WTF Sandy is a filthy whore!

No problems here. Only one of my clients lost power (they always lose power in any type of storm). Most of my hosted services faired the storm well. Only one VPS that I have in NYC was down (actually network was down) from 11pm till 6am.
 
shamwow said:
7 million without power :waw:
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And I bet you a high number of those are preventative. They always did that stuff in FL. Storm wouldn't even hit yet and they shutdown all the power. And they are making this thing out like the worst storm in the history of the US.
 
Floptical said:
And I bet you a high number of those are preventative. They always did that stuff in FL. Storm wouldn't even hit yet and they shutdown all the power. And they are making this thing out like the worst storm in the history of the US.
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Regardless of its damage, Sandy has already earned a place in the record books.

“There are no precedents for Sandy,” Bill Read, former director of the National Hurricane Center and now a KPRC consultant, told me.

What he means is that, in the modern hurricane record dating to 1851, it’s unprecedented for a storm to strike the mid-Atlantic states moving due west at landfall. Storms that move that far north are typically embedded within the westerlies, which accelerate them northward, and then to the northeast.

“We’ve never really seen a tropical system moving due west inland, perpendicular to New Jersey and Delaware,” Read said. The most apt comparison to Sandy may not be a tropical system at all, but rather the Ash Wednesday Storm in 1962, he said.
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This angle of incidence along the coast allowed Sandy to push a record surge into New York City. A record high water level of 13.88 feet was set at the Battery at 8:24 p.m. CT, breaking oldest official record of 10.02 feet.

Sandy also was remarkable for being an intensifying hybrid storm, meaning its intensification during the last day or two was not driven so much by warm water, but energy gained as it collided with a strong cold front. This is known as baroclinic forcing.

This allowed Sandy to intensify from a 75-mph hurricane to 90-mph sustained winds by Monday afternoon. But wind speed is only one measure of intensity. Another is central pressure, the lower the more organized a system is. Sandy’s central pressure bottomed out at 940 millibars, setting a record for the lowest pressure of an Atlantic storm north of Cape Hatteras, N.C.

Sandy was also massive.

According to the National Hurricane Center, Sandy became the second largest Atlantic tropical cyclone since 1988, behind 2001′s Hurricane Olga, which had tropical storm force winds extending out to 600 miles. On Monday Sandy was about twice the size of hurricane Ike.

So by many meteorological metrics: direction at landfall, storm surge, central pressure and size, Sandy was truly a remarkable storm.
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http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2012/1...ords-but-its-already-a-meteorological-legend/

This is why the meteorologists are busting a nut over this.
 
I'm not saying it's not a crazy event for the location and this time of year. Nor am I downplaying how bad it must be for the people affect. All I'm saying is that they are making this up to be the worst storm ever.
 
Floptical said:
I'm not saying it's not a crazy event for the location and this time of year. Nor am I downplaying how bad it must be for the people affect. All I'm saying is that they are making this up to be the worst storm ever.
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It's not just the hurricane. It's the snow storm that's meeting up with it that makes it worse.
 
Floptical said:
I'm not saying it's not a crazy event for the location and this time of year. Nor am I downplaying how bad it must be for the people affect. All I'm saying is that they are making this up to be the worst storm ever.
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Uh it is pretty historic. It's beat records. So...no biggie, though.
 
The other thing that isn't being mentioned for you Floridians.....after all these power outages and flooding, the water is going to freeze. And I don't think people want to skate in the subways, etc.
 
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