IS THIS THE OCTOBER SURPRISE? 2012 East Coast Franken Super Storm Sandy AFTERMATH

Obama declares major disaster in New York

President Barack Obama declared a major disaster in the New York City area Tuesday as superstorm Sandy pounded the Northeast coast, sweeping homes out into the ocean, flooding subway tunnels, killing at least 11 people and leaving millions without power.

As the East Coast woke up Tuesday, the widespread and profound extent of the devastation became clear:
7.8 million customers were without power in the affected states, The Weather Channel reported. NBC meteorologist Bill Karins warned to "expect the cleanup and power outage restoration to continue right up through Election Day."

Seven subway tunnels under East River in New York City were flooded as of Monday night, MTA Chairman Joseph J. Lhota said in a statement. "The New York City subway system is 108 years old, but it has never faced a disaster as devastating as what we experienced last night," he said.

New York University Medical Center was moving about 215 patients to other hospitals because its backup generator was out, the hospital said. Critical patients — including infants in neonatal intensive care — were being taken by ambulance to Mount Sinai Hospital, Memorial Sloan-Kettering and New York Presbyterian Hospital.

The storm surge destroyed a number of houses on Fire Island, New York, where some people had decided to sit out Sandy, according to a local official.
A crane atop a high-rise building under construction in New York City also toppled over and was dangling over the side. Nearby offices and streets were evacuated.

The towns of Moonachie, Little Ferry and Carlstadt, N.J., were "devastated" by the sudden arrival of 4 to 5 feet of water, Geanne Baratta, chief of the Bergen County Executive, told Reuters.
Dawn Zimmer, mayor of Hoboken, N.J., told MSNBC TV that half the city was flooded and that emergency crews could reach few areas of the city. "We want people to be aware that it's a very dangerous situation," she said.

Rising waters sparked an alert at the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in New Jersey at 8:45 p.m. ET Monday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a statement. It said the alert was the "second lowest of four NRC action levels" and was "due to water exceeding certain high water level criteria in the plant’s water intake structure." Exelon said in a statement that there was no danger to equipment and no threat to public health or safety.

The transport network was badly affected with more than 13,000 flights canceled Monday and more than 3,500 called off Tuesday.Rail traffic was also heavily affected, with Amtrak canceling all of its Northeast Corridor service, in addition to some other lines.

Amid the chaos, firefighters were tackling a massive fire that has destroyed at least 50 houses in a flooded area of the New York borough of Queens, NBCNewYork.com reported. The cause of the fire, which began about 11 p.m. Monday, was not immediately known.

The historic storm, which made landfall at 6:45 a.m. ET, hurled a wall of water of up to 13 feet high at the Northeast coast Monday, causing widespread damage.

"I think the losses will be almost incalculable," New Jersey Governor Chris Christie told TODAY. A disaster forecasting company predicted economic losses could ultimately reach $20 billion, Reuters said.

Tuesday's disaster declaration for New York means that federal funds will be available to people affected by the storm in the Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Richmond, Suffolk, and Queens, according to a White House statement.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/28/nyregion/hurricane-sandy.html?smid=tw-nytmetro#sha=a0eb0cdfc

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The superstorm that's ravaging the East Coast is enormous, even when seen from space.The commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams, said Tuesday that she and her crew were able to make out the big swirl at the center of Sandy as it neared land Monday. She says the cloud cover stretched from the Atlantic almost all the way to Chicago. Her family lives in New England, and she's keeping a special watch over what's happening on the Eastern Seaboard.

Fron Coast to Coast last night. Links at: http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2012/10/29

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Superstorm:

In the first half of Monday's show, four separate guests offered commentary and analysis on the superstorm, Hurricane Sandy, which hit landfall in New Jersey earlier in the evening. Researcher Nick Begich spoke about the technology of weather modification, and how weather control could be used as a weapon that has a kind of built-in 'plausible deniability.' While it's possible a technology such as HAARP might have been involved with Hurricane Sandy, it would be impossible to say for certain without independent monitoring, he noted. Author Whitley Strieber discussed how the Arctic melt this summer was extraordinary, and this has led to warming waters and bringing the Gulf Stream further north, which contributes to extreme storms further north. He also compared the storm to the one he and Art Bell wrote about in their book The Coming Global Superstorm.

Next up, physicist and author Stan Deyo shared details about an intriguing coincidence. In 1997, a practice drill related to a huge hurricane hitting the Northeastern US was conducted, and they used the name Hurricane Sandy. Deyo also called attention to a HAARP signal status chart from October 28th, which showed an intense hotspot in the northeastern US, and offered preparedness tips. Prophecy expert John Hogue related the storm to the astrological event of Neptune returning to Pisces in 2012-- Neptune is the ruler of floods and quakes, he noted. Hogue believes we are in the midst of a "climate cascade," which may really be set into motion by 2016-2017.

AND Thank You Carol for this wonderful thread!!!

It seems that perhaps a new timeline and many prayers are moving this along faster than expected - or that TPTB planned with their HAARP and Chemtrails.
There is still heartbreaking devastation and a rough recovery ahead, but it feels like a more POSITIVE outcome is unfolding...

God Bless Everyone

Blessings,
Lee

Thank you Lee. I'm relieved that loss of life is at a minimum right now - yet often in these types of disasters it's the aftermath that is even more difficult. No power, no public transportation, no supplies getting in, no way to get them if they were there because of flooding, people stranded and away from their homes, medical facilities compromised as generators eventually run out of power, water likely to become contaminated, sanitation problems which can lead to disease, homes destroyed, lives ruined - prayers are needed with this as well. The damaged is already in the billions with a nation already bankrupt. Then there are all the businesses including the stock market that are closed - and for how long. The fiscal disaster from this is far greater then 9/11. Recovery is likely to be long and complicated with cold weather coming down into the affected areas along with predicted snow and ice. I'm concerned for those without power in this situation. For some it will be an adventure and for others a hardship. This is when we will likely lose people who are not prepared.

Now we can see where the FEMA camps might be a blessing for those who may have nowhere to go.

Brook, you're in North Carolina. How is everything where you are?

You are absolutely right Carol. We will be seeing all that you mentioned. It would be so much worse, though, if it had stayed and hovered for 4-5 days as expected...

I wonder about the elections, if power is still down next Tuesday in so many places... And Manhattan is sealed off... no bridges, tunnels and airports... Food off the shelves - what will people do? Wall Street is closed again today, and who knows if the ATM's will be working if the power and flooding get worse... perhaps even nationwide... And so many other states and communities dealing with the aftermath...

MSNBC is discussing possible postponement in the election... or provisional ballots... transportation issues... no power for the machines...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/10/29/msnbc_entertains_possibility_of_delaying_elections_due_to_hurricane_destruction.html

A truck drives through water pushed over a road by Hurricane Sandy in Southampton, New York, on October 29, 2012. Hurricane Sandy, the monster storm bearing down on the East Coast, strengthened on Monday after hundreds of thousands moved to higher ground, public transport shut down and the stock market suffered its first weather-related closure in 27 years. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)


A driver maneuvers his car along a wet road as a wave crashes against the Malecon in Havana, Cuba, on October 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)


Heavy rains from Hurricane Sandy caused the Croix de Mission river to swell and threaten homes along its bank in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on October 25, 2012. (Reuters/Swoan Parker)


Waves, brought by Hurricane Sandy, crash on a house in the Caribbean Terrace neighborhood in eastern Kingston, Jamaica, on October 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Collin Reid)


New York City police officers speak to a man as they go door to door in a housing project to take note of which residents are ignoring the mandatory evacuation order as Hurricane Sandy approaches in the Rockaway Beach neighborhood of Queens, on October 28, 2012. (Allison Joyce/Getty Images)


Grand Central Terminal, closed early on October 28, 2012, after the last trains had departed in advance of Hurricane Sandy. (MTA New York City Transit/Aaron Donovan)


Bill Ryan, of Inwood, New York, comforts his cat Amy before leaving her at a pet shelter at Mitchell Park's Field House, run by the Nassau County Office of Emergency Management and Pet Safe Coalition in Uniondale, New York, on October, 28, 2012. Pet owners could leave their pets at the shelter and afterwards seek shelter for themselves. before the arrival of Hurricane Sandy. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)


Rough Atlantic surf breaks over the dunes of Cape May, New Jersey, as high tide and Hurricane Sandy begin to arrive, on October 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)


A news crew wades through sea foam blown onto Jeanette's Pier in Nags Head, North Carolina, on October 28, 2012 as wind and rain from Hurricane Sandy moved into the area. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)


Waters from Hurricane Sandy start to flood Beach Avenue in Cape May, New Jersey, on October 29, 2012. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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This week Hurricane Sandy in Photos http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/10/hurricane-sandy-in-photos/100395/

Hurricane Sandy, pictured at (10:40 a.m. Eastern) on October 29, 2012 by NASA's GOES satellite, churns off the east coast in the Atlantic Ocean. (NASA via Getty Images)


Waves crash over Winthrop Shore Drive as Hurricane Sandy comes up the coast on October 29, 2012 in Winthrop, Massachusetts. (Darren McCollester/Getty Images)


A historic ferry boat named the Binghamton, swamped by the waves on the Hudson River in Edgewater, New Jersey, on October 29, 2012 as Hurricane Sandy lashed the East Coast. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)


Snow-covered roads in the mountains of West Virginia, on October 29, 2012, in Randolph County, West Virginia. Sandy was set to collide with a wintry storm from the west and cold air streaming down from the Arctic. (AP Photo/Robert Ray)

LeeEllisMusic wrote:You are absolutely right Carol. We will be seeing all that you mentioned. It would be so much worse, though, if it had stayed and hovered for 4-5 days as expected...

I wonder about the elections, if power is still down next Tuesday in so many places... And Manhattan is sealed off... no bridges, tunnels and airports... Food off the shelves - what will people do? Wall Street is closed again today, and who knows if the ATM's will be working if the power and flooding get worse... perhaps even nationwide... And so many other states and communities dealing with the aftermath...

MSNBC is discussing possible postponement in the election... or provisional ballots... transportation issues... no power for the machines...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/10/29/msnbc_entertains_possibility_of_delaying_elections_due_to_hurricane_destruction.html

Lee, I wonder how this will proceed as well. It's just one of those wait and see situations.

October 30, 2012 – NEW YORK - The mammoth and merciless storm made landfall near Atlantic City around 8 p.m., with maximum sustained winds of about 80 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center said. That was shortly after the center had reclassified the storm as a post-tropical cyclone, a scientific renaming that had no bearing on the powerful winds, driving rains and life-threatening storm surge expected to accompany its push onto land. The storm had unexpectedly picked up speed as it roared over the Atlantic Ocean on a slate-gray day and went on to paralyze life for millions of people in more than a half-dozen states, with extensive evacuations that turned shorefront neighborhoods into ghost towns. Even the superintendent of the Statue of Liberty left to ride out the storm at his mother’s house in New Jersey; he said the statue itself was “high and dry,” but his house in the shadow of the torch was not. The wind-driven rain lashed sea walls and protective barriers in places like Atlantic City, where the Boardwalk was damaged as water forced its way inland. Foam was spitting, and the sand gave in to the waves along the beach at Sandy Hook, N.J., at the entrance to New York Harbor. Water was thigh-high on the streets in Sea Bright, N.J., a three-mile sand-sliver of a town where the ocean joined the Shrewsbury River. “It’s the worst I’ve seen,” said David Arnold, watching the storm from his longtime home in Long Branch, N.J. “The ocean is in the road, there are trees down everywhere. I’ve never seen it this bad.” The police said a tree fell on a house in Queens shortly after 7 p.m., killing a 30-year-old man. In Manhattan a few hours earlier, a construction crane atop one of the tallest buildings in the city came loose and dangled 80 stories over West 57th Street, across the street from Carnegie Hall. Soon power was going out and water was rushing in. Waves topped the sea wall in the financial district in Manhattan, sending cars floating downstream. West Street, along the western edge of Lower Manhattan, looked like a river. The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, known officially as the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel in memory of a former governor, flooded hours after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York ordered it closed to traffic. “We could be fishing out our windows tomorrow,” said Garnett Wilcher, a barber who lives in the Hammells Houses, a block from the ocean in the Rockaways in Queens. Still, he said he felt safe at home. Pointing to neighboring apartment houses in the city-run housing project, he said, “We got these buildings for jetties.” Hurricane-force winds extended up to 175 miles from the center of the storm; tropical-storm-force winds spread out 485 miles from the center. Forecasters said tropical-storm-force winds could stretch all the way north to Canada and all the way west to the Great Lakes. Snow was expected in some states. Businesses and schools were closed; roads, bridges and tunnels were closed; and more than 13,000 airline flights were canceled. Even the Erie Canal was shut down. Subways were shut down from Boston to Washington, as were Amtrak and the commuter rail lines. About 1,000 flights were canceled at each of the three major airports in the New York City area. Philadelphia International Airport had 1,200 canceled flights, according to FlightAware, a data provider in Houston. “The most important thing right now is for people to use common sense,” Gov. Jack Markell said. “We didn’t want people out on the road going to work and not being able to get home again.” The storm knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes, stores and office buildings. Consolidated Edison said 68,700 customers had lost power — 21,800 in Westchester County, 18,500 on Staten Island and 18,200 in Queens. In New Jersey, the Public Service Electric and Gas Company said the storm had knocked out power to 36,000 customers. In Connecticut, nearly 70,000 people had lost electricity, utility officials reported. Con Edison, fearing damage to its electrical equipment, shut down power preemptively in sections of Lower Manhattan — and then an unplanned failure knocked out power to most of Manhattan below Midtown, about 250,000 customers. –NY Times - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/us/hurricane-sandy-churns-up-east-coast.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

[Update 12 p.m. ET] An overall breakdown of fatalities from Sandy as of noon Tuesday:
Total deaths: 94
In the U.S.: 26
– 15 in New York
– 2 in Maryland
– 2 in Connecticut
– 3 in New Jersey
– 2 in Pennsylvania
– 1 West Virginia
– 1 HMS Bounty replica deckhand who was found unresponsive and later declared dead at hospital
Outside the U.S.:
– 1 in Canada.
Earlier: 67 in the Caribbean, including 51 in Haiti.

[Update 11 a.m. ET] Even though the superstorm has moved inland, don't even think of taking a boat out on the water, the U.S. Coast Guard says.

[Update 11 a.m. ET] The Chagrin River in northeast Ohio is above flood stage, and boats are being washed into Lake Erie, CNN affiliate WEWS reports. See photos here. http://www.newsnet5.com/gallery/weather/weather_photo_gallery/storm-photos-see-damage-across-northeast-ohio-from-superstorm-sandy

[Update 11 a.m. ET] New York’s LaGuardia Airport is not expected to open tomorrow because of extensive damage, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during a press conference this morning.

JFK airport likely will be re-opened tomorrow, he said.


[Update 11 a.m. ET] The superstorm is bringing blizzard conditions to West Virginia, where strong winds and thick, heavy snow are bringing down limbs and power lines. Nearly 250,000 people in the state are without power, and 12 of the state’s 55 counties are under a blizzard warning, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin said Tuesday morning.

The storm could drop 2 to 3 feet of snow across the state. Ten inches of snow had fallen in Kingwood, West Virginia, by 10 a.m. ET.

Tomblin said people should stay off the roads, but if they must travel, slow speeds are a must.

“Some of our problems are being caused by … trucks jackknifing and so forth,” Tomblin told CNN. “We just encourage everybody, if you’ve got to be on the road, to drive slow and realize it is slick – whether it’s the slushy snow or the leaves that have collected on the highway. We’re working as well as we can. I think we’ve been pretty well prepared, with our state crews working with the power companies to be able to clear the roads as well as to get the power back on as quickly as possible.”

Tomblin said that because officials were warned about the storm days in advance, they were able to position highway crews and National Guard units strategically across the state to start clearing roads so power crews can quickly work to restore power. The power restoration process should be quicker than it was this summer, when a strong storm knocked out power to many Midwestern and Eastern states, including West Virginia, where customers were without power for days in 53 counties.

[Update 11 a.m. ET] New York City schools will be closed on Wednesday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced in a press conference. The district serves 1.1 million students in 1,700 schools, in New York City.

[Update 11 a.m. ET] Power may be out different locations in New York for the next two or three days - "or maybe even longer than that," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday.

[Update 10 a.m. ET] The amusement pier at Seaside Park on the Jersey Shore is half washed out, Gov. Chris Christie says, with the roller coaster and the log-plume ride in the ocean.

[Update 10 a.m. ET] Helicopters have been called in to help rescue residents stranded by floodwaters around Berry Creek, a tributary of the Hackensack River, in Bergen County, New Jersey, CNN's Maggie Lake reports.

[Update 10 a.m. ET] About 7.5 million customers are without power in 15 states and the District of Columbia, according to numbers compiled by CNN from local power providers.

[Update 10 a.m. ET] A National Weather Service employee in Bowden, West Virginia, reports 24 inches of snow as of 9 a.m.

[Update 10 a.m. ET] The New Jersey Turnpike Authority has opened the Garden State Parkway in both directions. Tolls will resume at 2 p.m.

Travel lanes are still blocked by storm damage at 190 locations across the state, including portions of the New Jersey Turnpike.

[Update 10 a.m. ET] There have been more than 15,000 flight cancellations since Sunday as a result of Sandy, according to flight tracking site FlightAware.com. Read the latest CNN.com report on how superstorm Sandy has affected travel.

[Update 9 a.m. ET] Water was flooding “at a massive rate” into the construction site at New York City’s ground zero, according to an official instagram photo from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office posted overnight. Pumping operations were to begin when the surge subsided, the photo says.

[Update 9 a.m. ET] The Huffington Post, Gawker and many other sites were unreachable for a period after Datagram, a New York-based provider of corporate Internet connections and servers, said it was battling flooding in its offices, CNNMoney reports.

[Update 9:32 a.m. ET] Nearly 11,000 people spent Monday night in 258 Red Cross-operated shelters across 16 states, the American Red Cross tells CNN.

[Update 9:29 a.m. ET] Here's the latest update on Pennsylvania from Gov. Tom Corbett:

– 433 roads and bridges are closed in the state
– 1,700 National Guard troops are on the ground
– 600 people are in 48 shelters
– 38 counties are under emergency declarations
– All Philadelphia interstate restrictions have been lifted

[Update 9:26 a.m. ET] The state of West Virginia is asking only its essential state employees to report to work Tuesday, the governor's office said.

[Update 9:23 a.m. ET] Public transportation services are resuming in Washington, D.C.:

[Update 8:52 a.m. ET] Superstorm Sandy has been creating waves up to 20 feet on Lake Ontario, something CNN affiliate WGRZ calls "unprecedented in living memory." See the WGRZ report here.

[Update 8:36 a.m. ET] Superstorm Sandy is dumping a lot of snow. Just a few of the measurements so far: Webster County, West Virginia, 17 inches; Fayette County, West Virginia, 15 inches; Bowden, West Virginia, 14 inches; Canvas, West Virgina, 12 inches; Summersville, West Virginia, 10 inches; Mount Davis, Pennsylvania, 9 inches.

[Update 7:04 a.m. ET] The West Virginia Department of Emergency Management says 11 counties are under blizzard warning until 6 p.m. today. About 121,000 customers are without power in the state. CNN's Martin Savidge reports about 8 inches of heavy, wet snow in Preston County, east of Morgantown.

Interstate 68 is closed from Morgantown to the Maryland border.

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In the event of a nuclear, biological, or similar act, Hurricane Sandy has shown us just how serious the situation will be. It is essential to prepare for yourself and your family in such a scenario.

This book is well worth adding to your library.

One Second After http://www.amazon.com/One-Second-After-ebook/dp/B002LATV16/ref=pd_sim_sbs_kstore_1
In a Norman Rockwell town in North Carolina, where residents rarely lock homes, retired army colonel John Matherson teaches college, raises two daughters, and grieves the loss of his wife to cancer. When phones die and cars inexplicably stall, Grandma’s pre-computerized Edsel takes readers to a stunning scene on the car-littered interstate, on which 500 stranded strangers, some with guns, awaken John’s New Jersey street-smart instincts to get the family home and load the shotgun. Next morning, some townspeople realize that an electromagnetic pulse weapon has destroyed America’s power grid, and they proceed to set survival priorities. John’s list includes insulin for his type-one diabetic 12-year-old, candy bars, and sacks of ice. Deaths start with heart attacks and eventually escalate alarmingly. Food becomes scarce, and societal breakdown proceeds with inevitable violence; towns burn, and ex-servicemen recall “Korea in ’51” as military action by unlikely people becomes the norm in Forstchen’s sad, riveting cautionary tale, the premise of which Newt Gingrich’s foreword says is completely possible.

This is a personal opinion resulting from reading this book.

Although quite good various elements of the book are deeply flawed when it comes to a Public Health perspective and what is needed to deal with realities associated with this type of event. This was a missed opportunity to educate the public on how to safely deal with realities that can create a public health nightmare if overlooked.

The dead could have been cremated. If there isn't enough food why waste energy digging graves when digging to create gardens for food is essential. As the timing of this event it was spring when gardens can be created immediately. Frozen meat from the freezer dried and smoked to be used later in soups. Horses and various live stock preserved for transportation, cultivation of land, produce, fertilizer and not killed off for meat unless there is no feed available for them. Basically the scenario of this book is after an EMP how live without power, electricity or gas for vehicles. It also goes into problems of loved ones who would not survive without medication and the realities of food becoming scare due to poor planning. The other issue is the mad max scenarior that develops when gang groups rove about looking for food and what someone without basic life skills is at very high risk of survival. Bottom line - preppers do better then those who remain with their head in the sand.

Editor's Note: Superstorm Sandy smashed ashore last night, triggering floods, fires and devastation. Thirty people are known to have died in the U.S. and one in Canada, adding to the storm’s earlier toll of 67. Millions are without power. Floods have hit homes and the New York subway system. Here is the full story and below is the latest news as we learn it.
[Update 4:23 p.m.] About 7.915 million customers are without power in 15 states and the District of Columbia, according to figures compiled by CNN from power companies. That's about 68,000 lower than the tally about two hours ago.

[Update 4:18 p.m.] Federal agencies in Washington will be open tomorrow. They were closed Monday and Tuesday because of the storm.

[Update 3:59 p.m.] The U.S. death toll from Superstorm Sandy has risen to 30, with a death just reported in North Carolina.

The toll includes 15 in New York; three in New Jersey; three in Pennsylvania; two in Maryland; two in Connecticut; two in Virginia, one in West Virginia, one in North Carolina, and one on the HMS Bounty.

One person was killed in Canada, and 67 were killed in the Caribbean, including 51 in Haiti. The overall death toll stands at 98.

[Update 3:26 p.m.] Police and rescue teams have assisted evacuating about 200 people stranded on New Jersey's barrier islands, CNN's Michael Holmes and Roger Clark report from outside Toms River, just west of the islands.

People on the islands had been ordered to evacuate ahead of the storm, but many stayed. Though many people need rescuing, no deaths on the islands have been reported. Emergency evacuations for the day have been suspended, however, because of the coming darkness.

LaGuardia is not expected to open Wednesday either because of extensive damage, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during a news conference this morning. New York's JFK International Airport probably will be reopened tomorrow, he said.

[Update 2:55 p.m.] U.S. Rep. Bob Turner, R-New York, is one of people who lost a home in a massive fire that happened during the storm early Tuesday in the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens, New York. More than 80 homes were destroyed in the blaze.

"I, along with many other Breezy Point residents, lost our homes last night and I am grateful that my family and I are safe after this destructive storm," Turner said in a statement released Tuesday. "I hope you will join me in lending a hand to those who were less fortunate and keep everyone impacted by this storm in your thoughts and prayers."

Turner said his "thoughts and prayers are with all of my fellow New Yorkers and the many others who are experiencing loss as a result of Hurricane Sandy."

"Last night's storm showed once again that the professionalism and bravery of our first responders is second to none. I want to commend the men and women who put their lives on the line everyday in order to keep others safe," he said.

Turner was elected last year in a special election to replace former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner.

[Update 2:43 p.m.] Though the remnants of Sandy are now centered over western Pennsylvania, the large storm still will affect the East Coast this afternoon, and during high tide some more coastal flooding – in the range of 2 to 4 feet – is possible, said the National Hurricane Center's director, Rick Knabb.

Some minor shoreline flooding also could happen at the Great Lakes, Knabb said. The storm's center is expected to be north of the Great Lakes, in Canada, on Wednesday, he said. A couple of hours ago, the storm's maximum sustained winds were at 45 mph.

"I don't want people to (think) that the weather event is anywhere near over," Knabb said.

[Update 2:31 p.m.] About 8 million customers are without power in 15 states and the District of Columbia, according to numbers compiled by CNN from local power providers. Our previous count, around 10 a.m., was about 7.5 million customers.

Hurricane Sandy is now hitting the East Coast, emptying store shelves and inciting fears of looting from New York City to Philadelphia. While a serious threat to many, Hurricane Sandy is a relatively minor incident in comparison to a serious catastrophe -- especially when it comes to future preparedness.

In the event of a nuclear, biological, or similar act, Hurricane Sandy has shown us just how serious the situation will be. It is essential to prepare for yourself and your family in such a scenario.

The other issue is the mad max scenario that develops when gang groups rove about looking for food and what someone without basic life skills is at very high risk of survival. Bottom line - preppers do better then those who remain with their head in the sand.



Reading this book the only part that was rather gruesome was the "Mad Max" gang skinhead's scenario...when food runs out they resort to hanging civilians and cooking them above an open fire and having a cannabilistic supper. Newt Gringrich (politician in Congress or Senate?) does have quite the imagination doesn't he? Maybe he's a member of the Bohemian Secret Grove Society in California where I've heard rituals like that are the norm for some high level politicians and corporate masters.

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Feds: “Atmospheric steam dump” at New Jersey nuclear plant — All 6 circulators lost at Salem due to debris, high river level


Published: October 30th, 2012 at 8:07 pm ET

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October 31, 2012 – WEST VIRGINIA – Parts of West Virginia were digging out from up to three feet of snow dumped in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, a deluge that cut power to hundreds of thousands of residents and shut down main highways. The thick blanket of snow at higher elevations across the ridges of the Appalachian Mountains, including in parts of Maryland and Pennsylvania, also brought concerns that rivers and creeks in low-lying areas could flood later in the week as the snow melts, with temperatures expected to reach 60 degrees. Falling trees and storm-related traffic accidents claimed the lives of three people in Maryland, three in Pennsylvania and one in West Virginia, state officials said Tuesday. Close to 300,000 West Virginia residents were without power Tuesday afternoon, as high winds and heavy snow snapped branches and downed power lines, and officials expected the number to rise. Outages at several utilities had left some areas without access to water, and officials were sending out trucks to deliver bottled water. “West Virginia continues to be hard hit,” said Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, a Democrat. “Right now, my main focus is on life safety, power restoration and critical infrastructure.…We are doing everything we can to help the folks in need.” More than 30 of West Virginia’s 55 counties had snow, with the heaviest snowfall at higher elevations, said Liz Sommerville, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Charleston, W.Va. Bowden, above 3,000 feet, recorded 24 inches by early Tuesday, compared with 16 inches in Beckley, elevation 2,300 feet, and 9 inches in the capital of Charleston, elevation 980 feet. “Trees are coming down. I got a feeling that a lot of weaker structures are going to come down,” said Gary Berti, of Davis, W.Va., where 30 inches of snow had fallen by Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Berti, 54 years old, said all the stores along the main street of Davis were closed Tuesday and only pickup trucks with four-wheel drive were braving secondary roads. Restaurants without power were making food for rescue workers using gas stoves, he said: “They’re cooking everything they’ve got because they know they’re going to lose it.” Snow was expected to keep falling on mountainous areas through Wednesday, and blizzard warnings remained in effect in more than a dozen counties Tuesday. At lower elevations, snow was expected to turn to rain by Tuesday night. The West Virginia Department of Transportation reported accidents on three major highways in the state and said fallen trees and power lines were complicating efforts to clear roads. The agency urged residents to stay home. Marshall University canceled classes at various campuses around the state, and West Virginia State University closed for the day. –WSJ

October 31, 2012 – NEW YORK – With at least 50 people dead, transit crippled in New York City and millions of people along the U.S. East Coast struggling without electricity, communities face a daunting challenge of repairing the damage wrought by super-storm Sandy. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg surveyed the destruction in the hardest-hit neighborhoods Tuesday. He said he saw homes so utterly destroyed only “chimneys and foundations” were visible. But despite the daunting challenge of recovery efforts, Bloomberg said “New Yorkers are resilient.” About a third of New York’s fleet of taxis were operating Tuesday, bus service was partially restored, and the New York Stock Exchange was expected to reopen Wednesday. U.S. President Barack Obama declared New York and Long Island a “major” disaster area. The declaration means federal funding is now available to residents of the hardest-hit areas, who awoke to a tragic aftermath of the deadly storm that slammed ashore in New Jersey on Monday evening. New York had seen a four-meter surge of seawater crash ashore overnight, inundating the city’s tunnels and electrical systems and causing massive damage to the city’s famed subway. The storm left New York with no running trains, a vacated business district and entire neighborhoods under water. New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority said the subway system, which remains closed, had suffered the worst damage in its 108-year history. As of midday Tuesday, Sandy’s sustained winds were already diminishing from the 130 km/h it was packing at landfall near Atlantic City, N.J. on Monday evening. But forecasters warn the storm system will continue to affect a region stretching from the U.S. eastern seaboard north to Canada, and as far west as Wisconsin and Illinois, as it churns across Pennsylvania before veering into western New York state sometime Wednesday. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie gave a bleak update at a morning news conference Tuesday, saying seaside rail lines were washed away, and there was no safe place on the state’s barrier islands for him as large parts of the coast are still under water. “We are in the midst of urban search and rescue. Our teams are moving as fast as they can,” Christie said. “The devastation on the Jersey Shore is some of the worst we’ve ever seen. The cost of the storm is incalculable at this point.” The effects aren’t contained to America’s largest city. More than 7.4 million homes and businesses in an area that stretches from the Carolinas in the south to Ohio in the northeast are without power Tuesday. Tens of thousands were also without electricity in southern parts of Ontario and Quebec too, as Sandy carries its combination of rain and wind northwards. In Canada, a Toronto woman was killed Monday evening after she was struck by a falling sign blown down in the powerful storm’s high winds. Most of the Sandy-related wind warnings issued by Environment Canada have been called off however, except for the Sarnia region, areas along the St. Lawrence River in Quebec and Inverness County in Nova Scotia. The storm was officially downgraded from hurricane status, but it came ashore packing a lot of energy due to its unusually low barometric pressure. Combined with a cold-weather system from the north, and the high tide of the full moon, the storm is forecast to continue wreaking havoc across a 1,300-kilometre region that’s home to 50 million people through Wednesday. Sandy may cost the U.S. more than $20 billion in damage. –CTV News

October Surprise in Process a Message from Lord Sananda through Elizabeth Trutwin
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October Surprise in Process a Message from Lord Sananda through Elizabeth Trutwin, October 30, 2012

Greetings. This is Lord Sananda. A very large storm on the East Coast of the United States with anticipation of changes and Inner Knowing all combined are causing a lot of Light Workers emotional turmoil. Cries of What is HAPPENING!?! Is being heard from near and far.

I would like to explain what exactly is happening and that requires setting aside disbelief about our advanced technology and how it is used. It will also require many of you to drop your programming that the cabal technology is greater than ours and interfering in your lives. For those who still buy into that notion, this explanation will not make sense to you and will cause further turmoil, disbelief and anger. Breathe. You are right, a lot is going on. This messenger has seen it with her own eyes and is willing to share what she has seen to those with eyes that see and ears that hear. The others will come behind seeing the truth, quickly or slowly, as they desire, but eventually the truth shall be apparent to each as they are ready to receive truth.

Our Galactic Federation Ships used technology with wind currents and the sea, as each cell a sentient Member of Earth Ascension having heard the clarion call for change and caused the eye of the storm to hover for a much longer period than it would have on its own. This is nothing to fear. There have been very few deaths and a lot of disruption. Disruption which has multiple purposes.

We set the targets for power outages. There are many obvious advantages and others which often go unseen.

To begin let us review the interface which will happen at changeover when Earth goes to Zero Point.

Earth has an energy grid in place. Inside Earth is a diamond tetrahedron crystal core and this supports Inner Earthʻs blue Sun which emit the Aurora rings of colored light from the North and South Poles. The diamond crystal core also supports the Atlantean Crystals now rising again which are in caves around the globe. This crystal core, the Silica Shafts in caves in Mexico and the Arkansas crystals of different types, called the Master Crystals are the wiring system as it were to the electromagnetic crystalline grid which surrounds Earth inside and out and also keeps Earth in space connected to the other globes of this Universe. Earth also has an elaborate switching system as it were attached to the wiring system which regulates energy flow in and out of the electromagnetic crystalline grid. This switching system, or in other words, this which regulates the ebb and flow of energy in and around Earth includes her sacred sites, portals, Inner Earth tunnels, StarGates, Ziggurats, Obelisks, and Pyramids with the Zero Point Modulators. Most Planets in this Solar System operate with similar systems in place and the diamond crystal tetrahedrons have been determined by scientists to occur on the Planets at 19 degree parallels. These Planets all have inner Suns and these have been repeatedly shown on NASA images with Jupiter being our next Planet to evolve into a Sun. It has the brightest inner core because it is functioning from the 12th Dimension at this time. If you search infrared images this will be clear. This is the point at which One must suspend all disbelief. It is important to the Mission that as many people as possible open their hearts to unknown potentials to help lift the vibration. Simply remind your ego that it has been reading false flags - stories which are not true and have no basis. Remind your ego the true story is so so so much more love than could have been imagined at this moment.

Sandy, the hurricane is named for the Sand Man. The dream, the illusion is being stirred up and changed. This operation was put into play to initiate October Surprise. You helped bring this about whether you recall your cooperation or not. This is a joint effort in Oneness. October Surprise is commenced and underway. There are several more days and surprises wrapped inside as will unfold over the next week as we come to 72 hours past the full Taurus moon. This is a time for Conquering, Dissolving, Burning to Ash and Forging New Deals. Meditate!

We have reviewed the interface which will happen at changeover now let us review your role. Your Mission, your ONLY MISSION is to bring Earth up in her Ascension past the 5th Dimension. All of the changes you desire happen only above the 5th Dimension of No Time. The 4th Dimension is Time. The 5th Dimension is No Time. In Hinduism it is called Kali or Time - the Kali Yug - We are ending the Era or Yug of Kali - we are entering NO TIME. Wrap your mind around that. Now imagine you are standing at the Godhead. From there your lifestream streams down and descends into your body on Earth. The energy stream - that spark from Source or the Central Sun - holds on the stream all of your lives happening in the past, present and future in this now moment. Look up from your vantage point on Earth all the way back to Source and you will see all your parallel and multidimensional Avatar lives happening this NOW. Changeover has already happened and you are standing here as witness. See it from a loving place of detachment. Hold the love light in your heart facilitating the changes as Source On Earth.

October Suprise began a few nights ago when the Ones being removed from timelines were permanently removed from this Universe.

What is the purpose of Sandy? Multifold. Initially assessing the damage it will appear like a scene where often it is said “God is punishing us.” That is silly rhetoric from ego mind. That is programming. Oneness called this into Being. The greatest thing that is being called for at this time is COMPASSION. The cabal had ego minds wrapped up in us vs. them mentality since well before September. A storm like this refocuses the mass consciousness to their fellow man. Before this the War in Syria was overshadowed by the lies of us vs. them in Israel and Iran, Jordan and Iraq, Germany and France, Spain and Greece. Now those lies have been wiped off mass media and our hearts focused to COMPASSION. Beautiful. This gives us time to help the mass consciousness UNGRIP FROM THE LIES. The vast majority of you reading this absolutely refuse to stop watching, reading and blogging the news. No matter how many times I have commented on this in the past few months it continues unabated. THIS PERPETUATES THE FEAR AND HOLDS YOU PRISONER BY YOUR OWN HAND CUFFS. This storm cuts you off fully from those lies and stories for a few days and that absolutely changes the energy.

The number of physical deaths from this tremendous storm have been very small and the property damage large. There will be speedy help forthcoming setting the physical damage right. When we have changeover the structures of that part of the world will be changed radically as it is. There is no reason to cling to the old ways, the old structures, old technology. We must tear down the old to build the new. REJOICE! UNGRIP FROM THINGS.

The emotional turmoil caused by Sandy is for a purpose. Only by being thrown into the fire does one become stronger and prepare for the next steps better understanding what to do. The emotional turmoil forces decisions long procrastinated, forces relationship changes and a re-ordering of priorities. This is a very positive change.

Technology. Period. Unseen Forces of Light are changing over your energy grids and so why the power is out. This same thing happened to 700 million people in India last summer. Nanite technology and other advanced technologies are being impregnated into the power structures of the very large energy grids preparing for Zero Point. While this is happening the satellites are being re-calibrated to handle the new technology in areas where there are very large populations. Beside the energy grids are telephone communications, street level video taping, maps, computer servers, intelligence, banking records, prison records, hospital records, military records and much more which are being uploaded, downloaded, cross matched and simplified. A new system of keeping this information stored is being implemented. Advanced technology is being put into place. It does not take Ship computers very long to make such upgrades so the delay of the power outages creates the necessary illusion to get all of this done without disruption or emotional upheaval. The mind calls it a power outage and believes it creating as little negatively perceived impact as possible. By the time the changes are garnered and understood then they will be as intentioned - a great improvement over what was there.

Shift of Focus. In the midwest where the weather is unaffected advanced military technology is being moved. Amid all the chaos large rockets and other technology are traveling the back roads as a massive equipment reshuffling is taking place. Out with the old and in with the new. On the west coast banking executives as well as air line companies are restructuring their communication protocols as their east coast partners are otherwise occupied. That may all sound a bit covert but I assure you it is all part of the plan. It is going off beautifully.

In the Skies key large Ships are on the move. If you tune in you will see them. They are effecting changes we have not detailed here. More information about this will be forthcoming. These are the parts of the operation kept in secrecy to protect the Ones carrying out the work assisting to bring it to completion.

We have been saying that the old world had to be dissolved before announcing the new. What exactly does that mean? Dissolution means an end to karma. An end to suffering. An end to history. It means wiping the slate clean and building a foundation of abundance, love, peace and beauty.

The thoughts you hold on to at this time can hinder or speed the Birth of the New. Hold happy thoughts and see through the illusion. Appreciate the largeness of the changes and anticipate more happiness as this Op October Surprise continues. We are There. We Are All Going Home. Namaste. Sat Nam. This is Lord Sananda through Elizabeth Trutwin, October 30, 2012. © All Rights Reserved.© All Rights Reserved. http://ElizabethTrutwin.org

Hurricane Sandy- The Aftermath & What to Expect

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With concerns about hypothermia increasing — and another storm forecast for next week — nearly 64,000 utility workers are now working around the clock to turn the power back on in a dozen states. In remote areas of Appalachia, and from Ohio to New England, it’s been a race against time as temperatures drop into the 30s in places. Hypothermia or cold stress can strike anyone and can occur even in homes with temperatures in the lows 60s. It can also be deadly.

“It’s cold,” Elaine Collucio of Long Island, N.Y., said. “It’s dark.”

“We know this is a big deal,” said Michael Hervey of the Long Island Power Authority. “We know it’s cold out. We know we need to get lights on as quickly as we possibly can.”

Getting the lights on, however, means bringing in more than 40,000 workers from 49 of 50 states. In California, the Air Force began airlifting more than 60 utility vehicles to New York today aboard large cargo planes. One crew takes about two hours to replace and repair one pole, meaning the team can’t fix more than a half-mile of power line in 24 hours.

Tonight, workers from Alabama were helping out in hard-hit Atlantic City, N.J. “Our crews really just, they understand the value of being able to serve others,” said Brian Lindsay of Alabama Power.

Immediately after the storm, more than 8 million customers had no electricity. That number now has been cut down by half. A million get their power back each day — better than after Hurricane Irene.

On Long Island, one crew had been working 16-hour days repairing a downed line for powerless residents. The crew’s homes are also without electricity. read more at link above...


The National Weather Service’s Prediction Center issued a warning for a possible nor’easter, which may hit the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions as early as next Tuesday.