yup, this'll prolly cost a $Billion by time this is over...
Posted on 08/27/2011 6:42:27 AM PDT by Former MSM Viewer
It’s the way of the dramamedia. Only by screaming of doom can they get enough hits to keep the lights on.
He either failed to do that so the Dems could blame Bush or is a FOOL.
Many here think the DNC told him to delay the order so the Dems could destroy Bush ! NOW, Mitch is Mayor of NOLA.
Yes the slimeball who created the NOLA mess is in charge!
>> If that had not happened, would we remember that one as particularly devastating? <<
Yes, because Katrina totally obliterated several towns along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Since 9/11 and Katrina, we have developed a industry/government service called Emergency Management, which for the last couple of years has not had much to do. Like all bureaucracies they have to justify their existence so they take a Cat 2 hurricane hype it to close highways and businesses. ‘Methinks they doth protest too much’ to justify their budget requests. well keep shutting down business and who is going to pay those blotted budgets.
it was mentioned previously but the boy who called wolf syndrome is very evident here. the outcome will be people will not belive their warnings when it counts. of course in this newspeak world, they will tell us how many lives they saved with these warning.
Who wants to have a hurricane party. of course I will remember Hurricane Camille and let discretion be my guide.
New Orleans is a city built on a sponge, floating in a bowl surrounded by water that is being held back by old, beaten-up levees and a few inches of government cement.
It is indefensible against even minimal tropical storms flooding it. A few days of heavy rain floods streets and homes and everything continues to sink.
Truth is- N.O. doesn’t need a Cat 3 to destroy it- just lots of rain, high tides in the canals and one paper-filled levee wall to give way. Everyone knows this. Which is why they start getting paranoid about a thunderstorm in the Gulf and start hyping hurricanes and evac plans in January!
The water’s colder as you go up the Atlantic coast, too. Hard to see how Irene could go from a 3 to a 5. Now it’s a 1. Oh well; it made some politicians look a little more foolish.
What was with all those people standing around and behind him during his speech? Were the mannikins there to enhance his perceived authority?
I’s flooding that causes deaths and damage and even 5 inches of rain in a short time can cause serious flooding.
However, the point I think many of you are missing with the threat is New York City is the amount of broken glass people will be dealing with.
As Jim Cantore explained last night, while the winds on the ground may be category one, the winds ten stories up are category two, and those high rise building in NYC are not prepared for that. The winds funneling down a street with tall buildings on either side will suck the glass off the buildings and rain it down on those people below who are outside to show what an insignificant storm this is.
There are going to be plenty of injuries from this storm to people who are not taking it seriously enough.
I remember sitting through Hazel as a tyke in the northern Philly suburbs. It downed some trees there, and the wind caused the local power lines to spark until we lost power. The really bad one was Diane in 1955, because of the rain. It caused major flooding in northeastern Pennsylvania. I remember my grandfather driving us to see the Delaware in flood. Agnes in 1972 was a similar event.
None of these impacted NYC, and the evacuations there are in anticipation of a huge storm surge, which I just can’t see happening. I mean, the surge just came on shore in NC, right? We’ll see.
>>>we have developed a industry/government service called Emergency Management,
Find a local CERT group in your area, get trained, then come back here and whine about Emergency Management... In lots of places, the task of running so-called “emergency management” agencies is like was seen it Katrina & LA - patronage... but in places where educated, dedicated professionals run the show instead of political hacks, and you have solid CERT teams in place - you have a good system.
Every minute of weather coverage is NOT a minute of economy coverage.
Every minute of weather coverage is NOT a minute of economy coverage.
yup, this'll prolly cost a $Billion by time this is over...
Ike in 2008 wasn’t a walk in the park.
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I have been saying this since TWC and the local NYC news affiliates starting hyping the storm last Tuesday. On Thursday, TWC was predicting that Irene would reach CAT 3 status off the Carolinas and then pound the NYC metro area as a powerful CAT 1 or perhaps even a CAT 2. Now, TWC is scrambling to explain why we need to fear what is likely to limp into the NYC area as low level tropical storm at the very worst. The so-called experts are even backtracking on the storm sturge from predictions earlier in the week at 8 to 12 feet or more to the current prediction of 4 to 8 feet.
If this was December, we would call Irene a good old fashioned Nor’easter and get on with our lives. Yes, there will be heary rain and lots of it, but probably not as much as we got two weeks ago when more than 10 inches fell in certain areas over a two day period. Yes, there will be wind, but not nearly as much as the experts predicted two days ago or even yesterday morning when they started to retreat from their predictions of widespread death and destruction. Indeed, I suspect the wind in most areas will be about the same as the several major winter storms that we endured and survived last winter. No doubt, Irene will knock down a few trees and a lot of peope will lose electricity. That happens in my area about every third thunderstorm. No big deal — and certainly not enough of a big deal to shut down the entire NYC metro area.
BTW, there is another thread run by a bunch of self-proclaimed hurricane experts who will pounce to kill if you merely suggest on that thread that perhaps, just maybe, Irene has been over-hyped to generate TV ratings.
Hazel killed 95 people in the US.
A better example is Katrina, where warnings to evacuate were not heeded and over a thousand people were killed as a result. This hurricane will likely have Cat 2 surge due to its size and it will track along a long length of coast and at high tide the tides will be a foot above average due to the new moon.
Salt water flooding used to be the main killer from hurricanes from people getting stuck in areas prone to surge flooding. Evacuations changed that until Katrina. It's not a trivial matter.
Well sorry but I remember clearly hearing President George W Bush on National TV 3-4 days before the storm hit. He warned people the storm would be devastating, told them to get out. It was the locals who did nothing, intentionally IMO, so they could blame the feds and Bush. No way was was that hurricane downplayed. I watched it for days just like this one.
I don’t think anyone is saying it’s a trivial matter.
And, it is also overhyped and being reported in very misleading ways.
Huge overreach by government.
It’s as if, they (government and complicit media), are doing a huge experiment on the people of the east coast...
And this will be a lot worse than a n'oreaster, as the trees are fully leafed and will come down a lot more easily. And due to all the rain already received, there will be major stream and river flooding as well.
So go ahead and continue to wallow in your stupidity - you know, the same kind of stupidty that killed so many people with Katrina.
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