FDNY and Sandy

Per firefighter friends: Every single piece of apparatus is in service.

If inclined, you can monitor FDNY here:

http://www.thebravest.com/scan/scanfdny.html

NYC is really taking a beating.

They were saying that this would give Obama a chance to be a hero. Superman couldn't be a hero with what is happening. NYC is going to be down for days and it will take a year to clear all the damage.

When Katrina hit, GWB got the blame. I have a feeling that this is going to be worse. The tunnels are flooded, the subways are flooding and all the electrical is below ground. This could be a $100 BILLION dollar problem.

Three feet of water on the floor of the NYSE.

Facebook is kinda screwed up right now, as is Ebay! Emails from East coast, few!

Please be safe First Responders!
A pox on all the stupid people who didn't heed warnings to evacuate.

jrm30655 wrote:

When Katrina hit, GWB got the blame.

GWB got blamed and rightfully so for his administration's incompetent,pathetic reponse to the emergency.

viajero wrote:

jrm30655 wrote:

When Katrina hit, GWB got the blame.

GWB got blamed and rightfully so for his administration's incompetent,pathetic reponse to the emergency.

GWB, got blamed for 911! When Obama is re elected, he will still be blaming someone......TFF.....

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/29/hurricane-sandy-strengthens-to-85-mph/?hpt=hp_t1

Scroll down for timed updates and developments.
911 dispatchers are receiving 10,000 calls every half hour.

At least the cell towers and phone lines are still working!

Good CNN site, thanks.
This is baaaad.

A regular old phone is a good back up to have...it doesn't need electricity.

Jim W wrote:

viajero wrote:

jrm30655 wrote:

When Katrina hit, GWB got the blame.

GWB got blamed and rightfully so for his administration's incompetent,pathetic reponse to the emergency.

GWB, got blamed for 911! When Obama is re elected, he will still be blaming someone......TFF.....

Are you looking for a response Jim?...I'll pass.
Can't the storm at least pass over before you all go political...and then take it to the octagon. There are some people that are more interested in the storm damage than who Obama is going to blaming for whatever.
The whole world does not depend on political one upsmanship.

jrm30655 wrote:NYC is really taking a beating.

They were saying that this would give Obama a chance to be a hero.

Who in the hell are THEY?....and who gives a s---. Next thing THEY will be saying that this was his Oct. surprise.
Grow up jrm, and think about the victims instead of who or how who, is going to be a "hero".

Trailrunner wrote:Three feet of water on the floor of the NYSE.

That turned out to be a rumor and not true.

Z

That's good news, Z.
Where did you see that? Do you have a link?

Trailrunner:

Here is a Google Search with plenty of links: https://www.google.com/webhp#hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=nyse+flooded&oq=nyse&gs_l=hp.1.0.35i39j0i3j0i20j0i3.3551.4800.0.7571.4.4.0.0.0.0.463.937.0j2j1j0j1.4.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.3D0wTQRsEfE&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=7dd78065718eeb59&bpcl=36601534&biw=1280&bih=584

When things go bump in the night, it presents so many opportunities for inaccurate and false reports. Now that daylight has hit, more accurate reports are coming in and numbers continue to be revised. For example during the night they had been reporting 3.5M without power but that number has been revised into the 7M - 7.5M range.

Thanks for the link, CG.
Yes, I've seen many different reports as of this morning. Did see NYSE plans to be out for only 2 days which means they should be operational again tomorrow.

I would think that the NYSE being open tomorrow would probably depend on power. A few minutes ago on the morning news, they were talking 10 days to two weeks to get power restored in many areas. I do know that our New Mexico power company has sent repair crews back East to assist.

NYSE must have generators, no?

The NYU Medical Center had backup generators which failed during the night and they had to evacuate approx. 200 critically ill patients:
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/10/30/hurricane-sandy-hundreds-evacuated-from-nyu-hospital/

It would be my guess that the financial district and core areas of NYC probably will be given priority status?

Trailrunner wrote:That's good news, Z.
Where did you see that? Do you have a link?

CNN last night said it was a rumor and not true after
they repeated the rumor earlier in the night. That was
all I heard.

Z

From a FF friend in NV:
From jake Dutton on duty with FDNY in Brooklyn :
Hey everyone. Just an update. We are ok. There is extensive damage throughout the city. Especially fire and flooding in south Brooklyn and rockaway beach. Still people trapped and fires burning. We ran around from fire to fire all night. Now waiting to here what's next. A few guys I work with lost their home, but we are all safe. Will call when I can. Please pass this along if anyone asks. -Jake

There are conflicting reports on the total number of homes burnt in Breezy Point, Queens - anywhere from 50 to 100. Some pretty dynamic video in the following report:
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/30/14797289-50-homes-destroyed-as-six-alarm-blaze-rips-through-queens?lite

Katrina was bad. Very bad. The story that sticks in my head was of all those people confined to a sports stadium with no police protection and little else.
One can hope that something was learned from that experience.
Civil chaos develops quickly after a disaster hits. The cockroaches of the human race come out.

Karina is a great case study in how not to prepare and how not to deal with a hurricane and any future President who hasn't learned from it would have to be deemed totally incompetent! From the current news reports, it doesn't appear that there has been much in the way of looting. A few minor reports out of Philadelphia is about all I have seen so far. There was a flurry of reports that Twitter was being used to recruit looters: http://www.naturalnews.com/037756_looting_Hurricane_Sandy_armed_resistance.html
I am guessing that the reports of mobilizations of National Guard in various States and the fact that police departments were beefed up may have knocked some sense into these otherwise foolish people?

I was talking to the lady who manages the closest gas station to our house this morning. She was a New Orleans native and had 14 members of her family living in New Orleans when Katrina hit. 5 of her family members died and she and her husband were lucky enough to be moved to Albuquerque by the government since there was a lack of housing. While she does miss certain aspects of New Orleans, she really appreciates our more stable weather!