Anyone here got some first hand Sandy stories?
 

Just out of pure interest. Any of our fellow GFY posters affected directly by hurricane Sandy?

Pretty dramatic scenes on TV.

All we got is some leaves in the driveway. Not sure if I should feel lucky or ripped off.

Dramatic coverage of Coco Austin (Ice-T's wife) reporting on hurricane Sandy live from NJ:



:stoned

ADG

Freeport, LI, NY.
Nautical mile area.

http://directme.com/nautical-1.jpg

nice boobies

I think some people are probably still without power who's stories can't be told yet.

Mostly my BMW was covered in leaves. Lost internet for a few hours, but was late overnight so had a noon start .... All I got here in the philly suburbs was some wind blown lighter rains, a lot of wind and not really much else.

In my immediate area, it is as if nothing happened at all.

My NJ/NY friends that are 20 miles north of philly: Living in the dark, no cell phones, no gas for 30+ miles around. Things are really bad for these folks.

I live about 30 minutes from Washington D.C. and about an hour from Baltimore but we only got a lot of high winds and tons of rain.

poor gal got so wet, and so did I :thumbsup

Hit us pretty hard in Canada, too. I got hit by a brown leave after a wind gust.

juicy had a argument with some crazy steroid guy :helpme

grandparents sent me a picture of their house full of sand today

AND THE PRIZE FOR THE WINNER OF "THE MOST USELESS AND MEANINGLESS GRAPH EVER" GOES TOO.....


:thumbsup:thumbsup


.:1orglaugh





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In what way is it meaningless?

:1orglaugh

Great excuse to show off some wet plastic cleavage I suppose :warning

This is true! I'm sure there is a few NJ folks on here, just hope their ok.

lol we had a fair chunk of rain, and a breeze on the east coast, glad it missed/broke up.

True that! lol but, just goes to show another way stats can be made to show pretty much what you want them to.

If you think what he said is true, you should be able to answer the same question:

In what way is it "meaningless"?

one of my partners from Loki Land lives in RI, his area was hit pretty hard but his house itself made it through, he was without power, phones, and net for about 2 days.

Here in Northern Michigan we got wind that took out about 4 trees so far, they say one more day of wind to deal with for us but the projections of wind gusts is a lot less now then what they said they other day,

NOTHING near as bad as NY, NJ, etc etc but I'm still amazed that Michigan, Ohio, Chicago and Wiss got as much as we did from the same storm (30 foot waves on Lake Michigan)

-Loki-

Actually you're right, it isn't entirely meaningless. But in the context of that graph it is.

It's a stat, which doesn't take into account any of the environmental factors.

Wow didn't know it went as far west as that, but the satelite image showed how immense the system was. well over 1000km wide or something like that?

Well the point, or meaning, is that the relative number of deaths and devastation is not mirrored in the media coverage, or general interest, which is virtually all focused on the US. It's likely the number of deaths in Haiti alone will eclipse those in the US.

I could be wrong here but i THINK she was wanting us to look at her tits. Don't quote me on that though... :arcadefre

The population of the island listed is MUCH smaller than the US and canada, so ANY deaths will show as a higher percentage. Also they are MUCH smaller relative to the size of the storm than the US and Canada. The affect of a hurricane on a tiny series of islands is always greater than on a massive continent. If the storm that hit NYC was 50 times the size the the continent of North America, (like it was 50 times the size of Haiti), then the death tolll would be similar or even greater, percentage-wise. It's comparing apples to oranges.


I wasn't trying to offend you actually.... I thought you had posted it as a joke, and I was laughing with you.





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If that is what you were trying to point at.... Here is an even better one. I bet you didn't even know about the other storm gong on simultaniously on the other side of the world....


http://www.index.hr/lajk/thumbnail.a....jpg&width=618

Great, a terrible storm wreaks havoc on thousands of people for thousands of miles and we humans break it down to a debate over which country had the most deaths and how the US is a media hog.

Unreal.

Anyone need some red cross relief? Maybe it's time to start thinking about donating.

Even in hurricane force winds, those boobs won't move.

Yea.. the power went out for only three hours, which is a vast improvement from Irene which was about 4 or 5 days.

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why has that old mangirl got big plastic torpedo's

got some friends in New Jersey that had a tree blown down, although it happened 3 hours after it was downgraded to just a storm. They wanted to go out, but apparently the media said it was all very serious so they stayed in and watched tv