HURRICANE SANDY STOKES FEAR IN MID-ATLANTIC
Packing maximum sustained winds of nearly 90 miles per hour, Hurricane Sandy is drawing a bead on the East Coast of the United States – moving inexorably northwest toward an expected rendezvous with a cold front and untold damage to the Eastern Seaboard.
The oversized category one hurricane – a rare late October tropical system – has been dubbed “Frankenstorm” due to its proximity to Halloween. Its expected landfall during the wee hours of the morning on Tuesday has stoked fear across the mid-Atlantic region of the nation – with hurricane force winds predicted from Virginia all the way north to Massachusetts.
“Sandy is expected to transition into a frontal or wintertime low pressure system prior to landfall,” the lastest release from the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida states. “However … this transition will not be accompanied by a weakening of the system … and in fact … a little strengthening is possible during this process.”
Yikes …
The massive storm – 1,000 miles wide – could impact up to 50 million people. Forecasters are predicting a “life-threatening storm surge” associated with Sandy, and the system is expected to bring rain to the east coast and snowfall to the Appalachian mountains – especially in West Virginia.
Courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), here is its latest forecast track …
So … will Sandy wind up being a major disaster? Or will it be a dud like last year’s Hurricane Irene? We’ll find out over the next forty-eight hours …
For the latest on Sandy, we’ll be following the Hurricane Resource Center at Boat U.S. – which always has the latest advisories as well as numerous tracking maps. To access the site, click on the link below …
BOAT U.S. HURRICANE RESOURCE CENTER
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Well, whatcha gonna do? If Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock is to be believed, it’s kind of like rape–it’s God’s will.
Of course it’s God’s will! Pat Robertson will explain it to us very soon.
The word here at BJU is that God ain’t happy about all the fags in Congress. We’ve been warned; it won’t be water, but fire next time.
Everyone is missing the positive here, no gov’t functions for a bit. Just a little taste of freedom my peeps. Don’t get used to it though, because after the storm goes away the rulers come back.
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Here’s an opportunity for Romney to flip-flop from his position on disaster relief he enunciated in a primary debate last June, when he was asked about a more localized version of what millions are facing today—the devastation in Joplin, Missouri.
Should the states deal with such things rather than the federal government?
“Absolutely,” Romney answered, adding that “if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that’s even better.”
Moderator John King gave him a chance to clarify—did he really mean disaster relief? “We cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids,” Romney replied.
Hey, BigT, I hear the swordfish bite is ON up around the Flemish Cap……..