We are expecting 20-25 foot waves on the Lake Ontario shoreline tonight and winds as high as 65 mph after midnight. I live about 5 miles from the Ontario shore line. That if anything brings home to me the immensity of this storm. We are roughly 400 miles away from where Sandy is coming ashore in New Jersey. The winds are increasing as we speak as heavy rains fall. Our suburban street is flooded in parts.
Our power has already gone out once and come back – fortunately. Winds are supposed to be higher near the shore and later tonight into Tuesday morning. Schools are closed. I hear that similar large waves are expected on other Great Lakes, such as Lake Huron:
Strong winds churned the Great Lakes on Monday, driving waves on Lake Huron to 14 feet on their way to 26 feet or more, forecasters said, while the arrival of Hurricane Sandy on the East Coast canceled flights in southeastern Michigan.
The National Weather Service issued a storm warning for Lake Huron on Monday that called for wave heights of 26 feet, and possibly as high as 38 feet, as the winds peak around dawn Tuesday. Lake Michigan waves were expected to reach 19 feet, with a potential of 33 feet on Tuesday.
Also as far west as Lake Michigan and Chicago.
Officials had a simple warning as the Chicago area braced for high winds and waves from a massive storm along the East Coast.
“Stay off the lake folks,” said Gary Shenkel, executive director of Office of Emergency Management and Communication. “Lake winds are going to be 50 to 60 mph. Waves could exceed the 24-foot mark. So please stay off the lake … This could be a very dangerous situation.”
Keep safe everyone who resides in this larger than expected danger zone.
we are getting some silly strong gusts here now.
silly?
There’s really no need to tell people to stay off the lake when there are 60 mph winds and 24 foot waves. The type who can’t figure it out are going to find other ways to get stuck in the gene pool filter.
Now THAT is a funny image. Gotta remember that one.
I just read this comment to my dad. He said “Sounds like Undecided Voters.”
Oh my. Reminds me of the sci-fi novel Lucifrer’s Hammer by Niven and Pournelle. Ok, both certified wingnuts, but still entertaining. Maybe it was Footfall … either way it was big rock(s) from outer space hitting the earth and wreaking havoc, and one of the scenes was a bunch of surfers riding the massive tidal waves into LA … knowing they would likely die but still living for the wave.
They were also responsible, in different novel (Oath of Fealty) for the phrase “Think of this as Evolution in Action”. Given their total devotion to wingnuttia (they came down strongly on the side of faith-in-oil-companies on the global warming issue) I’m sure that if they are alive today they are voting for the party that wants to end Medicare. Think of that as evolution in action.
Looks like Atlantic City is getting destroyed. Wow. For Christie to play politics, real time, in that circumstance is just unconscionable.
And it looks like Wall Street is going to need to be bailed out again…
I just saw him on the teevee. Sounds like he’s blaming the victims.
Of course, he’s a Republican.
What’s Christie doing?
And what’s Cory Booker doing? has her personally lifted large trees from ppl’s roof yet? wouldn’t be surprised to hear about that soon
During the blizzard last year when Christie was away on vacation, and didn’t bother to return to NJ, Cory Booker personally shoveled out ppl’s streets and cars
ok, just saw the Christie clip. A.C. is underwater and he’s bullying them [i.e. running for president]. horrible. I wonder if A.C. mayor is a democrat.
Just heard that unfortunately Newark is having a terrible time, don’t know details though. I’m sure Cory Booker is doing his best though
Footage I am seeing is astoundingly awful. I don’t even live near the Eastern Seaboard, and my community can count one of its members of as one of the storm’s casualties. Awful. Words escape me.
Here’s a Wind Map.
Thanks
That’s very cool.
awesome!
Watching news reports this so-called big storm looks kind of like a basic heavy storm.
Honest-to-god, I, like you I’m sure, was hoping it would be the big one. But, after all, not-so-much.
Weather. This storm is not a good example of what climate-change is about. This storm is not a good example of how much we should all be grateful for a pro-FEMA president. This storm is not a good example of people reacting proportionately to the threat. This, is, just, a, storm.
Magnified, of course, by a national news media desperately in search of something/anything that will pass as a major news story.
I’m so sick of TV trumped up news stories that are nothing more than slightly unusual weather events. The lack of discrimination is insulting.
So many weather drama queens, so little time.
The low pressure when Sandy came ashore was 940 mb, which IIRC shatters the previous East Coast record of about 960 mb. This is most assuredly not a “slightly unusual weather event.” It’s unprecented in recorded weather history. And the damage is going to be many, many billions of dollars.
I’m as tired of TV weather drama, and national media fixation with NY & DC – I’m hearing a lot more about Sandy’s impact on DC than I am about Baltimore or Philly, which are closer – plus Philadelphia is in the path of the storm’s center, and Baltimore has a number of neighborhoods directly on Chesapeake Bay. But this is the real deal, and would be even if weren’t hitting the most densely populated part of the country.
Um. Your comment is a bit premature, you think?
And what’s this about you “hoping this would be the big one” anyway? Are you fucking crazy? It’s not NASCAR. It’s real people’s lives here.
Fool.
it’s our troll
Errol: You’re hereby hexed. Hexed, I say! And you know what that means, Errol. It means you’re hexed. That’s what it means. Remember that the next time you identify a troll on a blog. It means you’ll be hexed. And hexed again. And thrice-hexed. Lookout.
Just sarcasm; relax. Everyone’s lined up for the next big thrill, you know. East Coast wipe-out, yahoo! That’s all I meant. And you knew it.
And you knew that and yet you picked it up and tried to make it your story. Are you a fucking hypocrite? It’s not just people’s lives here. It’s TeleVision weather!
Fool.
I read your (short) comment history before I made that remark. I’m comfortable with it.
What remark?
Is the troll back again? Hell, more troll ratings required. Those are very effective, though, don’t you think?
Regarding his intensely moronic (but of course) ravings about how the storm doesn’t seem so bad, research what New Orleans residents were saying as the eye of Katrina passed over them. They were convinced they had stuck it out and proven everyone wrong. I remember vividly the live video feeds on CNN.
Then the rest of the storm came through. Then the levees broke.
We NEVER lose power. Why is that? SD is a state with many winter storms.
We have NO overhead wires in my neighborhood. None. They must have passed the law about that 40 years ago. So, regardless of how bad it gets, we will have power.
When it’s 30 below, that’s important.
So why do so many places put up overhead lines, even today, in new developments?
It’s cheaper. Everything is about the bottom line.
And that is why regulation is important. Regulation, in SD, is a dirty word. Yet even SD got a regulation in to force developers to place underground.
Makes no sense at all to put up overhead lines in new construction. There’s still some of it around here but only from before like the 1960’s, I think.
Most has been built underground with ground-level transformer boxes and alot of it has been moved underground in some older areas. I’ve noticed there’s a tiny tax on my electric bill to continue the work of moving all of it underground over time.
Yes, it makes sense in most cases, but it’s no panacea. Without proper maintenance, you end up with things like exploding manhole covers.
Cheers,
Scott.
My little unincorporated community has underground electric and city water and sewer. Dates back to our origins as a resort community before two factions of the oligarchy class had a legal fight and the community fell into bankruptcy in 1973. As a result our electrical reliabilty is incredible while all the more recent nearby developments – based on well water and above-ground electric lines in order to save money for developers – tend to rely on generators due to high electrical unreliability.
But don’t think that there are any lessons to be learned in the above story.
Heavy storm. Lots of damage. Sadly several lives lost. Despite predictions, not much of a storm.
It’s over. Odd snows in Republican states. Psychological disturbances in Democratic states. Nothing new. Nothing to lament. Life goes on.
If Obama’s not out on the campaign trail again tomorrow, talking about how to see clearly when storms have passed, I’ll be disappointed.
Heil Reagan, you troll
Billions of dollars in damage already – and it looks, from preliminary reports, like much of the Jersey coast was wrecked. And nice how you can go from “sadly several lives lost” to “nothing to lament” in one paragraph.
Guess what? Natural disasters DO NOT GIVE A FUCK about the election or your stupid partisan cracks. Though if they were sentient, they’d love Republicans, since by denying science and reality, R’s are doing a great job of helping create more and bigger storms. But then, maybe that’s your agenda – downplay the storm, and you can put it in your queue of weak-ass “CLIMATE CHANGE IS A HOAX!!!!11” arguments.
Either way, I’m convinced. Troll. I’m usually pretty civil, but people cheering and rating catastrophes like it’s another stupid sporting event fit every definition of sociopath, and they piss me off. Fuck. You. And: go away and leave the adults alone.
You can keep typing with one hand if you want. I’ve said my piece.
Too bad your comment is hidden from him so he couldn’t read it.
OT: I see Christian Taliaban leader Billy Graham is endorsing Romney. There once was a time when Graham pretended to be independent, then in 2000 he said “I’ve never endorsed a Presidential candidate, but this is the closest I’ve come” in a press conference with Bush.
Asshole. I’ll know that the Democratic Party has evolved guts when the Obama adminstration revokes the tax exceptions for all the fundamentalist churches, like Grahams, that basically exist to generate GOP votes. And yes that includes the Catholics. And, yes, give them bills for all past taxes dating to the end of the fairness doctrine in 1987.
You know, “rule of law”. The exact same phrase the Republinazis have used over the years to justify their anti-union, anti-dark skinned actions.
Wishful thinking…
Sounds good to me. Churches want to play politics, they can ante up. I know …. dare to dream.
I’m guessing Daily Kos is down. It’s 12:45am Eastern now. Kos posted a dairy earlier today and mentioned that their servers are in NYC. They have some disaster recovery schemes, but I’m not sure how well they really thought it out or drilled it.
Looks like as of now it is still down.
Yes, their servers were on generators for a while, but those crapped out before their backups were ready to come online. They’ll be back when they can….
In southern Lake Michigan we’re expected to have winds sweeping down from the North creating high waves, beach erosion – especially for N. Indiana. But Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive could end up getting closed down for a day also.
The gales of November came early indeed…. I’m sure the Lakes are fierce right now.
Still have high winds and heavy rain down here outside DC, but power is holding steady — even in the blocks across the street where it often goes out.
But the beach resort cities from the Outer Banks to Cape Cod are going to need a LOT of help. And a substantial hunk of the rest of the east/northeast coast, plus. This is one ginormous storm.
TV is showing some heavy waves and winds on Lake Michigan. I just looked out my window. Dead Calm. Tree limbs not moving at all. That may change, but I think Sandy has exhausted itself this far West (Suburban Chicago). I’m 20 miles West, so maybe it hasn’t arrived. No rain, not even in the Loop. ABC-TV says maybe rain in Lake County Indiana.
TV should lights on in the Manhattan highrises. I think it’s over except for the clean-up.
Showed not should. We really need an edit or a way to turn spell check off.