Winter Storm Threatens East Coast? Batten Down the Hatches

[loreta]

As I watched NYC's Mayor Bloomberg give press conferences over the past few days I was reminded that this was the same mayor who gave the ultimate go-ahead to entrap and imprison hundreds of peacefully protesting (and many who weren't) New Yorkers in an old bus depot for two days when NY was hosting the Republican Convention in 2004. Under the veneer of benevolent concern and good leadership he is another powerful cog in the wheel of a hellish machinery

I agree. This Sandy business is a good thing for them, to show us how gentle and serious they are, how they care about people, how they are responsible! When the contrary is the true. Maybe the explosion that happened in NY (transformer) was made by them? Today in the Spanish news we were seeing a journalist talking from down town and everything seemed normal, with people walking on the streets, no wind, no rain, even with electric publicity ads working. So I think, and maybe I am wrong, that all this fuss and hype about dear Sandy was an essai, to see how people will react, and to tell us that Mr. Obama is a good president that CARES for the population.

 

[OrangeScorpion]

In Spanish news have said that Sandy was so terrible because of global warming.

 

[Gimpy]

Just heard back from my Hubby's niece in Manhattan: her building is one of three on her block that still has power. They are
doing fine. Most of the area around her building is flooded thigh deep with water. (They are on a hill.) She says she'll be cabin fevered
by the weekend but so far so good. ;D

 

[mabar]

I found this news in SOTT Spanish section:
http://es.sott.net/article/17437-Probable-Alerta-a-considerar-Sandy-desde-el-Este-sin-embargo-desde-el-Oeste
“A Probable alert to consider, Sandy from the East although from the West…”

It talks about another front from the west, checking it out in this other image from Accuweather _http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/national/satellite, it should be taken in consideration. Quite an impressive size of the spiral remants from Sandy.

The news above talks about the possible financial disaster if the CBOT of Chicago closes, adding up that NYSE is in its second day closed (I had read that, that is too bad already). It also mentions possible martial law and the possibility of stopping the elections.

 

[Ekios]

I found this news in SOTT Spanish section:
http://es.sott.net/article/17437-Probable-Alerta-a-considerar-Sandy-desde-el-Este-sin-embargo-desde-el-Oeste
“A Probable alert to consider, Sandy from the East although from the West…”

It talks about another front from the west, checking it out in this other image from Accuweather _http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/national/satellite, it should be taken in consideration. Quite an impressive size of the spiral remants from Sandy.

The news above talks about the possible financial disaster if the CBOT of Chicago closes, adding up that NYSE is in its second day closed (I had read that, that is too bad already). It also mentions possible martial law and the possibility of stopping the elections.

I saw those news and that specific picture a few times on many social network but always without any form of "serious" consistency. What I mean by that is anybody can make that (ugly) picture say whatever it wants since none of us truly understand what it shows, or so I guess ...

 

[Laura]

Considering the fact that some areas were quite inundated and things did happen, as is usual in a storm, the fact that none of our forum members had any such experiences is remarkable.

 

[loreta]

I found this news in SOTT Spanish section:
http://es.sott.net/article/17437-Probable-Alerta-a-considerar-Sandy-desde-el-Este-sin-embargo-desde-el-Oeste
“A Probable alert to consider, Sandy from the East although from the West…”

It talks about another front from the west, checking it out in this other image from Accuweather _http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/national/satellite, it should be taken in consideration. Quite an impressive size of the spiral remants from Sandy.

The news above talks about the possible financial disaster if the CBOT of Chicago closes, adding up that NYSE is in its second day closed (I had read that, that is too bad already). It also mentions possible martial law and the possibility of stopping the elections.

I saw those news and that specific picture a few times on many social network but always without any form of "serious" consistency. What I mean by that is anybody can make that (ugly) picture say whatever it wants since none of us truly understand what it shows, or so I guess ...

This picture looks so bad that I have the impression of looking a radiography of a stomach of a carbohydrate eater. Is this a true picture? My,my.

 

[Ekios]

Considering the fact that some areas were quite inundated and things did happen, as is usual in a storm, the fact that none of our forum members had any such experiences is remarkable.

Maybe I am limited by my english but I didn't understand anything of what you said here

This picture looks so bad that I have the impression of looking a radiography of a stomach of a carbohydrate eater. Is this a true picture? My,my.

Yes, precisely my point ! :)

 

[OrangeScorpion]

Considering the fact that some areas were quite inundated and things did happen, as is usual in a storm, the fact that none of our forum members had any such experiences is remarkable.

Maybe I am limited by my english but I didn't understand anything of what you said here

No wonder if you've used an online translator, simultaneous translation of this Laura's phrase into French is terrible. I have translated the phrase into Spanish and then from Spanish to French. I think now it makes more sense for you. OSIT

Compte tenu du fait que certaines zones sont complètement inondées et toutes les choses qui sont arrivées, comme d'habitude dans une tempête, le fait qu'aucun des membres de notre forum ont eu de telles expériences est un démarquer.

Surely someone offers a better translation.

The Laura's sentence is something to keep in mind. We must be doing something right!!!

EDIT: spelling

 

[QuantumLogic]

Watching the coverage- especially yesterday- and listening to the specific things they were focused on made me think of something. I am new here, so if this is way off, just say so. It seems to me they are focusing on reporting the instances where people chose to stay, but needed to be "rescued". The tone across the networks seemed that of disgust or resentment, as if to imply that we "citizens" do not make rational decisions, and put others lives at risk, costing them money. Dialogue like this seems like an attempt at seizing even more control during the next "end of days" catastrophe.

I do not disagree that some people in certain areas should have left, but they are only focusing on those people. They are showing very little of those who rode it out and are fine. It is also possible that they are playing the boy in "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"- crying "End of Days" at every event possible until the people are so numb to it, they ignore it. Then when the real threat comes, the powers that be (media included) can say "we tried to warn you", full well knowing the public has been desensitized due to the numerous (and previously overstated) events.

Both of these hypothesis could very well be wrong, but listening to the coverage on multiple networks- and the tone of them- really makes me wonder what they are up to. Something stinks about this, and we will have to wait and see how this plays out against events to come.

 

[happyliza]

So glad our members are ok as far as we know. Was trying to follow everyting last night on 6 different channels - yes twitter seemed the best. Wa even watching from the webcam on the statue of liberty - a lot of rain noise but was scary when it went off as I didnt know what had caused it! Looked so dark and grey compared to the usual view as well. Good that they really warned everyone due the seriousness of the combined storms, we cannot fight nature. Good people were safe - and our books!

Difficult to assess the propaganda at the moment but have the uncanny feeling something else must have been amiss somewhere - diversion but not sure whether such a storm (s) could have been manipulated, funny so close to elections etc. I stayed up cos portrayed as storm out of hell - still quite a few people died despite the warnings.

How did the general public behave? Was there any panic eg about food and petrol etc? Was it well managed? I saw one tweet saying he/she was going out to loot - sickening. That was on the Storm Sandy site.

 

[Deleted member 8431]

I found this news in SOTT Spanish section:
http://es.sott.net/article/17437-Probable-Alerta-a-considerar-Sandy-desde-el-Este-sin-embargo-desde-el-Oeste
“A Probable alert to consider, Sandy from the East although from the West…”

It talks about another front from the west, checking it out in this other image from Accuweather _http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/national/satellite, it should be taken in consideration. Quite an impressive size of the spiral remants from Sandy.

The news above talks about the possible financial disaster if the CBOT of Chicago closes, adding up that NYSE is in its second day closed (I had read that, that is too bad already). It also mentions possible martial law and the possibility of stopping the elections.

I saw those news and that specific picture a few times on many social network but always without any form of "serious" consistency. What I mean by that is anybody can make that (ugly) picture say whatever it wants since none of us truly understand what it shows, or so I guess ...

This picture looks so bad that I have the impression of looking a radiography of a stomach of a carbohydrate eater. Is this a true picture? My,my.

Dosen't look "fake" to me (although it could have been exagerated I concur). If you go on the NOAA website, you gan get sattelite images. So far the pics looks quite similar to this one. Just don't know if both systems are heading towards eachother. A bit of research should confirm the current trend and possible evolution.

 

[Andromeda]

Watching the coverage- especially yesterday- and listening to the specific things they were focused on made me think of something. I am new here, so if this is way off, just say so. It seems to me they are focusing on reporting the instances where people chose to stay, but needed to be "rescued". The tone across the networks seemed that of disgust or resentment, as if to imply that we "citizens" do not make rational decisions, and put others lives at risk, costing them money. Dialogue like this seems like an attempt at seizing even more control during the next "end of days" catastrophe.

Maybe there's something to it. I was watching a news feed this morning and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was saying in an angry voice how 'disappointed' he was that mayor so and so did not follow his "order" to evacuate and that it would likely be costly, possibly in human lives. Somebody else came on the show and said that he was flat out lying because everyone except a few individuals cooperated.

I guess we'll just have to keep our eyes open for more clues.

 

[Andromeda]

More on some of the history and extraordinary powers of FEMA written in 1995:

_http://dmc.members.sonic.net/sentinel/gvcon6.html

Very interesting...

 

[Redrock12]

Glad everyone's okay. :) :) :)