After Hurricane Sandy passed Jamaica and spared Treasure Beach from major damage (read more) it continued on to Cuba, Hispaniola, and then the Bahamas and surrounding islands causing over 50 deaths, mainly in Haiti. (read more)

Its now off the eastern coast of the United States and causing some real havoc.


as of 11am CDT, Monday Oct 29, 2012

Here are some links to follow its progress:

General storm location, strength, and projections (video with ausio automatically plays)
http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hurricanes/depression-storm-eighteen-20121020

Webcams in affected areas
http://www.brobible.com/life/article/hurricane-sandy-10-webcams

Here are some pictures of flooding in New York City already before the storm even hits.
http://gizmodo.com/5955575/earth-photo-shows-sandys-massive-size

Let's all keep the people in the storm's path in our thoughts and prayers.

-TBNet

We apparently have become the opposite of those people who delight in chasing hurricanes; instead, Hurricane Sandy has chased us.

We left Treasure Beach Saturday after weathering Hurricane Sandy in perfect shape. We felt a stretch of turbulence flying back into Baltimore. That's when we flew over Hurricane Sandy as it was heading for the U.S. We drove back to Virginia (outside Washington, D.C.). Shelves in supermarkets were already almost empty.

As opposed to Treasure Beach, our house here has virtually no steel, concrete, or block. We have large glass windows. We have no generator. We have no cistern. We have a lot of very tall trees very close to our home.

The Federal Government is shut--as are airports, public transit, trains, schools, and banks. Everyone is expecting to lose power--perhaps for a week; that means no telephone, heat, TV, or computer communications. Winds in this area could be 80-90 mph, and we could get 10 inches of rain.

I will do my best to post another update, but no power will mean no way to post anything else.

Keep yourselves dry, TAB

Just received an alert from our local government:

"Hurricane Sandy is about to get worse.

Think of the derecho storm with high winds in June that lasted 24 minutes. The winds we’re about to experience beginning this afternoon are like the derecho, but they will last for 24 hours.

To paraphrase: Instead of 24 minutes of dangerous winds, it will be 24 hours of dangerous conditions.

We need you to stay off the roads and indoors as travel will become extremely dangerous with winds and heavy rain beginning this afternoon.

Several inches of rain and potential flooding could start happening. We’re beginning to get reports of flooded roads."

(As an FYI, those 24 minutes the end of June knocked out our power for more than 72 hours. Many others were nowhere as fortunate as we were--with their power being out for seven or eight days. Luckily, the temperature inside our house will not go up to over 100 degrees as it did this summer.)

Hurricane Sandy: Huge Sloppy Furious Storm Convergence BUT Barely a Whisper about Climate Change as a Serious Issue Ignored at Our Own Peril...How Close to the Absolute Tipping Point?

For the millions about to lose their power on the East Coast of the US from the effects of hurricane force winds, and to those being evacuated from vast flood-prone areas, we pray your/our safety and a reasonable recovery...and that wise emphatic leadership takes the long view of our succeeding generations into consideration.
Damage assessment on the phenomenon of Tropical Storm Sandy ought to go way beyond it being merely the 18th (average 11) named storm of a busy Atlantic season...and the season is not yet over.
With a projection of about 10 million homes being without power, for what may be a considerable length of time, in the US, after its direct plunge through Jamrock, Sandy won't soon be forgotten.

Huffington Post Link:
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/29/hurricane-sandy-climate-change_n_2038859.html? view=print&comm_ref=false

Observer: Blackout From Sandy Most Vexing:
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20121029/cleisure/cleisure4.html

Woe to the Farmers: 11,000 Affected By Hurricane Sandy
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20121029/news/news1.html

All prepared here in Niagara, Canada on the shores of Lake Erie. Tonight we are expecting winds to 100 Km/hr, 50mm of rain, and 7m waves.

We've been though this before and will pull together again. I live in a very small community where we rely on our neighbors. I guess that's why I feel so at home in Treasure Beach.

I'm happy that temperatures are not expected to drop below zero. At least we won't have to deal with ice and snow this time. I hope those big trees don't fall!

Wishing everyone in the path of Sandy good luck tonight.

Jah bless
DavidJ

110,000 without power in Massachusetts right now. We have very hard winds and rain in Boston at the moment.

Landfall should happen between 6pm and 9pm.

Actually as I made that post, I saw the news, 172,000 without power as 5pm.

Just spoke with my brother near Worcester, MA. A 20 ft. spruce tree has fallen in his yard taking a few pieces of other trees with it. Thankfully, it fell away from the house. They were without electricity for a few hours but have gotten it back. Lots of rain and about 50 mph winds.

We lost power but got it back in less than five hours. Amazing. Compared to what others experienced--and are still experiencing, we know we were exceedingly fortunate.

At one point, there were millions in the greater Washington-Baltimore area with no electricity and a lot of flooding; some experienced snow blizzards. I don't know what the "power out" number is right now in the Washington area--and up and down the East Coast--and need to go watch TV news coverage.

We are getting e-mails from those who were worried about us, and we thank them for all their concern and prayers.

Frankenstorm::Monster Storm::Superstorm

With so many Jamaicans having families and friends, centered in the New York City area, with dear members emanating thousands of miles from the center of freakishly cyclonic Sandy, the Observer (AP) gives a narrative sense of the howling, pelting, drenching, sea-surging forces that brought deep anxiety to those in her path and those who worry for them.
This will be some massive Clean-up and Recovery effort...at a huge cost to strapped economies! At times like this, we put our metaphoric shovels on our shoulders, and in whatever way we can, help to dig out and replant some seeds for future harvests.

Is it just an irony how much sand Stormy Sandy has moved around, and her wicked foreboding of "erosions"?

Observer:Sandy leaves death, damp and darkness in US
www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Sandy-leaves-death--damp-and-darkness-in-US

Gleaner:Sandy's Devastation In US Could Affect Jamaica's Tourism
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20121030/lead/lead5.html

Traveller's Flight Concerns:
www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/For-travellers--Sandy-s-aggravation-spans-globe

New York City got clobbered. Transportation through the city is still down.