I grew up in tornado alley and of course there is quite a bit of difference between the two. One major difference that keeps coming to my mind is the length of time. Tornadoes are “wham bam thank ya ma’am,” whereas Sandy (which is no longer being called a hurricane) is like the Eveready Bunny… just keeps going and going and going…. I’ll take my tornadoes.
I have been glued to my computer and TV all day today watching the storm move in. Watching an NBC livestream online and CNN on TV. It just completely floors me that New York City – the city that never sleeps – is like a graveyard. With it being night it is hard to determine the actual damage – will have to wait until morning. In the meantime, though, people still have their cameras, both still and video. I’ve picked through hundreds of images of water drops blurring the lens to find these below – although I do believe most of them were taken by photo-journalists. I have heard there are a few deaths, and there are over 2 million people without power. Wow! TWO MILLION PLUS! I do hope everyone else comes through without injury, and that the damage is quickly repairable.
UPDATE: I am continually adding more photos as they come in. The better photos, that is. Keep checking back. I have added about 15 more today (Tues. Oct 30).
Hover above the image for more information about that photo…. Clicking on any picture will bring them all up in a shadowbox.
Crane crumbled from winds in Manhattan. Crane is at the top of a new luxury high rise being built.
Atlantic City. Streets completely flooded.
Atlantic City
Mark Palazzolo, owner of a bait and tackle shop on the Manasquan Inlet in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., sits next to wood he has used to board up his business in previous major storms, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J
Car nearly completely submerged in Norfolk VA
This photo provided by 6abc Action News shows the Inlet section of Atlantic City, N.J., as Hurricane Sandy makes it approach, Monday Oct. 29, 2012. (AP)
Atlantic City
Flooded street. Red Hook.
Atlantic City
Home in Connecticutt. I hope their sliding glass doors hold back that flood!
Gotcha!
Michael Wirtz, of Wilmington, Del., braves flood waters and high winds that arrive with Hurricane Sandy along North Michigan Avenue in Atlantic City, N.J., Monday Oct. 29, 2012. (AP)
Lower east side Manhattan flooding
In this photo provided by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey a surveillance camera captures the PATH station in Hoboken, N.J., as it is flooded shortly before 9:30 p.m. EDT on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. (AP)
Pier at Kill Devil Hills NC
Too funny not to include. This is a reporter running from Air Force One after Obama returned to DC. Either he has a story, or the water is making him have to pee really bad.
City Island NY
Looks like the Statue of Liberty doesn’t like the storm either.
Stupid people
Hurricane Sandy wave surge
Rising water rushes into an underground parking garage in New York’s financial district on Monday, October 29.
5-alarm fire in Queens
A vehicle is submerged on 14th Street near the Consolidated Edison power plant, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York.
David Young’s destroyed 100-year-old barn in Wilton CT. Photo: Photo Stephen Wilkes for TIME
Boats float in Plymouth Harbor during Hurricane Sandy on Monday October 29, 2012. (Greg M. Cooper/US PRESSWIRE)
Telephoto zoom lens showing a close-up of the crumbled crane downtown
Cars float in a flooded parking area on Tuesday in the financial district of New York.
Flooded subway entrance
Battery Tunnel completely flooded
East Village flooding
Floodwater from Hurricane Sandy creeps up on the Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962’s mark at the Oyster House in Bayford, Va., on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. (AP)
La Guardia Airport flooded. Photo: Frank Giannola
La Guardia Airport flooded. Photo: Frank Giannola
La Guardia Airport flooded. Photo: Frank Giannola
La Guardia Airport flooded. Photo: Frank Giannola
La Guardia Airport flooded. Photo: Frank Giannola
Sandy parking lot full of submerged yellow taxi cabs
Sea water floods the Ground Zero construction site at the World Trade Center, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. (AP)
Vehicles are submerged on 14th Street near the Consolidated Edison power plant, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. (AP)
Sandy’s wrath brings water to Grandview Island in Hampton, Va. Facebook/Sherry Winstead Martin
Water pours into a parking garage on Avenue C in Manhattan. Photo: Michael Christopher Brown for TIME
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Didn’t think anything could knock the election out of the headlines, but Sandy sure has. I agree with you — I’ll take a tornado any day. Got a chuckle out of the Statue of Liberty hiding; poor old girl has to stand out there in the middle of the harbor all by herself while everyone else runs for cover.
LOL… yeah, I saw that and knew she had to be included. And they apparently just finished some renovations. I believe the torch is opening back up (it was closed at least for a while – I don’t know if it ever opened back up). And now handicapped accessible at the main viewing floor.
Trust there is no/miniimal loss of life.
There have been a few deaths.
Reblogged this on The ObamaCrat.Com™.
Sounds sort of crass I know, but I will also take a tornado over a storm like this. What is it with the stupid people anyway? I also was up following on news etc.Storms are now for me like a wreck I cannot stop myself from getting sucked in.(pun intended). I am sending thoughts of power and dryness to those involved….
Reminds us that Nature rules…and we’d do well to remember that.
Also reminds us that there IS such a thing as climate change and we need to start protecting this planet more effectively.
Yes there is. That was one reason NYC Mayor Bloomberg decided to endorse Obama. Climate change. Obama wants to start switching to renewable now (and has been, but not quick enough). And Romney just tells the people jobs, jobs, jobs. He knows that jobs are one our minds more than green energy. He has no desire to switch. Too much money invested in that industry, either directly or indirectly.