You can think of Sandy as being a huge left-wing circle jerk.
Hurricane Sandy, could be the largest storm ever to hit the United States, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Yes, and Michael Mann won the Nobel prize.
It could be the largest threat to human intelligence, since McKitten’s last tweet.
Why doesn’t he just tweet: “We’re all gonna die, we’re all gonna die! Mommy!!!!”.
Steven,
I thought my wife’s ‘silent but deadly’ was the worse threat….
Mckibble is trying to stop the use of fossil fuels. Maybe he should consult those that have been trying to stop the use of drugs and get some tips on how they are doing. Or maybe, he should try the NRDC suggestion that people eat one less meal of chicken a week and see if he could accomplish that much. OR maybe even a smaller goal, try to get people to stop drinking sodas so they won’t be so fat, something simple. He has to satisfy his OCD to get people to STOP doing something he deems bad for the planet, but he may be shooting a tad too high.
TWC is claiming the wind field extend to Atlanta. They just had gusts. Are the meteorologists attributing everything to this Cat 1 (questionable on even hurricane status) the approaching front/jet stream?
“Largest” as in area covered, but hey.. when you’re trying to sell scary stories, you don’t highlight facts like that.
I recently suffered through a long rambling interview of McKibbin… sustainability, organic farming is good, produce local, decentralisation, fossil fuels really really bad, economic growth bad, importance of connection with natural world, loss of community, peoples houses are too large, people are less happy than they were 50 years ago, materialism bad, fossil fuels bad…
30 minutes of platitudes disconnected from any practical solution or useful idea.
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Live Radar has it already dissipating?
http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar.php?rid=AKQ&product=N0Z&overlay=11101111&loop=yes
According to Joe Bastardi, the 1944 hurricane had a much larger area of hurricane force winds than Sandy, it had a 400 mile diameter of hurricane force winds.
I doubt that Sandy has any hurricane force winds.
He really should save some of this for Halloween. Then he can put a flashlight under his chin, and tweet scary stories from under his sheets.
So all of these never happened then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Jersey_hurricanes
The winter storm of 1993 effected the entire east coast and stretched from central America up to new England. That is kinda big.
Top 10 Damaging Hurricanes Within 50 Miles of Sandy’s Landfall (cost in 2012 dollars – WOW! That is 46.8 Trillion bucks in 1938)
New England Sep 21,1938 $46,840,000,000
Diane Aug 19,1955 $24,110,000,000
Carol Aug 31,1954 $19,290,000,000
Agnes Jun 22,1972 $19,010,000,000
…more at RP Jr. site:
-http://bit.ly/YeRQBZ
This strong Cat.-3 Hurricane struck several coastal areas of New England in September of 1938 with little warning, killing 256 people and moving at a forward speed over 50 MPH. The Blue Hill Observatory at Milton, Massachusetts reported a sustained wind of 121 MPH with a gust of 183 MPH. Hartford Connecticut had a low pressure reading of 28.04 inches. Just over 2000 people were injured. [Great Video. Last night my grandmother back i of n NYC told me on the phone that the hurricane of 1938 was the first time she ever missed a day of work.]
http://youtu.be/7b21g-5YBLs
…Sandy is only Category 1. If it were any bigger and the size of a continent, then I’d see it as a bad storm. Historical evidence shows that the 1880’s had the worst hurricanes EVER.