Frankenstorm vs. Frankenelection

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Frankenstorm verhit de gemoederen, voelt u het ook ?

News Day.com - 'Frankenstorm' possibility impacts Mitt Romney, Barack Obama plans in tight race

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Zal deze "regen" het verkiezingsproces zwaarmaken of vertragen ?

CNBC - 'Frankenstorm' Heads Towards Northeast as Millions Brace

Tropical cyclone Sandy revved back up to hurricane strength on Saturday as it churned toward the U.S. northeast coast where it threatens to become one of the worst storms in decades.

Hurricane Sandy, NYC
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Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) workers lay down plywood over subway grates at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal to prevent flooding in New York.
The late-season storm has been dubbed "Frankenstorm" by some weather watchers because it will combine elements of a tropical cyclone and a winter storm and is forecast to reach the U.S. coast close to Halloween.

Forecast models show it will have all the ingredients to morph into a so-called "super storm."

Governors in states along the U.S. East Coast declared emergencies on Friday, with officials urging residents to stock up on food, water and batteries.

The U.S. Navy ordered all ships in the Norfolk, Virginia, area, including a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, out to sea to ride out the approaching storm.

"We're expecting a large, large storm," said Louis Uccellini, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Center for Environmental Prediction. "The circulation of this storm as it approaches the coast could cover about the eastern third of the United States."

Sandy battered the Bahamas southeast of Florida on Friday after causing widespread destruction in eastern Cuba a day earlier. Th e storm was expected to crawl northward on Saturday and Sunday and then turn toward the U.S. coast.

Sandy's powerful winds and rains were blamed for 41 deaths in several Caribbean countries, including 11 in Cuba. Most were killed by falling trees and building collapses.

On its current projected track, Sandy could make U.S. landfall on Monday night or Tuesday somewhere between North Carolina and southern New England, forecasters said.

The storm has the potential to cause widespread power outages and to unleash flooding and even dump snow as far inland as Ohio. It also threatens to disrupt air travel along the U.S. East Coast.

At 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT), Sandy was about 335 miles (540 km) southeast of Charleston, South Carolina, and packing top sustained winds of 75 miles (120 km) per hour, the U.S. National Hurricane Center.

It had earlier dropped just below hurricane strength but little overall change on strength was expected ahead of its anticipated U.S. landfall early next week, the Miami-based Hurricane Center said.

The storm picked up a little forward speed overnight but was still moving slowly over the Atlantic at 10 mph (17 kph).

Presidential Election

The massive storm has continued to grow in size with tropical force winds extending 450 miles (725 km) from its center, government forecasters said.

Coming in the final weeks before the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 6, the storm was presenting a challenge to the campaigns of U.S. President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

[Johan Bollen]

Hoe dichter bij de verkiezingen hoe 'tighter' de race in de VS. Dat is steeds zo. Dat is de indruk die het mediacircus in deze bipartidaire corporatieve staat wil geven. Het scheppen van de illusie een verschil te kunnen maken in het stemhokje. Aangezien de opkomst lager is dan 50 % (van die wat [nog] mogen gaan stemmen) is het nodig deze illusie in stand te houden en er maanden op voorhand dagelijks mee bezig te zijn. Anders zou waarschijnlijk nog geen 30 % gaan stemmen.

Er zijn zoveel stormen op de wereld. Wat moeten zij ons nu al gaan bezig houden met een storm die op komst is? Zijn er echt geen belangrijkere dingen dan de fait divers uit de VS? Toch wel, maar niet als je de imperiale media moet geloven.

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Misschien dat we vanavond reeds meer weten.

Het zou 3 dagen kunnen duren, 3 dagen opruimen en reparaties. Dan staan de verkiezingen voor de deur. Misschien power outages in het Midden-Westen tijdens de verkiezingen.

Overdreven ? We zullen zien...



CNBC

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Voor de eerste keer sinds 11 september 2001...

WALL STREET CLOSED...


European markets left in limbo as Wall Street closed for first time since 9/11



Dat het laaaaaaang mag duren... wat een rust !!!

edit : Weg met de banksters en hun supercasino's !

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Wall Street Journal - New York - 'Frankenstorm' Headed to Region

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GUARDIAN - New York Stock Exchange closed by weather for first time since 1985

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_{Scores of Twitter users have flooded the social networking site announcing their plans to go on looting sprees once Hurricane Sandy makes landfall, as the New York National Guard announced it would put troops on duty in Long Island to prevent such activity.}

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[Wiley E Coyote]

Wanneer de storm toeslaat ten noorden van Washington DC zal er electoraal gezien geen echte gevolgen zijn... die kuststaten (MD, NJ, NY, PA) zijn normaal een "lock" voor Obama. Wanneer de storm toeslaat ten zuiden van DC, dan hangt alles er van af waar exact: het Noorden van Virginia is immers Democratisch, het rurale zuidelijke gedeelte en North Carolina zijn eerder Republikeins. In die staten kan de storm potentiel gevolgen hebben voor de opkomst... en hangt het er van af waar exact hij het hardst toeslaat.

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Dank U @Wiley E Coyote.

Laat ons wait & see...

[D'ARTOIS]

Alle "zegen" komt van boven.

Een toepasselijk thema voor deze "Biblelovers".

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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door D'ARTOIS

Alle "zegen" komt van boven.

Een toepasselijk thema voor deze "Biblelovers".

Juist. Circus & Show, let it go on... for now.

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Simulatie van de storm Sandy in 1996

<sub>Back in the late 90s, the National Hurricane Center in Miami conducted a drill based on a fictional hurricane named Sandy. In the drill, the storm strikes the East Coast.

The fictitious storm was modeled after the Hurricane of 1938. The “Long Island Express” was a Category 3 hurricane that hit Long Island and killed nearly 800 people cause nearly $5 billion in damages.

The hurricane now projected to hit the New Jersey coast is being compared to the Long Island Express.

A web page has surfaced from 1996 (the date is timestamped on the page’s source code) with “texts of the simulated bulletins, forecasts, discussions and strike probabilities along with the hurricane’s track were sent home with the seminar attendees. We named the simulated hurricane after Sandy, who incidentally was nine years old during the real Hurricane of 1938.”</sub>

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De grote storm in New England (1938), het leger der werklozen helpt...

VIDEO - Great New England Hurricane (1938)

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The ol' US of A