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CORTLANDT, N.Y. - As the specter of Hurricane Sandy draws closer, officials and residents around Cortlandt are readying for possible impacts. Officials deployed Department of Public Works employees to clean storm drains and ready chainsaws and generators Friday, and all levels of government are warning residents to be prepared and stay informed.
Several predictions have the eye of the "Frankenstorm" making landfall near the tri-state area. As of Friday afternoon, Sandy was a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 75 miles per hour.
"It’s a very similar exercise to what we did during Irene," said Jeff Coleman, director of the Cortlandt Department of Environmental Services. Coleman said he expects Sandy to be a "wind, flood event," but that, "you plan for the worst."
Up to 15 free sandbags are available to Cortlandt Town residents at the Charles Cook Memorial Pool from 8 a.m. until noon Sunday, Oct. 28. The town will open shelters, although dates and times are still being determined, officials say.
Village of Croton officials are closing permit section "H" of the Croton-Harmon train station on Monday, Oct. 29, and Tuesday, Oct. 30, because of anticipated flooding from Hurricane Sandy. Officials are also warning commuters that permit section "F" has a high risk of flooding. These sections are located east of Veterans Plaza to the left as you are driving into the station.
The Village of Croton is opening its community room at 7 a.m. Monday.
Cortlandt residents flocked to hardware and grocery stores Friday.
"We always lose power; I can't do this anymore," said Sheri Furtzaig, as she purchased a 5,500-watt generator at the Buchanan Home Center. "I have three 16-year-olds. We can't lose power." She referred to a snowstorm in October 2011 as "a nightmare."
Joe Fichter, owner of the Buchanan Home Center, said he'd already gone to his warehouse and retrieved flashlights, "D" batteries and a dozen generators.
"I just came back from our warehouse, getting generators, which is a big thing now since the last storm when all the power went out," Fichter said. "We have about a dozen, but we could sell five dozen. We just can't get them," he said.
As of Friday afternoon, a 5,500-watt home generator at the Buchanan Home Center cost $944 with tax. Fichter said a generator that size produces enough power to supply basic home appliances such as a refrigerator and furnace.
Utility companies are warning residents that home generators can be dangerous and should only be operated according to manufacturer's specifications, outdoors and away from open doors and windows.
The New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services has tips for preparing for Hurricane Sandy, and all emergencies, on its website. Flashlights, "D" batteries, water, and nonperishable food are considered standard parts of an emergency preparedness plan, and should be purchased ahead of a storm.
The Daily Voice will have updates throughout the weekend and the storm.
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Attempts to gain control of the weather, through environmental engineering with experiments involving laser and chemicals to ascertain whether they could damage the ozone layer over an enemy; cause damage to crops and human health through exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet rays, have been carried out by the military.
Chemicals like barium and lithium have been released above the ozone layer creating spectacular light displays and glowing artificial clouds, which were seen in North America during the 1980s and early 1990s.
These compounds are most destructive of the ‘ozone layer’ and cause further chemical changes to the earth’s atmosphere.
According to Dr. Bertell, ‘changes in the earth’s atmosphere bring about corresponding changes in the Earth’s weather and climate’.
Another method is the use of very low frequency electromagnetic waves in weather modification experiments. These waves can pass through solid earth and oceans and have been used by the military to probe the upper atmosphere and the inner structure of the earth.
These pulsed, extremely low frequency (ELF) waves, for instance, can be used to convey mechanical effects and vibrations at great distances through the Earth. They can manipulate the weather, creating storms and torrential rains over an area.
These waves have the potential to generate earth movements. ‘It has the capability to cause disturbance of volcanoes and tectonic plates, which in turn, have an effect on the weather,’ she states.
For example, earthquakes are known to interact with the ionosphere (the atmosphere 50-373 miles above the earth’s surface). In fact, many of the earthquakes that occurred in recent years were preceded by certain unexplained phenomena, says Dr. Bertell.
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********Earthquake induction and environmental modification are part of the latest developments in waging war. The possibility now exists to conduct secret wars which most of military forces won’t even be aware of.
“Because of the intimate connection between the Earth’s atmosphere and its weather, it is not surprising to find that military activities have had an impact on local and regional weather patterns”
”The Earth as a weapon in 21st Century Wars
By Rahab S. Hawa
The weapons of war in the new millennium would involve the use of planet earth itself as a weapon, harnessing the power of natural processes for war.
At the Peoples’ Health Assembly in December 2000 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dr. Bertell revealed to a shocked and incredulous audience that ‘the latest weapons in the arsenal of the US military is Planet Earth itself … and weather will be one of the worst destructive weapons by the year 2025’.
Dr. Bertell was referring to how engineered earthquakes and tornadoes could wreak havoc on populations and nations.
According to her book, electromagnetic weapons ‘have the ability to transmit explosive and other effects such as earthquake induction across intercontinental distances to any selected target site on the globe with force levels equivalent to major nuclear explosions’.
For the past 40 years, the US military has conducted experiments on the earth’s atmosphere using waves and chemicals.”
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I finds it all to coincidental that for days.. the sky was all clouds ; chemclouds that is…the entire sky from the Tri-State to Tim buck too…then BAM!!! You have a full fledge Storm in the making…
I know… SINERTER Science and the Government are behind this all. That they have put to use their HARRP to action and directed all this straight to us and else where.. We are the experiment and this is their playground..we can’t do a DAM thing to stop them from experimenting with our weather…There experimenting with HARRP is for strategic Warfare and satellite communication…
They are experimenting Globally..and it’s having a profound effect on our environment…worst of all they are getting away with doing this. They count on people like you and I NOT to research and find out the TRUTH.. They have their agenda, and that is to eliminate us all…SLOWLY.
Do your own research and find out for yourself..You will see that that spraying of chemicals in the
Ionosphere together with HARRP will cause all sorts of strange weather to occur…
As of Friday afternoon, a 5,500-watt home generator at the Buchanan Home Center cost $944 with tax. NICE, I got mine for $527 including tax. 5,500 watts won't power your entire home either. And people wonder why gas costs so much!