Hysteria. Irene will be a TROPICAL STORM by the 11pm update tonite. And she won’t hit NYC for another 18 hours and might only be TROPICAL DEPRESSION by then.
sorry, I forgot, you know everything. clearly I’m a moron, if only for attempting to engage the know-it-alls around here in what I’m sure is their area of expertise.
Yes, it is overhyped, but while the wind damage will most likely be minimal, there is probably going to be a massive amount of rain dumped on the area, that along with storm surge make flooding clearly the main threat at this time, nothing to sneeze at.