Posted on 10/28/2012 8:39:44 PM PDT by RummyChick
Maybe. But may I refer you to Brendan Loy:
“Sandy is now the largest hurricane in Atlantic history, with its tropical storm-force winds having a diameter of more than 1,000 miles.”
Being a veteran of many hurricanes, I can tell you, personally, there is no such thing as an over hyped hurrcane..........
Been through a lot of them myself. Born, raised, and currently living in NJ; but I was in Florida for a number of years. Actually rode out two of them in ten days back in 2004. This one feels different.
Ever think that they just ran out of stone on which to carve, or felt they had done enough to cover all their foreseeable plans for the future? The Mayans perished centuries ago, blame the Spanish conquerors or whatever, but they would have had plenty of time to update their systems before now if they had lived.
Well, I’m in Hagerstown MD now, which is far from the shore, but it’s projected to get gnarly weather. Wonder if it would make sense to head further inland.
Some of it could be trick photography.
Pfffft, I eat category one hurricanes for breakfast. Surfing in Category 5 winds is my idea of a mellow time. When I do pushups, I’m actually pushing the Earth down.
Our son lives on Long Island. I’ve pleaded with him to evacuate; he did last year in that one, moved belongings upstairs and evacuated premises. Also helped others to evacuate. Some elderly that didn’t want to evacuate. - This time, it’s the case of the “little boys that cried wolf” and he’s not willing to leave. It does get exhausting; but you gotta do what you gotta do. I hope it’s okay; am praying it’s okay.
The problem is that the message doesn’t apply to 99.99% of the people living in the path of Sandy. This kind of universal fear-mongering just makes it even harder to get people to pay attention during the next storm.
This is the Obama administration never letting a crisis go to waste. This storm is just barely a hurricane, and may well be a just a tropical storm when it makes landfall. They are way overplaying this to take Benghazi out of the news focus. As with any cat 1 hurricane there will be some flooding and some minor wind damage, but it’s nothing that we haven’t seen before. It’s very obvious that it’s being spun way way out of proportion.
So that’s why you blew your pants off when you broke wind.
I went through Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi. If I had it to do over again, I’d get the hell out. Better safe than sorry.
Not to worry, The Homeless will magically reappear at noon on January 20th...
The heavy use of emotional adjectives and hyperbole in releases that are typically dry and clinical to a fault is curious, isn’t it? It’s like NOAA is going through manopause or something.
All storms are dangerous, even tropical ones. Floods, not just from excessive rains, but tidal surge, backing up creeks and rivers inland for miles, can destroy billions in property and many lives. People who live many miles inland think they are safe, but it is a false security.........
I dont like being talked down to by some anonymous wonky bureaucrat. This is endemic in the 0bama regime. They think we report to them, not the other way around.
And don’t forget your flu shot!
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