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I've got the power!

POSTED: Tuesday, October 30, 2012, 8:27 AM

My neighborhood in Delco is one of those places where the power occasionally shuts off during a heavy mist (that's only a slight exaggeration) so it was amazing that the power has stayed on throughout Sandy, even though one big-(bleep) tree toppled out back across a road with power lines. Also, basement flooding not as bad as some storms that didn't have names or end-of-the-world media coverage.

Which just means I'm lucky -- just because Sandy didn't seem quite as bad in Philly as forecast, it's still a) dangerous to go out around here, with a lot of downed treees and power lines -- which require extra caution -- and there are still 10s of thousands of people who don't have power and may not have it for some time. And the devastation in other places -- New York City and parts of the Jersey Shore -- is as bad or worse than people feared.

Here's the story I wrote for the Daily News:

HURRICANE SANDY - the once-in-a-lifetime hellstorm that the East Coast had feared - slammed into the Jersey Shore like a 90-mph freight train Monday night and headed into the Philadelphia area, capping a day of unprecedented devastation that flooded the coastal barrier islands from ocean to bay and ripped apart a large chunk of Atlantic City's historic Boardwalk.

How's it where you're at?

Will Bunch @ 8:27 AM Permalink | 69 comments

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:00 AM, 10/30/2012

===]] Posted 8:57 PM, 10/29/2012

Walking back this storm is going to be one of the most epic disasters in the life of the MEDIA. They have overblown the destructive power of Sandy and once this thing is over they will be scraping all over the hinterlands looking for stories of ruin and ruination.
— RufusG

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They're estimating some $20 billion in economic damages from the storm. Great analysis there, Rufus.

Tell me something - you wouldn't happen to vote Republican, would you?

— Talking point sleuth

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:08 AM, 10/30/2012

All that money they wasted on rebuilding the levees in New Orleans would have been put to better use reinforcing the sea wall around Manhattan.

— Mr. Smith

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:06 AM, 10/30/2012

Wow, the first post on Will's story about the storm involves politics. It just makes you shake your head sometimes at the anger and hatred of some people.

On a lighter note, I was expecting a He-Man, "I have the power!", clip.

— TyroneShoes

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:18 AM, 10/30/2012

Yeah they sure wasted so much money rebuilding the levees in NO. TPS its clear what Rufus means. He sought to see more destruction, for entertainment value, and is bitterly disappointed that it didn't come to fruition. And he blames the media. Granted there were a number of sensationalist broadcasts, including showing the same downed tree in Bucks Co. a dozen times, and suggesting ferocious winds while showing a tree blowing back and forth, and explaining how trees will blow one way, then another way. To suggest it needs to be walked back while millions are out of power, there is barrier island flooding for hundreds of miles, salt water in NYC tunnels and subway systems, is absurd. Apparently 50, 50!, homes in Rockaway burned.

— Murrayman

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:48 PM, 10/30/2012

"........explaining how trees will blow one way, then another way"
When I saw that newscaster demonstrating how trees blow in one direction and then when the wind switches around, the trees blow in the opposite direction, all I could do was shake my head (first to one side and then using an innate power bestowed upon me from a great source of the unknown, to the other side).

— RufusG

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:19 AM, 10/30/2012

The Echelon area of Voorhees came through just fine. No power outages that I'm aware of. Wawa's up and running. Now if we can just get PATCO running again, I can go to work.

— Frank S.

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:24 AM, 10/30/2012

End that socialist FEMA! States and the private sector can handle $20 billion in storm damage, from a *single* storm, right Mittens?

— Hamlet

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:36 AM, 10/30/2012

I have a different take on Rufus' comment, Murray.

Seems to me that his mentality is that since he didn't suffer any severe effects from the storm, therefore the magnitude of the storm was overblown (pun intended) by the media. Think of it as the mentality of someone who doesn't understand that his personal experience is not the only thing that's important. That's why I asked him if he votes Republican - such an attitude is not atypical for Republicans.

— Talking point sleuth

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:41 AM, 10/30/2012

3 million without power and an estimated 20 billion in damages. So what does the Republican Governor from NJ do? He's got his fat mitts out to Obama. I'm sure he won't bring up Mittens position on federal disater relief. What a coward.

Mitt Romney said America shouldn't be in the business of providing federal disaster relief and that it would be better for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's functions to be handled by individual states or even the private sector. Queried directly on the topic by CNN's John King during the June 13, 2011 Republican presidential primary debate at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, Romney said the federal government "cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids."

— The Fundamentals of the Economy are Fine

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:24 AM, 10/30/2012

I'm trying to decide if I should cut up and dispose of the fallen tree limbs in my yard and my neighbors' yards, or if we should all wait for the federal government to pick them up and bring us government bottled water.

Any suggestions?

— Mr. Smith

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:07 PM, 10/30/2012

Perhaps Governor Porkchop could give you some advise. He seems to have no problem being a "taker" from Obama.

— The Fundamentals of the Economy are Fine

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:34 AM, 10/30/2012

TPS, this is a spot on assessment of the typical modern day Republican. Well said.

We've been hearing about how Benghazi is "worse than Watergate" from the bobbleheads on the right. "This cover up is worse than Watergate." Blah, blah, blah. I remember hearing the same refrain about President Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky episode. Fast forward 15 years and Clinton has a 69% approval rate and even 43% amongst registered Republicans. To pretend like this faux outrage has anything to do with the death of our Ambassador or the other Americans is insulting to my intelligence. This is election year politics at it's most shallow.

Finally, remember how President Obama deserved no credit for the elimination of bin Laden? The credit should go completely to SEAL Team 6 and the our intelligence professionals, they declared. Well, ironically, we lose 4 Americans overseas and Obama is now 100% to blame. Can you imagine if the raid on the bin Laden compound hadn't been successful?

— wokmaster

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:41 AM, 10/30/2012

Why does Sikorsky get no credit for getting Bin Laden? It couldn't have happened without the Reagan-era stealth helicopter technology.

I give Navy SEALS 50%, Obama 10%, John Yoo 9%, George Bush 9%, Valerie Jarrett minus 5%, and Sikorsky 27% credit.

— Mr. Smith

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:55 AM, 10/30/2012

So Obama gets 10% of the credit? Okay, fine. How much blame to you assign to Obama for "Benghazigate"?

— wokmaster

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:02 PM, 10/30/2012

What a typical reaction to my comments from the left wing "Nanny Staters". For your information Nannys, I have family who live and own homes at the shore. If you think I wasn't concerned about their welfare you're all nuts.I'm just worried about when we are really facing the "Storm of the Century"........ What will the media say then?My comments were limited to the ungodly coverage by the news crews covering the event. That is all this was ....an event. It wasn't the end of the world as we know it, not even close to it. I do feel for those that were effected (fallen trees, flooded basements, power outages, ETC). But all in all I think the media blew (pun intended) this thing way out of pro portion. (HTML deleted)

— RufusG

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