Pastafreak

[stewey]

Any news from your brother in LI? Been watching the news, and things are getting pretty tense out there.

[pastafreak]

Hi stewey...I heard from him last at 10pm NY time last night.I've just emailed him...hopefully I'll have a reply. Saw a live report on the news a little while ago...it looked nasty.
Thanks for asking....I'll post here with any news.

[DTCwordfan]

My youngest sis is out there, on a girls' shopping trip, staying in the Marriott just off Times Square. They have moved them down a few floors (now under 30). She was heading to the bar last I heard.....she has been in Andrew and Wilma so has experience.

Don't think she will be flying back tomorrow night....

[humbersloop]

cutting up rough, so hope all stays well pasta, keep us posted x

[boxtops]

I've been wondering too, pasta.

Heard on the news tonight that some local youngsters on a school trip are stranded out there. School trips weren't like that in my day!

[DTCwordfan]

pasta - this site is brilliant and gives the best information, no emotion of what the news channels go for - used by the military and the Oil industry and I have found them to be the most accurate over the years.

am giving you the page for Sandy - if your bro has never come across this, e-mail him the site......(saved me twice from exiting Houston).....

http://www.crownweather.com/?page_id=7139

[sherrardk]

My friend and her husband and son are in NY and can see the collapsed crane from outside of their hotel room. Must be very scary for everyone.

[pastafreak]

I heard that it is a combination of several storms...hurricane,arctic..and another I think....and the worst since one in 1960.....which I hate to say I remember.

[DTCwordfan]

worth the "casual" observer looking at crown weather too - scroll down the page for the maps!

haven't heard about the crane coming down......any injuries?

[pastafreak]

Thanks DT...I'll have a look at that.
I remember thinking hurricanes were exciting as a kid....I guess they were.
Hard looking at it from this side of the pond.... ;-(

[sherrardk]

It's been on Sky news - http://news.sky.com/

My friend posted a picture on FB and they were virtually the only people out and about.

[pastafreak]

I hope they are not near the water,sherrardk...they'll get swept away!

[dotty.]

posted this last night, hope people listen and hear what this idiot is saying

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTSHxR_4rc8&feature=share

[humbersloop]

cracking site dt, thanks

the replica of HMS Bounty, a sail training school, has sunk with a pretty dramatic rescue, two still missing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/20124128

the grauniad are doing a live blog

http://www.guardian.c...dy-new-york-live-blog

[mazie]

My SiL lives in Manhattan but haven't heard anything yet. Friend in Philly has battened down the hatches. Fingers cross all goes well for them.