My mind boggled by the images I am seeing

It’s Halloween Eve. But real horror has displaced the fictitious.

There is more horror than this blanketing airwaves and net streams.. The aftermath of Sandy is unbelievable .. The destruction caused is unfathomable..

Stay tuned, I will have many more thoughts on this. I have been without power due to the storm as well, and now that I am seeing the images on TV my mind is completely shocked.. I am at a loss for words, but will find the words to presents my thoughts in a coherent manner (or at least try)..

There is something frightening about three transformers exploding outside your house at 1am. And something even more eerie about your home plunged into cold and darkness. It stops feeling like your house.

I have a theory, one born from that very feeling today of being isolated in my own home. I believe electricity has a feeling to it, I believe that electricity can make you feel alive and good.. and in a sense God or whatever made us is electricity (ever hear the idea of the electrical universe?) Anyway just a theory.

In the mean time.. I cannot even imagine how one starts to rebuild along the Jersey shore, or how one starts to clean up lower Manhattan, or how one digs out of three feet of snow like in West Virginia. Actually I do know how someone digs out of three feet of snow… as we do here in the coal region of PA, when the snow is measured in feet and not inches, call a guy with a plow.

True Halloween horror as caskets float out of the ground in Maryland courtesy of Hurricane Sandy

How did everyone do during the superstorm?

I for one will never forget it even though I want to …

I guess I won’t be going this way

The coal speaker survives, very limited internet, no power, but supplies water and other necessities in stock..

Sandy strikes

Three very loud explosions and power gone ..

But I’m not alone. There’s 7 million of us out of power now, and a big club.

Tonight feels eerie.. It’s creepy with the wind blowing listening to AM radio, prophets who predict doom and truck drivers who see gloom..

Tonight on Coast to Coast AM: Hurricane Coverage..

And on the program will be one of my favorite guests (mostly because he was a staple of Art Bell’s show): John Hogue. He is the Nostradomus expert. And if you read what he wrote about a year ago, he actually predicted some type of carnage and nation-paralyzing tropical storms. Maybe he was right? See his article here

If he wasn’t right, you’re still sure to hear George Noory mangle words and callers claim Bigfoot did it.

I sure miss Art Bell.

Here at Coal Speaker home base

The winds are truly ferocious right now. I am actively getting candles and flashlights ready.. My son is sleeping. It’s been a long evening waiting for these winds, but now it’s close to 60 to 70MPH gusts .. incredible power. Lights are flickering. I don’t believe I’ll be here much longer than this. Goodnight for now. Unless power is out for days, see you tomorrow. 

Five fake 'photos' from NYC that are being shared on social media.

Five fake 'photos' from NYC that are being shared on social media.

AP reporting on NYC's dark night

The AP dispatch goes:

 Much of New York was plunged into darkness Monday by a superstorm that overflowed the city’s historic waterfront, flooded the financial district and subway tunnels and cut power to nearly a million people.

AP reporting on NYC's dark night

Thank you for the fact check from THEPETE on the subway photo I posted that wasn’t technically the ‘subway’. And if you don’t follow THEPETE on Tumblr you should.

Thank you for the fact check from THEPETE on the subway photo I posted that wasn’t technically the ‘subway’. And if you don’t follow THEPETE on Tumblr you should.

Someone earlier asked where the photo of the subway filling up was from

My best guest: Hoboken. See this yFrog image

The city that never sleeps. 

This image from ABC news, showing the subway system filling up with water..

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The initial explosion at the Con Ed Plant, E14th and FDR.

And here is WHEN the lights DID go out on Broadway, and all of Lower Manhattan. Check out this video, fast forward to 3:10 minutes. Then the lights really went out..NYC 2012.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

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Different circumstance, I know. But Billy Joel’s song MIAMI 2017 (SEEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT ON BROADWAY) is hitting a nerve tonight.. Good lucky New York City.. and all others along the coast who are battered and bruised by the superstorm known as Sandy.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

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The storm surge rushing through the Battery Tunnel. Wow..

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

I suspect this photo, taken by John Minchillo of the AP, will make its way around news wires fast. . it’s water pouring into Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan…

I cannot even believe my eyes.. Take a look at this image shot by A Burton of Getty Images. It’s water rushing into an underground parking garage in New York City. I am stunned at the sights.. Lots more images like this around the net tonight, including some amazing shots of lower Manhattan in the dark with power out.