Tropical Storm Sandy threatens five different countries in coming days

[InterstateNG]

Those are huge waves on the Lake!  I'm willing to wager that LSD gets shut down due to waves crashing over the road.

The Weathertainment Channel just showed footage of surfers in Lake Michigan at what looked to be the Ohio St Beach.  I've been in some big swells in that lake, but nothing like that.

Some cool photos out there showing clearly where ConEd has cut the power off in Manhattan.  Extraordinary scenes.

[empirestate]

Here's footage of the current flooding in the Carey Tunnel:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50134146n

Guess that makes this thread officially mis-categorized. Sorry about that!

[Beltway]

Here's footage of the current flooding in the Carey Tunnel:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50134146n

That's awful!  And no flood gates on the tunnel portal, apparently.

[Sanctimoniously]

From Jalopnik's Facebook page:



Not sure where exactly this is.

[empirestate]

This building:
http://goo.gl/maps/qjCOH

...no longer has a front to it.

[NE2]

No name is 100% assigned to one gender, though.

Barack?

[hbelkins]

This talk about the gender assignment of certain names makes me thing of...

"It's Pat!"

[Beltway]

No name is 100% assigned to one gender, though.

Barack?

Would need look at the ethnicity of the name to determine.  The link that I posted was for Anglo names.  Spanish names have their own list, as would any other ethnic group.

[NE2]

Got a Secret Muslim Kenyan list?

[1995hoo]

I'm just utterly stunned by what happened to Breezy Point. Lots of very fond memories of summertime there growing up. One of my aunts lives there now. Don't know whether her house survived–I believe she evacuated, but we can't reach our relatives to confirm–but based on the overhead picture I found, maybe she got lucky.

Huge overhead picture taken today (don't open on a phone, way too big). The picture is looking east–Fort Tilden, Riis Park, and the Marine Parkway Bridge are all out of the image off the top. If you look at a map of the area, Ocean Avenue is the top "street" that's totally burned out. Jamaica Walk is at the bottom. My aunt might be lucky–she lives two blocks west of Jamaica Walk.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

This talk about the gender assignment of certain names makes me thing of...

"It's Pat!"

For me, its former MTR regular Sandy Smith.

[roadman65]

http://www.king5.com/news/hurricane-sandy/Famous-Jersery-Shore-boardwalk-blown-apart-in-storm-176419471.html?fb_action_ids=554367284580718&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map={%22554367284580718%22%3A457206680981031}&action_type_map={%22554367284580718%22%3A%22og.recommends%22}&action_ref_map=[]

Seaside Heights, NJ amusement pier is in the Atlantic.

[cpzilliacus]

I'm just utterly stunned by what happened to Breezy Point. Lots of very fond memories of summertime there growing up. One of my aunts lives there now. Don't know whether her house survived–I believe she evacuated, but we can't reach our relatives to confirm–but based on the overhead picture I found, maybe she got lucky.

Huge overhead picture taken today (don't open on a phone, way too big). The picture is looking east–Fort Tilden, Riis Park, and the Marine Parkway Bridge are all out of the image off the top. If you look at a map of the area, Ocean Avenue is the top "street" that's totally burned out. Jamaica Walk is at the bottom. My aunt might be lucky–she lives two blocks west of Jamaica Walk.

The number of homes destroyed is impressive - in an absolutely terrible way. 

This image provides context that the images on TV, while dramatic, were unable to convey.

[cpzilliacus]

This talk about the gender assignment of certain names makes me thing of...

"It's Pat!"

For me, its former MTR regular Sandy Smith.

Sandy is a good friend of mine thanks to misc.transport.urban-transit and mtr.

I don't post there any longer, but I keep in touch with him via Facebook and see him sometimes.

I don't think he posts on AAROADS (though he might enjoy the transit forum on this site).

[roadman65]

Someone on nj.com in its forum got into it with someone who posted the wrong name of the bridge that carries NJ 37 inland from Seaside Heights, NJ.  The person got the names mixed up and referred to it as the Mathis Bridge when that one there is the Tonney Bridge. The Mathis is the EB leading to the shore.  Anyway, she just corrected him about the right name of the bridge and got into who Tonney was.  The other user was getting ridiculous and bashing the individual who was named Tonney and she told him off big!  Think our flame wars here get big, this one here makes some or our discussions look like a kitten fight compared to her's. 

Anyway, I am saddened what this storm did and the aftermath it left behind.  I have seen many hurricanes come through the Garden State and never had one of this force that destroyed Casino Pier and the Seaside Heights Boardwalk.  The Jersey Shore will never be the same even if a new pier is built.   Lots of teenage memories there as that is where my town went to bathe in the short Summer we would have.

[agentsteel53]

The Jersey Shore will never be the same

reality TV will find something else to mock.

[nyratk1]

The Jersey Shore will never be the same

reality TV will find something else to mock.

They already did months ago, it's called "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo"