2.) People went crazy on hearing the news, buying perishable items and soem non perishable items for emergency use such as generators and whatever. This provided a small short term stimulus that is the equivalent of the incometax return check people get and spend: honest spending by consumers but meaningless in terms of economic effect long term
So, Is there somethig we can expect to see out of all this?
YES: QE3
Why, Gosh, the easternhalf of the US just got slammed, did you see the flooding in NYC and that awful earthquake that was so out of the norm on the east coast??
Obama and the dems are going to push these two events to spend more money and raise more taxes for the needy by demanding those wiht means provide their fair share.
Awful. just awful.
I guess it was a ‘slow news week’ and it was a good ratings-grabber. However, when they overhype this type of thing, people stop paying attention and ignore warnings in the future (a la Katrina). When true devastation hits, it is a tragedy because people are numb to overly exaggerated claims.
Because it wasn’t about another Obama eff-up and then needed SOMETHING to fill the 24/7 news cycle.
To make Obama look good in comparison to Bush. It’s not rocket science.
Secondly the WORST storm to hit Virginia in the last couple of centuries was a mere TROPICAL STORM! It rained a lot. All of these larger hurricanes, even when they spin out to tropical storm category, rain a tremendous amount.
At one point it was noted that the extant of the hurricane was greater than Europe. Some Floridians were laughing about how puny it was, compared to theirs I suppose, yet, this hurricane could have swallowed 100% of Florida at a single gulp and flooded everyone ~ but it went North.
As far as violence goes we've had Nor'Easters do more damage. Even had them drop more water in the form of ice and snow, only to have it melt later ~ over several days. Still, the folks in New Jersey are convinced it was a bad storm, and it's not over yet for them.
I got the feeling looking at yesterday's posts that we have too many people who think that it's only wind damage that makes hurricanes bad neighbors. They wanted to see sheet metal roofs flying around or something, or maybe a gas station being ripped apart, piece by piece. Having gone through DOZENS of these things over the years I fear 3 feet of water in the parking lot or the street in front of my house much more than the wind. Besides my insurance covers wind even if it doesn't cover water so I live uphill. Downhill is the Potomac and its tributaries. It's not a serious river ~ just fourth largest river along the Atlantic coast of the USA and the 21st largest in the USA. Over 5 million people live within the Potomac watershed.
When it goes out of its banks it's pretty nasty.
MONEY.
I am so sick of blowhards on here claiming “nothing happened” because NEW YAWK didn’t get washed into the ocean. It seems as if NEW YAWK is the center of the universe, and if nothing happens to NEW YAWK, than it’s a wash.
Ask the folks on the OBX about Irene. Places that haven’t flooded in more than 80 years were under 6 feet of water last night. Hatteras Island was cut in half.
http://www.wral.com/weather/video/10057638/#/vid10057638
Simple. Slow news time and also close to a major media area. Sort of like the freeway chases in Los Angeles. In those two ways it is a perfect storm.
Obama and the MSM were hoping they could milk this disaster until Nov 2012.
Oops nothing but a little rain and wind. Guess you gotta still give that “jobs” speech bammy. Oh, and have you scene your approval rating today. Guess NH/NJ ISN’t the entire USA after all.
What makes me the most crazy is that these buffoons think we don;t have the same access to weather data as they do. I saw the track last night and the rapid deterioration and decided to go about my business today. Screw the media and Obama
It took Libya off the radar. Good reason to skip all that rebel payback in Tripoli.
Feds' response to Hurricane Irene critiquedAugust 28, 2011 11:04 AM
Chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer talks with Scott Pelley about the response of the federal government to Hurricane Irene, and how the precautions taken may have kept casualties down.
I think they wanted to make it seem like a huge event so that they can make a big deal about how quickly and efficiently Obama’s responds to it. Then they’ll contrast that to how the Bush administration reacted to Katrina, blaming everything bad that happened on Pres. Bush, of course.
Because a hurricanes hitting not just one, but two major cities head on is very exciting.
I totally agree that “be prepared” is the best motto. However.....what I witnessed in the MSM AFTER the worst had passed was disgraceful. I read several posts on here that they witnessed the media FAKING the severity.
My son and I were watching the Weather Channel this afternoon (around 3pm) from NJ. The ‘idiot on the spot’ was there on the coast on a walkway. He was dressed in rain hoodie and hat. Camera zoomed in on him and he was grasping his head, holding his mic in a wide-footed stance. Then the cameraman panned back to show people walking along, casually......hardly ANY wind and NO rain and NO ONE was covered in rain gear. My son had his mouth open. I said....”This is theater of the ABSURD!!!!” Then people realized they were on camera and started waving. LOL!
You could just imagine his producer saying: “John? John? We’re getting a close-up. Look like you are struggling. Hold your hat.” Then after the pan-out.......he stopped ‘striking the pose’. It was HILARIOUS!!!!!!
Because it could have easily been this:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/x-photos-from-the-devastating-new-england-hurrican
Read this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2770158/posts
We have the luxury of advanced satellite forecasting, but we still have no way to predict what a monster storm will do. And all hurricanes are, by definition, monster storms.
What you call “hype” was merely prudent planning. Thanks to the leaders of those affected areas for doing their jobs.
And thanks be to God it wasn’t worse.
It is simple really. First there hasn’t been a hurricane to hit the US for a while and they were looking for a disaster to report. Second, they were hoping to blame it on globull warming. Third, it is pretty rare for a hurricane to go up the eastern seaboard like that.
They created all the hype and could not back off or lose face, and be held liable for all the economic and other damage they caused.
3) They hyped a disaster so they could prepare “certain groups” for the looting.
It changed the subject from Obamas two-jet vacation, from the promise of obama’s proposal of a plan which did not exist, from the repetetive buisness reports of the worsening economy, from the crass executive order to import 300,000 immigrants in opposition to the pubic will as well as that of congress. Misdirection is often the tool of liar democrat (sorry to be repetitive).
My Thoughts:
1 Obama knows we are getting tired of his vacations
Probably would have been back earlier from MV,but MO said no)
2 Needed to take charge of whatever to show leadership.
3 By the time he showed up,the storm was losing strenght.
Now we know he’d look a fool if he was in charge of a Tropical Storm.So all his cronies had to keep building this Storm as a Big one,or he’d be a laughing stock. NC took the punch out of this Storm.So it was The Big One until it hit NJ and NYC.And low and behold a rain maker.
What he looks like ,take your pick.
I know you folks up in that area don’t get Storms like this,like we do here.But I read most of the threads on this Storm and watched the Times Square Cam.People we’re walking around with umbrellas.Something was’nt adding up.
Watch out for the water,it’ll kill you before wind will.
All Hype.
Just my 2cents.