Don’t rely on it being hype, I hope you keep your eyes on the weather channel. Went through Hugo (cat 5) in the 80s. Not something to discount.
We’re not discounting it, but nor are we buying into the frenzy the media would have us believe.
We’ve been down this road many a-time with the weather folks. Too much “reporting” is geared towards panic, over-reaction, and ratings. In Maryland, where I am, we get the same type of nonsense for 1/2 inch of snow that we’d get for 2 feet.
I’m not convinced that Sandy will be as much a threat as they say. MAYBE it will.... but the media has overdone too many “nothings” to the point where we’re numb to much of their reporting.
Even after downgrade to tropical storm strength, Hugo really tore up Charlotte NC, many miles inland. I helped cleanup efforts there, and the term “natural disaster” doesn’t come close to what I saw.
In rural farm areas, you only saw a few blown out barns, but once you hit the more densely populated areas, only 10% of the roads were passable because of huge amounts of storm debris, and power lines were down in multiple places on each city block due to fallen old growth trees.
Not really life threatening, but a total pain in the backside for residents who had to wait weeks for power to get back to their house, and slightly less than that for all the roads to be open again.
The areas Sandy will cover are several times more densely populated than Charlotte.
Even after downgrade to tropical storm strength, Hugo really tore up Charlotte NC, many miles inland. I helped cleanup efforts there, and the term “natural disaster” doesn’t come close to what I saw.
In rural farm areas, you only saw a few blown out barns, but once you hit the more densely populated areas, only 10% of the roads were passable because of huge amounts of storm debris, and power lines were down in multiple places on each city block due to fallen old growth trees.
Not really life threatening, but a total pain in the backside for residents who had to wait weeks for power to get back to their house, and slightly less than that for all the roads to be open again.
The areas Sandy will cover are several times more densely populated than Charlotte.