Because I’m not blaming the full moon for storm surge? Does it matter whether its full or not? It’s still there with the same gravitational effect.
It’s not half as powerful as Katrina was supposed to be. If the old levies hadn’t failed, that bowl would have stayed okay. Just because it is the east coast the MSM is putting on a spectacular show. People are acting like it is the first time water ever fell from the sky.
The hyperbole is what is amazing. ‘We never ever ever ever ever saw anything this bad in the history of the planet!’
11” storm surge... Katrina had 30” as someone pointed out and if those levies didn’t fail, nobody would remember it.
Nobody is doubting that there is a storm and that’s its dumping a lot of water. That isn’t exactly unprecedented. We get storms here. Power gets knocked out. Twisters are formed. We watch for rotation on weather radar. We marvel at how hail can fall when its spring or summer. People lose roofs, car windows shatter, low lying areas flood (we have well known flood plains and such, everyone knows where they are when the pump-houses and ravines aren’t enough)
Acting like its the first time, as if nobody has ever dealt with it before or as if they are totally unprepared has to be amazingly short-sighted.
Cities have snow plows and sand trucks because winter comes.
Flood plains, ravines, pumphouses etc are there because heavy rains do come.
It’s happened before.
We have fire departments. We don’t have TV news crews freaking out at every house fire as if its the first time anyone had ever seen fire before.
You know what else was in the news? Electric utility trucks from states all over the midwest being dispatched to the east in preparation for the damage. I am sure that every state and city is on alert. I am sure that evacuations have happened. I am sure that generators and supplies have been sold.
It’s not the end of the world. We have experienced things like this before. Let’s not freak out about it. Like a football player who goes nuts in the end zone... “stop it... just hand the ball to the ref and get to the sideline... act like you have been there before”
I don’t lack empathy. I am just being optimistic about it.
You still don't get it.
I agree that we shouldn't freak out about this storm, but at the same time, the seriousness should also not be downplayed, such as you're continuing to do on this thread.
People are going to die, and there will be billions in property damage. There will be private horrors for some people, that decades won't wash away.
Those of us who are fortunate enough to be many states removed from this cataclysm should grant a little respect for those who about to endure a powerful, and possibly life changing event.
Sure, the media is going to wet their panties about this, but we all knew they would. That's hardly even worth mentioning in a place like this.
Cool. Quite frankly I hope you are right.
NYC alone has as many people as LA, Miss combined. Not to mention all the other states.