But all your "stuff" will be at the neighbors.

Fix it now, or it won't get fixed. That's just how it is. You leave something broken, you get used to working without it, and it never gets fixed. That's how humans are.

STOP ALL FOREIGN AID MONEY, use that money to help our American brothers & sisters on the East Coast!!!

John Doe: If you get used to working without it, then you never needed it in the first place, it was just a convenience.

Well,you know, money we spend wastfully on foriegn aid could have been used to rebuild and maintain our infrastructure.

LET'S FACE reality. SOMETHING that the people on the eastern coast have been putting off for decades. That area is very akin to the New Orleans area. Which,like the New Orleans and Mississippi River Delta area, begs the question, WHY ARE people and businesses allowed to build that close to the water??? KNOWING where they live and the inherent dangers, WHY WASN'T a SEA WALL/GATE built LONG AGO?? BEFORE ANYONE says it's expensive(and I am sure it is) look at the cost for repairs to the region now. SUDDENLY, the seawall isn't so expensive!

Question for anyone: Of those who were affected by the storm surge, how many had flood insurance? Most insurance companies require it if you are in such an area.

The politicians and local leaders are just starting to comprehend the situation...reality is a bitch. When they said 4 or 5 days to get power back to everyone, it was too stupid of a comment to even laugh at.

Interesting what the Catholic dude had to say - before the current made up gods - nature and the weather were the gods.

Yet campain funds run into the MILLIONS!!!!!!

Sick world we live in.

Millions stevo?

The two campaigns combined will have topped two billion after the totals are in.

Only 50 million seperate the two campaigns so far.

Just a note to all of the east coast liberals who are whining about too slow a response etc. For the last four years you have been ranting everytime there has been a disaster especially on these blogs about how. The rest of us are stupid to live where hurricanes hit. So why do you? Where floods happen. So why do you? You have ranted we didn't deserve help from the government because you blamed us for the congressional representative from a state 1000 miles north of ours. Now why after you telling us we deserved to lose our homes and that we should all just die in the disaster should we send one lousy cent to help you? Don't worry we will our parents trained us better than yours did.

@ lonereb, why so bitter and angry?

Over half of the American population lives within 50 miles of the coast. Coastal areas are home to a wealth of natural and economic resources and are the most developed areas in the nation. The narrow fringe comprising 17 percent of the contiguous U.S. land area is home to more than half of the nation's population.

Between the years 1980 and 2003, population in coastal counties increased by 33 million people or by 28 percent. The largest gain was seen in the Pacific region. Additionally, in 2003, 23 of the 25 most densely populated counties were in coastal areas.

By the year 2008, coastal county population was expected to increase by approximately seven million.

why is it that those who scream...ekkk run away ..inevitably also scream climate change...aka global warming...same institution perhaps?......

john doe, thats how type B ppl are, type A ppl have a plan and get things done, asap.

If you want an Ocean view then buy a boat.

Storms blow....but i guess they suck as well...............

its not a theory and its not actual warming it means the storms will get more and more frequent and worse and worse , the ice caps are melting at a speed that nature alone could not do on its own in that small amt of time it has already.

There is no scienece to support the theory that storms will get more and more frequent and worse and worse

Are you a climate scientist, or is this post just a bit of puffffery

@ rex, who wrote:

"There is no scienece to support the theory that storms will get more and more frequent and worse and worse"

Where has your head been these past years, up your arse?

But ignore the facts like last week on MSNBC where they mentioned that the methane gas coming from the east coast sea floor is putting more greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere that mankind has since the first fire. Mt St Helens alone put more gasses with one eruption than mankind has. So until you libtards figure out how to cap the volcano's & stop the natural process of methane gas coming from the sea floor, we're all sick of listening to you & paying $5 per gallon of gas.

Volcanos have been spewing CO2 forever, just as CO2 has been absorbed by the oceans and growing plant life. All the natural CO2 sources and sinks are unchanged and in balance. The release of CO2 from fossil fuel is putting the captured carbon from millions of years back into the atmosphere in a few centuries, and even if it isn't as large in magnitude as the natural forces, it is shifting the existing balance to a new point.

If all you wing-nuts would stop farting it might help ya know!

My comment fits in with your theory doesn't it? Also cow farts, fish farts, farts of every living thing on the face of the earth that processes and breaks down vegetable matter.

I gotta tell you that you have a brain fart if you think that scientific studies by the best minds is erroneous. Those who try to debunk good science as junk are either religious fruit cakes or scientific charlatans funded by Corporatations who put profits ahead of protecting the environment.

2001H1--dont forget the cows and yea sure the sea floor, volcanoes etc do enough, but heres the thing- add us and the cows in the mix, it is going to kill us all -- so no more libtards , no evangelical rapture wackadoodles, or catholic pedophiles, no more bloggin , no more of you and your ranting, name- callin grammar school, brat nonsense- no nothing!!

I am! I live 145 ft above sea level..Duh...

Mt St Helens alone put more gasses with one eruption than mankind has.

Cite your source please, because you couldn't be more wrong.

Here's mine to prove you 100000000000000000000000000000000% wrong.

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/latest-questions/question/2008/

http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/archive/2007/07_02_15.html

http://grist.org/article/volcanoes-emit-more-co2-than-humans/

http://pollutionarticles.blogspot.com/2011/07/humans-are-bigger-co2-emitters-than.html

So you and those that blindly voted you up to push agendas can return your heads back into that dark place they seem to reside.

The truth, not your make believe know nothing statement, is that Mt St. Helens dumped well under 1% CO2 into the air that we as a species do every single year.

NYMike #5.6,

You may want to add this to your list : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2170985/The-suns-solar-flares-getting-stronger-latest-hot-spot-size-15-Earths-strung-together.html .

Not much that we can do about it, especially, when we're talking about the sun.

Killington plans on running a gondola on cow @!$%# this winter.

How did global climate change become a religious left vs. right political issue? Does the Bible say the climate will never change? Did Jesus tell us to ignore scientists who talk about holes in the ozone layer or rising ocean temperatures?

I just don't get it. It's not like we're talking about human evolution here and revisiting the Scopes "monkey trial".

Global warming is another term for climate change that has been going on, and will continue to go on, forever. The climate changes. Get over it.

And your candidate wants to abolish FEMA! BTW he NEVER LEFT THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL EITHER. You can call a campaign rally a relief rally but it is still a campaign rally. Ask Gov. Christe about Obama.

devil

Shock that you make a comment without knowing the facts. Typical lib.

Read what Romney actually said and then come back to apologize.

Oh by the way, Romney insn't the President yet. It is husseins job to be there, moron.

I am sure you believe that Romney wanted to do away with the car industry to, because msnbc and ignorant libs like you said so.

Once again, learn and then post.

Your post is a joke, right? As if President Obama could've predicted a future Nor'Easter sooner then the meteorologists did, stop his campaigning, and sit there and wait for it. Your kind would love that so your ignorant loud-mouthed willard could have the run of the campaign and continue spreading his propoganda around.

If Willard gets in, it's bye-bye Fema. He said it during the republican debates. He wants it turned over to the states or even more locally. He just couldn't decide. Hope all of the people in harm's way realize that before they cast that vote.

Actually, he said turn it over to the states but then he further elaborated and said turning it over to private enterprise. Halliburtan and friends would love that. Going in on open ended contracts to make millions from the States and peoples misery. They`d overseas all the work that could be done by phone for sure.

What is the problem? FEMA was there a week before the storm. Every ones needs are being met no one is going hungry every one had food from day one.There is no need to give to the Red Cross FEMA has already done it all.

House flooded seven times and burned once because City built
Hwy and drained it into the Bayou behind the house. Not one time was FEMA or
the so called first responders the first to show up. It was my neighbors!! It
will get worse in the NE. Think Katrina time ten, because of population and
cold.

Another storm coming in and you're democratic president on the campaign trail

And where it the Presidential hopeful Romney?

The same damned place. It's 2 days before the election.

Nothing like using another potential large storm to push your political hate. You know no shame.

Shouldn't you be kicking a puppy and saying Obama should have been there to prevent it?

It is husseins job to be there, moron.

Ohhh, using a bad name drop for effect. Stay classy.

There is no need to give to the Red Cross FEMA has already done it all.

There is ALWAYS a need to give to the Red Cross. You shouldn't have to need a natural disaster for a reason to give. And no, FEMA has not done it all. They rely quite a bit on the Red Cross for support. They both offer different types of help.

Prez Obama's intelligence and wisdom really getting to ya, hey dreamboy? Rather an empty headed lying thief crook for your kind, well you have it in Bishop Romney. Meathead.

Well, that didn't take long did it?

And it won't stop w/ the election. There's always an element that wants to politicize everything & thump their chests on how *their side* would be so much better in a crisis than *the other side*.

Get a freakin' grip on reality already. Or at least buy a clue.

B/c I for one am sick of seeing these nut job claims that Obama somehow *engineered* a hurricane to win an election, or that the aftermath of it is all his fault b/c he's *not doing enough*.

Those of you who like to wave the *shredded* Constitution around have no idea how American gov't works & it's quite glaringly obvious.

The sole task of a POTUS in a natural disaster is to authorize release of federal funds for disaster relief & make sure that FEMA is poised & ready to go in, not somehow *prevent* a hurricane from making landfall or start rescuing ppl when the rain is blowing sideways at 100mph. Obama did that 2 days before the storm hit. That's all he can do.

Unless the ppl screaming that he should *send in the Army* would like to unbalance the 3 branches of gov't by tipping it in favor of the executive branch?

Bush already managed that when he took advantage of fear after 9/11 & established Homeland Security & proposed the Patriot Act, which Congress passed w/o a whimper. Giving the POTUS the power to be able to call up the armed forces anytime he pleases & dispatch them to any area of the US is a fast track to what the guns 'n' ammo types term *marshall [sic] law* (it's *martial law*, BTW....Mars is the god of war).

The executive branch has done exactly what it should've done & all it is empowered to do in the face of impending disaster. Obama didn't even have to go look at the devastation or lose several invaluable days of campaigning. Christie invited him. Christie also told Romney to piss off (which really demonstrated what his own party members think of him, doesn't it?).

So for those also gleefully proclaiming that we'll have *a new POTUS on Tues*....um, no, we won't, have you been living under a rock?

Even if Romney squeaks thru, try & pull something out of the 5 yrs combined of American history you took from Gr 4 on up, like, maybe, Inauguration Day?

Which isn't arriving until Jan 20, 2013, no matter who wins. Y'all are stuck w/ Obama for this one, get over it.

It is the responsibility of state governors to call up the National Guard (see above where Cuomo has asked the governors of neighboring states to *borrow* theirs, b/c Bloomberg keeps fumbling the ball in NYC....he thinks he's only the mayor of Manhattan & the other 4 boroughs, meh).

Further down the line, it is the responsibility of county executives (which we have in NY) to network w/ mayors & report exactly what's needed in their area to the governor's office. The governor doesn't then call the POTUS & ask for it; it's the governor's job to meet those needs ASAP, & he can dicker w/ the feds over reimbursement later.

In addition to Staten Island, Brooklyn, & Queens taking an enormous hit, so did Westchester Co b/c that water pushed up the Hudson. That's been totally ignored b/c the media likes to focus on Manhattan like it's the be-all & end-all of NYS.

Well, I live 800mi from there & I'm still in NYS & we still got rain, wind, flooding on the shores of the Great Lakes, & do you see a peep of coverage? This storm went up to Toronto & completely covered the Great Lakes (all 5 of em).

B/c the damage was minor, compared to the coast, you don't hear a thing about it, even tho Sandy was 900 mi wide & didn't taper off until it was in the Midwest. Why do you think Romney wouldn't venture past the Ohio/Pennsylvania border? B/c it was crappy enough out that way & pts west & south.

This *chain of command* in a huge disaster that didn't just affect the east coast but 1000mi inland shows that Romney doesn't have a clue how American gov't works, either, w/ his ridiculous FEMA waffling. The final tab on something as epic as this would bankrupt the states involved if there wasn't federal aid to help out. States cannot handle it alone. Esp w/ NYs crappy credit rating b/c NYC bleeds the rest of the state dry.

Using the thin ruse of a *storm relief event* so that Romney could continue campaigning in Ohio was beyond moronic. He should know better if he wants to be POTUS. All he was thinking is *how can I get the edge over Obama in this mess & still campaign but make it look like 'm not*.

And gullible fools ate it up.

It is more expensive for the Red Cross to sort thru his $5K worth of Walmart crap, package it up, & ship it to where it's needed than it is for them to go to a store on the fringe of the disaster, pump much-needed $ into the devastated state's economy, & buy exactly what's needed. *Charity* doesn't cut it when it something this huge.

You can bet if it was Utah, Romney'd be having a big check photo-op. And telling the state exactly where they can spend it.

He doesn't care about his home state of Michigan or his gubenatorial state of Massachusetts....b/c they're not going to vote for him there, but his loyal supporters don't even ques it. They're not going to vote for him in NY or NJ, either, despite those states having a lgr concentration of the 53% he professes to care about, most of them in the affected areas.

But y'all go ahead & keep barking like mad dogs out in the sun too long about how *Obama should be doing this that & the other*. He's doing as much as he's permitted to do by law.

Just b/c he's not pretending to collect food he really bought out of his campaign funds (& I think that's illegal use of campaign funds BTW) only means he's smarter than Romney. Romney couldn't do any more than Obama did b4 the storm even hit if their positions were reversed, & somehow I doubt Romney's initial knee-jerk to a hurricane of that scope & magnitude lumbering up the coast would be half as efficient.

Good luck w/ a natural disaster next time if he wins the election. He's got so many things he brags he's going to get rid of on *Day One* & FEMAs among them. Lemmings to the sea around here, voting against your own self-interest & the good of your country. This guy can't even manage his own mouth. But go ahead & ignore that b/c he happens to be *anyone but Obama*.

Pffft.

FEMA has proven twice that it can't get the job done.

The difference between Katrina and Sandy is that Bush knew enough to send General Russel L. Honore to get the job done.

I do feel bad for the loss of personal belongings.

For those who road out the storm there, you get as must respect as the worthless Americans who stayed for Katrina.

You MADE A CHOICE, suck it up. Take responsibility.

Hard to feel sorry for people building million dollar homes on the edge of the ocean. More money than brains obviously.

When did you ever hear of filthy rich ppl living in Queens, Brooklyn, or Staten Island? Breezy Point is an FDNY enclave. Those are are working class ppl, not rich ones. (Manhattan, Westchester Co, Long Island, not so much.)

What seems to be unable to get thru ppl's heads is that it was high tide & the storm surges broke records. This isn't just beachfront property affected. This is miles inland, flooding streets in communities that have never experienced flooding b4.

There's not sand on the streets b/c they're at the beach & were dumb enough to build on sand. The sand was left behind when the ocean receded. It took out berms designed to protect from flooding b/c it was such a huge storm surge.

What you're looking at is an unprecendented event, not some dinky little storm. Never have NYCs subways & tunnels flooded to where the water was spitting up into the streets. Never have major bridges gone down in NJ. There are roads in North Carolina that are so heaved & buckled, they're impassable. They're lucky to have a more extended bldg season that NY & NJ. It's too cold to repair infrastructure up north atm (was 32 when I got up & has risen to a whopping 35, & I'm not anywhere near an ocean). That hot mess is just going to have to wait for spring.

And it's on the heels of Hurricane Irene, which affected some of the same areas (I'm sure Vermont is happy to have dodged another bullet after half of its infrastructure crumbled from Irene....Vermont's not on the ocean BTW)

I guess when disaster occurs in your neighborhood, you won't mind if no one feels sorry for you, then. There's no where in this country that's safe from a natural disaster, & you're fooling yourself if you think you're the only one who is safe from it.

For those who road out the storm there, you get as must respect as the worthless Americans who stayed for Katrina.

You MADE A CHOICE, suck it up. Take responsibility.

*Rode*, not *road*. Good grief. That's a 2nd gr Spelling word.

I live 800mi from Manhattan. Verizon sucks rocks for internet speed here since they got the power back on there. We still felt that storm on the Great Lakes w/ flooding, rain, & high winds. Sandy hit Toronto FFS It hit Chicago. It hit Michigan.

Do you even comprehend that the hurricane was 900mi wide? It's far from affecting just the coastline.

Delaware's protected from the ocean by the entire state of Maryland & they still had to call out their Nat'l Guard (Biden's elder son, a major who was deployed to Iraq right b4 the 2008 election at the age of 38, among them). 3 ft+ of snow fell in West Virginia, North Carolina, & Tennessee. Rain & high winds swept thru all of NY (it's not just NYC, there's a whole state west of that), Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, plus New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, & into Quebec. (Yes, Canada took a whack, too.)

Can you count how many states have been affected by this? Can you count how many are nowhere near the coast? Can you count how many millions of ppl *rode out the storm* in those states?

60 million Americans were w/o power for days in at least 10 states, for hrs in the rest of them where it wasn't quite as bad. Last I looked, only 3 million left to jump start. That's one hell of an American response considering it hasn't even been a wk yet & a lot of electrical equipment was underwater. Approx 40K of those who do not have power in the hardest-hit areas now also need shelter b/c of the temp drop, in addition to the ones who no longer have a home.

These were not summer homes for the most part. This was where working class ppl lived yr-round.

And you want to sit there at your computer in your safe, dry, powered-up, heated home & call these millions of ppl *worthless Americans who don't deserve any respect*?

Un@!$%#ingbelieveable.

Get a @!$%#ing clue.

I bet you were one of those flag-waving *patriots* singing off-key along to Lee Greenwood's schmaltzy crap after 9/11. Do you need a refresher course in 3rd gr Geography as well as 2nd gr Spelling in order to recollect just where that went down?

Here's a free clue: in the area where you're now deeming them *worthless Americans who don't deserve any respect*.

That fire in Breezy Point was stopped literally inches from the home of a 9/11 widow. It's the same guys who took a decimating hit to their forces on 9/11, FDNY & NYPD, who were the 1st responders in this disaster.

Do you even know what the word *disaster* means to term them *worthless Americans who don't deserve any respect*?

Yknow what....just shut up & stop posting.

And don't ever ask for any help when you're faced w/ a disaster. Someone might decide you're a worthless American who doesn't deserve any respect just for your Monday-morning quarterbacking here alone. The internet is 4ever.

The ppl who voted you up should be equally ashamed to be such poor American citizens.

Rain & high winds swept thru all of NY (it's not just NYC, there's a whole state west of that), Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine

Forgot about Virginia & Maryland, so count a tad higher.

Thank you Scar_Tissue. Well said and dead on.

You tell 'em, scar tissue. I live in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia, nowhere near the coast. Our schools were closed for 2 days due to flooding. I have a friend in Elkins, WV whose parents just got their power back on. Some of her other family members are doing without, and probably will for a while, yet. When a storm touches TWO continents at once, where can you live safely?

It's global FLUNKING WARMING PEOPLE!! HA! All you RW dumb @!$%#s.

hey gore

So who is responsible for global warming?

It isn't humans. There are more harmful emissions that come from cattle than all the SUVs.

Most of the global warming is coming from the sun activity

You are so prophetic and deep! Did you think up all that by yourself Infallible87?

I am impressed!

I know a lot of the posts here are off topic, but what the hell?

How did you transition from another storm to racism?

Seek help please. I'll pay for the first session. I am 100% serious. Send me the bill.

barack obama doesn't like white people.

He is white. His mother was. Funny how ppl conveniently toss that bi-racial factoid aside.

Remember when that worthless black American k west said that about Bush.

Kanye West is an @!$%# who can't seem to manage his mouth (a lot like Romney). Your pt?

You haven't heard that as of yet have ya?

I'm sure it's just a matter of time. You're implying it right now.

I guarentee you this is not going to be a 100 year event.

chris

how you going to guarantee that? and how would we know? probably isn't ONE SINGLE poster on here going to be around in another 100 years..........( i say probably because its Sunday and allot of libs post comments that sound like preschoolers....hence the... "probably)

I'll say it again. I guarentee you this is not going to be a 100 year event.

How can I? Because I study weather, and for the past 20 years storms haven been increasing in tidal surge ferocity. Just ocean temperatures increasing, and sea levels rising can attribute to dramatic changes in weather patterns as well as the destruction caused. This is all I am going to say because you need to do the research. Use credible research as well; UCSUSA.org, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), World Meteorological Organization (WMO), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) are credible sources for starters.

Do u know Infallible87? You guys should open a Prophet's Website and babble in tongues!!

Ken, let me get this straight - you think all the death and destruction is funny???? Enlighten me Ken, you seem to know so much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=luKmSLXukaw

Ken-782007

Should I laugh at the East Coast now ... or later??

Enlighten us all as to where you live, where it's so safe & snug that you will never be involved in a natural disaster.

Ken, let me get this straight - you think all the death and destruction is funny????

Karma will get him eventually.

Yes mary maze! Thank you for that insight. Now please go sit in a corner, suck your thumb and do not have kids!

What forms of Liberal spending did we suffer from?

The kind that burries you $16 trillion in debt. What rock do you live under?

You endured the years of spending because your bushcat had this country ready to collapsem not to mention two wars raging. Bush walked in with a surplus and had us 12 trillion dollars in debt by the end of his regime. Four years later we're at 16 trillion and the entire debt is laid on President Obama.

You repukes aren't very good at math, are you? No comprehension skills, no math skillers, fox noise zombies.

I am moderate myself. I vote for the person and not the party, but so far I am leaning towards Obama because Mitt doesn't seem to offer anything new that doesn't repeat the failure of the Bush era. If your going to bring a republican into office you'd better start nominating people like Eisenhower. If you really want to throw me for a loop and prove everyone wrong... nominate a pagan or secular wiccan woman for president. I wont vote for a person who advocates change when they only change themselves on a dime to look better for a vote.

Ms. Penelope2, I agree with you. I think we are on the right side of the debate as most of us have listened to both sides very carefully after a long campaign and can make an intelligent discernment of who is lying to us and who is not.

I am always amazed when people blame President Obama for the public debt. It's like they can't read or don't listen, more likely won't do either because the truth conflicts with their talking points.

Most of the debt they speak of comes from the two wars that Bush started while in office but kept off the books. Wars that were prosecuted at the insistence of the majority of the citizens of the USA as an answer to the World Trade Center attack. President Obama wisely put those cost on the books and now everyone knows that war is costly not only in lives but money.

Then there is Medicar Part D, again unfunded and having to be put on the books.

No Child left behind, unfunded, but put on the books.

Tax cuts for the job creators, cutting revenue and ending the surplus left by President Clinton.

Oh I know your going to say but but the stimulus, that was 900 billion, I'll give you one trillion, but you have to give the extended unemployment benefits and middle class tax cuts that are not only helping some survive, but also increased the spending needed to keep the economy working. Oh I know this is where you say the economy is doing poorly, I answer the job creators got and are getting the tax reduction to create jobs, you might ask them why they are not.

The Auto bailout? Most of that has been repaid, and thousands of jobs were saved, those men, women and businesses are paying taxes so it's a draw financially, and a boon for our nation in keeping that manufacturing base in the USA.

I am happy that progress has been made under President Obama, and wish for it to continue. Yes I have already voted for him here in my home state of Iowa, as have many. There is much more work to do to get our nation strong, and I think that President Obama is the man to head that up. I not only want a stronger USA, I want the country to be mindful of the long term future and prepare for it.

Education, alteritive energy, balanced aproch to budget with both cuts in spending and added revenue, rebuilding and strenting the infrastructuer, are just a few of the things we as a nation must address.

We are the United States of America and we can do these things and more, if, we do not listen to the fear mongering, and hold our elected officials feet to the fire. They must do their work for America, and not the few. Those who block progress for the sake of making a one term President, or some pledge to a Private citizen are not worthy to keep their office, they have betrayed the public trust.

and that's my soapbox 2cents, glad to get it off my chest

speakthetruth, the debt started many presidents ago. Both republicans and democrats planted it and let it grow.

@ christopher..hurricane category is solely based on wind speeds..it is the other contributing factors tht make up a hurricanes devastating powers..a cat 1 can cause as much damage as a cat 4..if all other factors are are in place as it was with Sandy.....

The hurricane-turned-cyclone can claim several historical titles.

Sandy's strength, as indicated by barometric pressure just before landfall, set a record. The lower the pressure, the stronger the storm.

When hurricane hunter aircraft measured its central pressure at 940 millibars -- 27.76 inches -- Monday afternoon, it was the lowest barometric reading ever recorded for an Atlantic storm to make landfall north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The previous record holder was the 1938 "Long Island Express" Hurricane, which dropped as low as 946 millibars.

Sandy's strength and angle of approach combined to produce a record storm surge of water into New York City. The surge level at Battery Park topped 13.88 feet at 9:24 p.m. Monday, surpassing the 10.02 feet record water level set by Hurricane Donna in 1960.

Sandy's impact: State by state

New York Harbor's surf also reached a record level when a buoy measured a 32.5-foot wave Monday. That wave was 6.5 feet taller than a 25-foot wave churned up by Hurricane Irene in 2011.

As Sandy approached the Northeast, forecasters were fond of pointing out that if the hurricane were a country, the area it covered would make it the 20th largest in the world -- roughly twice the size of Texas.

@ christopher.just to school ya and learn ya'...hurricane categories are only defined by wind speed alone...with the right contributing factors a cat 1 can do as much damage as a cat 5...Sandy had all the right contributing factors....

The hurricane-turned-cyclone can claim several historical titles.

Sandy's strength, as indicated by barometric pressure just before landfall, set a record. The lower the pressure, the stronger the storm.

When hurricane hunter aircraft measured its central pressure at 940 millibars -- 27.76 inches -- Monday afternoon, it was the lowest barometric reading ever recorded for an Atlantic storm to make landfall north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The previous record holder was the 1938 "Long Island Express" Hurricane, which dropped as low as 946 millibars.

Sandy's strength and angle of approach combined to produce a record storm surge of water into New York City. The surge level at Battery Park topped 13.88 feet at 9:24 p.m. Monday, surpassing the 10.02 feet record water level set by Hurricane Donna in 1960.

Sandy's impact: State by state

New York Harbor's surf also reached a record level when a buoy measured a 32.5-foot wave Monday. That wave was 6.5 feet taller than a 25-foot wave churned up by Hurricane Irene in 2011.

As Sandy approached the Northeast, forecasters were fond of pointing out that if the hurricane were a country, the area it covered would make it the 20th largest in the world -- roughly twice the size of Texas. so for those of you that speak without knowledge and say, but it was only a cat 1..read and learn!!!...'nuff said!!!

One reason why Hurricane Sandy caused so much destruction, was the wall of water it pushed in front of its path as it moved up the New Jersey coast and north to New York, creating a storm surge. Another factor was the shape of the coastline around New York. It funnelled the fury of the storm into the land, providing a narrower and narrower space for the storm, and all of its wind and water, to occupy, forcing it higher and higher, the closer it got to land, so that when it hit, it severely flooded the land, causing flood-levels seen only once in a generation.

Hurricanes or tropical cyclones have low-pressure centre and high air pressures at the periphery. The low-pressure draws winds in to the centre of the hurricane to equalise the air pressure difference. Another effect of the low pressure in the centre of the hurricane is to raise the level of the ocean below it, so that the sea level is higher in the centre of the storm when it hits land. Wave action exacerbates this effect, adding even more height and ammunition to a dangerous and damaging situation. Hurricane Sandy, which brutally battered the mid-Atlantic region of the United States over two days, Oct. 29 and 30, is likely to be the most damaging hurricane ever, despite not being the most powerful to ever have made landfall. The tallest wave was measured at 39.67 feet at Buoy #41048. Can you imagine what a 40-foot wave looks like?

I'm happy for you and your family that you're in perfect health and you're confident that you will all stay that way. At least the county or medicaid will never have to pay your bills. You will never be in a situation where you have a pre-existing condition and will not be able to buy insurance. You're one of the fortune people.

Ms. Penelope it's me again. Did ya notice that when the storm hit how Gov. Chris Christie was calling "Fema" like a babie for it's mother's breast! How about Ryan taking advantage of stimulous money for his state, Wisconsin twice! So, when it comes right down to it, we never know what the winds of fortune may blow our way. We all need Federal Assistance at some point in our lives. As this storm brought out, tragedy is part of the human existance and sometimes it is the worst that brings out the best in us.

Vote November 6th Obama/Biden

It's hard to understand the Chief of Fox news, Mr Murdoch.Tweeting Christi telling him he just best change directions and show his support of Romney, or else!!!

LOL Did that happen? (I don't tweet b/c I think Twitter is aptly named.) That's amusing & I hope it does hurt the other aptly-named twit, Mitt. His idea of disaster relief is to send minions to Walmart to buy stuff so he can pretend ppl donated it & get in a few photo ops as he also pretends he isn't campaigning. If he was POTUS & saw a huge hurricane bearing down on Washington, he'd be at Dulles on the 1st flight to France for a vacation. Their sand is just the right height for him to draw on & lollygag in.

You sure it is the Beginning?

Maybe it's the End?

try name brand tinfoil instead of off the shelf store brand next time, it may help......

I just knew if I read this through that I would find evidence of someone saying that Obama made the storm turn inland.

Wow! If that is the case, what the heck is he doing wasting his time campaigning, he just has to use his magical powers to win a second term.

Seems to me if Obama wanted to direct this storm, he would have done better directing it to a red state, not two who likely will go blue. Just sayin'

What evidence would that be Bob?

The little voices in your head?

We have too many folks in this country that have buried their heads in that same sand they build their houses on. Global Warming??? That's all a conspiracy....lol Yeah, ok..