FRANKENSTORM IS HERE!!!!!! GOOD LUCK EAST COAST

24 blocks away

Finally today the contractor started construction of my new furnace chimney so maybe by friday i can start my furnce back up again , next week the construction on my roof will get started ....

The Juggler wrote:

guy called in for a refinance the other day. he was woring with another company who had to cancel closing due to the storm. then, as with all homes that were within sandy's path (like the entire northeast), they could not reschedule without a re-inspection of the home...to make sure it was still standing. it's a shore house in seaside heights. he was told he won't be able to access his neighborhood for at least the next 6 months so they were forced to withdraw his application and he wanted to see if i could help. unfortunately i cannot without an appraisal either.


such a shame. on a much smaller scale, but just to add insult to injury, next year's summer season is surely going to take a huge hit as well with a lot of these towns still rebuilding.

feel kinda lucky that the areas that i go to (south of ac) were not above the eye of the storm...

it was totally surreal seeing the roller coaster
from seaside now in and underneath the ocean.
heartbreaking.
all the best to you and yours affected.

Bathgate66 wrote:

still displaced.
(

Hurricane has the trade winds blowing
A gale force shaking windows in the storm
Shipwreck on the rock that he calls home
With one light on

Somewhere theres a siren singing
A song only he hears
All the strength that you might think
Would disappear,.. Resolving

Where have I heard this before?

a wave came crashing like a fist to the jaw


:shock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCyrhWUz3QA

Columbia University saw it coming



The remains of the boardwalk at Rockaway Beach, New York



The storm made landfall. The Hudson rose and rose. Klaus Jacob went to bed.

“I knew what was going to happen,” he says with a shrug in his voice.

Of course he did.

On the evening of October 29, Superstorm Sandy, a weather event so gigantic and freakish that the word “hurricane” was insufficient, whipped the New York area, which lay to the right of that gargantuan white spiral in the satellite picture, the windier side. The Atlantic, plowed by winds, piled up high and rushed toward the coastline.

At around 9:00 p.m., New York harbor was a churning, brimming tub. Waves heaved and crashed. One wave measured thirty-two feet.

At 9:24, a storm surge of 13.88 feet, breaking the record of 10.2 feet set by Hurricane Donna in 1960, breached the seawalls of Lower Manhattan, flooding subway tunnels and knocking out power. Twelve miles north of the city, up the wooded banks of the Hudson River, on a swollen tributary in Piermont, New York, behind a stand of marsh grass, in an old Dutch settlement, inside a white clapboard house, Jacob, a seismologist at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, climbed the steep wooden staircase.

The Awakening



Klaus Jacob / The Battery
Sea level rise will eventually inundate low-lying areas permanently if no mitigation or adaptation measures are taken, and may also accelerate saltwater intrusion in some areas.

So it had come, the Big One that Jacob and his colleagues had imagined when they produced the now-famous 2011 report Responding to Climate Change in New York State, known as the ClimAID study. Chapter 9, written by Jacob and civil-engineering professor George Deodatis ’87SEAS, focused on transportation, and what the city could expect from a hundred-year storm — what the authors likened to “a non-direct but nearby hit of a category 1 or category 2 hurricane.”

For most transportation facilities, the increased coastal storm surge hazard will dominate over these permanent inundation hazards for most of this century.

The state-funded study was led by Cynthia Rosenzweig, a senior research scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia; William Solecki ’84CC, director of the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities; and Art DeGaetano of Cornell.

If existing infrastructure is not upgraded and adapted to the new demands posed by climate change, it will put the neglected regions, their economies, and, in the worst cases, lives in jeopardy.

Jacob awoke at dawn. The winds that had rocked him to sleep still rattled the dark house. The night before, Jacob had shut off the circuit breakers and disconnected the gas. Now he smelled the usual ocean smell that comes with living by a tidal river, only maybe it was nearer than usual. He knew, lying there, that the water had entered during the night, risen, and receded with the tide.

He knew, too, that the press would want to talk to him about all the things he knew. In September, the New York Times had published an article by Mireya Navarro ’04JRN titled “New York Is Lagging as Seas and Risks Rise, Critics Warn.” In the article, Jacob, noting how the storm surge of Hurricane Irene a year before had come within one foot of flooding New York subway tunnels and highways and knocking out power to commuter rail lines, said, “We’ve been extremely lucky. I’m disappointed that the political process hasn’t recognized that we’re playing Russian roulette.”

That quote got picked up as Sandy approached.

Now they’d be calling him “prescient.” They’d get mileage out of that word. New York magazine would ask, “Is Dr. Klaus H. Jacob the Cassandra of New York City Subway Flooding?” A rhetorical question, presumably. Still, any of the study’s authors would say that it was a straightforward analysis that hardly required powers of prophecy.

Jacob, white-bearded and nimble, got out of bed and went down the stairs to deal with the inevitable.

Newch91 wrote:

Bathgate66 wrote:

still displaced.
(

Hurricane has the trade winds blowing
A gale force shaking windows in the storm
Shipwreck on the rock that he calls home
With one light on

Somewhere theres a siren singing
A song only he hears
All the strength that you might think
Would disappear,.. Resolving

Where have I heard this before?

force of nature


New York is in a horrible spot as global warming continues ... what was once classified as 100 year storms are going to be every 10 years or less ...

Bathgate66 wrote:

scary

we might become another Venice

add to that a very old infrastructure and the combination is not good ...