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Reblogged from Creeping Sharia:
via Photos: #MyJihad Buses RRRRRRRRRolling - Atlas Shrugs.
You would think that with the media orgy over the bizarre Hamas-CAIR #MyJihad camapaign ads (an hour special on the BBC, WaPo, NY Times, ABC, NBC, CBS and international press) that a real jihad campaign might garner some attention.
Not. so. much. as. a column. inch.
There is a concerted effort, a real blackout on these fantastic ads.
Talk about your "advertising PR campaign TOP epic fails" - OMG. - Chase Kyla HunterAdd to today's news the latest abomination appearing on America streets: city buses which display "My Jihad" adverts. I can only assume that Americans everywhere - and especially residents of the cities where these ads are appearing, will be outraged enough to gather and peacefully storm local city hall meetings to demand that the outrageously offensive "hate advertising" be pulled and prohibited. Any lame excuses made by politically correct Muslims that these horrific ads are an effort to "re-introduce" Muslims to America via PR is utter nonsense and needs to be immediately and powerfully refuted as such. I can read. I can comprehend clearly how the message of these ads will speak to an already radicalized American or immigrant Muslim, urging he or she to act on their urges to hurt and harm Christians on American city streets. Pull this outrageously offensive and preposterously misguided ad campaign immediately, before someone gets hurt or killed over it.
Cited: "The ads are already up in Chicago (with more there to come). And they will be up in San Francisco and Washington, DC next week."Please share this report far and wide. Photos: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/03/photos-myjihad-buses.html
WARREN (WWJ) - Police were forced to close I-696 in Warren after someone jumped or fell off the overpass onto the freeway below.
Police say the incident happened just before 10:30 a.m. Saturday on westbound I-696 near Van Dyke Avenue.
According to police, a man was hit by oncoming traffic traveling at speeds around 70 miles per hour.
The man's identity was not immediately released and but he was killed in the incident.
Yep, you read that right. It’s gotten so out of hand a father was willing to pay his fourteen year old daughter $200 to log off of the time wasting and useless internet portal – and stay logged off of it for a year. He and she both estimate her grades will go up and her social anxiety will go down. All of this was actually the daughter’s idea. She went to her dad and decided to cash in on her idea. He bought it.
All I can say is “wow” and not much else. Just exactly how spoiled and over-indulged are American teenagers?
Today I am writing a diary entry for my readers and subscribers, which total a whopping 300-400 people combined. Perfect! That’s a tiny amount of followers but it’s A-ok with me. Call me SANE but I have no interest in having tens of thousands of total strangers know every move I make on the internet and become privy to every thought I think out loud on a blog. So, overall, life is good out here in personal privacy land, aka the wilds of fill-in-the-blank anywhere America.
While everyone else is straining their blood pressure to the breaking point trying to become even more “internet famous” I was delighted today when I discovered that I could completely erase my entire Google Plus profile, lock stock and barrel. I loved it. One click and an extended circle of porn stars, internet weirdos and people I had never heard of and never met disappeared forever, no longer being able to follow my every move online. And oh yeah… DARPA had included me in their Google circle. I put a stop to that in a hurry. Ahhhhh.
I’ve noticed and have written before that more than half of all “social networking” is veiled surveillance by the FED in affiliation with the biggest web “powers-that-be” i.e. Google and Facebook. So that should not be news to my readers. I agree with Julian Assange. I also believe that Facebook is the most appalling public spy machine and data mining operation ever launched, right next to what Google Plus is trying to do to emulate it.
Back Story:
I was in my 30s when the internet came around. I had already lived half of my adult life without it. These days I try to emulate that “pre-internet” “pre-cell phone” life experience as much as possible, and I absolutely LOVE it.
It’s a stress free relaxed existence, truly private, [ yes this is still possible ] and uncomplicated by running to a phone or a computer screen every 30 seconds to see what someone just said about me, someone who may have “friended” me but whom I have never met or had any significant face to face encounter with whatsoever. There is at least a 50% chance that behind every good looking FB photo there is a NOT so good looking impersonator trolling the web for new victims to CATFISH. [ Funny, I always knew there was a damn good reason that I didn't want any photos of me online. My intuition from years ago has been fully vindicated. Check. ]
Thus are the times we live in, and they are STRANGE indeed.
The advent of the internet has launched an era of twisted extremes. For those who love to learn [ like me ] it has brought the super digital glorious library of the entire world into my living room, thus making research on any topic a heavenly experience. Unless my computer is on the blink, I rarely walk into a public library anymore. I have it all right at home.
But the dark side of the internet is getting darker, more bizarre and increasingly difficult for normal people to fathom. Recent breaking news about a world famous Notre Dame football player who had an “online love affair” with a faked non-existent human being invented by hostile pranksters for more than 3 years has set the nation back on it’s feet more than a little bit. That’s hard to swallow, and truly strains credulity. Even Anderson Cooper was dumbstruck. Jay Leno has had a field day with this story.
I had already watched a few episodes of MTV’s “Catfish” and had seen the original movie. I marveled at the magnitude of the stupidity of some of today’s young people. I really genuinely pity these kids. They are SO LOST that they are actually self duped into thinking that they are “having a relationship” with a mystery set of “pretty girl face” photos and Facebook responses which proceed over time.
Anyone trying to explain what “Catfishing” is to a teenager from the 1950s would be met with guffaws of mocking laughter so loud they would fill a sports stadium. Believe it or not, there was an era in the United States when teenagers and twenty somethings had some moxie, had real social cunning [ as opposed to a Facebook social life ] genuine emotional insight, and they also had a brain or two. They were more psychologically and emotionally “adults” at age fourteen in the 1950s than most of today’s young people are at age twenty-nine.
Which brings me to my next query. Aren’t todays’ sociologists, psychologists and psychiatrists as alarmed at all this as I am? And if not, then WHY NOT? Our 21st century young people are Facebook brilliant but they are social idiots. Be concerned. Be VERY concerned. These are the men and women who will inherit the nation, for God’s sake.
Over and over again it turns out some handsome young guy has been having an internet relationship with a bashful closeted gay man craving male attention by pretending to be a woman online, or vice versa [ a lesbian who pretends to be a man online ] and this sick charade goes on, not for just weeks, but for months, and then for years. If I could time travel back to … ohh let’s say the late 1980s, and tell this cautionary tale to my own “20 something” self, she would refuse to believe that the future would be a world where stupidity reigns, and is celebrated by every kind of TV display imaginable. Who would want to live in that future?
Yet that is exactly the American idiocracy rising that I inhabit in the early years of the 21st century. Sitting here in this future, which my past self could have NEVER imagined, I do long for a time in America when normalcy did not include weird internet pathologies like being “catfished” online.
Is it madness? Absolutely. Is it the newest socio-psychological internet era disease unique to the second decade of the internet years? Yep. And there will be more and more new kinds of bizarre clinical pathologies which come online as the internet decades continue to unfurl. We have unleashed a powerful global medium which will only unerringly reflect the lack of spiritual maturity and the dire extent of strange new mental illnesses which the modern era continues to spawn. We are far past “fasten your safety belts.” We are entering the yawning digital unknown. I suspect our aggregate social scientists have been caught utterly unprepared for all of it.
The only antidote for these emerging modern online pathologies is:
1) raw visceral native intelligence which doesn’t come from book learning,
2) true spiritual discernment, or
3) Limit one’s time online
So if you lack those first two qualities, and refuse to practice the third you may be out of luck. Wisdom can’t be purchased for any price anywhere. And one can only hope that by the experience of living one might be so fortunate over time to acquire a few morsels of same.
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As for me, I am more than a little bit fine these days. Life is tranquil and loaded with insights. As I observe all the twisting and gnashing of the early 21st century, I am less inclined to want to write about much of it, for I see it as detritus, not unlike hyper-stressed animal droppings. The world is straining under the weight of it’s own foolishness, just as Jesus said it would in the end. Nothing surprises me now. Whereas two or three years ago I would have ranted to no end on one of my blogs upon learning that young American couples were voluntarily agreeing to be RFID micro-chipped for the silliest of reasons [ maybe just so they could appear on the evening news, as that is often considered reason enough ] today in early 2013 I just make a note of such news items as one more up-tick in the flood tide of news which indicates the rise of the coming Beast Era, brief as it will be.
I steel my soul for what comes in each day’s newscasts, and the evening news is often so gory that I turn away from dinner and can’t eat while watching it. Television offerings are filled with macabre serial killer crime shows and shows about witches vampires witchcraft and explicitly portrayed murder of every type and variety. Yet media executives bristle with defiance when it’s pointed out that young people take lives with the reckless abandon of popping a can of Red Bull. Our so called leaders in Congress and the Senate lack the moral spine to stand up to the horror masters in Hollywood who fill American TV airwaves and movie theaters with the most hideous and heinously explicit portrayals of deviance. Every soul who is participating in the creation of media portrayals of explicit horror that mar the soul of an innocent American young person will have to answer to their maker one day for what they are doing, which is the graphic advertising of ever more horrific ways to kill another human being.
All a visiting guest from another world would need to do to ascertain the level of abject depravity to which American society has now sunk, is to peruse the evening TV shows for about 4 minutes. That snapshot records a sharp and lurid “slice of American life” which truly turns the stomach. A day of reckoning will come in the future where the souls who agreed to participate in the degradation of the American TV airwaves will have to answer for their misuse of the God given gift of creativity. They will have to answer to their Creator for how they used this gift. I hope a Hollywood movie executive or TV producer reads this diary entry. You are not off the hook.
As for me, I screen my TV viewing carefully and I am fine. But a little four year old child lacks the ability to do this. And an impressionable and depressed teen aged male also lacks the discernment to comprehend that it’s probably not the smartest choice to get addicted to “The Following” which is TV’s newest slide into graphic depravity served up as entertainment for the nation.
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I’ll resume periodic blogging gradually as the year opens up, but frankly it’s often just as pleasant NOT to write about what my spiritual eyes behold, as there’s not a whole lot of it that is encouraging. Recent events have horrified and saddened us all. Yet I do race to embrace any good news where I find it.
I still believe very much in the heart and soul of the American people, but her leaders are failing her and her media and video game moguls are trying to literally corrupt her actual soul by advertising horror, murder, death and carnage nonstop. Only the blind refuse to see this. Only the deaf refuse to hear it. And those who choose to remain mute by not speaking out about it will suffer the eventual consequences of allowing it to go on unabated and escalate unchecked. It has already come to the point where children and teens are not safe to attend public schools or visit malls and movie theaters. How much worse will the massacres become before Congress acts to legislate the graphic movie, video game, and TV violence out of existence? How far will the madness go before the men and women who profess to lead America finally act?
We now never know as a nation when the next young person is going to snap and gun down his own family, or a room full of strangers, or a room full of children. But we MUST try to legally and methodically clean up the sordid American media landscape so that the entertainment industry will be forced to STOP providing the macabre how-to scenarios for personal killing sprees, and then stoop so low as to routinely broadcast those twisted formulas to the masses as “family entertainment.”

Once upon a time, a long time ago, Christians in America celebrated the holy days or “holidays” leading up to December 25th with feasts and gift giving in the spirit of love, generosity and spiritual well wishing that Christmas celebrated:
“Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men”
The word “holiday” originally derived from the phrase “holy day”. Traditionally a “holy day” was also indicated to be a sacred day, or a series of sacred days, thus the word: “holidays.”
But in America we have long ago abandoned our original Christian “holy days” for the depraved and debauched consumer inversion which has replaced them, hideously named by the secular media as “Black Friday.” Every year it gets worse, and every year I am even more ashamed about the behavior of millions of Americans, mostly youngish, who literally behave like wild animals to save a few bucks on a TV or a cell phone or some sexy underwear. I could opine for pages about this tragically socially engineered human zoo, but I’ll let the videos speak for themselves.
If anything I have ever witnessed bore witness to the new “Anti-Christian” spirit of “X-Mass” it’s the annual “Black Friday” orgy of selfish crowds trampling each other to death over holiday bargains.
The annual shopping orgy of “Black Friday’ is really nothing more than an annual “Black Mass” exalting extreme mindless consumerism. Supposedly the first day of the “Christmas holiday season,” utterly nothing is Christlike or holy about it, at least not as the day plays out in the American public square of commerce. To launch the so called Christmas holidays or [holy days] with such a sordid example of the disintegration of all better human behavior in public is befitting a nation which has, by this time, strayed so far from it’s original Christian roots as to be practically unrecognizable.
I stopped participating in the annual consumer orgy more than 25 years ago. I was still very young, but even then I knew that “Black Friday” had alot more to do with the display of the most depraved behavior in public than it had to do with putting retailers balance sheets into the black for the year.
Today, more than 30 years later, I wouldn’t be caught dead [ pun totally intended ] trying to shop in this rabid melee on the day after Thanksgiving. It’s a repugnant annual spectacle that reminds me of the fact that entire human populations, raised on social engineered TV adverts from babyhood to believe they are “consumers” rather than living souls of spiritual dignity, are now reduced to animal behavior for a “discount.” Millions of Americans have become the Frankenstein creation of their hidden Illuminati overlords. They are replete socially engineered consumers, literally willing to trample their own children or claw their neighbor’s eyes out to get their share of holiday specials. I will grant this short lived season of Godless victory to the Illuminati corporate elites, who relish these riots with certain diabolical glee. But I also remind them that their day will come.
It might take another twenty years, or fifty years, or five hundred years, but it won’t always be this way. My King is coming soon. The desecration and debauchery of this world and her people won’t go on forever.
Shopping Frenzy Hall of Shame for 2012:
Re-posted from the Global Geo-politics news blog on 11.16.2012
Cited from the Debbie Schlussel news blog on 11.15.2012:
“I’ve long written about the infiltration of Central Command at MacDill Air Base in Tampa by Islamic terrorists. Islamic Jihad founder and convicted Islamic terrorist, Sami Al-Arian, was an instructor on the Middle East to our top generals at MacDill Air Force Base AT THE VERY SAME TIME that he was planning mergers and terrorist attacks in Israel with “the brothers of HAMAS” and while he was bringing Muslim illegal alien Islamic terrorists to the U.S. Al-Arian’s friend and co-conspirator, Ramadan Abdullah Shallah (one of those Al-Arian brought here), who became the Secretary-General of the worldwide Islamic Jihad terrorist group, was also a lecturer at MacDill and also taught our top generals his poisonous views on the Middle East and Israel. FBI and INS agents who investigated Shallah and Al-Arian were alarmed at the influence these two top Islamic terrorists had over CentCom. They were also alarmed to find many books on the inner workings of MacDill in Shallah’s house when they raided it.
So when people ask me how I think these women were able to insert themselves into top generals’ lives and topple them (along with, apparently, the men they married), I think back to the fact that our top generals gladly allowed top terrorists to infiltrate Central Command as alleged “professors” on the Middle East. And when generals like Petraeus and Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. openly attack Israel and America’s relationship with Israel, people like Jill Khawam Kelley and Al-Arian and Shallah are the reason why. Khawam Kelley isn’t an innocent socialite. She’s an agent of influence for Arab Muslim nations.”
Jill Khawam Kelley was the hand-picked lobbyist for Muslim nations and their agenda at Central Command.
Kelley, who is part of the soap opera that the Petraeus scandal spawned, was in charge of hosting parties and social events to push the Islamic agenda of Middle Eastern countries. She was seen by Muslim Mid-East nations, especially Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon, as the “go to” woman to push their agenda on top American generals. She was a lobbyist for their cause and, yet, wasn’t required to register as a lobbyist, like all others who host lavish parties for top American officials, like she did, in an attempt to influence U.S. policy in the Middle East.
Kelley, a dhimmi Christian Arab of Lebanese descent, was well known in the Muslim Arab embassies of Washington for doing their bidding and hosting their parties at and near MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, where our nation’s top generals are based. It’s where Central Command–the U.S. Armed Forces’ leadership over wars and military personnel Middle East–is headquartered.
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Kelley’s sister, Natalie Khawam, was married to a top Bush administration official, Grayson Wolfe, Director of Broader Middle East Initiatives and Iraqi Reconstruction at the Export-Import Bank of the United States, and frequently accompanied him on trips to the Middle East, including to Pakistan. Before that position, Wolfe was the Bush-installed Manager of the Private Sector Development Office of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, Iraq. How many of the Khawam’s insider Arab Muslim friends did he give sweetheart contracts to? Before It’s News has more and asks more questions about the consulting and contracting firm that Wolfe now heads. Although they are now embroiled in a bitter custody fight over their son, you have to wonder what influence Khawam had on him and what was done in the Middle East. She recently sued her former employer, a Jewish lawyer, Barry Cohen, but gave up after her lawsuit was shown to be phony. Cohen struck back and found that Khawam engaged in bankruptcy fraud.
My friend wasn’t so far-fetched when he insisted the Khawam chicks are modern day Mata Haris for the Muslim Arabs.
Full article: Jill Kelley Helped Muslim Nations, Hezbollah Infiltrate Central Command, MacDill Base; “Go To Girl” For Muslim Parties w/ Generals (Debbie Schlussel)
Kelley’s Twin’s Husband: The Murky Back Story

“It’s a numbers game. The nation is leaning so far to the left right now that I can hear California falling into the sea. The 2012 election, more than anything, is a contest of competing American demographics that favor the young and the foolish over the old and the wise. Brace yourself for the next four years of America under Barack Obama. The demographics of the nation are leaning in his favor.”
- Screenshot news blog
Last Day of the Campaign – A Snapshot
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This is my last blog post about the 2012 presidential campaign, and boy am I glad. I’ve never become so weary of an election year as I have this one. Neither have I ever witnessed such a vapid campaign so utterly devoid of vision, leadership, new ideas, or real drive – by either candidate.
I have already voted about a week ago [ I voted for Romney ] but frankly it’s not as if the choice placed before me was stellar. I went for Romney based on his solid business background, well knowing his foreign policy skills are not that great. But I can be assured if Mitt Romney wins the White House he won’t hop on Air Force One and jet around the world, literally bowing to the waist to the Arab Princes who run OPEC. That was a moment of American shame I don’t think I will ever forget from four years ago. Under a Romney presidency I am pretty well convinced that Congress, the Senate and the White House will all get along better and will make a real effort to work together to solve our country’s many complex and pressing problems. I just have that gut level hunch, call it “woman’s intuition” that Mitt Romney is a man who can get along with Democrats when he needs to, that he well knows how to cross the political aisle and get the ear of the other side on issues, and that his leadership style won’t inspire all-out vitriol. In fact, I think he will discourage it. We need that.
I believe a Romney presidency will kick start a new era in D.C. of “take no prisoners” fiscal policy, where every piece of ludicrous pork that has been sliding under the radar in the federal budget for years will now be on the chopping block, where states will assume greater responsibility for the financial destinies of their own regions, where the re-invigoration of the U.S. military will resume to guarantee that our enemies well know our strength and therefore choose not to test it. I have no problem with any of that. America stands alone with few real friends in a dangerous wing-nut world and we need to maintain our military strength. It’s the only thing standing between us and all-0ut global anarchy. I am smart enough to see that with my own eyes. I’m not spiritually asleep and I am not misguided about how precarious the world situation actually is. I do not operate under the foolish notion that we can negotiate with the worldwide movement of radical Islam toward global Jihad with the West. I pity the Left Wing ideologues who think that appeasement and “cultural inclusiveness” will make the wickedness of the world go away. They are so dead wrong at this moment in American history that it does truly bring pause. We have to maintain a strong military or we can expect suicide bombers to start detonating on American streets within a year or two. These are the facts and I am not averse to facing them.

I am of the mind that the less federal government we have the better off the nation is. Period. I believe a Romney presidency will begin setting itself to the task of either seriously reforming Obamacare, or just rolling back the legislation altogether. I’m all for that. Barack Obama steam rolled that law into existence over the vociferous and strenuous protests of literally millions of middle Americans three years ago this past summer, and that was the beginning of the souring of middle America onto Mr. Obama. Our voices were disregarded and we didn’t appreciate it one bit.
My instinct is that a Romney presidency would bring a renewed interest in Washington D.C. of actually listening to the voice of the American people and cooperating with it, rather than ignoring it. Because of Romney’s religious background I don’t get the feeling he is going to be a “gung-ho UN” sort of guy. I could be really wrong about this but I think he has the wisdom to know that we need to keep the United Nations out of American affairs whenever possible. In fact, I actually think that alot of good could come out of a Romney presidency that would begin the behemoth task of turning the nation’s fortunes around.
The only problem with all of this is that I actually doubt Romney can win, unless undecided voters have some sort of real spiritual epiphany between today and tomorrow. They are holding all the cards in this election, along with women voters, Latino voters, and college aged voters who voted for Obama the last time. There’s always the hope that the millions of first time voters who sent Barack Obama to the White House four years ago will change their minds this time and vote for the other guy. There’s always the hope that they might have a real change of heart, after living unemployed in their parent’s basement for three years, subsisting on food stamps, submitting their resume to more than 200 companies every 90 days with no response, finally slumming it up at the “Occupy” protests because they have little else to do. Maybe these young American Obama minions from 2008 have reconsidered, maybe they have possibly decided that they are sick of living in their mom’s basements and that “a change would do them good.”
That’s what it would take at this point for Romney to win: the young people who are college aged, the Hispanic / Latino vote and the undecided women voters would have to come out IN FORCE voting for Mitt Romney in order to tip the scales and change the future of the nation.

At a certain point all one can do is throw up their hands to fate, sit back and watch. But here is what the country will face under four more years of Barack Obama. For young people, don’t pack your ripped jeans yet, because you will be living in your mama’s basement for quite some time yet to come. There won’t be any substantial change in the jobless numbers during 2013-2016 under Obama. Just renew your food stamp card instead. For Islamic radicals who are poised to infiltrate every media outlet in the country in order to “soften up the American citizen” to the idea of a nation whose population is 25 to 40% Muslim within 10 years, congratulations. Your guy won. You may now proceed to advance your “Islamification” of America program unabated, and with the full political support of the Commander-in-Chief. For the Occupy movement with it’s communist / socialist underpinnings and it’s murky connections to the CIA sponsored “Anonymous” group, congratulations as well. Go out there and start tearing up the city squares again, shitting in the streets, breaking glass and setting fires. Your guy won. You now have official permission from the Obama White House to raise hell and get out of jail free for it.
And finally a word of caution to any US Ambassador who is serving overseas in a precariously violent and volatile environ. Don’t bother sending any more emails to the Obama State Department to beg for military support and back-up. He just won re-election. Your requests will be ignored. His White House is not thinking about you. Just like Christopher Stevens, you have been officially thrown under the bus by the Obama White House. You may consider your service to America as a sacrifice which may include your death at the hands of radical Islamic hellions who hate you while you work to bring civilized society to their ravaged failed states. Your nation is not going to back you up in your position so you may as well know that in advance. You are serving under the Obama administration, so all bets are off that your frantic emails calling for help will even be noticed before the throngs set fire to your diplomatic outpost and suffocate you in it. That’s what happened to Christopher Stevens and it could happen to you.
For the voters who are re-choosing Barack Obama and inviting four more years of American decline in so doing, realize that it won’t be reversible by 2016. There is a tipping point just ahead. Beyond that, I don’t see how the fortunes of the nation can be re-directed without the pretext of another war. Wars have been used to re-ignite failing economies before. I’m sure it’s not off the table as the Obama White House plans their next four years. It really saddens me that there is no averting this outcome. But such a massive change of heart among young liberal voters, women voters and ethnic voters is not something I see happening. I can blog my heart out and it won’t make a bit of difference.

It’s a numbers game. The nation is leaning so far to the left right now that I can hear California falling into the sea. The 2012 election, more than anything, is a contest of competing American demographics that favor the young and the foolish over the old and the wise. Brace yourself for the next four years of America under Barack Obama. The demographics of the nation are leaning in his favor.
Re-posted from 21st Century Screenshots news blog on 10.30.2012
One observer described the emerging aftermath of Hurricane Sandy as looking like “a war zone.” Photos and video now pouring onto the web tell the heartbreaking story of the scope and magnitude of Hurricane Sandy’s wrath and destructive power. Tentative early estimates of overall storm damage costs run into the high tens of billions of dollars for starters.
The jarring snapshot of New York City’s fleet of well known yellow cabs sitting in standing water up to their headlights was particularly striking. [ See photos below. ] The entire front half of a large apartment building in NYC sheered off and crashed to the street, exposing the interiors of the apartment units. NYC city officials received more than 7,000 reports of downed trees. NYC residents wandering the streets to survey the damage have queried “Weather Channel” news reporters asking them when the NYC buses and subways will open again. The reporters had no answers for them, obviously.
In Union City New Jersey a two story house perches raggedly after being split in half. The entire right side of it was sheared away in an instant by the hurricane storm surge.
More than 88.2 million people may still be without electricity on the upper east coast in New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Rhode Island, Delaware, New York State and New England. Power may not be restored in many regions for more than a week. In Rhode Island entire beach houses were washed away and disappeared into piles of rubble during the storm. 43 feet of Rhode Island coastline vanished completely during the storm. It’s gone. 73% of Maryland residents are without electric power. 1.1 million are without power in Pennsylvania. In Appalachia severe snow storms have brought a blanket of white to mountain regions weeks ahead of when heavy snows would usually begin. More than 2 feet of snow has fallen in parts of West Virginia.
Rivers on the upper east coast are cresting at anywhere from 8 to 14 feet above flood stage. As I compile this post flood water and sand is still pouring into city blocks in Atlantic City which are well away from the oceanfront. Many buildings on the Atlantic City oceanfront boardwalk have been utterly destroyed. Others have huge holes blown through them where flood waters surged in when the Sandy made landfall. Fires from exploding electrical transformers broke out in many regions. More than 80 homes burned to ash in Queens NYC, an entire city block.
Criminal courts in NYC will be closed on Wednesday October 31st. Mayor Bloomberg is asking all NYC city workers to report for work if they are able to get there. They are needed. Schools remain closed in NYC. Schools will re-open in Washington D.C. on Wednesday October 31st. The Weather Channel reports that JFK Airport will be open to incoming flights tomorrow on October 31st. All other NYC airports are presently flooded out with extensive wind and water damage. Flood waters have poured into the NYC subway system. NYC subways are closed. There is limited if any taxi service. La Guardia airport is still closed and will remain closed tomorrow.
The storm’s effects are being felt all the way to Chicago as gale force winds and pummeling rain extend well into the upper Midwest. 20 foot high waves are crashing onto the shores of Lake Michigan today. As far west as Indiana thousands are still without power. Hundreds of homes on the east coast have been literally swept off their foundations.
The storm’s damage is so widespread and extensive it’s difficult to grasp it fully right at this moment. I will let the collected photos tell the story. Many of these will be re-published in video form later this week. This hurricane Sandy photo page will be updated all week.
































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