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Bloomberg Orders Partial NYC Evacuation Ahead of Hurricane Sandy, 6- to 11- Foot Storm Surge Predicted

Oct. 28, 2012 12:44pm

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Bloomberg Orders Partial NYC Evacuation Ahead of Hurricane Sandy, 6 to 11 Foot Storm Surge Predicted

A man hurries to prepare a restaurant from the high winds of approaching Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 28, 2012 in Ocean City, N.J. New Jersey is expected to be hit hard by approaching storm sometime on Monday, bringing heavy winds and floodwaters. (Getty Images)

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Sunday ordered mandatory evacuations of parts of lower Manhattan and other low-lying areas in the city as the Northeast braces for Hurricane Sandy.

Bloomberg also announced the city’s 1.1 million-student public school system would be closed Monday. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo had already ordered all bus, subway and commuter train service be halted at 7 p.m. Sunday.

“If you don’t evacuate, you are not only endangering your life, you are also endangering the lives of the first responders who are going in to rescue you,” Bloomberg said during a news conference Sunday morning. “This is a serious and dangerous storm.”

Rainfall was expected to start late Sunday or early Monday in New York as Sandy headed north from the Caribbean, where it left more than five dozen people dead. It was expected to turn left toward the mid-Atlantic coast and come ashore late Monday or early Tuesday, most likely in New Jersey, and collide with a wintry storm coming from the west and a cold front from the Arctic to create a rare hybrid storm.

Bloomberg Orders Partial NYC Evacuation Ahead of Hurricane Sandy, 6 to 11 Foot Storm Surge Predicted

A woman grabs the few remaining water bottles from the shelves at the Waldbaums grocery store as Hurricane Sandy approaches on Oct. 28, 2012 in Long Beach, New York. (Getty Images)

Bloomberg said forecasters had revised their initial predictions upward and were expecting a six- to 11-foot storm surge to affect low-lying areas of New York City. The worst of the storm was expected to come Monday night.

“I don’t want anybody to go to bed tonight thinking they can spend some time worrying” tomorrow, Bloomberg said. “We’ve got to take some preparations today and we anticipate the surge will hit a lot of low-lying areas and the possibility of flooding will continue to Tuesday afternoon.”

The National Weather Service said Sunday morning that Sandy was expected to bring “life-threatening” storm surge flooding to the mid-Atlantic coast, including along the Long Island Sound and New York Harbor. Sandy was expected to have near-hurricane-force winds of 75 mph when it made landfall.

A Johns Hopkins University engineer predicted as many as 10 million people from northern Virginia to New Jersey and into southeastern Pennsylvania could lose power as a result of the storm.

As of Sunday afternoon, airlines had canceled more than 5,000 flights — 1,100 for flights and 4,000 for Monday.

Bloomberg Orders Partial NYC Evacuation Ahead of Hurricane Sandy, 6 to 11 Foot Storm Surge Predicted

Construction workers carry boards of wood to cover air vents that could cause the New York City subway system to flood in preparation for Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 28, 2012 in New York. (Getty Images)

​”Don’t be stupid.  Get out,” New Jersey Governor Chris Christie added at a news conference Sunday, reiterating his statements from the previous day.

Though last year’s mega-storm, Irene, ended up causing less damage than predicted, Christie noted that if the authorities are wrong, you have a little extra food and water.  If they’re right, however, people could wind up with severe injuries, and some could even be killed.

“That’s not a great equation,” he noted in his usual straightforward manner, once again urging people to get prepared and get out of the danger zones if possible.

President Obama also weighed in, promising local officials that the federal government will provide them whatever they need, and that they won’t get “bogged down” by “rules” and “red tape”:

“My message to the governors as well as to the mayors is anything they need, we will be there, and we will cut through red tape. We are not going to get bogged down with a lot of rules,” he said. “We want to make sure we are anticipating and leaning forward into making sure that we have the best possible response to what is going to be a big and messy system.

This post will be updated.

​The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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  • Metallicat
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 3:55pm

    Im sure the Obama campaign has studied this scenario extensively to use it to steal the election,somehow.I bet voter fraud will be excessive in the states this storm hits. Never let a good crisis go to waste.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 6:09pm

      To all The Blaze staff that live and work in New York and the surrounding areas.

      Our prayers and best wishes for your safety through this nasty storm.

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 6:21pm

      http://twitchy.com/2012/10/28/romney-campaign-using-romney-bus-for-east-coast-storm-relief-efforts/

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 6:22pm

      http://twitchy.com/2012/10/28/romney-campaign-using-romney-bus-for-east-coast-storm-relief-efforts/

      Leadership: Romney campaign using Romney bus for East Coast storm relief efforts

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    • love the kids
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 9:42pm

      I don’t understand why Bloomberg just doesn’t outlaw Hurricane’s. And if you don’t have clean water to drink, you had better not drink soda to hydrate, or you will get arrested.

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    • love the kids
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 9:46pm

      Are all the people going to DC, I heard that the DC area is where the most survival equipment shelters have been sold to.

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:48am

      Sounds like a “catrina”-Democrat situation. Romney gives one of his campaign-busses to distribute much-needed supplies…befokre, durring,and after the hurricane!
      King-O’blah–blah says he “will send” help…weeks after it’s over…I betcha!! Most NYC’ers in Hi-rizes haved maybe 1-2 days of anything in their apartments…they stop ondaway to eat-breakfast…onthewayhome….they stop to eat dinner/supper…they go-out to eat snacks or just coffee inbetween…their kitchens&fridges look brand-new cause they’re never used. Their counters are full of glassware with stuff inthem they will never eat….it just looks-good onda counters. If it actually wasn’t PLASTIC, they never know how to cook it anyway.

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    • Independent4233
      Posted on October 30, 2012 at 5:32pm

      This is a small sample of what it will be like when hostilities break out….at least in the beginning.

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  • Eastinfection
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 3:51pm

    Everyone evacuate now!!! (so the looters can re-distribute your stuff)

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    • Prosecute_Constitutional_Treason_In_Washington
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 4:27pm

      Borrowing from Obummers team Sandy should be used to take over Washington by force with military intervention and throw Obummer’s team out for good. Sandy would make great cover for such a military / national guard military takeover.
      On the other hand I wonder if Obummer will use Sandy for a military crackdown and martial law.

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 4:34pm

      PROSECUTE…

      slow your roll……

      let’s get through the election 1st…

      then we can figure out if we need a military coupe d’etat…. ;)

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  • Southpaw
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 3:49pm

    So all the good New Yorkers are going to evacuate, leaving a situation not much different than that in New Orleans after Katrina. The storm is going to hit an area where Obama is counting on 70+ Electoral votes to win the election. The election will HAVE to be delayed so that no vote will go uncounted. If NY sees any of the Chaos NO did in 2005, there will be a great opportunity to enforce some martial law for the safety of everyone (and more election delays). I’m sure nothing will go wrong here. The man who literally watched people in Benghazi beg for support before they died wouldn’t possibly be willing to do anything “illegal” to make sure he wins the election. This storm is the best thing that ever happened to an administration whose approval ratings fell 7 points in 3 days. Happy Halloween everyone!

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  • Thrill Biscuit
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 3:45pm

    Is Obama going to use this as an excuse to flood American broadcast and internet communications with official instructions for the people? You know, until the cleanup is well underway (say, mid-November?) Last I heard, TSA has a working “kill switch.”

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  • Tankertony
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 3:34pm

    During his evacuation orders, I’m suprised that he didn’t also blame Bush. I mean, we all know its Bush’s fault.

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  • mpoconnor7
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 3:29pm

    How long will it be before we start to hear conspiracy theories about Bush and Cheney and their Hurricane creating machine (which is now no doubt being controlled now by the Koch Brothers and Mitt Romney) to send Hurricane Sandy to hit a predominantly Democratic area of the US (DC, Philly, NYC, Boston) to prevent Democrats from voting for Obama.

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  • MasterJoshua7
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 3:26pm

    And yet there are quite a few people that say ‘prepers’ are just crazy nut jobs.

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    • m14guy
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 3:39pm

      Read my mind. Bullets, beans & rice makes thing nice. We have been without power for 5 days at least 4 times. I cannot even count the days we have be without electricity 4 days or less. We are now completely self-sufficient for more than a 2 year event in a SHTF scenario; including “security”. It’s a good feeling.

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 3:39pm

      Nutjobs?…. no

      Bad spellers?… yes

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  • BlackCrow
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 3:14pm

    Nobody is forcing those people to live like sardines in a can. If they are not smart enough to realize they are not in a place that can’t be evacuated in case of a storm and even if they do they don’t own cars to get them out of town then nature has a way of culling the herd. And from the way these people support Obama this might be the long awaited scrubbing that needs to be done.

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 3:35pm

      Actually a big storm in NYC only makes the city filthier and it’s constituents MORE dependent on government…..

      http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/nyregion/03garbage.html?_r=0

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    • m14guy
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 3:53pm

      There still time. They could get those school busses that are not going to be used (again?) and move some of the local indigenous personnel to the Hampton’s and into all of those quaint, posh, empty Bread & Breakfast establishments that are now empty. You know, “redistribute” them. That would be more fair and a lot of liberals could feel good about themselves. It’s all about how they feel.

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    • smokeysmoke
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 6:41pm

      every time the city floods so do the sewers…

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  • MiCurmudgeon
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 3:12pm

    It’s too bad there wasn’t a storm in Benghazi on 9/11/2012. Then Obama might have been involved in the planning and saving American lives !!

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 6:12pm

      Amen … and to NYC and the rest of those in harms way .. he wouldn’t care NOW if it weren’t for the election next week.

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  • glennrocks
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 3:04pm

    God might be trying to tell us something.

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    • DJEyeDub
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 5:09pm

      Agreed. Earthquakes in the west, mighty storms in the east, droughts and fires in the center. Get back on the straight and narrow America. Do not take these warnings in vain.

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    • The Giver
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 7:55pm

      We even had a 4.0 earthquake in Maine last month. This was unusual. We sit on a fault line, but I never felt a quake in Maine. It was felt north to Canada and south to Rhode Island. When God speaks, he doesn’t need a microphone.

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    • Alina.D
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 8:13pm

      Here we go again.. America you are being punished for not standing with Israel. I wonder when the world will learn their lesson that if you are not with Israel, you are on God’s punishment list. God forgive us, and give us wisdom and protection. In Jesus name. Amen.

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    • TheCalmOne
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 9:09pm

      That’s a joke, right? You don’t really believe this is a sign from God, do you?

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    • eagledown
      Posted on October 29, 2012 at 4:48pm

      @DJEYEDUB “Respect ma authority”

      But why does the Jersey Shore need to be punished for what was clearly meant for DC.
      God must have had a change of heart, too obvious.

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  • m14guy
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 3:01pm

    I’ll bet Cheney still has the remote for the Halliburton Hurricane Steering Machine (HHSM) thats in the White House basement. You know, the same one Bush used to steer Katrina. I heard he took it with him when he left. I’ll bet Dick is up there on his ranch playing with the knobs right now. I wonder if the FLUSH button is still working. Ah, the good old days.

    Is that FANTA diet fruit punch I see down the aisle?

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    • Katydidnt
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 3:35pm

      No, no. no! Obama is the one that promised to correct the sea levels right in his inaugural speech. Well, let’s see it.

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  • Watchingtheweasels
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 2:54pm

    I wonder how long it is going to be before democrat lawyers say that the storm disenfranchised democrat voters in the northeast in the event of a Romney win and sue to have the election invalidated. Assuming that they don’t cancel the results and order a redo from the White House.

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  • youshuthehellup
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 2:48pm

    nonsense everyone! all obamessiah has to do is raise his hands and the storm will be calm,the oceans will not rise. Alleluia,Alleluia

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    • MemTN
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 3:00pm

      Good one! He’s actually on TV right now telling “folks” to go buy batteries, etc. I want to puke.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 3:05pm

      @MemTN,

      If they had listened to Glenn they would already have all the supplies they would need. : )

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 3:25pm

      …..and lots of GOLD ;)

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 4:03pm

      Hi East,

      …..and a Liberty safe. : )

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 4:14pm

      LOL MONK….

      and the best blue jeans on the market!

      …….God, how i aspire to be the keen capitalist Glenn is!…. (no offense Glenn ;D)

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      Eastinfection  
  • powedj
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 2:37pm

    Bloomberg will say it’s George Bush’s fault and by executive order banning any future 16oz hurricanes.

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  • handykeith29
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 1:39pm

    I thought Mayor Doomberg banned hurricanes by now

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  • Ken2
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 1:36pm

    Remember when everyone in the MSM laughed about the silly idea that Obama could declare a disaster and delay the elections?
    I wond

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 1:59pm

      Ah so now Obama controls the weather.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 2:27pm

      Never let a good crisis go to waste….even a natural disaster.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 2:58pm

      That dope was just on TV “telling the AHMEREEKAN people to DO what the AUTHORITIES tell them to do” As if people can’t think. DUDE: YOU make sure the power restoration/water trucks and Emergency storm debris clean up folks are ready..okay? THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DO NOT NEED YOU to tell them how to get in out of the rain.

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 6:00pm

      @PATTY HENRY

      There are always those moronic people who will try to “ride it out.”

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  • buckiesmith
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 1:30pm

    Tie Bloomberg to a pole on the beach and let nature do it’s thing.

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 1:29pm

    Considering the normal Coriolis Effect on Hurricanes that far north I find it strange that Sandy is making a sharp turn to the left.

    What comes around goes around I guess.

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    • SocialistSlayer
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 1:33pm

      You think they should rename it Karma ?

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 1:39pm

      Hi SocialistSlayer,

      Would you believe this? I looked up Sandy and Karma and found this…..

      http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sandy%20Karma

      LMAO !!!

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    • TSUNAMI_22
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 1:40pm

      @ The-Monk

      Just wait and see what happens when the cold front moves under that warm-wet front and shoves all of that moisture into the upper atmosphere.

      Mother nature is something else.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 1:57pm

      Hi TSUNAMI_22,

      If you’re going to have some Sandy Karma why not have a 1970 Dodge Charger 500 too?

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=mSHo3j72fIo&NR=1

      PS: I’m back on the other site.

      The-Monk  
    • momrules
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 2:04pm

      Hi there Monk………I checked out your link and I too am laughing my head off. A funny little story, at least to me,………When my barely 19y/o daughter was in Scotland I got a phone call from her. She said Mom, I can always say I had sex on the beach in Scotland…….I was shocked speechless until she explained to me the *sex on the beach* is the name of a mixed drink. The kid has a funny sense of humor, giving old Mom a heart attack was a gas!

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 3:24pm

      Hey MOM… I once asked a bartender in Scotland for a “Screwdriver”….

      He responded by saying “Oh…Aye… You Yanks think you can fix everything… 1st tell me why you need the screwdriver & i’ll bloody fix it myself”…

      after a very confusing exchange i explained that a “screw driver” is Vodka & OJ….. lol..
      obviously they’ve learned a bit since then…

      the “Kit-Kat”s in Britain are made from Cadbury (sp?) chocolate instead of Hershey’s. Way better ;)

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    • momrules
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 4:58pm

      LOL EAST…….The funny thing is the Scottish barkeep was half right. Give an American a screwdriver AND a roll of duct tape and we can fix anything.

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 5:16pm

      LOL MOM…

      I believe you have just explained “American Exceptionalism” in a nut-shell!

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  • scrapadapolis
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 1:21pm

    Monk they will reclassify if there are sustainable winds of hurricane force.Other than that you’re spot on.

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  • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 1:18pm

    The good folks in upstate NY are bracing for a storm of arrogant and ill-mannered “Yankees”…

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  • barber2
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 1:17pm

    The Obama/ Bloomberg people will probably run ” economy on rise” due to the flood of storm supplies purchases….

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  • SocialistSlayer
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 1:16pm

    It’s called RAIN people – It’s not predicted in the Mayan Calender so get over it !

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 1:04pm

    What will Mayor Bloomberg do with a Hurricane larger than 16 oz ???

    He should just ban all storms larger than 16 oz….

    (end sarcasm)

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 12:58pm

    Yeah, this is ALMOST as big an EMERGENCY as Big Gulps and baby formula.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 1:07pm

      I find it ironic that Bloomberg said, “if you want a 32 oz soda you can buy two 16 oz sodas”…

      Now he’s facing 3 storms at once.

      Can I call this a 48 oz storm?

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    • The Jewish Avenger
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 1:42pm

      LOL

      and lower…cap…stuff…

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 3:43pm

      JEWAVENGER….

      i agree!… “LOL” should be the exception to the no-caps rule!

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on October 28, 2012 at 12:55pm

    I heard on the news this morning that the National Hurricane Center is going to stop issuing reports on Hurricane Sandy before it makes landfall because it will not be a hurricane by that time.

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    • SITDOWNANDSHUTUP
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 3:08pm

      As Sandy heads north into colder waters, it will lose steam and become a tropical storm (it might lose enough steam to be downgraded to a tropical depression). Basically, a lot of wind and a lot of rain. Nothing like what the southern states see.

      Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and Camile in 1969 had winds in excess of 175mph. You’d think from the coverage, that Sandy was over 200mph.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on October 28, 2012 at 3:57pm

      Hi SITDOWNANDSHUTUP,

      I was leaving Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. with Andrew on my heals as I drove back to Tampa.

      I remember Camile very well also, it trashed Virginia and I had fun inner-tubing the local creeks.

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