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To: Joe NYC who wrote (516166)	10/24/2012 6:07:43 PM
From: Joe NYC	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794221

Gallup: Romney +5% Raamussen: Romney +4% PPP(D): Romney +2% A bit of a setback from yesterday: Gallup: Romney +3% Raamussen: Romney +4% PPP(D): tied PPP poll had only +4% Dem this time (as opposed to +6% yesterday). BTW, Time mag Ohio poll with Obama +5% has Dems at +10%: swampland.time.com Meaning: 1. it is BS 2. the real result is somewhere between Romney +1% and Romney +5% Direction of the country (Right Track / Wrong Track) continues to be abysmal, -15.8% according to RCP. realclearpolitics.com

To: Joe NYC who wrote (516166)	10/25/2012 3:54:24 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794221

Forecasters Expect Monster Storm in Eastern U.S. Associated Press WASHINGTON—An unusual nasty mix of a hurricane and a winter storm that forecasters are now calling "Frankenstorm" is likely to affect most of the East Coast next week, focusing the worst weather around New York City and New Jersey. Hurricane Sandy rumbled across eastern Cuba as a Category 2 storm, bringing heavy rains and blistering winds that ripped the roofs off homes and damaged crops. Sandy may combine with other weather systems to create a major storm over the northeastern U.S. next week, according to forecasters. Government forecasters on Thursday increased the odds of a major weather mess, now saying there is a 90% chance that the East will get steady gale-force winds, heavy rain, flooding and maybe snow starting Sunday and stretching past Halloween on Wednesday. Meteorologists say it is likely to cause $1 billion in damages. The storm will be a combination of Hurricane Sandy, now in the Caribbean; an early winter storm in the West; and a blast of arctic air from the North. They are expected to collide and park over the country's most populous coastal corridor and reach as far inland as Ohio. The hurricane part of the storm is likely to come ashore somewhere in New Jersey on Tuesday morning, said National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecaster Jim Cisco. But this is a storm that will affect a far wider area, so people all along the East have to be wary, Mr. Cisco said. Coastal areas from Florida to Maine will feel some effects, mostly from the hurricane part, he said, and the other parts of the storm will reach inland from North Carolina northward. Once the hurricane part of the storm hits, "it will get broader. It won't be as intense, but its effects will be spread over a very large area," the National Hurricane Center's chief hurricane specialist, James Franklin, said Thursday. One of the messier aspects of the expected storm is how long it could linger. The worst of it should peak early Tuesday, but it will stretch into midweek, forecasters say. The weather may start clearing in the mid-Atlantic the day after Halloween and Nov. 2 in the Northeast, Mr. Cisco said. "It's almost a weeklong, five-day, six-day event," Mr. Cisco said Thursday from the NOAA's northern storm-forecast center in College Park, Md. "It's going to be a widespread, serious storm." The New York area could see about 5 inches of rain during the storm, while there could be snow southwest of where it comes inland, Mr. Cisco said. That could mean snow in eastern Ohio, southwestern Pennsylvania, western Virginia, and the Shenandoah Mountains, he said. Both private and federal meteorologists are calling this a storm that will likely go down in the history books. "We don't have many modern precedents for what the models are suggesting," Mr. Cisco said. It is likely to hit during a full moon when tides are near their highest, increasing coastal flooding potential, NOAA forecasts warn. And with some trees still leafy and the potential for snow, power outages could last to Election Day, some meteorologists fear. Some have compared it with the so-called Perfect Storm that struck off the coast of New England in 1991, but Mr. Cisco said that one didn't hit as populated an area and isn't comparable to what the East Coast may be facing. Nor is it like last year's Halloween storm, which was merely an early snowstorm in the Northeast. "The Perfect Storm only did $200 million of damage, and I'm thinking a billion," said Jeff Masters, meteorology director of the private service Weather Underground. "Yeah, it will be worse."