"They are finding bodies left and right, elderly people who don’t even watch the news or who knew the storm was coming."

Those are the words spoken by SONS OF ANARCHY star Theo Rossi. He said that Hurricane Sandy’s aftermath is much worse than how the media is portraying it.. Here is the full quote as reported by EW:

It’s so bad here, a lot worse than how its being portrayed by the media. They are finding bodies left and right, elderly people who don’t even watch the news or who knew the storm was coming. I was just with one of my best friends from high school and college, and his house is completely gone. One story I heard was about this one guy who evacuated his house during Hurricane Irene but then it got looted. So when they told him to evacuate for Sandy, he said, ‘I’m not leaving.’ Now they can’t find him, his 13-year-old daughter is dead, and his wife is in critical condition at the hospital. These are the stories. My stepfather and my mother, I love them to death. But when they heard the storm was coming, they said, ‘It’s not going to be that bad. Irene didn’t do anything.’ They had two flashlights and a couple of scented candles. Little did they know. It’s just not worth it. If you’re told to evacuate, you need to get out.

Other reports are numerous of people dressing up like ConEd employees, robbing people at gunpoint. There are videos of Senator Chuck Schumer being told that with more cold nights like the previous few, more people will die..

Another storm is on the map.. It could bring wind, rain, and snow for the Northeast after election day..

The troubling part: Sand dunes that protected areas from beach flooding road flooding has been obliterated.. What may occur here is good..

I believe the unfortunate series of events appear to be set to continue..

This weather model was issued by the NWS in Mount Holly NJ showing next week’s Nor’Easter potential.. Those colors represent various wind speeds that could hit the area right now desperately trying to recover from Superstorm Sandy. 

Accuweather reports today that the storm coming next week may directly impact the areas that saw the most damage from Hurricane Sandy..

There is no consensus yet with weather models about where the next storm is going. But if it hits these areas the aftermath could be devastating for people .. Accuweather issued this map potential for next week:

One scenario for the storm takes it out to sea, not bothering the areas trying to clean up and restore power. That would be the most reasonable solution .. Another model solution keeps the storm along the coast, provides cold wind and rain for New Jersey and New York, while parts of Pennsylvania, New York, and New England will be socked with heavy snow.

This European model actually shows the storm gaining strength and becoming a Nor’Easter. Usually snow lovers would love to see a model like this in November. But this year, with the horror unleashed by the superstorm, it is not a welcome sight but instead another potentially horrific fright.

The storm, if it were to actually develop, will not be nearly as strong as Sandy—perhaps nothing for a while will be as strong as that. 

However, just the idea that another developing system could plop down  over this area is unbelievable.. 

Henry Margusity says it best with this: A new storm  could bring misery next week..

May there be a God and may he intervene and allow that storm  to blow out into the Atlantic, leaving the people of the Northeast at peace long enough to recover from this storm..

SONS OF ANARCHY star says storm aftermath is worse than how the media is portraying it

SONS OF ANARCHY star says storm aftermath is worse than how the media is portraying it

Chris Christie slightly reminds me of Danny Devito’s depiction of the Penguin from BATMAN RETURNS.. My friend told me he think Barack Obama reminds him of Catwoman from the same film. That makes sense in a way.

Whoever wedged Chris Christie into that seat needs to own  up to it now. 

Just thought of another good one: Ham and bean.

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Hurry up it’s Halloween .. 

Be safe out there.

(And don’t watch this video if you are wearing a mask. See Halloween 3 for reasons why)

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The lighter side.. though there isn’t much light about Governor Chris Christie, this picture made me laugh. I can picture a caption of Obama asking Christie, “Now Chris, I had a tuna sandwich on Air Force One, and it’s gone.. did you take my tuna sandwich?”

I’d love to hear your captions?

NOW WEATHER MODELS ARE SHOWING ANOTHER STORM NEXT WEEK!

The same places hit by Sandy, me included, may have a potential Nor’Easter come next week.. by election day.. Oh boy. This isn’t good, it cannot be good.. hopefully weather models are wrong… Hopefully…

NOW WEATHER MODELS ARE SHOWING ANOTHER STORM NEXT WEEK!

This is something I think we all feared would begin: Tempers are flaring in a NJ town where thousands are stranded

This is something I think we all feared would begin: Tempers are flaring in a NJ town where thousands are stranded

Halloween, Sandy..and countless tales of varied human emotions.

Still trying to get my head the superstorm and how much it has changed lives along the East Coast. There is suddenly a ton of nostalgia for the Jersey shore, as Governor Chris Christie says that the coastline is forever changed. Looking at images of fire and flooding, you cannot doubt that. Even more, Queens is burning with 100 homes turned into ashes.. reports of fires breaking out throughout the affected region due to gas lines or electric lines.. or who knows what.. The aftermath still isn’t fully sinking in. 6.5 million are still without power this morning—and this morning in the Northeast is very cold.. And in West Virginia, it’s even colder with feet of snow falling instead of inches, weighing down trees and branches and most certainly causing further power disruptions.. This was a storm for the record books. Did you notice, though, how many storm for the record books are happening lately? Maybe then this storm is simply a harbinger of disaster to come..

Tonight, along many of the towns destroyed and leveled by this storm, were going to have innocent children trick or treat. Those plans are off. Instead, on a night when ghosts and goblins should have been walking the streets, true horror has taken center stage.

The images being seen are unfathomable. Unthinkable.

Consider this: There are massive waves along Lake Erie due to the Superstorm. There were high winds as far as Ohio… This storm struck the entire East Coast, not only the coastline, but inland. More than a dozen states were affected by Hurricane Sandy.

That is monumental. That is amazing.. That is unbelievable.

The ‘COMING GLOBAL SUPERSTORM’ was a book written by Whitley Streiber and Art Bell late in the 20th century. In the fiction novel based on fact, they claimed earth changes were going to get so severe so quickly that once normal storms would evolve quickly into ‘superstorms’ with a warm ocean and nothing to stop them. I fondly rememebr Matt Lauer interviewing both Streiber and Bell on the TODAY show about the book, joking about their assertions and mocking the ‘superstorm’ title as a clever scare tactic.. More than a decade later the ‘quickening’ of everything seems to be setting in. The superstorm is not coming, but is here.

One year ago in my area, we were slammed with a Halloween snow storm that dumped feet of snow. This year it’s a superstorm that has decimated a number of cities, and killed at least 50. It also killed in Cuba..

A moving story from my state of Pennsylvania is stuck in my head. A father in Susquehanna County lost his 8-year-old son. The boy was going out to see if the family pets were safe… when his father said to go back in the house, he listened and was killed by a falling tree. The dad was interviewed in my local WNEP-TV news in tears saying he kept his son warm until the responders arrived..

I don’t know about you.. There were the nurses in New York City walking in the dark down dozens of stairs with sick premature babies in hand to get them to safety..

Humanity.

Innocence lost.

Heartache and heart break.. Sadness and nostalgia.

After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, we were told that was a Hurricane the likes of which we would never see again in our collective lifetime. Maybe that is correct, as the new ‘norm’ is superstorms..

Did you see any headlines this year from Asia? Probably not. But if you would have you would have known that their typhoons this year were remarkably strong….and killed lots of people in the path of each storm.

There are countless stories of heroism from Sandy the Superstorm. Unfortunately there are also countless amounts of tragedy.

What does this mixture of sadness and goodness mean? What does it say about the existence of God? What doesn’t it?

I frankly don’t know at all.

Some people will do one of two things in the aftermath: They will either cling to God or resist the idea he exists. And it will be directly due to what they have seen during this storm.

We are products of our surroundings.

As the storm winds down, the surroundings have become truly bleak for millions of people..

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.