Storm Sandy Makes Landfall Along the Coast of Southern New Jersey

[Hissyspit]

Source: Reuters

@Reuters: FLASH: Storm Sandy makes landfall along the coast of southern New Jersey: U.S. National Hurricane Center

Will Update.

Read more: http://live.reuters.com/Event/Tracking_Storm_Sandy

[elleng]

1. link?

[modrepub]

2. National Hurricane Center

see discussion under Sandy, no longer a tropical system. Lots of dry air making its way along the backside. Worst precip down in Baltimore and DC. Snow falling along the highest elevations in WV. Nasty storm, hope it keeps moving.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov

[modrepub]

3. From 5 PM EDT NHC Discussion

WE ANTICIPATES THAT THE LAST NHC ADVISORY ON SANDY WILL BE ISSUED AT
11 PM EDT TONIGHT. SINCE ALL COASTAL TROPICAL CYCLONE WARNINGS HAVE
BEEN DISCONTINUED...THERE WILL BE NO INTERMEDIATE PUBLIC ADVISORIES
ISSUED BETWEEN NOW AND THE 11 PM NHC ADVISORY.

[magical thyme]

4. It's a post-tropical storm now. Near 12' storm surge at Kings Pt, NY

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCUAT3+shtml/300002.shtml

SURFACE...RADAR...AND AIR FORCE RESERVE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT
DATA INDICATE THAT POST-TROPICAL CYCLONE SANDY MADE LANDFALL NEAR
ATLANTIC CITY NEW JERSEY AROUND 800 PM EDT...0000 UTC...WITH
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS OF 80 MPH...130 KM/H.

NATIONAL OCEAN SERVICE TIDE GAUGES HAVE RECENTLY REPORTED STORM
SURGE HEIGHTS OF 11.9 FEET AT KINGS POINT NEW YORK...8.4 FEET
AT THE BATTERY NEW YORK...AND 8.6 FEET AT SANDY HOOK NEW JERSEY.

ANOTHER UPDATE WILL BE ISSUED AT 900 PM EDT. NHC WILL ISSUE ITS LAST
ADVISORY ON SANDY AT 1100 PM EDT. THE HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL
PREDICTION CENTER...HPC...WILL BEGIN ISSUING PUBLIC ADVISORIES AT
500 AM EDT TUESDAY.

[RoccoR5955]

5. Didn't CNN say

that it was too close to call where or whether it hit land yet?

[jerseyjack]

6. Some update

Wind is howling outside --bedminster nj, in the middle of the state. Major flooding in downtown NYC.

Power is out over most of NJ

[dumbledork]

7. Gotta love that 'mainstream media'...they're working REAL hard keeping the panic factor up to 9

if that damn crane hadn't broken down in NYC they wouldn't have anything to be hysterical over!
\hahahahaha

I know, they have to treat this stuff seriously but it isn't the end of the world...I will bet (and hope of course) there won't be a single casualty from this little puff. (I love how some of these 'reporters' make sure to stand in 3 inches of water to show how awful it all really is....)

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. There's already 1 dead and one missing at sea

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/10/29/hurricane-sandy-ship-abandoned-ship-coast-guard/1665339/

[dumbledork]

9. Yes, sadly...(I've sailed on that boat) but it's not like it's downtown New York.

Nobody forced them to take it out into the eye of the tempest. Or did they?

[YOHABLO]

10. The Jersey Shore Needs A Total Cleansing ..

Now that the Jersey Shore folks have packed up and moved on; you know the ''Situation" and "Snooky'' and company? Sandy has come a-knocking like a mini- maid. Salt water, perhaps is a good disinfectant. Sorry, had to go there.

[a la izquierda]

12. Yeah, well I'm sorry you went there.

My entire family lives on the Jersey Shore and it's where I grew up. NJ beaches generate millions of dollars during the summer for the state.
My mother lives about 10 minutes from there, and my sister, who has two kids and is 8 1/2 months pregnant lives a 5 minute walk to a major inlet on the Shore, so thanks for the joke.

[primavera]

11. Any bets on whether we'll learn anything from this?

Like maybe global climate change isn't a myth after all and that the kind of destruction these man-made storms are going to continue causing are kind of a high price to pay for our fossil fuel gluttony?