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    Re-Hurricane Sandy

    Wondering how much crop is left to be harvested in
    Ontario and other areas in the path of the storm?
    Hearing 100 mm of rain and about the same in wind
    speed are being predicted for parts of Ontario. They
    have been very wet this fall and the harvest of beans
    and corn has been slow. This could get ugly if this
    storm comes in like predicted. Can anyone fill us in
    where the harvest is at in these areas?

    #2
    Live video coverage on the Weather Channel.

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      #3
      Russian Ship Carrying 700 Tons Of Gold Ore Missing


      10/29/12 08:04 AM ET EDT
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      MOSCOW -- A vessel with a nine-person crew and 700 tons of gold ore onboard has gone missing in stormy seas off Russia's Pacific Coast.

      The ship sent a distress call on Sunday as it was sailing from the coastal town of Neran to Feklistov Island in the Sea of Okhotsk.

      The vessel, hired by mining company Polymetal, was carrying 700 tons of gold ore from one deposit to another where it was to be processed. Gold ore is the material from which gold is extracted and contains only a small percentage of the precious metal.

      Polymetal's spokesman on Monday would not estimate the value of the cargo.

      The company said it has shipped ore via that route before, and there was nothing unusual in shipping it by the sea.

      http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/29/russian-ship-gold-ore-missing_n_2037908.html






      Coast Guard rescues 14 from sinking ship; 2 missing
      by By Doug Stanglin on Oct. 29, 2012, under USA TODAY News

      Source: USA TODAY
      U.S. Coast Guard helicopters battling Hurricane Sandy rescued 14 of 16 crewmembers who abandoned the movie ship HMS Bounty before it sank off North Carolina early Monday, but officials said two people were still missing at sea.

      The 180-foot, three-masted ship was built for the 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty and was also featured in a Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

      The Coast Guard said Monday that all 16 members of the HMS Bounty crew had made it onto life rafts before the three-masted ship sank, but only 14 people were hoisted to safety by the two Jayhawk helicopters dispatched from North Carolina.

      It was not immediately clear why the two missing crewmembers were not among those rescued 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C.

      Coast Guard Lt. Brendan Selerno said that an expanded air search was underway for the missing pair, who were believed to be in cold water survival suits and life jackets, the CBC reported.

      A Coast Guard Hercules C-130 remained on the scene as officials plotted wind direction and speed to aid in the search.

      The Coast Guard also said there were only 16 people aboard the ship when it ran into trouble, not 17 as initially reported.

      The director of the HMS Bounty Organization, Tracie Simonin, said the tall ship had left Connecticut last week en route for St. Petersburg, Fla., the Associated Press reported.

      “They were staying in constant contact with the National Hurricane Center,” she said. “They were trying to make it around the storm.”

      The first helicopter reached the scene around 6:30 a.m., about 90 minutes after the crew abandoned ship, and hoisted five people aboard. The second chopper plucked nine people from a second life raft.

      The 14 were safely back at the Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., by mid-morning, WITN-TV reported.

      WATCH: HMS Bounty in rough seas two years ago

      The crew abandoned the ship, which had lost propulsion, after it began taking on water, the Coast Guard said, according to the Associated Press.



      The ship was trapped in 40 mph winds and 18-foot seas about 160 miles west of the eye of the hurricane, according to a Coast Guard statement.

      The Coast Guard first received a call Sunday evening from the ship’s owner who said she had lost communication with the crew.

      A signal from the ship’s emergency radio beacon later confirmed that the vessel was in distress and gave its position.

      Here is how HMS Bounty Facebook page described what happened:

      We received a distress call for Bounty at 1830 Sunday evening that the Ship lost power and the pumps were unable to keep up with the dewatering. At that time we immediately contacted the USCG for assistance.

      The HMS Bounty Organization website said the ship was built for the 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty, which starred Marlin Brando. The ship was also used in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest., the AP reported.

      Copyright © 2012 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc.

      http://tucsoncitizen.com/usa-today-news/2012/10/29/coast-guard-rescues-14-from-sinking-ship-2-missing/

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        #4
        What does happen to a big forest of old trees that is
        about to see wind it has never seen,and how long
        does it take to put up all those electrical lines for 60
        million people right before winter.

        Its almost a cat 2 now.

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          #5
          Just kidding of course, but with all of the communication tech out there these days, you would have thought someone one on those ships would have heard about frankinstorm by now and tried to not sail through it!

          A kinda related story; A cousin who lives on the west side of Vancouver Island got a text message from a fried in the Philippines. Warning her about a possible tsunami from the Queen Charlotte Island quake, way before the B.C. warning system was activated. It did not instill a lot of confidence in her, about the local system.

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            #6
            Just heard a report of 33ft waves forecast for lake
            michigan not sure if its true but holly molly.

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              #7
              Not a good week to commission the Edmund
              Fitzpatrick full CWB grain onto the great lakes. I
              project another Gordon Lightfoot solid gold hit
              coming!!!!!

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