Remember, there was a theory in the works months ago that he was going to pull something, which at the time was a fake, attempted assassination, to further his height in the polls, so this is really not all that "out there" if you are aware of what HAARP is capable of. I will leave that research up to you.
Here is just one of the articles with the conclusion that this is possible...
Conspiracy Theorists Say Obama Engineered Hurricane Sandy
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President Barack Obama listens as Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Craig Fugate speaks to the media about Hurricane Sandy at FEMA Headquarters in Washington.
As Hurricane Sandy blasts the eastern seaboard just over a week before Election Day, a number of conspiracy theorists have decided President Barack Obama engineered the mega-storm to secure his re-election.
InfoWars.com, TheIntelHub.com, and ConsfearacyNewz all posted stories over the last several days alleging that the The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP, helped the president engineer Sandy.
HAARP, a research program managed by the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy, studies and conducts experiments relating to the ionosphere, or upper atmosphere. As NASA explains on its web site, the ionosphere is important because it often reflects radio waves and scatters GPS signals, leading to "a big impact on communications and navigation" on Earth.
Because of this, conspiracy theorists have blamed HAARP for a number of natural events over the years, saying the government uses the Alaska-based program to manipulate the weather with the help of electromagnetic waves.
On Friday, InfoWars published a story arguing that Sandy "will undoubtedly produce widespread chaos and present an ideal opportunity for Obama to come off as a strong and decisive leader."
"Following the 'perfect storm,'" wrote Infowars' Kurt Nimmo, "the establishment media will naturally provide all the propaganda Obama needs to sweep the election on Tuesday, November 6, a week after the hurricane is projected to hit."
As proof, Nimmo noted that HAARPStatus.com, a site that claims to detect frequency on the ionosphere, is reporting unprecedented levels of HAARP frequency above the Eastern coast. HAARPStatus.com appears to be a site not actually associated with HAARP.
In a piece on the nonprofit web site Skeptic.com in March 2010, aerospace and computer engineer David Naiditch explained why he believes conspiracy theorists love to blame HAARP. "[It] is a gigantic, high-energy, Pentagon-funded gizmo located in the remote Alaskan wilderness that plays around with the Earth's ionosphere," he wrote, "but whose purpose seems deeply mysterious to the scientifically uninformed."
While there is no doubt Hurricane Sandy could help Obama's re-election prospects if he manages to weather the storm acting presidential, the mega-storm's effects on Americans could also help challenger Mitt Romney. As Mike Allen noted in Politico Playbook Saturday, quoting a Politico friend: "People emerging from a week of no power on Nov. 6 are going to be in a grumpy, foul mood—not the kind of mood that screams 'vote incumbent.'"
Here is the HAARP status during the hurricane.
Here is yet another article with the same conclusion.
Hurricane Sandy a HAARP manufactured storm?
Conspiracy theorists all over the web purport that Hurricane Sandy is a HAARP storm, manufactured by the Romney organization or the Obama camp in order to affect the election.
On his web page, "The Hurricane Simulation," Alan Croswell posted a hurricane simulation by the National Hurricane Center in Miami in October 1997 named "Sandy." It is eerily similar to today's Hurricane Sandy, with winds reaching as far as Fort Wayne, Indiana with gusts over 30 MPH.
Coincidence or design?
The hurricane simulation was modeled after the Hurricane of 1938. The “Long Island Express," a Category 3 hurricane that hit Long Island killing 800 people and causing nearly $5 billion in damages.
According to HaarpStatus.com, HAARP observations and readings reveal a long wave time on October 19th with a suspected reading above 10 on a 1-10 scale. According to The IntelHub.com, these ratings have never before been reported.
Hurricane Sandy and HAARP
Monday, October 29, 2012 5:16
Check out the original post for videos on HAARP and Hurricane Sandy: http://illuminatiwatcher.com/?p=4251
Hurricane Sandy is making its way up the East Coast and the conspiracy theories are starting up. HAARP has long been believed to be the shadow government’s way of manipulating the weather, and this is being rumored to be another instance of it. I’ve been working on a HAARP post that was technical in nature, but I’m not fully done with it. In light of the Hurricane Sandy, here is the short and early version of it (scroll past all of it to find some videos of recent Hurricane Sandy HAARP claims circulating-including Jesse Ventura’s Conspiracy Theory HAARP episode):
In light of the worst weather and storms in centuries, one could suppose it was climate change effects, or some point to HAARP. But are the conspiracy theorists crazy for believing this? It sounds sensational, but no, they aren’t crazy; HAARP is very much capable of controlling the weather.
There are many credible pieces of evidence to point to in order to support this weather/HAARP link. In the ‘Conspiracy Theory’ show, Ventura and physicist Brooks Agnew shows us they can move a cloud in a chamber. In 1997, Secretary of Defense William Cohen gave a speech in which he warned of terrorist causes climate alterations and earthquakes:
“Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.”
The idea of earthquakes being created is explained by Dr. Begich on Coast to Coast AM. He said that the quakes can be generated by using the earth’s energy. Micro-quakes constantly happen along fault lines, and when there is no energy releasing along that fault line, that’s when there’s a problem because it’s building it up now. HAARP produces a little energy to release a giant amount of energy (e.g. an earthquake) like a bullet primer or bomb.
The other big conspiracy theory related to HAARP is the ability for mind control. This takes a bit more digging to understand.
HAARP’s actual website FAQ shows their two broad missions:
- The study of basic natural processes that occur in the ionosphere under the natural but much stronger influence of solar interaction. This includes studying how the natural ionosphere affects radio signals with the goal of developing techniques that may be available for mitigating these effects to improve the reliability and/or the performance of communication and navigation systems.
- Development of technology to use effects produced through ionospheric interactions. One example of this is learning how to generate new signals in the ELF range for the real application of subsurface communications
So what do these mean? First we must understand what the ionosphere is. The ionosphere is part of the upper atmosphere that is ionized by solar high frequency electromagnetic radiation (ultraviolet and x-ray radiation). It exists between 50 to 300 miles above sea level and resides higher than any function we associate with (e.g. flying in an airplane, hot air balloon, etc). The atmosphere is thin enough here to allow it to ionize. It is referred to as “ionized” because it has excess electrons that give it a negative electrical charge (the protons and electrons are not in balance-this is how electricity works). This ionized is by definition considered plasma. The ionization of the plasma depends on the energy being displaced by the Sun. More sunspot activity equals more radiation, which equals more ionosphere activity.
Basically put, the ionosphere is large mirror that can reflect signals so that you can send energy to other points on the globe.
The most understood use of the ionosphere is with the AM radio. AM Radio waves originate at a transmitter antenna at the radio station, then bounce off of the ionosphere (referred to as Skywave) and into the receiving antenna. These waves can be degraded during geomagnetic storms or ionosphere disturbances, when the signal gets scrambled up into the ionosphere instead of cleanly reflecting off of it. The sunlit side of earth has more charged ions and therefore more dense, and it degrades AM signal, that’s why the night time provides clearer and much further away signals.
AM radios can transmit using only a certain rating of power as determined by their license. For instance, AM radio stations will be able to transmit using anywhere from 250 to 50,000 watts of power. The transmitter used by HAARP uses 3,600,000 watts. That’s up to 14,400 times the power used at an AM radio station.
So this begs the question, “What is HAARP doing with all of that power?”
Now let’s break them down individually from the most nefarious viewpoints possible:
HAARP can generate ELF, even though they claim they use techniques that keep the signal in the tens of pT range and around 2 kHz. ELF could be used to communicate to submarines. Submarines can’t receive electromagnetic communications due to being in seawater, so ELF could be used to provide instructions. There are possible side effects to exposure to ELF that have not been fully substantiated, but there are several studies that call it into question. For example, one study found that exposure to ELF from electricians who work with power lines were linked to higher suicide rates (ELF emits from the power lines that run through the neighborhoods at 50-60 Hz, I’m sure it’s fine though, nothing to worry about). http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar00/savitz2031500.htm
There is also a study into the ELF emitted from power lines and the health effects of them. Its findings claim that there is very weak connection between the two, but it does state that associations between childhood leukemia and chronic lymphocytic leukemia were made for occupationally exposed adults.http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_f_o/health_effects_from_exposure_to_powerline_frequency_electric_and_magnetic_fields.pdf
David Icke claims that HAARP produces frequencies which could be considered thoughts/emotions/moods. They project these into our brains because the frequencies are the same. Brainwave frequencies are in fact 4-100 Hz, where as the HAARP admits they have the capability of producing ELF which has a frequency range of 3-300 Hz, which does cover this same brain frequency range. This leads us to investigate what exactly a “thought” is. A thought is an electrochemical signal passed from one neuron to the next inside of the brain. An EEG (Electroencephalogram) records the electrical activity of the brain and the signaling between the neurons, this is how we know what the frequency of the brainwaves is (4-100 Hz). So as we’ve proven here, the frequency of brainwaves can in fact be replicated by the HAARP facility. Could HAARP possibly attach thoughts or emotions to these frequencies and affect our own thoughts? We do know that our thoughts can be transmitted from our brains when they are outgoing, so to speak. Here are some examples:http://emotiv.com/store/hardware/epoc-bci/epoc-neuroheadset/
So how can we tell if it works in reverse? Can a thought be transmitted into our brains? Jesse Ventura’s show ‘Conspiracy Theory’ proves this works through an experiment with Dr. Nick Begich. Mind control happens at the low frequencies of 1-20Hz, because that is the frequency range of the human brain in alpha waves. The frequency following response (FFR) is a phenomenon that means the brain will try to follow the frequency it is presented. If HAARP presents a 7Hz wave, the brain will try to mimic that. This idea is discussed in the 1995 paper ‘Electromagnetic Induction of Fundamental Algorithims’ by MA Persinger. Persinger is an expert on the mind and he said that it is possible to create a signal that hyper-agitates people and creates anxiety. The media could work in conjunction with this to play on that anxiety and release fear based content to directly agitate the people’s anxiety. One can see that if you wanted to push through some sort of legislation, you could use fear and HAARP to do this (David Icke’s Problem-Reaction-Solution).
Overall, this short investigation into HAARP proves that some of the theory is plausible. Whether or not it can happen on a large scale is unknown by us, but the government surely knows since they could potentially be working this on that scale. Dr. Begich explained that the HAARP design has changed since the increase in computational power (following Moore’s Law and Ray Kurzweil’s exponential trend of technology), so the capabilities are unknown to citizens.
Infowars relates the storm to the elections:
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Hurricane Sandy plunges presidential race into uncertainty
The monster storm, likely the biggest 'October surprise' in history, left both campaigns without a script, forcing them to make uncharted, and potentially politically-damaging, decisions on the fly.
Comments (79)BY JONATHAN LEMIRE / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2012, 8:51 PM
PHOTO BY CHRIS KLEPONIS-POOL/GETTY IMAGES
President Obama speaks at the Red Cross headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.
Hurricane Sandy plunged the presidential campaign into an unprecedented period of uncertainty, leaving both sides scrambling to grasp the right tone for voters coping with a historic natural disaster.
The monster storm, likely the biggest “October surprise” in history, left both campaigns without a script, forcing them to make uncharted, and potentially politically-damaging, decisions on the fly.
Some campaign rallies were cancelled, while others were rebranded as hurricane fundraisers. Ads continued to air, but swing state residents without power couldn’t see them. And some pollsters scuttled their surveys , leaving the campaigns unable to judge where they stood in the election’s final days.
The chaos that engulfed the East Coast – which even prompted some chatter that Election Day could be postponed – ensured that the campaign’s last week would be unlike any previous race’s final sprint.
President Obama remained hunkered down in the White House, monitoring the storm and coordinating the federal government’s response to the states devastated by Sandy.
Determined to avoid the perception that he was putting the campaign ahead of responsibilities as president, Obama cancelled his Wednesday swing through Ohio and left the remainder of his week unscheduled. However, even as Obama gave up precious campaign time, several of his top surrogates – including the First Lady and Bill Clinton – continued to barnstorm through swing states on his behalf.
Mitt Romney, without the power and trappings of the Oval office, was left in an equally precarious position. Unwilling to completely abandon the campaign trail but nervous about criticism that he was playing politics with a tragedy, Romney’s team went ahead with an Ohio rally – which was turned into a benefit for the storm’s victims.
"We have heavy hearts, as you know, with all of the suffering going on in a major part of our country,”
Romney said at the event outside Dayton.
Donated goods, which will be sent to New Jersey, were neatly lined up by the campaign staff, and Romney thanked the crowd for thinking of others.
“It's part of the American spirit, the American way, to give to people that are in need,” he said.
Romney kept his remarks brief and non-political while the event ensured that he remained in the spotlight during a day dominated by news of the storm.
But eyebrows were raised by the event’s location – the most important swing state on the map, far from Sandy’s reach – and its staging, which included the hallmarks of a regular Romney rally, including banners , a campaign video and supporters wearing t-shirts featuring anti-Obama slogans.
The GOP ticket also made clear that its campaign would soon relaunch, announcing that Romney would attend a full slate of events in Florida on Wednesday and Virginia on Thursday.
The storm also inserted a new issue into the campaign: the role of FEMA. Romney has previously suggested eliminating the federal disaster relief agency, which is taking the lead in responding to Sandy.
Romney, who wanted more power to go to state governments, refused to answer questions about FEMA after his event in Dayton, though his campaign now says the ex-Massachusetts governor would not abolish the agency.
Meanwhile, the Republican ticket made new ad buys in Pennsylvania and Minnesota, two states that have leaned Democrat, as well as North Carolina, where the GOP has led. The Obama team responded with its own purchases in all three states – and an argument that the eleventh-hour push was proof the Republicans did not currently have a path to victory.
Democrats also pushed back against a new Romney ad that claims that Chrysler, with help of the auto bailout, was outsourcing jobs to China – a claim the car company has vehemently denied.
But even as the campaign readies to resume, both sides may be leery to appear too political or too negative during a time of crisis. The candidates’ teams can not be certain which tactics may alienate the electorate – or even other politicians.
“I don’t give a damn about Election Day,” said New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has been a top Romney surrogate. He praised Obama’s response and stressed that his priority was helping his state recover. “It doesn’t matter a lick to me at the moment. I’ve got bigger fish to fry.”
The coming days will determine whether Sandy froze the race as it was before the storm – a dead heat – or whether it will tip the scales for one candidate or another.
Though the hurricane’s wrath avoided many the election’s swing states, some key battlegrounds like Virginia, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania suffered widespread damage and power outages. Several polls were scuttled and Virginia also cancelled two days of early voting.
However, Election Day itself seemed unlikely to be affected, despite some speculation that it could be postponed.
Congress has the ability to change the date but the elections themselves are run by the states, not the federal government. And the 50 states – most of which were untouched by Sandy – would be unlikely to accept a delay that would almost certainly increase cost and suppress turnout.
Moreover, a presidential election has never been postponed or cancelled, not even during the Civil War.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election-2012/election-uncertain-wake-sandy-article-1.1194976#ixzz2Av9EYMH9
NEED I SAY MORE? ...oh, actually yes. There is another storm coming across the Atlantic Ocean.
Apocalypse N.Y.: Hurricane Sandy kills 30, takes estimated $20 billion toll on the city after deadly two-day attack
The storm killed at least 30 New Yorkers and is expected to cost more than 1992's Hurricane Andrew
Comments (25)BY MARK MORALES , KERRY BURKE , OREN YANIV , SHAYNA JACOBS AND LARRY MCSHANE / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
PUBLISHED: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2012, 11:01 AM
UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2012, 5:35 PM
MIKE GROLL/AP
Burned-out homes in the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough New York after a fire on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. The tiny beachfront neighborhood told to evacuate before Sandy hit New York burned down as it was inundated by floodwaters, transforming a quaint corner of the Rockaways into a smoke-filled debris field.
It was the storm that made history and misery, left death and unprecedented destruction, crippled mass transit and tested the city’s mettle from the Bronx to Breezy Point.
Hurricane Sandy pounded the city into submission Tuesday, with officials reporting at least 30 New Yorkers killed during the storm’s lethal two-day attack and estimating damages at a staggering $20 billion.
The dead included a heroic city cop who drowned inside a flooded Staten Island basement after rescuing his girlfriend, infant and father; a dog-walker and her friend killed by a tree that fell in Brooklyn; a Manhattan woman who died when a power outage cut off her oxygen supply; and a man killed when a downtown mini-tsunami whipped across lower Manhattan and slammed him through a glass door. “Catastrophic or historic” were hardly overstatement when it came to Sandy, said Gov. Cuomo as the city and the suburbs awoke to a massive hurricane headache that threatened to linger for days.
But Mayor Bloomberg sounded the first note of optimism Tuesday evening: “We’re on the road to recovery” - even as officials warned that subway service would be out for three or four days and power out at least that long.
According to the risk assessment firm Equacat, the damage tab for Sandy should hit $20 billion - about double the total inflicted by Irene. The early guesstimate doesn’t include the possibility of repairing the water-soaked subway system, which could push the total above 1992’s destructive Hurricane Andrew.
Katrina’s price tag to the Gulf Coast climbed above $100 billion.
The imperfect storm shut down all city transit for a third straight day while inflicting the worse damage in the 108-year history of the subway system. Schools were closed, and remained shuttered again Wednesday.
The New York Stock Exchange was rained out for a second straight day - but opened for business as usual Wednesday. It was the first time the exchange closed for two consecutive days due to weather since 1888. It came after a storm surge nearly 14-feet high submerged the Financial District.
How ferocious were the rising waters across the city? Even the New York Aquarium was flooded.
Things were no better in the skies, even after Sandy and its 80 mph winds departed. More than 12,000 flights were canceled due to the hurricane, and all three major local airports were closed yet again despite only light rain and dissipating winds. Kennedy and Newark airports opened Wednesday, but LaGuardia remained closed.
MIKE GROLL/AP
This aerial photo shows burned-out homes in the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough New York after a fire on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. The tiny beachfront neighborhood told to evacuate before Sandy hit New York burned down as it was inundated by floodwaters, transforming a quaint corner of the Rockaways into a smoke-filled debris field.
The howling gales created some surreal tableaus. On Staten Island, a 168-foot tanker was hurtled onto land - about a mile away from where it was moored. A powerboat was tossed in the middle of the Metro-North tracks in Ossining.
A construction crane dangled precariously for a second straight day above West 57th St. - becoming the city’s latest tourist attraction. Gawkers snapped photos and stood with their heads tilted toward the skyline.
The storm’s most stunning blow landed in Breezy Point, the Queens beachfront getaway where a massive fire gutted more than 100 homes despite the heroic efforts of hundreds of firefighters.
The smoke-eaters raced through floodwaters that reached to their necks as the blaze raged like a forest fire transported to the Rockaway Peninsula. Those homes that dodged the fire were flooded by the massive waves off the Atlantic Ocean, with one local guessing that 40% of the homes were destroyed in the enclave of 3,000 people.
Another 40% were in damaged in some fashion by Sandy, said Madeline Conway, who lives on Beach 215th St.
The cause of the catastrophic conflagration was under investigation, although some locals suggested generators used when the power went out could have ignited the blaze that left many homeless.
“There is nothing intact,” said Tom Duffy, a 24-year resident, as he and wife Deidre went through the debris of their home in a search for family keepsakes. “We never expected devastation like this.”
The entire Rockaway Boardwalk, roughly 50 blocks, was destroyed.
MARK C. OLSEN/U.S. AIR FORCE
Aerial views shows the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy to the New Jersey coast taken during a search and rescue mission by 1-150 Assault Helicopter Battalion, New Jersey Army National Guard on October 30, 2012.
Chunks of the shattered wood flew into houses and cars, with the concrete pilings left behind as mute testimony to the savage storm.
The Queens firefighters weren’t the only heroes. Rescuers and staff at New York University Langone Medical Center removed nearly 300 patients, floor by floor, when generator power cut out.
The first patients carried down the stairs to safety: 20 infants in neo-natal intensive care. The whole process took about 15 hours.
“Everyone here is a hero,” said Dr. Bernard Birnbaum after the dramatic rescues. Statewide, Cuomo reported there were 156 rescue missions by first responders as Sandy battered the state.
Floodwaters gushed into the pit at the World Trade Center construction site, where the lights on the Freedom Tower were dark - along with everything else around the skyscraper.
President Obama, speaking in Washington, said he encouraged Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Cuomo to call him directly for assistance of any kind.
“I want to praise them for the extraordinary work they have done,” Obama said. “Sadly, we are getting more experience with these kind of big impact storms along the East Coast.”
Bloomberg turned down the president’s offer to visit the storm-whipped city, but mentioned that he was “not trying to dis” Obama, who instead planned a stop in New Jersey. In the chief executive’s stead, Cuomo said, the national “Unwatering SWAT Team” was headed to the city.
Tuesday afternoon, the winds that whipped the region were gone and only intermittent rain fell. But Sandy’s legacy of carnage will endure in the memory of New Yorkers for decades.
Unlike last year’s Hurricane Irene, which inflicted less damaged on the city than expected, Sandy delivered on every promise of destruction.
“I can say unequivocally that the MTA last night faced a disaster as devastating as it has ever faced in its history,” declared MTA Chaiman Joseph Lhota. “Sandy wreaked havoc on the entire transportation system.”
MARK C. OLSEN/U.S. AIR FORCE
Aerial views shows the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy to the New Jersey coast taken during a search and rescue mission by 1-150 Assault Helicopter Battalion, New Jersey Army National Guard on October 30, 2012.
That included the suburban Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road, along with the PATH trains between New Jersey and Manhattan.
The PATH tubes became a subterranean river, filling with water from top to bottom - about five miles worth, according to Cuomo. The subway terminal at the South Street Seaport was filled like a bathtub, and the LIRR tunnel beneath the East River was flooded, too.
“We have some of the subway tunnels where they are filled to the ceiling,” the governor said Tuesday. “You have the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. You can't even imagine the amount of water in that tunnel.”
Obama suggested that military equipment could be used to pump the standing water out of the subways and tunnels. PATH service was expected to be out for a week to 10 days.
In addition to the swamped subways, six transit garages were shut down by high water and rail yards at 207th St. and 148th St. in Manhattan were flooded.
Transit officials hoped to return subway service in stages, but it was unclear when New Yorkers might enjoy a routine rush hour. Free bus service began Tuesday and continued Wednesday, with the buses operating on a limited Sunday schedule.
The best estimate for the return of subway service was three to four days.
“If there are parts of the subway system we can get up, we will get them up,” said Lhota. “We will be able to complement them with our bus service as well.”
Drivers looking to reach Manhattan had few options, as the downtown flooding closed the Holland Tunnel for a second straight day.
The damage was hardly limited to the city. The death toll climbed above 45 in nine states, with a staggering 8 million left without power. In Atlantic City, a huge portion of the historic boardwalk was destroyed by the howling winds and raging surf.
Con Ed reported 827,622 outages across the five boroughs, with Manhattan taking the brunt of the outages with 270,000. All of Lower Manhattan was without electricity after the East and Hudson rivers flooded into the city.
More than 115,000 customers lost power in Staten Island and Queens, about 90,000 in Brooklyn and almost 50,000 in the Bronx.
“This will be one for the record books,” said utility senior vice president John Miksad.
The raging storm claimed lives across the city - and the death toll could go even higher. Two little Staten Island boys, ages 2 and 4, were missing a full day after their mother’s car became submerged on Father Capodanno Blvd. Police and firefighters were searching door to door in flooded neighborhoods for other victims.
Falling trees, downed power lines and gushing water claimed at least 19 others - many in horrific fashion.
In Richmond Hills, Queens, a 23-year-old woman snapping cell phone photos of a burning power line was killed when she stepped on a nearby live wire.
“She was right on top of the live cables and they were just frying her,” said witness Renny Bhagretta, 44, who watched the tragedy from his home. “She couldn’t move. She didn’t have a chance.”
The downed power lines prevented rescuers and Con Ed workers from reaching the woman for two hours.
The off-duty officer killed on Staten Island died a hero after making sure his father, girlfriend and baby were safely tucked in the attic of their home as it filled with water. He went back downstairs once everyone was safe — and never returned.
The cop was found dead in the basement around 5 a.m. Tuesday, said NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly.
In Brooklyn, a teacher and grad student were crushed beneath towering, tumbling trees in Ditmas Park.
Jessie Streich-Kest, 25, and her friend Jacob Vogelman were found dead after taking her beloved pitbull-mix Max for a walk at the height of the storm.
Streich-Kest, the daughter of longtime labor activist John Kest, ignored her mother’s advice to stay inside before taking her deadly trip down a street of Victorian homes.
“She loved the dog greatly,” said one neighbor. “She was actually a very cautious person. All I can think is the winds seemed like they were dying down.”
And falling debris killed a 13-year-old girl in Staten Island, while a 70-year-old woman was found floating inside a flooded house in Queens. Near the dangling crane, angry tourists were blocked from reaching their hotels - and they were very unhappy.
“We're wondering what the hell is going on," said Garry Poulsen, 49, from West Palm Beach, Fla., who is visiting with his wife Donna, 48.
"This is ridiculous. In Florida they would have made that crane come down."
The pair was blocked from entering their room at the Grand Hilton on W. 57th St. and 7th Ave.
“We've been in these clothes for two days,” said Donna. “The police said, 'You can't go back, you're out in the street.' You can't tell people that."
Not everyone was suffering from storm fatigue. A jogger sporting sneakers, red shorts and an iPod zipped up Broadway past Federal Plaza.
“Hurricane Man!” smirked one passer-by dressed more appropriately in jeans, a jacket, scarf and hat.
City officials said Sunday’s marathon will go on, but the annual Holloween Parade in Greenwich Village was cancelled.
The Board of Elections was surveying polling places around the city to make sure they would be open for the presidential election next Tuesday.
“I don’t think New Yorkers should be worried,” said GOP Board of Elections Commissioner J.Ç. Polanco. “The governor's been working with us so has the state board to ensure that Tuesday goes off without a glitch.”
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