck up.  Welcome to the kleptocracy, one party, for the banks and financial houses, by the banks and financial houses.

It's been this way for 35+ years by the way...

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 12:52 | 2946158 Sofa King
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Staten Island here, our response is that Bloomberg is a delusional megalomaniac who feels that tourism us more important than the taxpayers he has buried with fees and taxes. It has a similar feeling to the blizzard a few years ago when he left us all buried in three feet if snow so that Times Square could be clean for the celebration. We don't forget and this scumbag will be reminded of all this when he's going to be looking for a bridge to be renamed in his honor.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:00 | 2946177 LawsofPhysics
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Sounds like it is time to "escape from New York".  Good luck SK.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:10 | 2946204 Zero Govt
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Bloomberg a "meglomaniac scumbag" ?

shocker ...is he still regulating soft drinks in NY or has he got some other liquidity crisis on his hands?

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:38 | 2946267 ParkAveFlasher
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Send bullets.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 16:27 | 2946676 I Am Not a Copp...
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Send Snake Plissken

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 18:36 | 2946901 Jack Burton
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"Just call me Snake!"

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:30 | 2946242 fonzannoon
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Obama better keep the power out because my unofficial poll has a lot of liberals tweaked at the non response out here.

Sorry to keep hitting everyone with the local stuff but this storm shit creates a lot of funny stuff. I was at a friends house in Bethpage yesterday. The people in the house were all bent out of shape about price gouging, both at the gas stations and for renting rooms in homes with power. So I asked them to define price gouging. The cumulative response I got was "taking advantage of a situation to charge people substantially higher prices than normal". So I asked them how much they charged during the week of the U.S Open golf outing to people looking to rent.

I got "THATS DIFFERENT!" screamed in my face.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:45 | 2946257 Zero Govt
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Fonza  -  very funny :)

please keep the "local stuff" coming, we're not going to get the grizzly truth on the ground from the MSM and they will for sure not broadcast the catalogue of huge fucking NY State errors that's caused this carnage

Hope everyone is getting by best they can while they await recovery of the State's collapsed systems and infrastructure

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:43 | 2946434 knukles
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It is different, Fonz.
People pay real money to attend the US Open.
Priorities, my man, priorities.

Jesus...
Principles before personalities.
But then again if that was true, things'd already be a hell of a lot different all around.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:07 | 2946199 Whoa Dammit
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People in the Rockaways aren't big fans of Doomberg either:

“When are we gonna get some help?” blasted one desperate woman, who had to be held back by the mayor’s security detail as Bloomberg stood by with a deer-in-the-headlights look."

Heh.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/when_are_we_gonna_get_some_ing_help_T35TrXo1FCdu7YRBmQkQ8L

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:55 | 2946312 Zero Govt
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Whoa  -  thanks for the link, it reads,

"Bloomberg later told reporters dropping temperatures are “dangerous” and the city is sending 25,000 blankets to the Rockaways, where it could be another two weeks before power is restored."

So power and other collapsed systems not up-and-running in a week then?

First Bloomberg blamed the "dangerous" natural environment for New York States carnage and death toll ...blaming a storm for being a storm doesn't cut it. You blame man for not mitigating the dangers of a storm so you don't collapse in chaos which Bloomberg has done nothing on that score with sea defences, not lifted a finger

And because New York was wide open to the dangers of a storm, and because he had no Plan B in case the danger swept past his zero-danger mitigation Plan A, the power is now down due to lack of any back response and he's issuing blankets.

Namely the States systems have completely collapsed, here's a rug to use your own body heat to keep yourself warm, as the States over-regulated energy sector has failed completely to support you in times (double jeapordy??) of "danger"

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:14 | 2946366 Cathartes Aura
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"issuing blankets" - given the east coast's history with "free blankets" this doesn't sound encouraging. . .

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:20 | 2946379 Zero Govt
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issuing blankets is about all Bloomberg can think of

He's failed to have a sea defence, failed to have a Plan B recovery, all his heavily regulated monopolies (transport and energy) have collapsed and he's all out of bullets

Here, have a blanket, keep yourself warm because NY State is running on empty, no bloody help and totally fucking clueless

Bloomberg is 'Up Shit Creek without a Paddle' ....the State the world over

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:29 | 2946402 Oh regional Indian
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Methinks CA was referring to the in-famous "Thanksgiving" blankets of yore and lore.

ori

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:43 | 2946433 Zero Govt
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was that another time NY State was also completely clueless and useless with the "Here mate, have a blanket, keep yourself warm" line? 

it's not like most people can't think of getting a blanket themselves, people have already had to take their own disaster recovery (from NY State mistakes) response as NY States systems have collapsed

is Blooomberg offering Spiderman blankets or nothing special? 

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 15:01 | 2946478 Cathartes Aura
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trust you to get my inference. . .

*nods*

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 16:21 | 2946662 hardcleareye
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Had to look this one up...  oh my... 

Blankets given to first nation people infected with small pox by Eurpoeans...

I concur with your point......

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 18:56 | 2946937 Cathartes Aura
Sun, 11/04/2012 - 19:46 | 2947061 Hulk
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Not trying to cause trouble here or anything ORi, but did you see nmewn's comment about you yesterday?

Called you an "odd duck"

Thats some shit right there...

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 20:14 | 2947126 nmewn
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lol...yes you are ;-)

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 22:20 | 2947498 Hulk
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LOL! Yes I am !!!

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 22:37 | 2947555 DaveyJones
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at least you're not  a quack

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 20:20 | 2947155 Real Estate Geek
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Looks like Giuliani can add Bloomberg to his list of people who should resign because of incompetence.

Only good thing to come of this debacle is that it could put the kybosh on Bloomie's otherwise inevitable presidential bid.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 21:21 | 2947328 nmewn
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Bloomberg & Rudy are two sides of the same coin IMO...but I don't trust anything coming out of the NE.

My bias...and openly admitted to on several occasions.

Unfortunately, for me, the current twit is a much larger danger to the Republic than the challenger from the NE. Don't think this is not in the forefront of my mind...I don't trust Mitt but he is a lesser immediate danger to our rights & liberties.

Its not always just the pocketbook issue with me.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:08 | 2946193 Yossarian
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There isn't, as far as I know.  Manhattan was barely impacted when compared to the destruction in Rockaway and SI.  I drove around in the early morning after the storm and almost all of the flooding had receded by then.  Lower Manhattan were inconvenienced by the power outages but I believe nearly all power was restored yesterday.  I don't know of any sigificant assistance received by Manhattan residents- perhaps police presence greater downtown, keeping order.  In talking to friends in SI, the destruction is significant and there are bad apples but life isn't much different than Nassau County LI where power is out as well even in the welathiest areas. 

I recently heard a story of friend's husband waiting at gas station in Great Neck (a VERY wealthy area) when a delivery arrived at 4am.  He had to wait until National Guard arrived at 8am for them to allow gas to be distributed.  Trying to find out why National Guard is being deployed and why they have to oversee this.  I'm not sure what FEMA's function is but I don't see any big contribution during the most critical days following the disaster.  

 

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:15 | 2946219 Zero Govt
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Govt loves a cue

you cue for gas, then wait another 4 hours for the security to arrive

a day wasted waiting for Govt to get its act together, fucking brilliant!

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:39 | 2946425 Oh regional Indian
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Cue... queues...

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:17 | 2946221 bingo was his name
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The response/recovery is run by State/City.  FEMA's part is provide funding and to help coordinate where national resources go.  FEMA will also set up housing for folks that need it but that is going to take a while and their typical model for setting up housing post a storm will have to altered since NY/NJ is so heavily urbanized.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:46 | 2946332 Zero Govt
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Bingo, so reading between the lines of your, "FEMA will also set up housing ...but that is going to take a while ....their typical model for setting up housing post a storm will have to altered since NY/NJ is so heavily urbanized."

Not only are FEMA not prepared (inept) and no help (inept) , FEMA cannot help for weeks (fast response GovtzzzzzzZ to the 'rescue') and not only have they not "calculated" to be ready to help an urban area (are they ready for rural areas or will that take weeks too???)  but even their MODEL is having to be altered.... so even the fucking model is not competent yet, let alone being wholly inept at on-the-ground immediate help?????

Weren't you the arse yesterday telling me the NY State are well-prepared or something? These Govt morons can't even get a computer model ready, let alone organise a real response 

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 15:22 | 2946515 Matt
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So, does this mean the FEMA camps don't even exist? I mean, if they existed, wouldn't they offer a voluntary evacuation for people whose homes are destroyed or without power for an extended time? Just bus them to a camp west of the Appalachians?

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 21:15 | 2947314 tenpanhandle
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The fema camps don't have the ovens..er..I mean heaters installed yet.

Mon, 11/05/2012 - 10:54 | 2948478 bingo was his name
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I have no knowledge and have made no comments on state of preperations for this storm. 

Related to the ineptness of FEMA - they certainly have issues but its not realistic to expect the federal government to be prepared to feed and house approx. 20 million folks in 20 different states in less than 3 or 4 days. 

 

 

Mon, 11/05/2012 - 19:55 | 2950298 Matt
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The total number of people without homes (completely destroyed) or that will be without power for an extended period, are in the 10s of thousands, not 20 million people. FEMA has a budget of around $6 billion per year, and Hurricane Sandy was coming a week in advance. Is it unreasonable to expect them to have a couple of pre-established evacuation centers setup to house a few thousand people in the event of a disaster?

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:19 | 2946383 Cathartes Aura
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well, FEMA can always arrange to ship the folks all over the states, into other neighbourhoods, breaking down any ties the people had/have to the area, any empathy they've developed for neighbours, etc. - echoes of Katrina. . .

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:25 | 2946393 Zero Govt
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when you say NY State can "ship" people out from the chaos wreaked by NY States lack of preparedness are  a).trains  b).tubes  c).buses  up and working?

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 15:08 | 2946489 Cathartes Aura
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dude, calm down and think. . .

people won't volunteer to be shipped anywhere until they're desperate enough to not put up resistance. . . a week or so of less calories, cold, no electronic babysitters, etc. - by then those who plan these things will have the welcoming doors of the rail cars open, inviting all who are ready to be taken care of. . .

*need to know basis*     /taps nose

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 16:18 | 2946656 Zero Govt
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anyone (still left?) in the weeks it takes Govt to get up from the canvass deserves to be coralled like sheep into railway carriages

all good citizens look after themselves, as they've had to do, as the clown of society, the State, has punched itself silly.

I hope if their houses are cold amnd out of power they can jump in their car or bum a lift and head South to a hotel or firends in the weeks it'll take the clown to get off the floor with all his collapsed, highly regulated, heavy State oversight, failed infrastructure

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 22:38 | 2947559 DaveyJones
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...and stick them in poisonous housing

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:36 | 2946416 blunderdog
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It's just how the market prioritizes resource allocation.  OF COURSE the NYSE has to be restored before we get heat and electricity to the little people--the inhabitants of SI are currently receiving every resource they can afford.

This is the IDEAL.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 15:24 | 2946518 Matt
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If by "the market" you meant "the central planners"

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 16:38 | 2946691 Ident 7777 economy
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blunderdog:

 

"It's just how the market prioritizes resource allocation.  OF COURSE the NYSE has to be restored before we get heat and electricity to the little people-"

 

 

BLUNDERdog, DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA what it takes to replace and string EVERY GODDAMN POWER POLE in a neighborhood? MAke the circuit safe back to the SUBSTATION before 14 KV is sent throughn the lines to the pole transformers?

 

THEN multiply that BY ONE THOUSAND!

 

Geesh. GIVE IT A REST MFer!

 

 

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 17:00 | 2946737 blunderdog
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Are you angry about something, or is this the only way you know how to communicate? 

I've seen Jamaica in Queens, which just got power back yesterday--there were no damaged power poles there.  I take it you're basing your expert opinion on something other than experience or facts on the ground.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 12:25 | 2946088 Dapper Dan
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Thank God there is so much scrap lumber and wood debris lying around to make a fire!

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 12:56 | 2946167 A Nanny Moose
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You didn't burn that.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:38 | 2946422 Tsunami Wave
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Dude... Me and my brother have been scooping up as much firewood for our stoves and reserves as much as possible. I can't believe there is so much lying around and set aside for disposal!!... Instead of people hoarding it for fuel. When the collapse comes, it should be no mystery to these people why they're cold and starving!

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:55 | 2946456 Zero Govt
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anyone well prepared for collapse will probably have the additional Govt burden of the un-prepared State coming around to rob you of your good preperations

Be Warned, the thieiving Clowns are on the lose and after your wood stockpile, cash, metals, food and cooking oil ...it's in the "national interest" and for "national security issues" don't ya know

Mon, 11/05/2012 - 01:12 | 2947868 tip e. canoe
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methinks the Clowns are not as omnipresent as they are being billed and that it will more come down to a question of whether one who stockpiles is willing to share some of his bounty...or not.    zero gov't is coming amigo...but maybe not in the way that you think.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 12:28 | 2946094 Winston Churchill
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Think Katrina takes the prize for the worst storm damage,

and death toll in  recorded  US history. by a goodly factor.

How short the sheeples memory is.

All the better to fleece them all.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 12:56 | 2946168 dark pools of soros
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if a person dies in a flooded swamp does MSM really care?

 

a new yorker death is worth many many swamp person deaths.  kinda like an Israeli death is worth about 5000 non-chosen person deaths

 

 

 

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:14 | 2946213 Real Estate Geek
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MSM doesn't give a shit . . . until the polls close on Tuesday, when it may deign to cover the problems.  I love how the NYTimes is pussyfooting around the problems.  I can only imagine how different its tone would be if Bush was in the White House.  Fortunately, at least some of the sheep will now realize that NYTimes is just another flavor of FoxNews, MSNBC, etc..

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:01 | 2946170 Precious
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The Tohoku earthquake and tsunami were more devastating than Katrina and Sandy put together.

No martial law.  No looting.  No hoarding.  No gas lines.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:34 | 2946260 LawsofPhysics
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Amzing the differences you see when disasters occur in a mostly homogeneous asian culture.  Imagine that.  Folks working together recognizing the banksters/corporations and their political puppets for what they are, and then working together.  Who would have thunk it?

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:26 | 2946398 Totentänzerlied
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Robots.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 21:22 | 2947331 tenpanhandle
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I think the big dif is that they are used to fending for themselves and are not coddled and provided for via the matrix of the liberal nanny state. 

Mon, 11/05/2012 - 07:20 | 2948093 Incubus
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What is the separating factor?

 

In one scenario, you have people that are all the same.

 

In the other, you have people that come from different backgrounds.

 

Now, why does this variance make the difference?  What is telling about this?  Do we accept that we're failures at advanced civilizational function, or do we assume the inability to adapt is the result of the failure of the entire sociological system?   

So, do we just retreat to "what works"?  All I see is the deliberate mismanagement of institution and what we deal with is the effects of that.

The problem with people is that they are simplistic & reactionary animals.  It may take a bit of training, but learn to use your eyes.

Mon, 11/05/2012 - 14:01 | 2949124 Precious
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Could multiculturalism be a grand failure?

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 20:19 | 2947152 DosZap
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Think Katrina takes the prize for the worst storm damage,

 

 

( and these folks had 3-7 days warning to get the hell out.)Worst failure by a local and state government EVER.

 

Think again bro, Galveston ,Tx 1900 over 6000 dead....................worst ever.

Absolute devastation, city population 40,000.

Mon, 11/05/2012 - 02:22 | 2947253 Flakmeister
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Aren't satellites and computer models great? How many do you think Katrina and Sandy would have gotten if not for the NHC??

By the way, don't make shit up, go check the Katrina timeline.... Galveston came out of nowhere for the residents....

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 12:29 | 2946096 PUD
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The storm is expected to intensify into a 980mb low which is equal in barometric pressure to a strong cat1 hurricane or low cat 2. It will differ from Sandy in that it won't be as big or intense or fall with astronomical high tides. However..it will be slower, it will rake the coast, the seas will build to 20' or better, it will dump more rain and a lot more snow on all the areas previously hit. It will track towards my home on Cape Cod and effect us, Boston and New Hampshire along the coast far more than Sandy did. It is the result of climate change and the record melting of the arctic ice sheet which has changed the jet stream causing a large high to sit over the far north enhancing these coastal lows. This could well be the dynamic for the entire winter and set us up for another record drought year this coming spring and summer. Not good and there's nothing the gov or the fed can do to change this. There will be consequences in Europe too

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 12:32 | 2946105 Water Is Wet
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"It is the result of climate change and the record melting of the arctic ice sheet which has changed the jet stream causing a large high to sit over the far north enhancing these coastal lows. This could well be the dynamic for the entire winter and set us up for another record drought year this coming spring and summer."

GMAFB.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 12:43 | 2946134 Bay of Pigs
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PUD is a gold troll as well. He's got the whole package.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 12:59 | 2946175 PUD
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I am not a troll and would gladly take on any of you in debate as to my take on gold backed money or climate change. Provide a forum and I'll take on as many of you as care to have a go.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:16 | 2946215 JLee2027
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Climate change is a scam designed to fleece people and increase governmental power. If you can't see it -or more likely- you choose to ignore the inconvenient truth-, then shame on you. End of debate.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:36 | 2946229 Flakmeister
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I sure the fuck hope you exhibit real judgment in other matters, because you are dumb as a fucking post with regards to this one...

 

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 15:47 | 2946565 malek
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You have provided a swath of arguments here.
Now please explain to us how climate change was a central or at least important factor to the the Sandy disaster, dimwit.

Don't forget to touch on
- how storm surges of 14 feet have been recorded before
- hurricanes hitting the upper east coast have been recorded before
- statistical comparisons of "it happens more often these days" type need a frame of reference long enough, to make them more than wild guessing

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 16:32 | 2946684 Flakmeister
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Let me put it in a way that you will not fail to understand...

Barry Bonds hit 70+ home runs when he was jacked on roids...Do you think that he would have have hit 70+ HRs without steriods? Can you point to one HR and say that particular HR was because of steroids?...

Now, how about this commentary (reposted) from a professional

Watching Sandy morph into Frankenstorm… I find both the event, and the name unsettling. The hurricane held together and even strengthened as it came up the east coast, due to warmer seawater in her path compared to historical norm. Couple this climate change effect with the stationary HP stuck over Baffin Bay that continues to impede and cause the downward Rossby wave in the weakened jet stream over the North American continent, pushing cold Arctic air down into the mid-latitudes. The large Rossby wave loop, and the blocked jet stream are likely caused by the loss of Arctic sea ice.

The same stationary HP system and blocked jet stream causes Sandy, with lowest pressure (940 mbars) to ever get to this latitude this late in the season, to veer toward the Northwest. Frankenstorm is a great name, because man helped create this storm...

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You can add this to your reading as well (assuming you are actually interested in what is happening)

http://e360.yale.edu/feature/tipping_point_arctic_heads_to_ice_free_summers/2567/

Mon, 11/05/2012 - 02:38 | 2947942 malek
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 due to warmer seawater in her path compared to historical norm

Just love that line. Sounds important but signifies close to nothing. Depending on if that "professional" defines the historical norm as an average or a range, the most you can say for sure out of that statement is that the seawater temperature was in the top 50% of measurements. Really scary.

Mon, 11/05/2012 - 10:04 | 2948322 Flakmeister
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Why don't you go NOAA, plug in SST and tell us exactly what the anomalies were, it is very easy....

Or root around

http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2012/10/hurricane-sandys-transformation.html

Another person too fucking lazy to *really* think for themselves....

 

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 16:02 | 2946604 walküre
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we agree again.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:25 | 2946234 Darth Rayne
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We have had stable conditions on earth for hundreds of thousands of years. This will not continue forever. This is actually very rare.

No, it isn't a scam.

Yes, the government are making the most of the opportunity to fleece us.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:53 | 2946299 Curt W
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Stable for how long?  Last I heard there was a half mile of ice above the great lakes as little as 15,000 years ago.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:11 | 2946361 Flakmeister
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Yep... that was a nice little cycle lasting ~40,000 years or so within a stable system...That should tell you how senstive the climate is if only a tiny variation in the Earths orbital parameters can cause that...

Just wait to see what you get when the temp rises 5 C.... Oh, you'll be dead and gone and therefore it doesn;t matter, but you will get a taste of it nonetheless...

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 15:33 | 2946535 Matt
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So, it seems there are four sides to the "global warming" issue:

1) those that believe it is man-made and that government should do something about it

2) those that believe it exists, whether or not caused by humans at all

3) those that do not think humans have any impact at all, but understand that the climate does change over time

4) people who do not believe in climate change at all, and think that arctic ice melt, changes in ocean circulation, etc are all imaginary.

Don't waste your energy on #4, people who think everything is "so random". Anyone who accepts that there was an ice age during human existance should at least be able to accept that the climate is changing, rather than lashing out that anyone who mentions changes to the jet stream is a troll.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 15:40 | 2946555 knightowl77
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Count me in #3....The last Ice Age ended some 10,000 years ago. The glaciers have been retreating ever since and the oceans have generally been rising since that time...That was about 9,960 years before the 1st SUV appeared....

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 16:11 | 2946630 walküre
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The volcanoes have done more harm than we ever could. To turn climate change into a political issue and create a religion around it with repentence, rebirth and a pitance program is evidence enough to understand that climate change happens and the circus around it is man-made. Go figure, climate changes. All our records demonstrate very clearly that climate has been changing long before Christ was an infant.

It makes no difference what we do or how we change our lifestyles. All we can do is realize it is happening, seek higher ground and prepare as best we can. All that expensive oceanfront property around the country will be worthless sooner or later. Until then I would recommend, those having paid gazillions for it to enjoy every day as if it was their last. How many years are we talking? This century for sure.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 16:19 | 2946658 Darth Rayne
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Good comments. I meant stable enough for human life to develop as far as it has. Not stable enough for beach front property.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 16:12 | 2946633 hardcleareye
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Matt there is a fifth one, those that understand it is happening but realize that the human population does not have to intelligence or ability to change the outcome, hence the die is cast..... coming to the next generation... massive global population die off.

Mon, 11/05/2012 - 00:20 | 2947790 CrazyCooter
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A'yup.

The human population has been growing rapidly on the back of energy consumption from fossil fuels.

At some point this century (if not in a decade or two), there won't be enough energy to go around and the population will collapse.

Happens all the time in nature (e.g. predator/prey populations) and we are no different.

The only exception I see is if there is broad adoption of LFTR for energy, otherwise it is lights out soon enough.

Oh, and don't forget humans emit CO2, so when they start regulation CO2, you can bet your ass that will eventually apply to the working man and not the industrialist's factories.

Regards,

Cooter

Mon, 11/05/2012 - 06:33 | 2948063 cnmcdee
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There is no shortage of anything.  Google Joe Vials Abiotic Oil,  You guys still have whole states that can be converted to food productions. 

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 15:37 | 2946547 knightowl77
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Since it has been warmer and colder than it is now, what exactly is the correct temperature of the earth?

Since the ocean levels have both been higher and lower than they are today, what exactly is the correct height or depth of the ocean supposed to be???

The earth cycles, all of the time

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 18:21 | 2946872 Flakmeister
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Look up the word vacuity and get back to us...

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 18:40 | 2946909 knightowl77
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Answer the questions. With your ego that ought to be easy since you know everything.

What temp is the earth supposed to be? Since no one actually knows, how can you say it is too hot or too cold?

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 19:18 | 2946995 Flakmeister
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The questions are poorly framed and deliberating misleading as you phrase it...

What is the range of global temps that are amenable to the continuation of the technical civilization of H. Sapiens?

What has been the range of global temps over the course of the existence of H. Sapiens?

Care to answer those?

Mon, 11/05/2012 - 00:10 | 2947765 knightowl77
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Poorly framed? The question is very simple.....Since it has been warmer than it is now, it has been colder than it is now, what temp is optimal for the planet? Do you know? Does anybody know?

What friggen temp should the earth be? Since it has been both warmer and colder without man's influence, How can you say man made this mess, without identifying, how it was both colder and warmer without man doing anything?????

Mon, 11/05/2012 - 00:23 | 2947797 CrazyCooter
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That was awesome. I am going to use that question on climate change proponents from now on!

Regards,

Cooter

Mon, 11/05/2012 - 00:49 | 2947842 Flakmeister
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Sorry, it is a asinine question...

The planet doesn't have an optimal temperature, only the species existing on the planet do....

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 19:26 | 2947016 Matt
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Look up to PUDs top post. All he said was that the weather currently being experienced in the North Atlantic region is due to climate change; notice he did not use the term Anthropogenic Global Warming at all. And yet look at all the red arrows and negative comments; must be alot of people who think the world is 6000 years old and the climate is constant.

There is no perfect temperature. I doubt humans could intentionally affect the climate either way; whether humans are capable of unintentionally altering the climate, perhaps. 

The main concern, as far as I can tell, amongst those who are concerned about global warming but are not religious fanatics about it, is the rate of change, and our responses to it. And by response, we're not talking about creating cap and trade or tax schemes, but responses such as how we handle droughts, building cities in the desert and mansions on sand bars, etc. 

The problem is that the world is not big enough to escape the throngs of the unprepared; when disaster happens, it is the actions of governments, militaries and the masses that are the real concern, not a drought or hurricane, or whether the world is 2 degrees warmer or cooler than we'd like.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 15:38 | 2946548 Incubus
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What?

 

God made earth for humans.  Only heathens will suffer God's wrath. 

If global warming happens, it's because God willed it. 

 

 

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 16:08 | 2946623 hardcleareye
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.... just like pregency from rape is "God's will"....... <sarc>

 

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 16:14 | 2946643 Buckaroo Banzai
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We suffer not because God wills it, but because we turn our backs on God.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 16:38 | 2946693 I Am Not a Copp...
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What's worse, turning your back on god, or turning your back on a priest?

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 16:39 | 2946695 hardcleareye
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Lets see you try this one on for size....  according to the Quran, which the Muslims believe is the verbatim word of God, we should all live by Sharia Laws... and if you fail to do that you are "turning your back on God"..............  rotflmao

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 16:06 | 2946614 hardcleareye
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"End of debate."  rotflmao...... 

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:17 | 2946222 Darth Rayne
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Hi Pud,

Didn't Bush Junior say there was no climate change? Are we now saying that he was mistaken?

Perhaps as a society we will realise that an iphone is a nice gadget in the context of a nice warm home and a full stomach.

We are, as a society, focussed on ever increasing GDP numbers. This is intellectual masturbation.

Lets focus on content, happy, thriving people. Not on how much shit they buy.

 

If just one New Yorker has learnt the value of warm clothing and self suffiency then God is wasting his time and effort.

(Unless that one person was Krugman or Bernanke.)

 

I don't wish to belittle the hardships that many Americans are facing. Especially those affected by the overly aggressive weather.

Darth

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:24 | 2946236 Flakmeister
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W also said there was WMD and that Brownie was doing a "heck of job"and didn't he also parade around like a peacock claiming mission accomplished when it was the bottom of the third so to speak....

W has zero fucking credibility, worst two term president in the history of the union and it ain't even close...

Mon, 11/05/2012 - 00:27 | 2947809 CrazyCooter
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I got three letters for you ...

F

D

R

Now, he was a three term, but still ...

Regards,

Cooter

Mon, 11/05/2012 - 00:51 | 2947844 Flakmeister
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I shudder to think what your top 5 would be and what arguments you would use for the list....

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:19 | 2946226 CrockettAlmanac.com
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Rules of Fight Club

4th RULE: Only two guys to a fight.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:49 | 2946288 nmewn
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Good, I'll wait my turn here...still need an explaination from the man made global warming hysterics for the CATEGORY THREE HURRICANE that hit NYC in 1938.

(Strumming fingers on the table)

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 13:54 | 2946303 PUD
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Hurricanes have happened all the time. So what? The climate effects we are experiencing now are not limited to hurricanes. What is critical to understand is the frequency, intensity and diversity of global weather events that are now far outside historical norms.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:01 | 2946323 CrockettAlmanac.com
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Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released... and here is the chart to prove it
  • The figures reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012 there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures
  • This means that the ‘pause’ in global warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996

 

“Climate models are very complex, but they are imperfect and incomplete. Natural variability [the impact of factors such as long-term temperature cycles in the oceans and the output of the sun] has been shown over the past two decades to have a magnitude that dominates the greenhouse warming effect,” Georgia Tech climate science department chief Professor Judith Curry told the Daily Mail. “It is becoming increasingly apparent that our attribution of warming since 1980 and future projections of climate change needs to consider natural internal variability as a factor of fundamental importance.”

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released--chart-prove-it.html#ixzz2BHX3q2um

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:05 | 2946348 PUD
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That MET report has been soundly discredited if you were to investigate further.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:09 | 2946355 CrockettAlmanac.com
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It's confirmed by the BEST data out of Berkeley.

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:14 | 2946369 Flakmeister
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Making more shit up, eh?

Chew on this you lying sack of shit:

http://skepticalscience.com/nuccitelli-et-al-2012.html

 

 

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:24 | 2946390 CrockettAlmanac.com
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Isn't it more likely that the guy who has no means to argue other than his potty mouth is the one who makes things up? But you're in good company. AGW fanatics are being called out by their more responsible peers.

 

Prof Judith Curry, who chairs the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at America’s prestigious Georgia Institute of Technology, said that Prof Muller’s claim that he has proven global warming sceptics wrong was also a ‘huge mistake’, with no  scientific basis.

Prof Curry is a distinguished climate researcher with more than 30 years experience and the second named co-author of the BEST project’s four research papers.

Her comments, in an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, seem certain to ignite a furious academic row. She said this affair had to be compared to the notorious ‘Climategate’ scandal two years ago.

Like the scientists exposed then by leaked emails from East Anglia University’s Climatic Research Unit, her colleagues from the BEST project seem to be trying to ‘hide the decline’ in rates of global warming.

In fact, Prof Curry said, the project’s research data show there has been no increase in world temperatures since the end of the Nineties – a fact confirmed by a new analysis that The Mail on Sunday has obtained.

‘There is no scientific basis for saying that warming hasn’t stopped,’ she said. ‘To say that there is detracts from the credibility of the data, which is very unfortunate.’

However, Prof Muller denied warming was at a standstill.

‘We see no evidence of it [global warming] having slowed down,’ he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. There was, he added, ‘no levelling off’.

A graph issued by the BEST project also suggests a continuing steep increase.

But a report to be published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation includes a graph of world average temperatures over the past ten years, drawn from the BEST project’s data and revealed on its website.

This graph shows that the trend of the last decade is absolutely flat, with no increase at all – though the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have carried on rising relentlessly.

‘This is nowhere near what the  climate models were predicting,’ Prof Curry said. ‘Whatever it is that’s going on here, it doesn’t look like it’s being dominated by CO2.’

Prof Muller also wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal. It was here, under the headline ‘The case against global warming scepticism’, that he proclaimed ‘there were good reasons for doubt until now’.

This, too, went around the world, with The Economist, among many others, stating there was now ‘little room for doubt’.

Such claims left Prof Curry horrified.

‘Of course this isn’t the end of scepticism,’ she said. ‘To say that is the biggest mistake he [Prof Muller] has made. When I saw he was saying that I just thought, “Oh my God”.’

In fact, she added, in the wake of the unexpected global warming standstill, many climate scientists who had previously rejected sceptics’ arguments were now taking them much more seriously.

They were finally addressing questions such as the influence of clouds, natural temperature cycles and solar radiation – as they should have done, she said, a long time ago.

Yesterday Prof Muller insisted that neither his claims that there has not been a standstill, nor the graph, were misleading because the project had made its raw data available on its  website, enabling others to draw their own graphs.

However, he admitted it was true that the BEST data suggested that world temperatures have not risen for about 13 years. But in his view, this might not be ‘statistically significant’,  although, he added, it was equally  possible that it was – a statement which left other scientists mystified.

‘I am baffled as to what he’s trying to do,’ Prof Curry said.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2055191/Scientists-said-climate-change-sceptics-proved-wrong-accused-hiding-truth-colleague.html#ixzz2BHccWWtK
Sun, 11/04/2012 - 14:31 | 2946404 Flakmeister
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There you go, quoting propaganda from a Murdoch rag while I point to peer reviewed and published papers...

Would you like to comment on the data showing the place where ~97% of the heat goes is still warming? Naw, didn't think so...

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 15:01 | 2946465 CrockettAlmanac.com
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Please show any evidence in your possession which indicates that Murdoch falsified quotes from Dr. Judith Curry. I'll wait.

 

Judith A. Curry is an American climatologist and chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research interests include hurricanes, remote sensing, atmospheric modeling, polar climates, air-sea interactions, and the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for atmospheric research. She is a member of the National Research Council's Climate Research Committee.[1]

Curry is the co-author of Thermodynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans (1999), and co-editor of Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences (2002), as well as over 140 scientific papers. Among her awards is the Henry G. Houghton Research Award from the American Meteorological Society in 1992.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Curry

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 15:14 | 2946502 Flakmeister
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My fuck, so the denialistas have a schub they can trot out... One scientist out of 1000....

Still won't touch the Nunatelli paper eh? A little over your head or because it shows up the game you are trying to play...

 

Sun, 11/04/2012 - 15:31 | 2946528 CrockettAlmanac.com
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You suggested that Murdoch lied about what Dr. Judith Curry said in the quoted article but when pressed for evidence you couldn't produce it. At least you are consistent in your incompetence and lack of follow through, if nothing else.

How long can you can keep pretending that the vanguard who oppose your AGW fantasies are only one person? Although it does fit right in with your refusal to admit that recent data shows that the AGW climate models were wrong, wrong, wrong.

 

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