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To: rockabyebaby
True, a cat 1 can be significant for those who are impacted. But yesterday the folks on TV were talking about people potentially losing electricity for a week.

That hardly seems likely from a cat 1 storm.

14 posted on 08/27/2011 9:22:37 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

>>That hardly seems likely from a cat 1 storm.

It is very likely when the animals that live in a neighborhood attack the power company crews sent to restore the power.


18 posted on 08/27/2011 9:26:22 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (The solution to fix Congress: Nuke em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Please...we lost electricity for 10 days in the middle of winter....Upstate NY


19 posted on 08/27/2011 9:26:32 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ClearCase_guy
True, a cat 1 can be significant for those who are impacted. But yesterday the folks on TV were talking about people potentially losing electricity for a week.

That hardly seems likely from a cat 1 storm.

When Floyd came through as tropical storm in 1999 we lost electricity for three days because a tree took out a transformer. You just never know what can happen.

23 posted on 08/27/2011 9:31:10 AM PDT by ContraryMary (Obama = Carter redux)
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To: ClearCase_guy

It’s possible in remote areas people can lose power for several days even a week. I’m not saying the media hasn’t taken advantage of fear mongering, but, people need to focus. Those of us in the path of this hurricane are not laughing. Trees can come crashing through a house in a split second killing anyone in it’s way. That being said, I am amused by people who make a bee line to the grocery store for food, or batteries or even flashlights, seriously, at this stage of the game people don’t have food stored in their homes, no batteries and I can’t believe people don’t have flashlights. We go thru this every winter here in the Northeast, people running out for bread, water, snowshovels, duh, what happened to the shovel you had last year? I personally think the weather forecasters get a kickback from grocery stores and big box stores!


24 posted on 08/27/2011 9:31:30 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yeah, week long power outages are not uncommen on the eastern seaboard when the wind kicks up hard during hurricanes. Old trees—especially silver maples— with shallow roots and a water logged soil are what causes the problem. the trees come down all over the place and overwhelm the power companies ability to restore power quickly.


28 posted on 08/27/2011 9:33:36 AM PDT by ckilmer (Phi)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Ya know what really irritates me.

The fact that my cousin has been sitting in North Carolina since yesterday getting paid by FEMA. He works for a Michigan tree trimming company.


29 posted on 08/27/2011 9:35:26 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin)
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To: ClearCase_guy

>>talking about people potentially losing electricity for a week. That hardly seems likely from a cat 1 storm.

Gloria was a Cat 1 when she hit CT in 1985. We were without power for 7 days. Some of my friends in school were without power for 10 days.

Experience suggests your concept of what is possible needs some re-aligning. We got 5 inches of rain not a week ago, and with 5-10 more predicted, even tropical force winds can topple a LOT of trees.

And we are surrounded by trees.


38 posted on 08/27/2011 9:44:07 AM PDT by Betis70 (Bruins!)
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To: ClearCase_guy
We had a large chunk of NW DC and nearby Montgomery County lose electricity for up to a month ~ and that wasn't even a tropical storm. Instead, there was a modest wind gust that knocked down big trees and damaged major transmission lines and other equipment.

This is a very large storm and it will rain an awful lot on New York City ~ they know the total throughout capacity of all their sewers ~ the expected rainfall is unusual.

47 posted on 08/27/2011 9:52:33 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: ClearCase_guy

Ike was only a Cat 2 when it hit Galveston and Houston, and it stands as the third-most destructive Hurricane ever to hit the U.S. in terms of cost. There’s a lot more to this stuff than just the maximum wind speed of a hurricane, particularly when they hit areas like New Jersey that haven’t seen hurricane conditions in over 60 years.


78 posted on 08/27/2011 11:27:37 AM PDT by The Pack Knight (Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and the world laughs at you.)
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