NASTY SANDY CHURNING UP THE COAST

Amish dont have any property insurance cause its too worldy.

Good luck to everyone in Sandy's path, and oh, BillM? I won't see your reply even if you type real real loud. Save your energy unless of course you never tire of proving you are a moron. Everybody else will see it, but not moi.

Good luck to everyone in Sandy's path, and oh, BillM? I won't see your reply even if you type real real loud. Save your energy unless of course you never tire of proving you are a moron. Everybody else will see it, but not moi.

So jf this is the biggest false alarm since the reported invasion of the Martians of NJ in the 1930s
you will not get to see my postings saying I told you so?

How sad for you!!!!!

Sorry David but the existed of civil lawyers does not allow for research in hurricane control as who in their right minds would like to be sue for every dime of damage a large Hurricane might cause under the theory that but for your attempts to control the storm it would not had make landfall on top of who ever it did. Hurricanes that had been experiment on would no longer be an act of god in other word.

In the 1960s there was a program for cloud seeding the eye walls of hurricanes that did show some small promise call project storm fury and now that we have must larger aircrafts then in the 1960s to be able to dump hundreds of time more chemicals then before who know what results we might get.

However fear of liabilities shut down the Storm Fury program in the 1960s and the situation had not improved since that time.

Klaus H. Jacob, a research scientist at Columbia University's Earth Institute, said the storm surge from Irene came, on average, just one foot short of paralyzing transportation into and out of Manhattan.

If the surge had been just that much higher, subway tunnels would have flooded, segments of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive and roads along the Hudson River would have turned into rivers, and sections of the commuter rail system would have been impassable or bereft of power, he said.

The most vulnerable systems, like the subway tunnels under the Harlem and East Rivers, would have been unusable for nearly a month, or longer, at an economic loss of about $55 billion, said Dr. Jacob, an adviser to the city on climate change and an author of the 2011 state study that laid out the flooding prospects.

"We've been extremely lucky," he said. "I'm disappointed that the political process hasn't recognized that we're playing Russian roulette."

Today, Andrew Cuomo announced the MTA subway, buses, and trains will shut down this evening and may remain out-of-service until Wednesday.

Update: New York Magazine's Daily Intel reached out to Jacob for his take on the current situation. It appears the big question is whether Sandy arrives at the full-moon high tide on Monday night or not. If it does, things could get ugly.
We may not know which of those two scenarios we face, however, until just hours before the storm hits. "Sandy is a very moody storm," Dr. Jacob added. "It changes its mind as it goes along, so it will take probably until tomorrow or early afternoon before we know exactly what the exact timing will be."

Regardless, it seems like we're in for some subway flooding. According to Dr. Jacob, the most vulnerable are subway stations are those in downtown Manhattan, particularly along Wall Street -- newswire photographs showed transit workers boarding up subway grates near the Staten Island Ferry on Friday -- as well as on the Upper East Side near the Harlem River, and near the Newton Creek boundary between Brooklyn and Queens.

Besides the subway, car tunnels, coastal streets, and even the airports should expect flooding from a Category 1 hurricane, according to one city report. Both LaGuardia and JFK airports, where serious delays and travel disruptions are already expected, may experience as much as three feet of flooding.

In announcing the transit shutdown, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York said it was unsafe to operate trains in high winds.

Please outline how local, state and federal governments should respond to not only keep their citizens as safe as possible, but also to minimize panic and inaction due to apathy.

Don't provoke the idiots. They add nothing to any discussion but pure, unadulterated bunk.