NASTY SANDY CHURNING UP THE COAST

When we lose power, I can txt ehbeth and let her know. Good luck and stay dry all ye East Coasters caught in Sandy's net.

Government does not like it when you refused to panic and obey them like good sheep.

Oh I like to see who needed rescuing as the good Gov claims.

An if you do leave the government does take it own damn time in letting you back in.


EWING, N.J.—New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Monday afternoon that he is increasingly worried about people who have refused to evacuate seaside areas in southern New Jersey, where Hurricane Sandy is currently expected to land Monday night.

In the barrier island of Brigantine, half of residents refused to evacuate. In Seaside Heights, a quarter of residents insisted on staying put, state officials said.

“It’s just stupid,” Mr. Christie said during a news conference at the state police Regional Operations Intelligence Center here.

An estimated 116,000 New Jersey residents were under mandatory evacuations beginning Sunday as Hurricane Sandy loomed closer. Some towns in Atlantic County are now five feet underwater, and there is significant flooding in Cape May and Ocean counties, Mr. Christie said.

High tide is predicted for 9 p.m. Monday night, and it will be very difficult to perform rescues then, Mr. Christie said.

“I’m very concerned about the people who refused to adhere to my mandatory evacuation order and said they were going to ride it out. They are now in harm’s way. I don’t know if we can get them out or not given the conditions,” Mr. Christie said.

An Atlantic County spokeswoman said earlier Monday that an estimated 30,000 people were evacuated out of a total population of 66,000 residents. Many evacuated without local assistance or don’t live in the area full-time, she said, but some did stay.

“There are rescues going on now on the barrier islands,” said Mr. Christie, who didn’t provide an exact number of necessary rescues.

The New Jersey State Police received requests for swift boats to assist in rescues in some of the barrier islands, said Lt. Stephen Jones, a spokesman. He could not immediately identify which towns had requested assistance.

State police helicopters have been grounded because of high winds, making rescues more difficult, Mr. Jones said. Rescue helicopters might not be able to be utilized for another 36 hours after the winds subside.

Sandy is expected to make landfall 50 miles south of Seaside Heights around midnight, Mr. Christie said, making it an increasing concern that some residents haven’t evacuated. The storm is expected to land somewhere between Ocean County and Atlantic City.

Statewide, 35,000 people are without power, mostly in southern New Jersey, Mr. Christie said. New Jersey has opened 40 state and local shelters with a capacity of 6,000, and 2,260 are now staying there.

Joanne Bernardini, a resident of an Cape May County barrier island that is under mandatory evacuation, is waiting out Hurricane Sandy at home with family and has refused to leave.
“I feel very confident that we are fine,” said Ms. Bernardini, a real estate agent with a house in Ocean City since 1962. “This isn’t the first hurricane for us. We don’t have the terrifying fear that others have.”
Water had risen to roughly three feet in Ocean City streets, and had started to flow into Ms. Bernardini’s garage. Trash cans were floating down the street, but a few of her neighbors had remained, she said.
Ms. Bernardini still had power and decided to stay at home rather than being unable to return for weeks, as was her experience when she evacuated during Hurricane Irene last year.
“I had considered going to a hotel, but at least here I can clean out the junk drawer,” said Ms. Bernardini, who said she stocked up on food, boarded up her windows and had extra batteries.
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A bunch of Bill's "Stout souls" have called out to be rescued near OC nj.

The folks in Delaware and Md shore have a lot higher IQ's it appears

Oh? links to stories with names of these poor souls or is that from government claims without backing?

I don't often agree with Gov. Christie. But in this case I agree completely.

Those idiots who refused to heed an evacuation notice are putting the people who have to rescue their sorry asses at risk (and costing the rest of us tax money).

Can't they be required to pay for the cost of being rescued the way extreme winter sports people are?

They should be required to. Theres a very fine line between stoutheartedness and idiocy, especially when history of flooding from extreme events are clearly marked with Stakes along the roads.
In Lewes Del they have several "High water" stakes and the ir year along the roads. Thats why when people were asked to evacuate the barriers, they closed up their houses and complied.

Once more what rescues..................

You mean Christ claims that there had been rescue requests and he would never make a false statement now would he.

There are many tens of thousands of people who did not follow his orders so let get the numbers of people who needed to be rescue from a cat one storm even a cat one storm with flooding.

Hell even the power is still intact over large areas of the seaboard.

Ill probably soon be without power (we never bothered to put in a house generator an the only thing we have gennies hooked to are the water pump and the fridge and freezers. We will live with our wood stoves for heat and wait out the outtage.
The wind is as high as Ive ever seen around here.

MY cutom made pergola has been torn from its mooring and flipped over the garden wall My one river birch is all torn up, and two bradford pears are split and gone (Thats ok cause I hate bradford pears)

Footnote as a young man I was in Seaside Heights when a Nor'easter cause the bay and the ocean water to meet in the middle of the town and the only problem we had was finding enough dry ground to let the dog do it business.

Hype had gone insane since the 1960s of course we did not have the weather channel or the 24/7 new media.

Oh, sorry about the pergola though...! Hope that's the worst that happens.

Second comment you do know that any very large scale evacuation cost lives and if you do not know that fact look at one of my earlier posting with links or do the research yourself.

the blowing off of the evacuation notice was set up by the leaders being so wrong about Irene just last year. the credibility of "SAFETY!" pushers is directly proportional to how often they have been correct in the past. Those with a bit of memory will recall that the #1 reason Katrina turned out so badly was that NO residents had been conditioned to expect that the hurricane damage forecasts are always grossly exaggerated, so that only fools take them seriously.

framerman, I sent you a pm, but please ignore it. We still have power but the lights have flickered, but you have a lot more to take care of with the animals. If we all lose power, I look forward to speaking to you all later (maybe not so much beavis and butthead)

Bill was just born two centuries too late and HAwkee jut likes being contrary. Hes our equivalent of spendi

I love all you guys along with most of the rest of the eastern coast having power and believe me when you get hit by a major hurricane you are not going to have power.

Hell south dade in 1992 was without power except for generators for six months or more and it took forever for the phone company to get it act together also.

Wow! What an utterly original sentiment we have here. Thank you for enlightening us about the state of the "new media" and such. No one has ever noticed the media's folly and obsession for hyperbole except you.

Thank you for showing us the light dear Bill.

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Getting more and more reports (via mobile) of power outages from friends in Pennsylvania.