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Hurricane Sandy is forecasted to hit the East Coast, but as NBC's Al Roker explains, the storm may also pack a punch for many inland areas.
As Hurricane Sandy barrels toward the East Coast, forecasters warn it’s threatening to be one of the worst storms to hit the Northeast in decades.
The storm already killed more than 40 people in the Caribbean. Officials all along the Eastern Seaboard have declared states of emergency and meteorologists have warned residents – both coastal and inland – to prepare for gale-force winds, chances of flooding, heavy rain, power outages and even snow.
Here’s a look at what some weather forecasters predict.
Al Roker, chief meteorologist for NBC's TODAY Show
“Sandy is now back up to hurricane strengths with winds now up to 75 miles per hour. As we’ve seen already, it has caused massive destruction in its path. This one looks like it’s going to be one for the record books. It’s threatening to be one of the worst storms to hit the Northeast in decades. States of emergency have already been declared across five states and D.C., and in Norfolk, Va., the Navy is sending their ships out to sea as a precautionary measure.”
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The Weather Channel
Carl Parker, hurricane specialist on The Weather Channel
"We’re really concerned about the water level rise. Because of the size of the system has everything to do with that potential for water-level rise. When you think about (Hurricane) Charlie, for example, it was a very powerful storm; it was a very small storm, so it wasn’t blowing water over a very large section of ocean. But this storm is going to be blowing water over a huge area — hundreds of miles — and that’s why it’s going to really pile up the water, and why the surge could be devastating when it finally comes on shore."
“You can see the storm moving further southward more toward south Jersey so in this case again we are piling up the water as early as late tomorrow, coming up here toward the coast of New Jersey, and towards Long Island and then as the storm moves into New Jersey we see that maximum water level rise occurring just north of the area of low pressure, and that could have serious, potentially huge impact in New York City, in particular, because of the surge potential there, so that would maximize the surge around Long Island and then down and across the Jersey Shore.”
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Don Morelli, meteorologist with WSI, a sister company of The Weather Channel
"They’ve had quite a bit of time to prepare for this, that’s the good side of this, they have been able to trim some branches from over wires and maybe try to minimize the power outages. But still, we are talking about a wind shield with severity of several hundred miles, so we are looking for widespread power outages in the New England area from southern Maine to central Connecticut and from areas in interior New York to the mid-Atlantic region."
Serious Sandy targets East Coast
"After the fact with all this rain and blustery wind after the main storm center comes in on Monday, Tuesday the root system of these trees are very, very loose so it won’t take much to knock off trees even after the storm makes inland so this isn’t just for Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, for the mid-Atlantic region, could even go in to mid-week, and then we are talking you know maybe a week or two of power outages for wide spread areas."
"The criteria for closing an airport is around 58, 60 miles an hour, which is easily going to be reach for much of the major hubs from D.C. Northward to New York city and even into Logan [in Boston]." "Major delays going to be very, very widespread right through mid-week, so [it’s]not a good week to be traveling across the Northeastern U.S."
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Bill Karins, NBC Meteorologist
"The greatest destruction is expected to occur Monday afternoon and evening as Sandy makes landfall near the New Jersey shore. Serious and life threatening weather conditions are expected from Outer Banks to New England. The landfall window is from Long Island to Ocean City, Md., but the Jersey Shore covers 80 percent of that area so I'm expecting a New Jersey landfall. Areas of Northern Jersey, coastal New York City, Long Island and Connecticut are facing a major coastal flood threat from a possible top 5 all-time recorded storm surges."
"Lastly we are certain to be dealing with destructive weather conditions Monday and Tuesday but Wednesday will be no walk in the park with the storm stalling near Philadelphia and then slowly drifting into New England during Halloween. This will keep periods of rain and gusty southerly winds (20-40 mph) over the hardest hit areas of New Jersey, New York City, Long Island and coastal Connecticut. All hands on deck power restoration efforts will likely not begin until Thursday."
"People in the high impact zone from Virginia to Southern New England have one day left to make preparations and plans before Sandy significantly impacts their lives. After the storm hits expect the cleanup and power outage restoration to continue right up through Election Day."
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Jose Luis Magana / AP
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You'd think MSNBC could spell ! Foercasters ???????
Creepy Ryan (Eddie Munster) is a Halloween trick, but not a treat. He read Ayn Rand in high school and he got all sorts of spooky ideas. Keep in mind that Ayn Rand is laughed at by even the most novice of philosphers. BOO!
~~~~~ WARNING ! ~~~DANGER! ~~~TAKE COVER ! ~~~~RUN FOR YOUR LIVES !
And it'll peter out, make landfall, and end up being just another ordinary Category I or II hurricane....
YAWNNNnnnnnnnn.....
Wake me when it's over....ZZzzzz....ZZzzz
Quick, everyone take cover in the Republican bubble and repeat "Global warming is a myth!" Quickly now.
RTypo: There have been October hurricanes before, just never had 2500 websites, TV stations that covered it 24/7 for a week to inspire fear in you. I bought 10 gallons of gas for my generator and then went back to working. If it hits it hits.
Got Rum?
Our worst fears are exemplified in the above posts. You may be right. You're likely wrong. Perhaps dead wrong! Take precautions. Be prepared. Damn shame if hundreds of innocents die because emergency services are tied up rescuing fools that should have known better.
This 42 year resident on the coast near Tampa Bay has dodged many bullets. I know that the odds increase greatly with each and every new threat exactly like Russian roulette. We have a responsibility to ourselves and our families to take every warning seriously. Thank God, science and the government that we now have adequate warning. Ignore it at your own peril.
I have a house on coastal NC, with 1500+feet water front, outside of Morehead..
A little wind, some needed rain, and very little storm surge...
Most Nor'easters have more of a impact. A Cat 1 storm does not require the deck chairs to be moved inside...
Dare County will catch hell, but that happens every storm, with winds out of the NE...
Maybe it will flush out the DC sewer...
I have no idea why people kep thinking this is MSNBC. It plainly reads NBC NEWS. Does any school teach anyone to read, write and spell anymore? Tired of MSNBC getting blamed for NBC problems. It's all bull.
now, I didn't really read the article too much, but just what storm is it they're showing the track of there?? lol
It is just the graphic for the hurricane tracking page. thought at first it was Hurricane Tony, but that storm is back to a tropical one, and hasn't made landfall. Tony, on becoming a Hurricane made this the third most active hurricane season ever.
Why no discussion about climate change? Isn't kind late in the season for a hurricane? Or is thing going to be the new norm because of climate change?
Of course climate change is causing unusual weather, but the hurricane season runs into November. What makes this storm unique is that it'll be slamming into a winter storm coming from the north west making it's impact extremely difficult to predict.
Triple threat. Hurricane from the Atlantic, winter storm from Canada and High pressure front from Donald Trump's mouth. We're doomed!
During 1999 a massive slow moving Cat 4 (Floyd), was approaching the NC coast, then a cold front and wind shear hit it, just prior to making landfall. It was among the largest Atlantic hurricanes of its strength ever recorded...
The resulting CAT 2 dumped large amounts of rain, across the Eastern Seaboard. The problem was the combination of TWO hurricanes in a 2+week period, resulting in massive flooding...
I have lived on the NC coast from 1977 and still have water-front property. During this time I have lost power maybe a dozen times due to storms, average time was - ONE DAY...
People and communities that are use to hurricanes, were prepaired prior to the season starting. Most power lines are concrete poles and/or under-ground. It is the in-land areas and northern East Coast, that seldom see a hurrican, that PANIC...
"Most power lines are concrete poles..."
It's not that the poles break. You don't have that many old Sand Oaks, Beach Maples, and Surf Elms that do the actual damage.
Given that this has proved to be the third most active hurricane season on record, and that the season goes into Nov, yes, this is what you can expect as a result of climate change. Just look at either NOAA or the Weather Channel's web sites to see. The top three most active season for storms have all come since scientists warned us of climate change, and the impact of a warmer atmosphere full of pollution particles that clouds, and thus storms, could form around.
Vinny. There is no such thing as Climate Change, ask any Republi-con.
wascigarman,
And ethanol, Bio-diesel, High Desert Blythe, CA solar power facilities & HSWT do not effect the environment...
Ignore the Atrazine in the drinking water & disappearing water tables...
Ignore the disappearing rain forest...
Ignore the disappearing; bats, raptors, orangutans, desert tortoises, etc...
Ignore the increasing food prices...
Or the 2,000+year old Indian Geoglyphs - Solar Millennium Builds a Road on Ancient Geoglyphs, see http://youtu.be/Bgha7Af_Wzc
Ignore the fact that ethanol & bio-diesel uses more energy to produce...
Just a few thingsDEM-CRATS are pushing...
Plus pushing for US dependence on 'Rare Earths' from China and selling China our metallurgical coal...
No mention of climate change Is this going to be the new norm? After climate change.
Hurricane season ends in November.
You never know with the weather, anything can happen. Better to be ready and try to keep your family safe. A hurricane can happen at anytime, and there can be high winds in any storm. My daughter and 3 grandchildren live in Virginia so of course I'am concerned. Hope it ends up being nothing- depends on where it hits.. God's Blessings.
Don't you mean "One FOER the record books"?
Foercasters?! The U.S. is quickly becoming one of the least literate nations on the planet.
Relax turbo,
"Foercasters" is obviously a TYPO.
When people mix up fare/fair, to/two/too, their/there/they're etc THAT is illiteracy.
BTW, why do people like you enjoy complaining?
Are complainers just old angry miserable people that live alone (for good reason) and take out their frustrations on a keyboard?
Who would ever want to be around someone like that?
lit·er·ate
1. having the ability to read and write
2. well-educated especially with respect to literature or writing
writing = typing
Get it?
Thanks "professor". Got it..
Just think what they could do if this article was about sexual behavior.
This is a serious storm folks, make preparations for it now if you are in the target area. The storm will be no slouch. May all of you in its path be safe.
It's a category 1 storm. Your power might go out, a tree might go down. You'll be fine, unless the tree falls right on top of you.
Yes, Trees have fallen on people and cars and it isn't funny when it happens to you!
Yes, it's a Cat 1 -- but it is huge, and slow, and will take a long time to push the water and blow the trees. Better to be prepared and have it peter out into semi-tropical breezes, than ignore it to your peril.
11 deleted, big political derail from sAyItLiKeItIs. There was an article connecting Sandy to the election published Saturday. This wasn't the place.
You're suspended for a week for violating #4 and #1 of the Code of Honor.
Ya know, this is not a political event, To wish bad or harm to others just so you canidate of choice can win is sick, sad and disgusting. This election is a joke, a circus, something I have never seen before, and hope I never see again. No respect, no concept of reality. Just win win win.I am sure most of you don't even know what you are trying to win. Be very carful though, cos when you wish so bad and wrong on others, karma finds a way of getting you. To all the people who are in the line of this storm, good luck, be safe, be carful, I hope the predictions are wrong, and to all of you wishing harm, how sad for your souls, you are nothing.
Well, there you have it folks! This is the kind of trash that Romney's camp produces. Give it a good solid stare before you continue to go about your day, remember it! These people vote.
Hopefully nobody gets hurt, but, the silver lining is that after the storm there'll be a few more construction jobs. Just sayin.
there will be construction jobs, and Romney will have been elected... both GREAT things!
Funny how some people cannot complete a whole sentence without nasty name calling. Hmm, I did that in first grade. I totaly disagree with the oppisite parties thoughts, belief's, reasoning, but I would not resort to calling you degrading names. You seem so much to block out the previous 8 years of this country and what created this mess in the first place, but still I do not stoop to name calling Guess that is a big difference in our parties. Some of us know respect, some of us don't
Kudos to you alley - we need to get back to civil discourse in this country if the republic is to survive. Right now we're tearing ourselves apart - a coup d'etat without the intent!
Just because it's going up the East Coast as a cat one perhaps two, it's "one for the record books"?
Well, the cover and title of this record book, should be "Katrina and Children".
People on the East coast have no idea what a "Real Hurricane" can do.
Yet, they are the first ones to scream about cutting the Hurricane Hunter's budget.
AND the ones who get on the vine and say people in the Gulf states SHOULD be hit because we live in this area.
Good luck with your little storm.
The chickens are coming home to roost for the libtards in the states affected by Sandy.... and boo hoo... the very ones who want 4 more years of failure with Ofoolya will end up not voting.... too bad.... but Ofoolya would have lost anyway!
sAyIt...more pathetic blah-blah-blah. Does your mommy know you're using her computer?
Those two maroons are installing the board on that window the wrong way; not only is the board flipped, but he's drilling into the siding instead of the sash. A DOH! moment captured forever, compliments of the Internet.
well keep in mind that they are probably libtards.... and doing things right or intelligently just "ain't" in the scheme of things for the intellectually compromised.. what would you expect from people who would support another 4 years of failure at the hands of Ofoolya? of course they can count on the nanny state government to give them "free" repairs...
sAyItLiKeItIs,
Check the odds in Vegas. They have always been more accurate than your Repukian polls, and they all have Obama as the favorite.
Retard!
sAyIt...sheesh, you are pathetic.
Signed, Independent citizen.
I have a grill with coals and two propane tanks, large cooler with ice, 7000 watt generator with 15 gallons of gas on hand, meat filled fridge and cupboard full of provisions, four cases (6 gallons a piece) of water, 1/2 a chord of split wood and a wood burner, three cases of beer, I'm ready...
You will need the food and the generator.
But, you did not get enough gas and beer.
Oh, and if you tie the generator into your home wiring, make sure you do not backfeed.
Powerline workers are killed every year because of this.
OK...first of all...who is making money over the hype for this so called "storm". It will be a tropical depression when it comes ashore....40 mph winds in Mass ...and yet all the old ladies and idiots were out yesterday filling up gas cans and buying extra cigs and gas! I did NOTHING for last year's "storm of the century" and guess what? My water heater has 65 gals of water in it? No electricity? No problem. The idiot across the street from me bought two truck loads of pellets today...so I guess I have to listen to his generator if we lose electricity because it is going to be in the 60's during a troprical depression here...and he would be WAY too cold! People used to be of hardy stock...now they are all cockroaches and/or Obama-esque and will be bitching about FEMA by Tuesday. Buck up.
Bob during Irene half the roads around me were washed away, my house flooded because I DIDN'T have a generator to keep the pumps going and I didn't have power for 10 days. You can choose to whine and hate at other people taking responsibility for themselves, or you can be a man to protect his family and prepare for the worst, I prepare for the worst, the beer will get drunk and the food will get eaten either way.
"“Sandy is now back up to hurricane strengths with winds now up to 75 miles per hour..."
One for the record books? That makes it a Cat-1 Hurricane. Sheesh, you could surf that.
More hype and hoopla from the media.
Fear and Panic - that's all they have left to sell, I guess.....
Folks in the Northeast need to live in Florida for a few years and see what a real Hurricane is like.
75 mph? That's bubkis.
all eye should be focused on oregon as the cascadia fault system is about blow washington and seattle to pieces in less than 5 days with a massive 9.5 quake following todays 7.7 that all the newscenters just ignored
What are you talking about? The 7.7 shake that hit well north of Vancouver Island? I'm on an island ~35 miles east of Victoria (the southern end of Vancouver island) and felt nothing down here - and I doubt that quake was in the Cascadia fault.
I don't know where the rest of you live but last time one of these"unrecorded storms" hit us in the mid atlantic states in my mi-Ohio Valley,we got slammed.Electric out 4 days to 15 days,just averages,ice unavailable,fuel limited but made available.community oriented as we are here,every store that could emergency open its doors for tarps,batts,materials for repairs did so by the second day,and I'm proud of that.We 've contacted friends that live further out in the "country" from us today telling them we've extra space and a couple old gas ceramic corner furnaces and a small gen for the 'fridge-freezer.We have liquor,some homemade goods and we have a great community that hangs together and takes care of each other .Interestingly enough,38% are Republicans,44% are Democrats,12% are Independents,and the others won't say. Funny how well America works when her political parties aren't that involved,and cooperation reigns with public confidence in leaders that resolve issues to benefit us all.Senator Byrd always found a way to protect small states' interests while providing a more secure America.Statesmanship is admired by every generation of Americans once leadership provides us directions.We have goals to complete as Americans...
Great political rant...I guess, but this article is about a Cat1 storm headed for the mid-Atlantic states. I suspect you need some professional help for your ADD! LOL
As usual, the sky is falling. In a month, everyone will have forgotten this storm. It is no wonder everyone ignores fire alarms and tornado warnings these days - there are so many dire warnings every day that the world is coming to an end.
Climate change? haha! yes my V8 is causing this. I need to buy a prius. Of course presidential race of jets flying all over the country... thats OK! Especially if its your candidate.
I don't know about you, but I am really worried about the Jersey Shore people. They are so @!$%#ing stupid, what not being literate, that they might not know about the danger, and get drunk before the storm and not wake up because their power is out! Boo hoo hoo. Can somebody go over to their house and warn them. And tell the girls to not forget their birth control. And tell the guys to get vasectomies while you are it! The idea of these people reproducing is more frightening than this storm!
Looks like a chance of rain in NYC.... otherwise.... not newsworthy.
Since when does a Cat 1 storm cause panic?
It's more than a category 1 storm. If you were smarter you'd know that.
To the JERKS who hope the East gets wiped off the map because they are voting for Obama: How about next time there are big tornadoes in the midwest and floods in the Mississippi...I rejoice because "good riddance to those bible-and-gun toting Rednecks".
don't be a jerk.
Telling a jerk not to be a jerk is like telling a dog to be an alligator.