Hurricane Sandy

[drenrin2120]

I saw the vid of the power plant exploding, and the picture of the subway flooding, but that's it.

Oh, I see what happened there. Yeah, apparently a con ed facility exploded. They supply power via.. steam? I think. At least, that's what one of my friend's was telling, he lived in NYC and has some family down there, so I assume he knows what he's talking about. Then again, he's been known to say stupid things.

[fruckert]

According to Wikipedia, it was a transformer that blew.
I'm still calling it a power plant, though, because that's a lot easier than saying "consolidated energy company".

[daoman89]

in my defense somebody else said it first! lol

[SaiKar]

I officially take back my scorn for Sandy. NYC took a hardcore beating like nothing I was expecting.

Mid lives in the Bronx, just north of Manhattan, yeah. I might have her phone number saved at some place. If I do, I'll ring her up, see how she's doing.

[Bluhman]

I watched this video.
Which doesn't have comments.
Far as I've heard though, New York got pretty tore up by the hurricane.

Jesus, the heck was in that power plant?

The situation here is variable. My university and the hospital (obviously) haven't lost any power, but my parents' place uptown did. The biggest danger was our basement's nearly flooding due to the river next door. And that's where the computer servers for my floor are stored, so...
My university was like only one of two that weren't shut down locally during the storm. Crazy ****.

[Archem]

That's why we don't have basements around these parts. Floody fuckers.

[fruckert]

I've never seen a basement.

Also, crap, I forgot you were a New Yorker, Bluh.
Sorry for not asking about you

[drenrin2120]

http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hurricanes/before-after-images-sandy-20121102?pageno=1

[daoman89]

Proof that nature don't **** around...

[Prpl_Mage]

Doesn't this happen around this time every year though?

[Archem]

Yeah, in the southern states. It's incredibly rare for the New England area to see this kind of weather.

[drenrin2120]

And frankly, new england just isnt capable fending off su h powerful storms. buildings and homes arent weather proofed like they are in the south. you can also see it the geography. erosion is worse up here because there arent many major erosion events like hurricanes.

[Archem]

Exactly. We're getting hammered on a yearly basis, often more than once per hurricane season, so we've put lots of precautionary measures to work and build everything to meet specific codes. Up north, it's just not something that happens, so those precautions don't exist. It's the same as if an earthquake hit here in Houston. We'd be fucked in an instant. No precautions because it's just something that doesn't happen.

[daoman89]

Apparently the east coast is gonna flood again with a nor-eastern storm.  Talk about not catching a break for them, am I right?