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Sure glad that I'm not traveling this weekend

By jvolstad   Follow   Sun, 28 Oct 2012, 11:51am   328 views   4 comments
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http://news.yahoo.com/hurricane-sandy-grounds-thousands-flights-160120060--finance.html

For Monday, 2,499 flights are cancelled, with 774 cancellations at Newark, followed by 428 at Dulles in Washington and 355 cancellations at Philadelphia. Hurricane Sandy is heading north from the Caribbean, where it has left nearly five dozen dead, to meet a winter storm and a cold front, plus high tides from a full moon, and experts say the rare hybrid storm that results will cause havoc over 800 miles from the East Coast to the Great Lakes.

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1. HEY YOU Follow Befriend (4) 352 threads 965 comments

   1   12:47pm Sun 28 Oct 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   I've been reading all the reports on Sandy. Is it going to be as bad as they claim or is it just Sensationalism by the media like the polls & the election? We need more advertising dollars?

2. bob2356 Follow Befriend 3 threads 2,564 comments

   2   1:22pm Sun 28 Oct 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   HEY YOU says I've been reading all the reports on Sandy. Is it going to be as bad as they claim or is it just Sensationalism by the media like the polls & the election? We need more advertising dollars? The media knows nothing about hurricanes, or much of anything else for that matter. That's why they are reporters. They are just repeating what the National Hurricane Center is saying. NHC tends to over call since it's better to be more prepared than you need to be than less. At this point no one knows what will happen, only the probabilities of what could happen. It depends on storm track and tides. Making landfall at the height of a spring tide could cause huge damage while low tide could result in little damage. Hurricanes are very unpredictable creatures. Sandy could be a fizzle or a huge disaster. The last hurricane to really hammer the Jersey shore was Donna in 1954 when almost no one lived there compared to today. Even so the damage was terrific. Long Beach Island was pretty destroyed. A comparable storm today with the entire shore so heavily built up would cause billions in damage. Good thing all those people rich enough to own beach houses at the Jersey Shore are insured with your tax dollars for a nominal amount thanks to fema's NFIP program. Without NFIP there would be very few houses built on the barrier islands.

3. joshuatrio Follow Befriend 41 threads 704 comments Monterey, CA

   3   8:50am Mon 29 Oct 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   HEY YOU says Is it going to be as bad as they claim or is it just Sensationalism by the media like the polls & the election? hype

4. Patrick Follow Befriend (54) 5,239 threads 6,173 comments 46 male Menlo Park, CA Premium

   4   10:35am Mon 29 Oct 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Protected   Well they did close the NY subways and the stock market. They wouldn't do that unless it was supposed to be pretty big.