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The casinos will want money from the gov. for the money lost when closed.
“opinions welcome”
It kicked the crap out of us here in the Catskill region. I think many will eat their words tomorrow when the film footage gets out.
Gilboa Dam is ready to burst, which will flood many small towns. Schoharie creek is flooding. We are unable to get more than a mile from our place due to flooded out roads. Every creek is out of it’s banks. Trees are down everywhere and the wind is still blowing hard with gusts around 40-50 mph. The ground is saturated and trees are uprooting as I type this. I just heard another one go down back in our woods. I’ll be checking for damage tomorrow and most likely will be behind a chain saw for at least a week.
The storm turned inland and we got hit much harder than you are hearing about. NYC got lucky.
Overhyped....I don’t think so.
From an email I just received from a friend that lives 45 minutes south of us:
“We got blitzed here by Irene, I am running a generator so I have some power, but trees are down everywhere and the villages of Potter Hollow, Oak Hill and Durham have been evacuated. I measured 14 inches of rain so far and my garden washed away.”.....
“...my road is washed out and I cannot go anywhere. The NY State thruway is closed. Houses have washed away and people are missing and presumed dead.”
Keep the people effed up and confused
Almost 700,000 customers in CT lost their power. As of 9am 587,502 customers are out of power - 47% of NU’s customers in CT.
I lost power for almost 5 hours last night (after Irene pretty much ended)- flooding and evacuations in my town - trees down.
It was ‘over hyped’ but damage did occur in some areas. Lots of power outages, trees down and flooding - just not as widespread as the “MSM” and the Administration was hoping for :>)
Did you see the Brattleboro, VT videos? That’s pretty wild!
I was in Brattleboro last week - what a strange and weird town - needed a good washing....../s (hopefully no one was hurt and minimal damage)