Meet Abby. She’s just your average red-haired, blue-eyed four year old but from now on she may be forever known as the “Bronco Bamma Girl” after her mother posted the following video of her crying because she just can’t stand to listen to anymore election 2012 talk.
“I’m tired of Bronco Bamma and Mitt Romney,” she says.
Aren’t we all, Abby? Aren’t we all?
“It’ll be over soon Abby. The election will be over soon,” says her mother.
Let’s all remind ourselves of that.
As an aside: the first person to post a photo of themselves in a Bronco Bamma Halloween costume wins the internet.
Images of big news and events move quickly across our digitally connected society. But as we share and re-post images that grab our attention, we sometimes forget to ask the obvious question: Is that really what is says it is?
Case in point: These viral images that were initially said to show Hurricane Sandy weren’t captured during the dangerous storm. They are, however, striking images.
Here are a few you might have seen already, including this doomsday-looking view of the Statue of Liberty.
This image is a composite image featuring the Statue of Liberty and the stormy sky of a 2004 supercell thunderstorm in Nebraska.
And yes, soldiers are guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during the storm. But the image below isn’t from today — it was actually taken last month and posted by the photographer here with other similarly good photos.
Soliders stand in pouring rain during a September storm at the Tomb of the Unknown Solider. (Photo by Karin Markert)
This photo is actually from a film-based art installation.
Actor and Facebook personality George Takei had some fun with the fake images being shared on social media and posted the image below on his Facebook Page.
“Fans are concerned about Photoshopped storm images being shared to cause alarm, so I verified this one…”
Tide tables suggest that if Hurricane Sandy keeps on its current path and hits Connecticut during high tide, which heavily increases its potential for damage.
If the water level is high when the storm hits, flooding will be heavier than it would otherwise, and storm surges will be that much more intense. Surges — giant rushes of water pushed inland by a hurricane’s high pressure — are responsible for nearly all of the death and destruction caused by a hurricane, according to the NOAA.
Sandy is expected to hit between late Monday afternoon and Tuesday. Generally speaking, the tides seem to take the following patterns around coastal towns that are either in the Southwest or Southeast of Connecticut.
Southwestern towns — with about 7 feet of water added at high tide.
Monday: High tide around 11:30 a.m.; Low at 6 p.m.; High at midnight;
Tuesday: Low tide around 6 a.m.; High at noon; Low at 6:30 p.m.
Southeastern towns — with about 3 feet of water added at high tide.
Monday: Low tide around 4 p.m.; High at 10 p.m.
Tuesday: Low at 4 a.m.; High at 10 a.m.; Low at 5 p.m.; High at 10:30 p.m.
You can also help us prepare by sending in any tips you have about particularly dangerous areas, shops and gas stations with low supplies, or anything you see.
By far the biggest danger presented by Hurricane Sandy: its storm surge. Latest estimates say it could reach a height of 6-11 feet. To offer some perspective, New York City’s seawall is about 5-feet-high.
Storm surges account for most of the death and damage caused by hurricanes — according to the NOAA, almost all the devastation from 2005′s Hurricane Katrina was caused by surges — but the phenomena isn’t commonly understood.
Storm surges accounted for most of the flooding in the disastrous Hurricane Katrina that heavily damaged New Orleans in 2005.
The flooding that happens during a storm is not just because of heavy rains; the intense pressure of a hurricane, coupled with the forceful wind actually pushes a huge volume of water onto the shore and that rush of water comprises a storm surge.
The NOAA has a graph showing the science behind the surge:
Storm surging during Katrina was around 25 ft above normal tides. According to another NOAA report, in New England, the time of day the storm hits will make the biggest impact on the size of the flood. Low tide will reduce the impact, but high tide will exacerbate the water levels. Unfortunately, if Sandy keeps on its current path, the tide will be high for many parts of Southwestern Connecticut when it hits.
The size of a continental shelf also impacts surge size: shallow shelves tend to create worse surges.
Hurricane Sandy is due to hit Connecticut Sunday night and while the potential for damage varies from town to town, local weathermen agree that the whole state — especially its coastal town — is going to feel the impact.
We’ve collected a selection of what local weathermen are predicting for your part of the state.
News 12 has arranged a collection of flood and wind pattern graphs for their forecast, and remind their viewers that the wind shouldn’t become dangerous until late Sunday night, but a flood warning will remain in effect from Sunday night until 3 p.m., Tuesday, with a high wind warning in effect until 6 p.m.
WFSB is running an interactive map on their weather page, breaking down the expected impact county-by-county along with the surrounding states. Their general weather forecast can be found here and you can watch their latest video forecast here:
The country star and Conor Kennedy have reportedly broken up.
From The Daily Dish at SFgate.com
Singer Taylor Swift is single again after splitting from her boyfriend Conor Kennedy, according to a magazine report.
The unlucky-in-love star romanced the 18-year-old son of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. throughout the summer and spent long weekends at his family’s compound in Hyannis Port, Mass.
Voters outside the state of Minnesota are missing out on quite the radio spot.
The group Minnesotans for Equality burst onto the airwaves yesterday with a spot starring Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe. Kluwe, the author of a now-legendary (and colorfully NSFW) defense of gay rights, uses the editorial’s most memorable phrase in its bleeped-out format in the radio spot.
The ad concludes by asking Minnesota voters to vote no on the state’s Marriage Amendment, which would officially recognize marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.
The radio spot already has close to 1,000 likes on Facebook, but it has a long ways to go before it reaches the popularity of Kluwe’s Deadspin editorial; that has 173,000 likes.
Just in time for Halloween, the home made famous by the Amityville Horror movie is up for sale – and has been for a while.
Located in Toms River, NJ, the house was where the cult film was shot. The real haunted home though is in the neighboring state, according to AOL Real Estate:
The horror movie…was based on the real-life story of the Lutz family, who bought an allegedly haunted house in Amityville, on New York’s Long Island, in 1975. Thirteen months before the Lutzes moved in, a man named Ronald DeFeo Jr. had shot and killed six members of his family at the house. According to the Lutzes, they were victim to demonic, paranormal activity inside the home and left after living there for only 28 days.
Amityville Horror home on the market
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The 4 bedroom, 3 full & 2 half bath home is asking $935,000 after slashing its price multiple times from the original list price of $1.45 million when it came on the market last year. Since the cult horror movie was released in 1979, many updates and modifications have been done to the property; the once pie-shaped windows on either side of the brick chimney are now square and the roof has lost its angles.
The current owners of the house, Odalys and Jose Fragoso, purchased the colonial in 2001 and are selling because of divorce.
“My husband and I are getting a divorce,” Odalys Fragoso told CNN. “It’s not that the house is haunted or anything.”
Despite the price cuts, it’s still up for grabs. Perhaps the home’s link to the movie has spooked out most home buyers.
