This thread's for my East Coast friends who might, and hopefully not, be affected by the hurricane. You're on my mind.

Cool pix of storm

http://gizmodo.com/5955575/earth-photo-shows-sandys-massive-size

Where I am at, all we really have to worry about is power/cable outages and wind damage.

Gonna fill up the tub tomorrow, so I can use the water to flush the toilet if the power goes out.

Its windy and rainy in outside with whistling wind.

There's a storm outside?

Al did you upload the wrong pictures? These are the same ones you put in the interior design thread.

I messed up the threads, and I can't delete these since the interior design thread are linked to these. But here is the storm photo which I took about 10 minutes ago:

Winds are starting to get fucked up here. Only a matter of time before the power goes out.

this is crazy

Fucking Mayans.

Power been out 2 times so far

Pay your bill. Do you need lessons on how to open and use a checking account? I know the perfect person to teach you.

^^^Guffaw. . .

Some of my kids yard stuff, that made it through the last storm fine, blew through the electric fence and I can see them jammed in the woods at the back of the pasture. I hope that fucking horse aint loose yet. I gotta go check.

I'll leave it at this and not even comment on the kid:

The, ummmm, electric fence?

Lemme get this straight, and, just for the record:

You need to keep your stuff (persons, places, things, whatev...) enclosed within an, ummmm... within a fucking electric fence?

For the horse, damn, Jim.

He has a horse? That explains what he was going on about There:

Back on topic...

This morning:




I think we're getting the worst of it right now, and I'm about to do a store run. Lets see if I get any better pics.

JB is gonna loot every corner liquor store in Camden now.

What is it with you three and Camden, already?

Surprised I still have power, out for a minute, wind is getting really violent now, but check this out.

A.C. Boardwalk gone:

link

It's all fun and games when it hits the Southern Democrats, but let it hit that Northeastern crowd and it's the Storm of the Century.

That boardwalk footage is crazy. I'd like to see the rest of it. For those that don't know, it's a few miles+ long.

What's wrong with Camden?


Scituate, Massachusetts, about 30 miles south of Boston:

Pardon? I do believe Democrats of all stripes objected to the handling of Katrina.

And I seriously object to the way the pols are handling this. Specifically:

Mayor McPanic decides to shut the subways Seven PM last night. Long before the first raindrops fell.

Then he orders that ALL NYC employees report to work or charge it to their annual time.

Now, I'm all for saving the taxpayer an unnecessary expense, but just how are they supposed to get to work when you've shut the goddamned trains?

It's Malarkey, I tells ye.

I shouldn't have thrown the Democrat epithet in there. I just think it's interesting that when it's NO with Katrina, or Charleston with Hugo, or Florida with any number of 'canes, it's a "news story". When it affects DC and NYC it's "history".

It's like "oh crazy NO, shouldn't have been built below sea level". Well, crazy Manhattan, shouldn't have been built 1o ft above sea level, with tunnels for added interest.

Your best Sandy news source...

If panzer had a friend, that'd be it. ^^^^

Okay, and you may have a point there.

I will tell you that, right now, the Hudson River is spilling over into the damned streets. And hold on...


Seems the East river is doing the same.

Yeah it affects a shit-ton more people, but the ones affected are no less or more damaged.

Anyway, JB, hope you and even Panzer and especially Fatman & Gypsy stay safe. You're gonna lose power so save that cell battery for shit other than XPT.

Garfield... Why don't you chose this moment to take up surfing?

My old place in the East Village years back on 11th/A is flooded outside half a car height.

We'll all be good, Bo, Thanks. I'm a bit more inland than most, as is Gypsy, I think. Not sure about The Fatman, but I'm led to believe he's on the Weehawken Heights, where Uncle Aaron shot old Alex.

Panzer's the one to worry about, as he's really really close to the ocean.

Garfield's gone surfing in this, what?


And, speaking of the ocean. . .

That place? Damn.

Jb, post the hurricane pics I texted you. Oh, and heather pink is safe uptown and said there's a taxi submerged in water off 23rd in Murray hill

Gimme a minute. I have texts coming in from 76 different people in this mess.

Glad Heather's OK. We didn't get to discuss this, so please tell me you ended up using her Doctor, 'Cause hers are the only, squishtastically decent set of bolt-ons I've ever approved of.

Her md retired 2 years ago I found out. But I showed my md her pics. As well as sander westgate's pics and several Japanese manga drawings. He said I was the only patient to bring in pics of cartoons.

You've just made Frankie Figgs a happy, happy man.

I would like to see those cartoons...they are pertinent to my interests.

Yep. Please, while I find the pics you texted.

I don't have the pics anymore. I don't save much. I'm an anti-hoarder. I had a few random pics of random nude models I grabbed off a Frankie Figgs thread also.

I knew it.


Update: Hoboken is, apparently, fucked.

I really hope any rebuilding in ny/nj isn't in the form of new douchey modern. They need to re-create it to preserve the history and lure we love it for.

You mean that "Mosesian" style the Hasids insist on utilizing?

I dunno. We're about to have a whole new culture next November. It could be anything. I'm not hopeful it'll be anything tasteful.

I mean like the douche palaces newly built along the Hudson.

Ahh, then. Not dissimilar.

Send me those pics again, 'cause I'm not getting them for some reason.

Meanwhile, this is Hoboken:

Oh you can rest assured it will be douche palaces.

Welcome to South Florida in Manhattan. Fake stucco and metal studs and precast panels to look like brick. Metal decking with 3" of concrete between floors and every sound projected and amplified. No substance at all. All so temporary.

^^^Agreed, but it's less Manhattan and more here in Brooklyn.

In any case, it's friggin' distasteful.