Posted on 08/29/2022 5:42:30 AM PDT by Blueflag
Has been , but yes still goig on, videos are horrifying. Poorly built buildings falling, people not standing far enough away. All you’d see in a torrential flash flood overrunning banks into villages. Many villages totally destroyed. I’ve not seen flooding so bad except with tsuami’s.
The sea breeze front is headed our way. Maybe we will get a quarter inch or so. Anytime I see a field around here surrounded by timber I wonder how much effort it took back in the day to create that field. Trees were mostly a nuisance as they wanted land to cultivate. Once the railroads came in, they could haul the lumber off to cities over the horizon. Cotton left here around 1900. Boll weevils, I suspect.
IMHO between the Saharan dust, lack of moisture in the atmosphere has alot to do with it.
I don’t think either one of those storms are coming this way
Of course, Stella didn't live up to her billing.
But then a strange thing happened. News got out that the NWS kept sounding the alarm despite growing evidence that Stall would be a dud, for fear people would mistakenly think the storm was no longer dangerous.
Now, I fully understand the risk averse mindset of public officials (unless there is mostly peaceful rioting and destruction of property going on) and totally get that you want citizens to be prepared.
But there is a cost to hyper-risk aversion. What about the waitress who depends upon tips, who lost $75 because bar patrons were scared away needlessly? What about the struggling small businessman who may have trouble making payroll because he booked zero revenue that day but still incurred fixed costs? What about the hourly wage-earning parent who has to stay home because of a wasted snow day?
When "superstorm Sandy" hit NJ, I remember literally yelling at the car radio when Her Majesty Chris Christie scolded us residents for not staying inside or heeding his demands that we take this storm seriously. I don't need some jackwagon to tell ME how to prep, and that storm got hyped beyond its carnage unless you were 100 feet from the Atlantic.
Fear porn makes it easier to control the masses.
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