wayneL
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A great artist and one of my very favourite songs.
A great artist and one of my very favourite songs.Wayne, it will be the first of the month by the time the "witch of November" comes stealin to the great lake they call Gitchigumi...
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It's only a category 1 hurricane isn't it?
Unless the Americans rate them backward to us, isn't this the lowest rating?
Is it the Gulf Stream that allows hurricanes to occur in such high lattitudes in the North Atlantic? New York is as far North as Tasmania is South.
It's only a category 1 hurricane isn't it?
Unless the Americans rate them backward to us, isn't this the lowest rating?
It's also about the slowness of the system which means very strong winds and heavy rain will continue for up to 5 days. That will create all sorts of havoc for flood systems, weakened trees and buildings that may be unable to cope with continuous pounding.
And it coincides with a full moon so the storm surge will come on top of king tides..
It is also going to hit the mostly densely populated areas of US with the most expensive infrastructure.
It's also about the slowness of the system which means very strong winds and heavy rain will continue for up to 5 days. That will create all sorts of havoc for flood systems, weakened trees and buildings that may be unable to cope with continuous pounding.
And it coincides with a full moon so the storm surge will come on top of king tides..
It is also going to hit the mostly densely populated areas of US with the most expensive infrastructure.
From Mish's blog:
Sandy is classified as a Hurricane 1 status, a low-grade hurricane. However, don't let that fool you in terms of impact. It's not the absolute magnitude of the hurricane, but rather the magnitude vs. what the infrastructure can handle that matters.
Barometric pressure is 27.76, the lowest pressure recorded for a storm in the Northeast. Sandy is unprecedented in size as well. The hurricane is likely to reach shore with a full moon high tide raising storm surges several more feet.
Read more at http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com.au/#qkpF9jpJJvTGfWIc.99
Columbia Univeristy Professor Klaus Jacob has worked with the MTA to model what would happen if you couple sea level rises – the FTA says to expect four feet by the end of this century – with intense storms like Irene. In forty minutes, Jacob says, all the East River Tunnels would be underwater. Jacob says he took those results to the MTA, and asked, if that happened, how long would it take to restore the flooded subway to a degree of functionality?
“And there was a big silence in the room because the system is so old. Many of the items that would be damaged by the intrusion of the saltwater into the system could not recover quickly. You have to take them apart. You have to clean them from salt, dry them, reassemble them, test them and cross your fingers that they work.”
In a best-case scenario, Jacob calculated that it would take 29 days to get the subway working again. But in the meantime, a halted subway would almost halt the city’s economy, which, he says produces $4 billion a day in economic activity.
Super Storm’s Record U.S. Flooding Lands Blackout Blow: Energy
Tuesday, 30 Oct 2012 06:35 AM
Record tides from a wintry super storm combined with hours of pounding wind and rain to deal an unprecedented blow to the U.S Northeast’s power grid, flooding substations and shutting New York City’s financial district.
By nightfall, Consolidated Edison Inc., New York City’s utility, had killed electricity in parts of downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn as seawater encroached on crucial power equipment, warning more cuts may be coming. Crews in Connecticut threw up a dike around an electrical substation serving downtown Stamford and stood ready to shut down four others should floodwaters rise by the forecast 11 feet.
“The last time we saw this threat was never,” Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy said at a press conference yesterday, warning the worst seawater flooding in 70 years could have tides lapping at the base of at least one inland dam.
As of 8 p.m. in New York yesterday, the storm had knocked out power to some 3.6 million homes and businesses, according to the U.S. Energy Department. That figure may increase overnight.
Power blackouts that may eventually affect as many as 10 million people in the region for as long as 10 days left homes in the dark, closed the stock market, and disrupted operations at refineries, pipelines and power plants. Damaged power lines, substations and other infrastructure will contribute to the $20 billion in total storm costs estimated by Eqecat Inc., a risk- management company in Oakland, California.
Many homeowners who suffered losses because of flooding from Hurricane Sandy are likely to find themselves out of luck. Standard homeowners policies don't cover flooding damage, and the vast majority of homeowners don't have flood insurance.
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