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    Cool Hurricanes and tornadoes

    Granny says batten down the hatches, gonna be an ill wind dat blows...

    Sandy pounds Bahamas after killing 29 in Caribbean
    Oct 26,`12 -- Hurricane Sandy raged through the Bahamas early Friday after leaving 29 people dead across the Caribbean, following a path that could see it blend with a winter storm to hit the U.S. East Coast with a super-storm next week.
    Sandy knocked out power, flooded roads and cut off islands in the storm-hardened Bahamas as it charged through Cat Island and Eleuthera, with authorities reporting one death in the scattered archipelago. Sandy, which weakened to a category 1 hurricane Thursday night, caused havoc in Cuba Thursday, killing 11 people in eastern Santiago and Guantanamo provinces as its howling winds and rain toppled houses and ripped off roofs. Authorities said it was Cuba's deadliest storm since July 2005, when category 5 Hurricane Dennis killed 16 people and caused $2.4 billion in damage.

    Sandy also killed one person while battering Jamaica on Wednesday and 16 in Haiti, where heavy rains from the storm's outer bands caused flooding in the impoverished and deforested country. Police in the Bahamas said a 66-year-old man died after falling from his roof in upscale Lyford Cay late Thursday while trying to repair a window shutter. On Friday morning, the hurricane's center was about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north-northeast of Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas and 460 miles (740 kilometers) south-southeast of Charleston, South Carolina. Sandy was moving north at 6 mph (9 kph) with maximum sustained winds near 80 mph (130 kph).

    Government officials in the Bahamas said the storm seems to have inflicted the greatest damage on Cat Island, which took a direct hit, and Exuma, where there were reports of downed trees, power lines and damage to homes. "I hope that's it for the year," said Veronica Marshall, a 73-year-old hotel owner in Great Exuma. "I thought we would be going into the night, but around 3 o'clock it all died down. I was very happy about that."

    In Long Island, farmers lost most of their crops and several roofs were torn off, said legislator Loretta Butler-Turner. The island is without power and many residents do not have access to fresh water, she said. With the storm projected to hit the Atlantic coast early Tuesday, there was a 90 percent chance that most of the U.S. East Coast would get steady gale-force winds, flooding, heavy rain and maybe snow starting Sunday and stretching past Wednesday, U.S. forecaster Jim Cisco said.

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    Well we can't have people in other island nations catching hell without the US suffering death and destruction too. I mean it is only fair. And if this doesn't happen there's gonna be hundreds of weatherpredictors across the US singing the blues. So far, Fort Lauderdale is getting showers. not so much as a branch in a ditch. woe is the weather channel.

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    Yes, they say it's going to brush us. We are use to it.

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    It isn't a bad storm. Just big. The worse that will happen on the east coast is prolonged power outages. Hope mine stays on.

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    Storm weakens as it hits the Carolina coast...

    Sandy downgraded from hurricane to tropical storm
    27 Oct.`12 — The National Weather Service has downgraded Sandy from a hurricane to a tropical storm but warns that "widespread impacts" are still expected into next week for the U.S. East Coast.
    The storm was expected to increase in speed and move away from the Bahamas and parallel to the southeast coast of the United States later this weekend.

    Maximum sustained winds dropped to near 70 mph early Saturday, pushing it below the threshold for being classified as a hurricane. However, the weather service said it was possible that the storm could regain strength by Sunday night.

    Sandy killed more than 40 people in the Caribbean, wrecked homes and knocked down trees and power lines.

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    In Pittsburgh, we're having my kids birthday party so I go to the grocery store this morning.

    $#@!ing packed, people are buying everything. It was a $#@!ing mob scene.

    $#@!ing idiots.
    my junk is ugly

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    Head fer the hills, here comes Sandy!

    5 Reasons Why Sandy Will Be a Superstorm
    Oct 27,`12 - The moon will affect Sandy's impact, forecasters say
    With airlines bracing for chaos and state officials declaring states of emergency, Hurricane Sandy is looking ominous. The AP runs down five reasons why:

    Sandy is a massive system that will affect a huge swath of the eastern US, regardless of exactly where it hits or its precise wind speed. For example, tropical storm-force winds can be felt 450 miles away from the storm's center.

    Sandy is expected to merge with a wintry system from the west, at which point it will become the powerful superstorm that has forecasters and officials from North Carolina to New England on edge. Winds from that system will pull Sandy back toward the US mainland.

    Frigid air coming south from Canada also is expected to collide with Sandy and the wintry storm from the west, creating a megastorm that is expected to park over the northeast for days.

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    Factbox: Rare factors could make Hurricane Sandy highly destructive
    27 Oct.`12 - Hurricane Sandy is expected to hit the eastern United States with freakish power as it meets a cold front during a rare convergence of weather factors that is expected to steer the storm inland and widen the reach of its lashing winds.
    Here is a look at some of the reasons why the event dubbed "Frankenstorm" by some weather watchers is so unusual and why it could be one of the most destructive U.S. storms in decades.

    HISTORIC STORM

    * Hurricane Sandy will join with a cold front in an event similar to Hurricane Hazel in 1954, said Bruce Sullivan, a meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hydrometeorological Prediction Center. "We don't have a lot to compare it to in the last 50 years or so," he said.
    * One factor that sets Hurricane Sandy apart from last year's Hurricane Irene, which caused $4.3 billion in damage, is that it will produce more than a foot of snow in higher elevations, especially in West Virginia, said Eric Leister, meteorologist with AccuWeather.com. That could lead to widespread power outages.
    * Hurricane Sandy also presents more potential for flooding than Irene because it will produce more storm surges, particularly along northern New Jersey, New York City and Long Island, said meteorologist Dan Petersen with the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center.
    * Meteorologists are reluctant to predict how destructive Sandy could be overall compared to past storms including Irene, but say it has the potential to be catastrophic. "This is a historic event, and if it turns out as bad as it could be, it's going to be likely one of those storms that people will be talking about 30, 40, 50 years from now," Leister said.

    UNUSUAL PATH

    * Most tropical storms that make landfall in the mid-Atlantic region move northeast and out toward the ocean. Sandy will move northwest and unleash its fury over a greater area of land than the average storm, Sullivan said.
    * Sandy will be led inland on its destructive path by a high-pressure system over eastern Canada and a storm system moving southeast across the Tennessee Valley, Sullivan said. Those two systems and their winds will act like a "steering mechanism" and draw Sandy to the northwest, he said.
    * This is late in the season for a hurricane to hit the northeastern United States, which could make Hurricane Sandy unusually destructive by allowing it to combine with colder air masses that are not normally present in the warmer summer months, Leister said.

    VAST WIND FIELD

    * Hurricane Sandy will generate heavy winds covering an area more than 500 miles in diameter, Sullivan said. By comparison, the hugely destructive Hurricane Andrew in 1992 unleashed heavy winds over an area about one-fifth that size, he said.
    * The large wind storms generated by Hurricane Sandy will create major flooding and storm surges, said Chris Landsea, hurricane forecaster at the National Hurricane Center. Coastal areas will be inundated with up to 8 feet of storm surges, which will be devastating for low-lying areas, he said.

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    Evacuations Launched as Sandy Closes In...

    Super storm could impact 60 million people in US; coastal residents told to get out of the way
    Oct 27, 2012 - US Super storm threat launches mass evacuations; Residents in Delaware and New Jersey told to leave
    Hurricane Sandy headed north from the Caribbean _ where it left nearly 60 dead _ to threaten the eastern U.S. with sheets of rain, high winds and heavy snow as officials warned millions in coastal areas to get out of the way of the rare behemoth storm. "We're looking at impact of greater than 50 to 60 million people," said Louis Uccellini, head of environmental prediction for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

    Sandy was expected to meet two other powerful winter storms. Experts said it didn't matter how strong the storm was when it hit land: The rare hybrid storm that follows will cause havoc over 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) from the East Coast to the Great Lakes. "This is not a coastal threat alone," said Craig Fugate, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. "This is a very large area."

    New Jersey was set to close its casinos this weekend, New York's governor was considering shutting down the subways to avoid flooding and half a dozen states warned residents to prepare for several days of lost power. Sandy weakened briefly to a tropical storm early Saturday but was soon back up to Category 1 hurricane strength, packing 75 mph (120 kph) winds about 335 miles (539 kilometers) southeast of Charleston, South Carolina, as of 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT). Experts said the storm was most likely to hit the southern New Jersey coastline by late Monday or early Tuesday.

    Governors from North Carolina, where heavy rain was expected Sunday, to Connecticut declared states of emergency. Delaware ordered mandatory evacuations for coastal communities by 8 p.m. Saturday. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie broke off campaigning for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in North Carolina Friday to return home. "I can be as cynical as anyone," the pugnacious chief executive said in a bit of understatement Saturday. "But when the storm comes, if it's as bad as they're predicting, you're going to wish you weren't as cynical as you otherwise might have been."

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    evacuations? W.T.H. really. well, in virginia folks are hitting the stores for bottled water. Seriously folks, bottle your own at home when things are going well. I don't know. Aren't we panicking just a tad over much? I'm not feeling this thing.

    On the up side, FEMA is prepping supplies as far west as the ohio valley. Could this be God's way of keeping the obama voters away. God knows, they won't get there under their own steam and we all know what happens to democrat busses when the weather conditions accelerate.

    I don't know if you guys realize it but there was an obama fundraiser that had to cancel because of very bad weather. I'll try to find the link. REmember how the libs were going on about God interfering in the republican Convention that didn't happen?

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    We're okay. Not even raining, just cloudy. We had seafood for dinner - that I bought in Hatteras. Cherry-stone clams, shrimp, and fish. Nice dinner.

    The lights blinked several times earlier this evening - I mean like eight or ten times. That passed and things are cool.

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