PHOTOS: Hurricane Sandy, And The Beach
On Saturday, a few folks in the barrier island summer hotspots of Long Beach Island and the Seasides were boarding up
On Long Beach Island, some businesses are all covered up, ready for what might come.
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Much of the emphasis on Saturday for those preparing for Hurricane Sandy appears to have been in stocking up on necessities to ride out the predicted aftermath.
On Long Beach Island and in Seaside Heights and Seaside Park, most of the homes were quiet on Saturday -- locked up, as they have been since the summer tourist season ended.
Some came in from Pennsylvania and New York to gather belongings and make sure everything was packed up, but most of the homes simply wait for the coming storm. Plywood or other covering for windows was seen sporadically.
In Seaside Park, fishermen gathered on the beach for the Hudson River Fishermen's Association's annual fall surf fishing tournament, casting clams and lures into the building waves.
Take a look at a few photos from Saturday's preparations.
Paul E Taylor Jr
9:30 am on Sunday, October 28, 2012
STORM IDIOT OF THE DAY AWARD (BENNIES, NO BRAINS)
Ro was working yesterday at Shop Rite in Bloomfield. The store was mobbed from 7am when they opened till after she went home..
Some guy came in to the store and bought 6 of the 4 packs of LIGHT BU
LBS !!! What in the hell is this guy going to do with light bulbs????? Act like Uncle Fester and put them in his mouth to turn them on? Give me a break LOL I I saw some seniors buying 2 or 3 gallons of milk and a couple of dozen eggs too. No way they will consume that much and if power goes out, most of that will go bad.
TIPS WHEN POWER GOES OUT. IF YOU HAVE SOME OF THE ICE CHEST ICE PACKS, PUT THEM IN YOUR FREEZER AND WHEN POWER GOES OUT, PUT 1 OR 2 IN YOUR REFRIG AND THE REST KEEP IN THE FREEZER. ALSO DO NOT OPEN AND CLOSE YOUR REFRIG THAT OFTEN.
jerseyswamps
10:02 am on Sunday, October 28, 2012
Parts of Sea Bright and Monmouth Beach are flooded. At 8 a.m. water was bubbling up from under the sea wall and flooding Ocean Ave.
Renee S
10:26 am on Sunday, October 28, 2012
Hahaha! Light bulbs... Dear lord. And fill up zip lock bags 1/2-3/4 water n freeze.. no power tuck them in your fridge. Keeps fridge cooler longer then when it melts you have water :) Stay safe everyone.
Joseph Elfelt
10:48 am on Sunday, October 28, 2012
I previously posted some interactive map links that displayed data files prepared by NOAA. However, I failed to understand exactly what the data files were showing. My apologies. Here is the corrected information.
Below are 3 interactive map links that should always display the most recent wind-related forecast that NOAA has posted for Hurricane Sandy. Each map pertains to a single wind speed threshold. Click a color on the map to see the percent probability that this wind speed threshold will be met or exceeded in a sustained manner (1-minute average) at 10 meters (~33 ft) above ground level. The maps are displayed by the browser app Gmap4.
Likelihood in percent that the wind will reach or exceed 34 knots (39 mph)
http://www.mappingsupport.com/p/gmap4.php?q=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gis/forecast/archive/latest_wsp34knt120hr_tenthDeg.kmz&ll=35.925443,-72.742187&t=h&z=4&hillshade=0
Likelihood in percent that the wind will reach or exceed 50 knots (58 mph)
http://www.mappingsupport.com/p/gmap4.php?q=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gis/forecast/archive/latest_wsp50knt120hr_tenthDeg.kmz&ll=34.275166,-73.939453&t=h&z=4&hillshade=0
Likelihood in percent that the wind will reach or exceed 64 knots (74 mph) hurricane force
http://www.mappingsupport.com/p/gmap4.php?q=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gis/forecast/archive/latest_wsp64knt120hr_tenthDeg.kmz&ll=32.543476,-74.480469&t=h&z=4&hillshade=0
George
10:56 am on Sunday, October 28, 2012
Thanks, Joseph. What do the dark blue areas on the storm surge map mean? Will I be 10 ft. underwater or will there just be 1 ft. or so in my house? Repost the link for those who missed it the first time.
Joe
12:25 pm on Sunday, October 28, 2012
What does the light blue area mean. Half our house is in light blue, the other okay.
Joseph Elfelt
3:21 pm on Sunday, October 28, 2012
I wish it was a bit easier to decipher NOAA's data. This posted has a correction to the first storm surge map.
Below are two new interactive map links that should always display the most recent storm surge forecasts that NOAA has posted for Hurricane Sandy.
Click a color to see storm surge height in feet, above normal tide levels. NOAA says there is a 10% chance that these heights will be exceeded. In other words, there is a 90% chance these surge heights will not be reached.
http://www.mappingsupport.com/p/gmap4.php?q=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT18/AL1812_exceed10_latest.kmz&ll=40.482646,-73.793118&t=h&z=8&hillshade=0
Click a color to see the probability in percent of a Hurricane storm surge of at least 5 feet.
http://www.mappingsupport.com/p/gmap4.php?t=h&q=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT18/AL1812_psurge5_latest.kmz&ll=40.482646,-73.793118&t=h&z=8&hillshade=0