Only Two Locations Had 85 MPH Gusts (Irene Hype Then and Now is BULLCRAP!)

Real-Science.com ^ | 8/28/2011 | S Goddard

[Recovering_Democrat]

NOAA said that maximum average wind speeds at landfall were 85 MPH, hurricane winds stretching outwards for 90 miles. In fact, only two locations even had gusts over 85 MPH.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Now Hussein and his sycophants are going to try and sell America on the notion that our economic problems are due to Irene.

Oh, and every disaster on the east coast for the next 13 months? Irene related.

[the invisib1e hand]

By this time next week it will be the storm of decade; by election day, the storm of the century.

[Red Steel]

Brazen.

[digital-olive]

OMG would someone think of the children?!??!?!?!

That was hard to say with a straight face.

[muir_redwoods]

We got a lot of rain here in CT but very little wind; nothing very hard but we do have 700K households in the state still w/o electricity as of about 7:00PM this evening.

[Errant]

Hurricane Katrina had maximum winds of 175 mph. When wind speed doubles the force or energy of the wind quadruples.

[umgud]

Irene is a huge storm, but just a marginal hurricane.

The worst hurricane in all human history was Katrina. We are still paying its victims and will for decades more.

[FlJoePa]

A liberal friend of mine is already claiming over $20 Billion in damages. Mainly in the Catskills he tells me. The Catskills? $20 Billion? With a B?? Are you friggin’ serious?

When did we become such a bunch of wusses that we can’t dig ourselves out from a stupid tropical storm without taking both hands off the shovel and directing them - palm up, in the direction of the gubbmint?

[cumbo78]

Did the media overhype the storm? Of course. Will the politicians take all sorts of credit? Of Course. Does that change the fact that there is unprecedented flooding, billions of dollars in damage and millions of people without power? No, it doesn’t. Pay no attenetion to the media and the politicians, put your knives away, and say a prayer for those who need them.

[NonValueAdded]

Methinks there was a political reason to keep a tropical storm classified as a hurricane.

[Repeal The 17th]

We’ve got the rest of this season and all of the next before that.

[Errant]

BTW, as a result of hurricane Katrina, N.O. had a 22’ storm surge and over 700 people are reported as still missing.

[CitizenM]

Accurately and well said. Ditto

[radioone]

“BREAKING NEWS, 1:05 PM—Krugman Home Destroyed by Hurricane Irene, Nobel Laureate Declares It “A Great Economic Stimulus.” UPDATE, 1:09 PM: Krugman Recants, Says Destruction is a Stimulus Only When it’s YOUR house”—Lawrence W. Reed,

[Errant]

During the Japan tsunami, the largest waves measured by instruments in the water were 7 metres (nearly 23ft) high in the north-east of Japan, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Hawaii.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/11/japan-earthquake-tsunami-questions-answers

[ROCKLOBSTER]

the Brown Clown.

HA! Good one!

"Very funny, Homey don't play dat game"

[rlmorel]

[JoeGar]

NOAA said that maximum average wind speeds at landfall were 85 MPH, hurricane winds stretching outwards for 90 miles. In fact, only two locations even had gusts over 85 MPH.

What NOAA did not say was that the width of the storm was very broad and there was much, much rain associated with it. The eye passed east of my house, but still every house in my neighborhood lost at least one tree; several houses lost more. Normally, we are used to seeing a hurricane pass; this one seemed to hang around forever. We got 20 inches of rain at my house. The ground became so saturated that it did not take more than an 85 mph gust to blow a tree over. Entrepreneurs -- with chain saws -- are making a killing!!!

[paul51]

correct. If the media and the politicians did not prepare to the max for the worst and then the worst occurred, there would have been hell to pay and justifiably so. It was the right thing to do.