This too shall pass. Amazing shot.

thedeadline:

Calm after the storm: sun’s about to come up on the Outer Banks. (New photo) (Taken with instagram)

NEW YORK CITY: TORNADO WARNING

Also now: 3.1 million homes and businesses are without power

NEW YORK CITY: TORNADO WARNING

Another Reuters image (this photographer had to be having fun watching).. of the revelers, seemingly grown adults, playing water slide on the streets of New York City. Looks fun.

And it looks like the Irish pubs that stayed open last night in the city had customers.. 

The city that never sleeps.. Reuters photog Brendan McDermid captures an image of really happy and very wet revellers in Times Square as Irene struck.. 

The moment it occurred: A hurricane passes directly over New York City

HUDSON RIVER IS OVERFLOWING..

..portions of New York City beginning to get flooded.. 

As said: The storm surge was the true worry of this storm.. And now events are showing why it was a valid concern..

The hurricane, by the way, is right over New York City now .. it’s going to race as of now, though, caught up with the right steering currents..

THE EAST RIVER IS TOPPING ITS BANKS RIGHT NOW

Winds are getting intense.. Strong East wind..

MSNBC RIGHT NOW ON LONG BEACH

Tidal flooding is beginning.. water is rushing the beach .. Al Roker is reporting that streets are flooding and cars are being inundated with water from the ocean .

Winds right now: 75 MPH according to the latest.. Gusts stronger

…I still think it’s lost the power it had. It started last night… And now we will just with for the latest from the hurricane hunters

A little on Long Beach Island.. by God good luck there 

inothernews:

Irene is pummelling the sand berms at Long Beach on Long Island, and while Channel 7’s NJ Burkett was reporting, the storm surge knocked a two-story lifeguard building off its pilings and into the boardwalk.

This storm should be downgraded!!!

So when will the NHC do it?

I’m not saying winds and rains are over (believe it’s even coming down outside my window and I know Jersey and NYC are in for some tough hours) but the dry air last night really destroyed the power of Irene. And thankfully so..

Dodged a bullet perhaps? …we still got shot .. but maybe only with an air rifle..

New York City during Irene.. I absolutely LOVE this AP photo..

For my readers in New York

I understand the Irish pubs remain open. Have fun

For those wondering about Long Beach Island..

I have received no responses from followers there on how things were.. And that troubles me greatly..

Tonight in Kill Devil Hills, NC, by AP Photo/Robert Ray

Tonight: Empty streets in New York City

Lewes, Delaware, tornado..

Comments on the big networks..

…they say that the dry air won’t stop the storm. I agree.. But it will do more than what some may think.. Any little bit of dry weather and weakening will help this thing not be as bad as feared. Although think of it this way: For places that are only 10 feet above sea level, a storm surge along with 12 inches of rain along the coast is going to be pretty bad. And even more, for the inland areas, 6 inches of rain on saturated ground isn’t going to be pretty

The 9PM update.. this storm is practically vanishing on satellite! That dry is working

Latest... Irene "Weaker but still menacing"

That from CBS news..

Menancing, sure.. and weakening surely. That dry air surge truly did a number on Irene.. I look forward to the newest stats when they come out from the NHC .. I wondering if this storm gets a downgrade any time before it gets to NYC?

And that is NOT TO SAY THIS WILL NOT PRODUCE RAIN. 17 inches in North Carolina, a high tide with tonight’s new moon, is all sure to produce flooding. Maybe we can cut down on some of these winds, though..

As I said.. DRY AIR. Keep it coming

I am not saying wind and rain is over..

But that dry air has certainly moved into Irene.

Here’s hoping it keeps going..

....the dry air came in.

See the radar? Is it me or did this thing just stop being a hurricane????

Oh boy…

notyouthculture:

This is the aftermath of the last Category 2 hurricane to make landfall in Long Beach Island.

Anyone out there from Long Beach Island?

And if so.. how is everything going in my little favorite vacation spot along the Atlantic? .. I hope all is well.. and I fear it’s not.

And how about my second favorite place? …Asbury Park?

THE STORM SURGE IS GOING TO BE THE REAL ISSUE FOR A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE

It amazes me.. and quite frankly scares me.. how massive this hurricane is.

Boats aren’t lasting, as shown by this …

Worries about the inmates at Rikers Island prison..

….things are happening that (hopefully) won’t happen for another 100 years.

So far..

Irene leaves 900,000 homes, businesses without power on East Coast

6:30 IRENE…

TONIGHT....

Northeast in for Long Night of Strong Winds, Flooding & Power Outages 

YOU KNOW IT'S BIG...

…WHEN BRIAN WILLIAMS DOES WEEKENDS…

So sign of a mass exodus in New York City.. parked cars and calm roadways..

So sign of a mass exodus in New York City.. parked cars and calm roadways..

ThePeteTV's HURRICAM 2001™ LIVE-STREAMING #IRENE

A live webcam from NYC. 

thepete:

Yes, I’m being overdramatic. Your point? ;P  Anyway, “enjoy” this “exciting” view out of my apartment window on the other buildings and the sky around my home as Irene arrives.  You probably won’t see much and may want to check out cam 3 at this site (look for cam3 beneath the live image).  Click the “Continue reading…” below if you don’t see the player.

Only a few thousand people have gone into shelters into New York City

Only a few thousand people have gone into shelters into New York City

Here she blows at 6pm// Irene strong still as it SLOOOOOWLY moves north..

17 INCHES OF RAIN IN NORTH CAROLINA!

17 INCHES OF RAIN IN NORTH CAROLINA!

once in a lifetime thing.. The floor of Grand Central, so clean you can eat off of it! … well maybe not that clean..

zainyk:

gq:

Grand Central Terminal, Saturday afternoon, Aug. 27

[via @nickconfessore]

The floor of Grand Central looks so clean. If Victoria station were emptied the floor would basically just be tramps urine.

Surf’s up…

How is everyone dealing out there?

Readers from North Carolina, Jersey, D.C., Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, and the lovers in Virginia: HOW ARE YOU ALL HOLDING UP?

Here is where the dangers are for the East Coast..

Here is where the dangers are for the East Coast..

Irene at 4pm.

Flapping in the wind:

Virginia Beach hit by a hurricane.. 
Reporter hit with wind.
Viewers hit with a streaker 

She’s a monster. Can you spot Irene?

breakingnews:

Full Disk Image of Earth Captured August 26, 2011 by NASA Goddard Photo and Video on Flickr.

Hurricane Irene can be seen on the U.S. East Coast.

Update: This satellite movie, released earlier today (August 27) by NASA, shows Hurricane Irene moving through the Bahamas and making landfall at Cape Lookout, North Carolina at around 8 a.m. EDT today.

shortformblog:

More from Irene: The flooding is the real danger, guys. It’s a huge storm and is dropping a ton of rain. Enough to engulf a car, apparently. An incredible shot. (via Twitter user @MsNakiaB, who has posted a ton of photos today)

Game over: This AP photo taken by H. Rumph Jr shows a young Phillies fan watching the tarp cover the field.. The game is off. Florida Marlins vs Philadelphia postponed until after Irene.

A few tourists remaining in Times Square. Depending on which side of New York City Irene travels, they may be forced to leave rather quickly.

Irene.. Landfall. Good luck all

Finally some hope over hype

A silver lining as one forecaster says Irene will fizzle north of Delaware..

New York reacts

How are New Yorkers reacting to Mayor Bloomberg’s order to leave? They’re going to the beach!!

Irene is for lovers….

STATES BEGINNING TO DECLARE EMERGENCIES.. CHRISTIE TELLS SUNBATHERS TO ‘GET THE HELL’ OFF THE BEACH

Will the eye pass over NYC!? Developing..

AP writes: New Yorkers, many of them without cars, don’t have much time to get out of the way before the city shutters its subways, buses and trains on Saturday

BLOOMBERG MAKES THE CALL: TELLS 300,000 NEW YORKERS TO LEAVE THE CITY

SUBWAY SHUTDOWN

"Waiting until the last minute is not a smart thing to do. This is life-threatening."

Wow..

Mean Irene: POWER OUTAGES COULD LAST FOR DAYS // FLOODING COULD BE MASSIVE // HOMES CAN BE DAMAGED // BUILDINGS CAN FACE DAMAGE // THIS IS GOING TO BE HUGE

Mean Irene: POWER OUTAGES COULD LAST FOR DAYS // FLOODING COULD BE MASSIVE // HOMES CAN BE DAMAGED // BUILDINGS CAN FACE DAMAGE // THIS IS GOING TO BE HUGE

Latest:

Forecaster: “Very bad”
Airlines cancel flights..
State of emergency New Jersey..
Hurricane supplies moved to Northeast..
Prepping for the worst..
New York City readies..
Cape May County, New Jersey, beginning mandatory evacuations Friday..
New York City: 30 feet above sea level.. Atlantic City: 8 feet above sea level .. Asbury Park: 21 feet above sea level.. Ocean City: 8 feet above sea level.. 
US Navy predicting 30 feet waves for New York region.. 
Forecasts: Baltimore: up to 8 inches of rain.. Ocean City: Up to 10 inches of rain.. Philadelphia: Up to 8 inches of rain .. Cape May: Up to 10 inches of rain.. New York City: Up to 12 inches of rain.. More in Providence, Hartford, Portland, and all the way up to Maine.. Hurricane or tropical force winds expected..

We’ll sing this soon.. until then get ready

Watch this video-- THEN PREPARE!!!!

Watch this video-- THEN PREPARE!!!!

I'll be honest...

I’m worried for my followers and readers.. and especially New Yorkers… Please be safe. Get supplies. This will be a storm unlike any in recent memory, if not your life… This is big, this is bad.. last time NYC got this type of a storm was the 1890s…. 

For some, storm clouds can’t stop vacation..

She just destroyed the Bahamas… and … who knows what’s next

Once in a 50-year-storm possible... ready?

Irene just destroyed the Bahamas.. it’s coming to the east Coast.. NYC is going to face some very difficult conditions.. 

The coal region is not immune.. lots of thoughts of the famed Agnes coming back

How is everyone prepping? 

A 5.8 earthquake rocking the entire eastern half of North America. A very freaky day…ending with this spectacular sunset over Reading, PA.

WHAT THE FRACK?! ALARM RAISED OVER GAS DRILLERS FRACKING ON CEMETERIES!

WHAT THE FRACK?! ALARM RAISED OVER GAS DRILLERS FRACKING ON CEMETERIES!

Oh boy… 

Good luck to us..

This weekend, my son Ayden decided to crawl and sit and the same time… and crawl he does.. Fast.. child proof time here, I’d suppose.

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Right back where we started

Thank you for following this ...

Just wanted to send a quick note to the old, new, and constant followers of the Coal Speaker. I am humbled. And probably wouldn’t be doing this and the HorrorReport.com is no one was paying attention.

Watching a wave

A tropical wave has the ability to become a named storm and perhaps even hit the United States.. That’s according to forecasters at Accuweather who are throwing the possibility on their website today.

If the storm can escape dry air attacking it now, warm waters in the Atlantic could help strengthen it quickly.. 

Where it is at now: 550 miles east of the Lesser Antilles, separated from the U.S. by a week’s time..

BANK OF JUDGEMENT?

Perhaps there is a sign somewhere in here

Bank of America.. 

Layoffs will soon begin. 3,500 going to lose their jobs..

And how does God respond? Lightning. Indeed.

Tropical threat along the East Coast in the coming week

Tropical threat along the East Coast in the coming week

Tremendously sad story..

msnbc:

Pittsburgh emergency responders throw a life vest to Robert Bailey, 80, who climbed onto the roof of his car after being caught in the flash flood. (Chris Langer / AP)

We’re keeping our eyes on Pittsburgh today, wehre last night a pair of storms caused a flash flood that submerged more than a dozen vehicles, killed a woman and two children and left another person missing and presumed dead.

It's always sunny on earth

Scientists aim: Predict sunspots by monitoring sound waves…
Hope: Forecast solar storms..
Prayer: It will help..
Fear: Sunspot will develop, cause a massive solar storm and it will disrupt just about every thing on earth. 

61-year-old lifeguard refuses his speedos as sues over mandate to wear them..
I don’t think many people will have a problem with that…….

Prayers for the city of Pittsburgh, PA

Update: Tragic Pittsburgh: 3 dead from flooding..
…one missing..
Rescue workers floated over the car of woman and two dead children in the city—not even knowing it was there due to high water that fell from nasty storm system..
The storms were quite severe. After rolling through Western Pennsylvania, they landed in coal country causing heavy rains and intense winds.. 
Storms scare me this time of year. Spring and late summer.. some of the worst weather can happen during change of seasons.

Somehow this makes perfect sense.. the irony..

Bank of America tower in New York City struck by lightningMaybe they should rethink the thousands of layoffs they are planning?

Get ready America

These summer nights are so fleeting. My hope that all of you, out there, are enjoying the remaining dog days of August before the whirlwind of fall arrives.

Just another day in economyland

Downer: The DOW falls yet another 400!
Jobless claims rise..
What happened to that global recovery?
Global risks..
Obama on vacation on a sunny island..
Thousands gather in Atlanta for a job fair..
Twas always thus. And always thus shall be.

Now revealed: Why Art Bell got of Carville the alien: His family thinks it’s haunted..

(I miss this guy!)

Am I the only person outright frightened of solar flares?

?

This is not a bit

First the Ed Sullivan theater ransacked and now this

An extreme Jihadist online is calling for the killing of David Letterman ..

Betty White does it again...

The most popular woman in America.

The chip to end all chips

IBM is at it again.

The future is now

If you’re not queasy at technology’s implications this may get you there: IBM is revealing that it made a chip that can mimic the human brain.. 

As the sun turns

Sunspots heating..

And now unfortunately are pointing at earth.. Today NASA released a stunning movie that is galvanizing experts. This as the sun turns to the pale blue dot…as the solar flares churn and the sun burns. 

A frightening August image.. Late summer at a purposely unnamed hospital somewhere in Pennsylvania..

I'm guessing this could be a pretty big deal?

Pakistan allowed Chinese military engineers to photograph and take samples from the top-secret stealth helicopter that US special forces left behind when they killed Osama bin Laden, the Financial Times is reporting..

You probably already knew it, but now science is coming along to the potentially correct belief: We may all be aliens

You probably already knew it, but now science is coming along to the potentially correct belief: We may all be aliens

David Cameron says the UK won't let fear take over. That said, he's still going to crack down hard on freedoms and liberties..

David Cameron says the UK won't let fear take over. That said, he's still going to crack down hard on freedoms and liberties..

Mark Zuckerberg is on Google plus.. before he upped his privacy settings that’s how he looked. After he looked even happier. FORBES has more. 

SF cell shutdown: Safety issue, or hint of Orwell?

SF cell shutdown: Safety issue, or hint of Orwell?

Now this is really cool stuff..

Imagine a planet.. absorbing all light? It’s the darkest ever planet found, it’s coal black with a slight red glow, and it was found by Kepler.

Discovered: Huge black planet that absorbs all of its light from its star
It’s coal black..
Reflects no light..
Darknest known planet..

Chimp attack victim reveals new face..

Life in the fast lane.

Whenever we get to the month of September, I begin thinking about the year in review prospects for my other site, the HorrorReport.com.. after all there would only be four months left to the year.. And now, here we are, mid August — already! The time is moving faster than I ever remembered.. is it because I have a child? A new life this year making my own zoom ahead in fast forward? Or perhaps it’s because I hit the 30-year-old mark.. halfway home depending on my social security age health..? I don’t know. But what I do think, though no science will ever prove it, the idea of time does change and it does, for some reason, go faster as you get older.. My mom and dad almost 70… my brother and sister in the 40s… and my life changing rapidly daily. All as the earth rotates into infinity..

A scene of horror before Sugarland as a surprise storm rampages state fair in Indiana

Perry in... Pawlenty out

Perry in... Pawlenty out

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The end .. is the beginning.. is the end.. is the end.

The end of today.

Goodnight.

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