Posted on 08/27/2011 6:42:27 AM PDT by Former MSM Viewer
Shutting down the whole city? Evacuating everywhere? "I KNOW BEST. I AM BLOOMBERG"
Yes, Hurricanes are tricky storms...I’ve live very close to the gulf coast of Texas all my life. I know when to go and when to stay...I pay no attention to those that have never lived on the coast and never been through a Hurricane...screaming leave leave leave....I stay put usually...
They just don’t know. It was forecast to be a Cat 2 now instead of a Cat 1. Surge will still probably be Cat 2 due to the size of the storm. You can’t wait to evacuate, that takes time.
The surge will continue to move north in advance of the center of circulation. Irene is a large storm with a large fetch (stretch of open water to blow over). Irene will probably have Cat 2 surge, and the configuration of NY's harbor is like a funnel that can amplyfy the surge - and the approach of Irene along the Jersey coast will direct the surge into NY. It would be far better for NY for Irene to drift a bit to the east, focusing the surge onto Long Island.
They just don't know, this is a different kind of NE hurricane - slow moving and very broad. Usually when hurricanes get this far north, they are moving very quickly - and a slow mover and large size means longer rains as well, on already-saturated ground.
I live in Manhattan and people are hysterical. There’s a one hour line at the grocery store in the neighborhood right now. I looked out my apartment window and someone has taped up the windows of their apartment in a building on the next block.
“Katrina did a number on Mississippi. Of course, all you ever hear about is New Orleans”
Of course the only reason everyone only heard about New Orleans is because that’s where all the whiners were.
Folks in Mississippi started cleaning up the mess after the storm, and did their best to take care of their own.
Drama queen Shep Smith is now saying that Lord Bloomberg is going to shut down power to the West Village and Battery Park. The goofball shuts down the subways in less than half an hour and the storm isn’t even supposed to hit us until after midnight. Bloomberg is nuts.
Not just the glass, it’s also all the other crap on top of the building that will be coming off.
Some people can’t learn the easy way so they have to learn the hard way.
During Ike, I was living in town at the time, one of my neighbors went out right in the middle of the storm to look at a 30” oak tee that came down. While he was looking at that tree a 40” oak behind him came down and landed about 10’ beside him. He didn’t even know it was coming down until it hit the ground.
I didn’t know you could throw a flashlight in the air that high and have it still work when it landed.
You would think the idiot would be smart enough not to go back out in the middle of the storm after almost becoming a pancake. Nope! He went back out to get his flashlight.
Some New Yorkers are onto Bloomberg. My friend in Brooklyn said this is the mayor’s way of ‘make up for’ the mess in December when union workers refused to clear snow off streets and HE was on vacation.
My, do we forget fast...take a look at what global warming was SUPPOSED to do:
http://www.magazine.noaa.gov/stories/mag184.htm
I'm still curious, how did people get informed in 1954 without the 24/7 media inundation we have today?
LOCAL media was downplaying Katrina. Were you here?
I had my father, bed-ridden with a feeding tube, so we watched constantly. As late as Saturday morning we were being reassured that it would ‘miss’ us and we’d be on the ‘good’ side. Margaret Orr- on WDSU- was blithely upbeat about a ‘blustery day’ when it came ashore!
By Saturday noon we were on the road out-and the LOCAL news didn’t sound dire till Sat nite/Sun morning when we were in Mobile.
No way would we have still been here Saturday morning if the dire warnings had been on the local news. If it happens here on a weekend, N.O. pays no attention-unless its football or a ‘fest’. I talked to people in local supermarkets Friday nite who said ‘what hurricane?’!
What national media was saying, and what the NWS was telling local officials, got ignored, or downplayed, till Sunday.
It was like, when faced with a truly dangerous ‘worst case’scenario, it was too much to believe. People went into denial- the opposite of hype. Locally it was unwillingness to face the approaching nightmare.
Thank heavens the media and officials on the Gulf Coast faced reality and prepared their people. Hearing local news in Mobile-and comparing it to the N.O. media-was like being on another planet. Reality there- fantasy and denial here.
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Scientist mocks: Phony ‘Hurricane’ Coming On Shore With 33 MPH Winds...
NOAA’s Phony “Hurricane” Coming On Shore With 33 MPH Winds
In New Orleans that was correct. Still remember a drunk Shep stating that it looks like New Orleans got very little damage, while he was standing on High Street. The people in the right front quadrant, Biloxi Mississippi however got nailed. And the media missed all that of course because some government levies broke in New Orleans. Stayed at a Hotel in Biloxi that that had been flooded to the second floor. It was a couple of miles inland.
I remember Ike. We live in southwestern Ohio and had winds of 70mph blowing the tops out of healthy trees and traffic signals off overhead wires. We never got a drop of rain.
That is exactly why this is hyped way too much. Irene blew through Puerto Rico, the Turks and Caicos and Bermuda as a Cat 3. All still standing. LOL
Yep. And one should realize that these canes are looking bigger on the radar because the resolution of our satellite data has improved. They were always this big, but don`t tell the MSM dopes that.
It’s not nice to call others stupid when you’re defending what is now clearly a mistake. The first time in history that a mayor of New York has ordered a mass evacuation, and it’s a mistake.
As for New Orleans, what was the mistake? Not evacuating the city because (A) the tail end of storm that hit Mississippi might cause the rickety dikes of the city to burst and flood the below sea level portions of the place, (B) that the Governor would then resist the President’s request to federalize the disaster, and (C) that the inept and corrupt municipal government and police force that, worse than doing nothing, would engage in criminal activity during the outbreak of anarchy in the city? I suppose it would be good to consider how rotten is the government in a place, in preparing contingency plans. But, is New York City as badly governed as New Orleans?
But the center of Irene has been inland for 12 hours now. I just can't see a surge in New York harbor, from what I'm watching now. The weather people are usually right about these things, and they have called, e.g. , the big Chicago snowstorm last winter with uncanny accuracy. I think that politics has overtaken them in this case. The Weather Channel guy was standing in the street in NC somewhere hyping the wind when a big black SUV pulled up behind him with people waving out the windows. He referred to them as "stupid people" for being out, but then in the background you could see several cars pass by. It wasn't even raining.
I was on the dirty side of Ike, and we didn’t get more than a few showers from it ourselves.
When it came ashore and that wind started changing directions, talk about all hell breaking loose. 5 and 6 inch limbs were flying through the air and landing 50 and 60 feet from where they broke off. Smaller limbs were carried hundreds of feet.
I think he’s kinda pissed that he had to pass up on his usual three day weekend in Key West with his boytoy....
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