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State Of Emergency Issued For New York
Hopefully, this is as bad as it will get. Per Reuters, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday declared a state of emergency to prepare for the potential impact of Hurricane Irene, which could hit the state this weekend. The formal declaration allows the state to aid counties, cities and towns "more effectively and quickly," get help from the national Emergency Management Assistance Compact and get federal help earlier, the Democratic governor said in a statement. "We are communicating with our federal and local partners to track the storm and to plan a coordinated response, and we will deploy resources as needed to the areas expected to be hit the hardest," Cuomo said.
All that said, we would be delighted to see the following scene on 200 West Street:
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Divine wind?
No, more like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMWLjgPTR_c
Hope Irene turns into a big dud. If the opposite, rumor has it that Berkeley, SF standing in the wings to take the baton of financial / gov't power center of good ol' USA
Har, har.
At least the gubamint'd be somewhat cogent.
Heading straight for Wall Street? Bullish for those in America that still produce real goods and services.
Fast 'n Bulbous Baby!
DAMN!!! Last message got lost.
OK...Unless you are in danger from rising water...STAY HOME!... If you are in a solid structure. If you are concerned about a tornado...get in an interior closet. If you are not...sign off MF consumers.
If you don't already have storred food and water...just hunker down 'cause you might be fukked already. Your prepared neighbors have guns, and are itching to shoot your MF asses.
OOPS: Said in my out-loud voice. BitchjeZ...
Junk me to forever...
evacuate! so now the special operations team can come and wire more buildings with explosives.
Worth comparing the response time of this one for rich leech banksters area compared to Katrina response which was a far worse hurricane?
You people will never learn that it was Nagin and Blanco that did in NO. Just makes me sick. Like Charley never happened.
rich leeech bankstas and wallstreet can seek shelter at new meadowlands stadium...
I'm sure that idiot Krugman is praying that New York City will take a direct hit - since the earthquake failed to provide enough rebuilding projects. BTW - there are already enough fricking sharks swimming around up there.
The Chair Satan did himself proud rustling up a hurricane after an earthquake and a market collapse so he can make everyone beg for QEasy 3
Is this significant?
In a move described as the "last stand for Greek banks", the embattled country's central bank activated Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) for the first time on Wednesday night.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8723588/Greece-forced-to-tap-emergency-fund.html
Okay, all Wall Streeters, please line up for your free transportation to your local FEMA camp, until the economic and atmospheric storm has passed thru.
Persistent ultra-low 2.5 mh rumbling in background.
good revenue for our city: I'm sure the NYPD will issue Irene some sort of ticket
Seeing is how they no longer keep the peace and have been reduced to revenue collecting agents for the city. You are probably right.
Short insurance companies.
Long glass window makers.
short naked swimmers.. ticker: bac
If Irene doesn't dissipate or otherwise weaken significantly, there's gonna be a lot of dead bodies, I'm afraid. Folks up there just have no frickin' clue about what these storms are capable of. I see so much arrogance in the words of those doubters who live up there. They mock what they do not understand, at their grave peril.
Whoever can, needs to get the F out of the way of this storm NOW. Don't expect anyone to save you once it makes landfall. If it turns out to be a false alarm, so what? At least you took steps to safeguard you and yours. Better to be safe, and out some time and money, than a corpse floating out to sea.
I don't wish the kind of death and destruction I witnessed during and after Katrina on anyone.
In Baltimore: I'm astonished by how unprepared this area of the country is for this hurricane. People think they're going to go home tomorrow and just pick up a bag of ice (for the milk!!! in case the power goes out. HAHAHA). Maybe it'll be a little windy. Some places close to the shore may get flooded. Not a big deal. Some people haven't cancelled their plans for the Jersey shore. Some of them kind of remember Isabel in 2003.
I hate this country. I really do.
Greatest thing anout the Jersey Shore is that it'll look the same after the devistation as before. Yeahyeahsuresure. Whaddadeal, Auwgie.
Amen to that
Irene just took a "hard" right to the East/North as it bounced off of the Bahamas. Check out the Hurricane center feed ! Maybe good news for the Eastern seaboard.
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t2/flash-vis.html
Obummer it isn't going to hit the leeches in Shark Street?
hell yeah, i got free tickets to giants-jets game!!
Those jogs are common on eyewall replacement. Will know in a few minutes when the next pic comes up.
It's up. Looks like the eye is reforming.
http://www.intellicast.com/Storm/Hurricane/CaribbeanSatellite.aspx?anima...
Now they are evacuating NYC... LOL
What time does the looting begin? You know how important a big screen TV becomes during a crisis!
Feel free to loot at will! Remember: NYC has 'gun control', so there is nothing to worry about.
weatherize
the crack dealers...
God please don't let anything happen to the fine citizens of New York----we as a nation cannot afford it. 9/11 cost us $1.8 million per family, I cannot imagine what would happen if a hurricane were to hit that state. Remember people, it is not just Wall Street we have to give our money to---the entire state of New York feels "special" and "entitled" to the nations wealth, so lets build a human shield to protect this most precious state and the people of New York---afterall, we all know they are much more special than the rest of the nation. in fact, the citizens in the rest of the country are all expendable so everyone pray that nothing happens to our precious New York, ground zero for all that is wrong with mankind.
I volunteer Schumer to be part of the shield.
I live in western new york and we get next to squat from the state of NY. All the resources (state and federal) get sucked into the black hole called NYC. While most NYC dwellers hate guns, liberty, and self sufficiency, the rest of the state has quite a different point of view. Please don't lump us in with NYC!
He has obviously never been to NY. Otherwise he would know that most of the youth that live in the city are kids from the midwest, who thought it would be cool to move to NY because they saw it on Friends, listened to Punk or Rap.
I'd also guess hes never seen Buffalo.
We now know whose comments to ignore.
I stand "corrected"----NYC, not New York. Also, I do get the kids from the midwest deal-----totally get it----New York "city" attracts the nations sociopaths, as evidenced by so many examples including media control, money control, and lawsuits against the nation due to terrorism----yes, I get it.
With that said, New Yorkers (NYC) in general are a rude bunch. I live in a university town and it is ALWAYS the cars with New York City plates that tailgate, pull out in front, etc----ALWAYS. The bottom line is New York (city) is the epicenter of the "me, me, me" society we live in. I am not saying all people do not have the propensity to be sociopaths whose sole go in life is "me, me, me" at everyone else's expense----people are people, New York (city) just seems to attract and breed this behavior to the extreme.
Also, I estimate that at my business we get at least one call per week from rough talking salesman from New York (city) that want to sell us paper "investments". When we tell them not interested, they slam the phone in our ear----who called who? Think about it----they are saying since we cannot rip you off----f@ck off! I also understand this behavior, but the fact is NYC is where the calls come from.
Let me leave you with this thought. Last month I visited Nags Head, NC, and the area we stayed in was all New York and New Jersey plates (spending the money they get by pushing paper and pillaging the nations wealth). None of these people are friendly-----they go on vacation and can't even smile or relax----just uptight people always either plotting to screw somebody or worried somebody is trying to screw them. One day I walked up to the ice cream shop with my daughter and held the door open for a family that was from New York (I noted the plates when they pulled in). One of the ladies said to the other lady---"I feel like I am in a different world" referring to my kindness in holding the door open. Well, where I am from that is just common courtesy. IOW, people from NYC always think everyone is out to get them, that kindness is never kindness but rather, because someone wants to "get something". The bottom line what I am speaking is truth and I am sorry if you don't like it----it is what it is!
In summary, the world is full of criminals and I know that NYC does not have a monopoloy on that, however, it is ground zero for the greed,corruption, war mongering, fiat currency, central banking (and on, and on). Since NYC controls the media (and thus the masses) and spends 24 hous a day trying to figure out how to steal from not just its own citizens but the world, it represents to me all that has gone wrong with our nations "experiment" as a republic and is the poster child for greed, corruption, and all that is evil in humans.
New york city plates? Now you are tripping and ignorant.
I feel your pain Moondog, I grew up east of Rochester...
skinny al roker creeps me out
Who's that?
obama must be happy for all the excuses they are going to be able to use for Q3 and Q4 numbers
Yep. 8pm track will show a 30 mile shift to the east.
Close enough for goobermint work, though.
Hunker down, sukkers!
Earthquakes? Hurricanes? Floods?
What will it take to dislodge Obama from his vacation on Martha's Vinyard?
[shades of Kanye West:]
OBAMA HATES WHITE PEOPLE!!!!
Oweblahma hates working and educated people.
But he luvs Warren!
Best wishes and God Speed to all those affected.
To those severely affected, please feel free to CUT and PASTE the following onto bright white paper. Post in front of home.
DEAR FEMA,
NO THANK YOU.
DO NOT ENTER MY PROPERTY. DO NOT TOUCH MY PROPERTY. DO NOT SPEAK TO MY CHILDREN.
PLEASE FORWARD WORD TO NATIONAL GUARD UNITS THAT NO FIREARMS LEGALLY IN MY POSSESSION WILL BE WILLFULLY SURRENDERED.
MOVE ALONG PEACEFULLY. OFFER ASSISTANCE TO THOSE ACCEPTING OF IT.
Please remember your sewing machine got ruined. FEMA pays for that.
And generator purchases.
And a TV.And a chainsaw.
Forget the rest....
Strap the Goldman Gang to a raft and set them adrift Friday night.
When does Oweblahma lower the sea level?
Useless half-breed.
Give him a bit more time to finish impersonating a US president before asking him to impersonate King Canute --- jeesh! Can't a figurehead "leader" of the power elite have a few days off before the puppet strings are tied back on?
Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssss....
I lived in union city for a while and spent quite a lot of my time in lower Manhattan, I can tell you evacuations of any part of NYC is a logistical nightmare, you try telling 1 or 2 million people to get there grab bags and go. good luck. NYC was defiantly not designed with any sort of possibility of evac in an orderly fashion in mind. that's always been a point of contention with indian point, no infrastructure in place to move that many people in short notice. Seeing this shaping up makes me glad I moved upstate, although it's weird to see even eastern and central NY where I am in the cone of Irene's projected influence. Anyways, to all ZHer's in the big apple stay safe and stay dry...
Huricane from Space Station:
http://www.space.com/12729-hurricane-irene-space-station-crew-talks-spac...
You can hide from wind, but you can't outrun water. If you are near the coast, or in a flood prone area; GET THE HELL OUT NOW!
Let's see if the v-squid can swim.
No, seriously Hurricanes suck.
see if robo
can swim ...
hope his moms basement
doesn't get flooded...
if the most energetic aspect of the storm arrives in
new york at approximately 12 pm on the 28th, saturday night
into sunday morning, it coincides with a low tide on the
south shore. that would imply no severe coastal flooding,
if any, but rain and wind are other matters as is storm
surge due to the storm center and associate atmospheric energy
activity, uncertainty rules.
And if the hurricane arrives only (roughly) six hours earlier or six hours later than your prediction, it will arrive at high tide instead of low tide, and be a major disaster. Trying to predict a hurricane's landfall to within several hours, days ahead of the event, is an impossibility and a fool's errand.
exactly, but we be fools on an errand.
In NYC if it rains they call out the army. In New Orlens they left all those poor people to drown.
I'd love to see NYC under 10 ft of water.
Eric Cantor, We will NOT help you out.
JAJAJAJA....GOOD ONE!
This reads like a Friday night open thread...
Where did you get that pic from? Is that shark swimming on a flooded street.
one is not conventionally attributed with the
capacity to smell hype, nor is one usually
understood to be able to smell distraction.
but, she is a mixed up shook up girl.
.
Willy DeVille - Mixed Up Shook Up Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uipDEjfLsg
Another bail out for wall st..... literally.......man the bucket brigades.
well whatever is going on with Irene right now has got the experts over at TWC dropping bricks in their pants. something about pressure lowering, eye wall structure, thunderstorms and the hurricane getting stronger. I get the distinct impression that this is not in the usual hurricane playbook such as it is. should be an interesting day tomorrow. one of the meteorologists actually used the word ominous when describing what he was seeing.
TWC's all about drama and ratings. Everything's ominous when there's a "weather event".
The photo is photoshopped I'll post a link to the story. Just look at the fin, doesn't it look like it's faded into the water instead of the shark swimming in the water?
http://www.mediaite.com/online/wait-is-that-really-a-shark-swimming-in-a-puerto-rican-street/
The original picture is actually true, shark (actually 4 meter long greatwhite shark) following Kayaker.
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/shark-following-kayaker.shtml
dude was kayaking river in the africa
big ole crock grabbed him out of his boat
never seen again ...
crock ......1
kayaker ...0
call in the seals
underwater demolition teams....
http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc-bin/tc_home2.cgi?PHOT=yes&ATCF_BASIN=al&ACTIVES=11-ATL-09L.IRENE,11-ATL-10L.TEN,11-WPAC-14W.NANMADOL,11-WPAC-15W.TALAS,11-ATL-98L.INVEST&SIZE=full&NAV=tc&ATCF_YR=2011&ATCF_FILE=/SATPRODUCTS/kauai_data/www/atcf_web/public_html/image_archives/2011/al092011.11082518.gif&CURRENT_ATCF_FILE=/SATPRODUCTS/kauai_data/www/atcf_web/public_html/image_archives/2011/al092011.11082518.gif&CURRENT=20110826.0145.goes13.x.ir1km_bw.09LIRENE.100kts-946mb-277N-774W.100pc.jpg&AGE=Latest&CURRENT_ATCF=al092011.11082518.gif&ATCF_NAME=al092011&ATCF_DIR=/SATPRODUCTS/kauai_data/www/atcf_web/public_html/image_archives/2011&MO=AUG&STYLE=tables&YEAR=2011&YR=11&BASIN=ATL&STORM_NAME=09L.IRENE&ARCHIVE=active&AREA=pacific/southern_hemisphere&PRODUCT=ir&DIR=/SATPRODUCTS/TC/tc11/ATL/09L.IRENE/ir/geo/1km_bw&TYPE=ir&PROD=ir&SUB_PROD=geo&SUB_SUB_PROD=1km_bw
oo-la-la! Irine is gettin a bit irate ... lots of radial outflow in the upper levels i.e. the radial 'spikes', especially in the NW quadrant. this is the tops of the clouds being blown off giant anvil-head storms, via the vertical plume of air coming up from the eye spreading-out radially to the margins) ... it's a classic sign of active and significant intensification ... plus the eye is also about to blow itself clear ... so it could get to about a low cat 4 by landfall if that radial outflow plume continues for 12 hours or so more (it means the central pressure is still deeping).
Edit: This image shows the radial outflow symmetry is also pretty good in the other quadrants - another classic sign of intensification. Still a mid-strength cat3, but clearly winding-up and growing in area. This is going to be a big hit ... probably MUCH weaker when it gets to NY though.
http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc-bin/tc_home2.cgi?PHOT=yes&ATCF_BASIN=al&ACTIVES=11-ATL-09L.IRENE,11-ATL-10L.TEN,11-WPAC-14W.NANMADOL,11-WPAC-15W.TALAS,11-ATL-98L.INVEST&SIZE=full&NAV=tc&ATCF_YR=2011&ATCF_FILE=/SATPRODUCTS/kauai_data/www/atcf_web/public_html/image_archives/2011/al092011.11082518.gif&CURRENT_ATCF_FILE=/SATPRODUCTS/kauai_data/www/atcf_web/public_html/image_archives/2011/al092011.11082518.gif&CURRENT=20110826.0215.goes13.x.ir1km_bw.09LIRENE.100kts-946mb-277N-774W.100pc.jpg&AGE=Latest&CURRENT_ATCF=al092011.11082518.gif&ATCF_NAME=al092011&ATCF_DIR=/SATPRODUCTS/kauai_data/www/atcf_web/public_html/image_archives/2011&MO=AUG&STYLE=tables&YEAR=2011&YR=11&BASIN=ATL&STORM_NAME=09L.IRENE&ARCHIVE=active&AREA=pacific/southern_hemisphere&DIR=/SATPRODUCTS/TC/tc11/ATL/09L.IRENE/vis/geo/1km&TYPE=geo&PROD=vis&SUB_PROD=1km
Hey Smore. where did you get that icon? I'd like one about 2" x 2" that I can place on my desktop.
Thanks.
The first thing that comes to my mind when I hear about Irene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yOEOJ1BARk
i was at a bar tonight and one guy is saying how there will looting while the hurricane is happening because some crazy fucks will be out there breaking windows in the middle of the hurricane when everyone is inside. !
The politicians are jerking off to the potential stimulus and destruction conracts
And what will now happen to my eagle-farm? Goddammit!