Frankenstorm Sandy Open Thread

By on October 27, 2012 9:04 pm in Weather

It’s coming! Frankenstorm Sandy is on its way to our area. Comment here about what’s happening in Brooklyn Heights – let us know how you’re preparing before the storm. During the storm check in here with any updates about storm damage or dangerous conditions in our area.

11 A.M. MONDAY: Holland and Battery Park Tunnels will close in both directions at 2 p.m. today.

SUNDAY NOON UPDATE: NY Gov. Cuomo announces MTA subway service, Metro-North trains and LIRR service will shut down as of 7 p.m. Sunday. Bus service ends at 9 p.m. Bloomberg mandates evacuation of Zone A by 7 p.m. Schools closed Monday…
5 P.M. UPDATE: PATH service suspended at midnight. Amtrak cancels Northeast corridor services for Monday. Water surges currently predicted 8-12 feet high in Battery City. East River Ferry service suspended and Staten Island Ferry will halt service at 8 p.m. Sunday.
11 P.M. UPDATE: Latest forecast calls for rain by morning, with intensity of heavy winds felt by noon.

Check here for the latest tracking on the storm and follow our NYC Emergency List in the right column of the site for the latest updates from government agencies and weather services.

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  • Mr. Crusty

    Bloomy, the lower East Side is flooded. Guess they shouldn’t have built all those apartment buildings there either.

  • Anne C.

    Lights flickered awhile back and the radio stopped briefly. Then a friend called.Same thing. “Get the flashlights and batteries ready.”

  • Bloomy

    @Mr.Crusty Coming from living in Florida most of my live, one knows if you live in a primary flood zone, you will eventually get flooded. So maybe it was a poor decision to put a historic wooden carousel in a flood zone. That is all.

  • Andrew Porter

    Darned impressive photo, Bloomy. And yet the place still has all its lights. Wonder if they equipped it with pumps or a life jacket?

  • A.Antic

    Fire at one Brooklyn Bridge park…fd is on the scene

  • Andrew Porter

    After Giuliani made the brilliant move of putting the Office of Emergency Management in World Trade Center #7, with a big oil tank, which caught fire on 9/11, resulting in the building’s destruction, they temporarily used the old Purchase Building under the Bklyn Bridge (since torn down) as the temporary OEM.

    However, when they built the new OEM, using the bones of the Red Cross Building on Cadman Plaza East, they put it there because *it’s above the DUMBO flood plain*. They may be dumb, but they’re not stupid.

  • Andrew Porter

    Explosion at Con Ed plant on 14th Street in Manhattan. First explosion about a minute in, then second, larger ones at 3 minutes into video, resulting in all lower Manhattan plunged into darkness. Flashes visible from BH:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAqYZ433TeQ

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