Posted on 08/28/2011 8:54:05 AM PDT by RetSignman
Even the fact of a storm is mixed with lies as the media and politicians can utter nothing else but a lie.
Even the fact of a storm is mixed with lies as the media and politicians can utter nothing else but a lie.
The wall to wall coverage and quest for a one of a kind photo or video is excessive, but the damage this storm has caused and will cause will rank right up there with the worse. The reason being that this storm is impacting a heavily populated area at the height of one of the heaviest weeks of tourism.
Gov. Christis estimates billions of dollars of business and property losses in NJ alone. It’s not know whether the shore will be up and running for Labor Day.
In addition to the coastal damage, rivers and streams are casing major inland flooding in the Delaware River region, north Jersey and up into New England. There are reports of rivers/streams flooding streets and houses up to five feet and water is still rising. Some areas are continuing to be evacuating because of rising waters.
Major airports and other means of transportation up and down the eastern seaboard have been closed for days. Millions of homes and businesses are without power and some people report they have been told it will take up to a week before power is restored.
The photos and videos won’t be on the catastrophic scale of what was seen with Katrina, Rita, Andrew, etc., but I think they scale of the damage in dollars will rank right up there with them when all is said and done.
Irene affected Indiana?
Plus...they learned that the sheeple will respond to on-the-spot “evacuation laws” made for the crisis of the day, regardless of the facts presented for all to see and evaluate on their own.
Fear of the environment, fear of the unknown, and fear of the politician. The implications of that make my stomach churn.
Let's see....a foot of rain? Hmmmm....it is just rain. We've had some pretty freaky weather this summer. May was the freak tornado and hailstorms...roof damage from that. Few weeks ago we had 5 inches of rain in 1 hour. Classified as a 500 year storm. Flooded basement and Foundation damage with that one. And just the other night we had hurricane force winds that snapped trees like toothpicks. Chainsaws are still running this morning clearing the downed trees that damaged the fence and garden sheds, back deck, and neighbor's garage. It has been a rough year everywhere...
Perhaps inadvertently, the media sounded like a call to prayer to those who love God. I was one of them. i am sure that the prayers of thousands could weaken that perilous threat to a mere tropical storm, It is still Sunday morning at my house. Let us thank Him who is all powerful, in Jesus’ Holy Name. Amen.
I live in Virginia.
When Agnes hit Virginia it wasn't even a hurricane ~ just a measly old tropical storm ~ killing people, wiping out infrastructure like crazy, raining for days on end.
Anything in your top 10 who killed 130 people might compete, but i doubt it.
Freepers have been warning friends and relatives to flee that state while there was still time.
I see. You listed your location as Indiana.
Three percent.
I was once in a place with regular tropical storms.
A few came by, one actually arrived, but it was not a particularly strong storm. Not having been through such storms before, in all honesty I was a bit disappointed it was rather minor. Winds were enough to tear down some building signage, and to litter roadways with palm fronds; certainly too high for using umbrellas, but nothing catastrophic. Some significant gusts overnight.
But then again, my job was not to objectively report news.
That said, even as a relatively minor storm, the winds were somewhat frightening.
Hard to describe the sound of winds that fast. Something primal about it.
Maybe you don’t know this, but the phones don’t always go out when the power goes down, laptops run on batteries, and we have a generator for as long as the fuel holds out.
The reason for the media hype is likely to build up this storm, so they can compare Obama’s response favorably to Bush’s response to Katrina.
As one who has experienced a flood, I’ll definitely agree that it can cause massive damage. Basically, anything that can absorb water that those brown waters touch will be moldy and rotten in short order. From the flood I went through, I salvaged half a dozen brown Rubbermaid plastic waste baskets and that’s about it.
You’re probably right; we may (or may not) see crushed houses floating down ten mile wide brown rivers where there were no rivers before, but in urban areas, subterranean flooding can be massively expensive.
> I ALWAYS lose my internet during a thunderstorm, but not
> during Irene (again, so far).
:)
Yeah, DSL goes out, but good old phone lines usually remain intact even when there’s no power, so there’s almost always dial-up or even cell modem, if you’ve got one.
We had hail this summer that did a lot of damage, along with the driving rain and winds of the thunderstorms. There’s almost always a rainbow at the end, though.
:)
I’m lazy enough to want to know why I should click on a link. It’s not as if links to websites were in short supply. Tell your readers why you think they should click on that particular link (amongs the nearly infinite alternatives available on the web). Even better, provide a brief synopsis, which might satisfy most readers, and obviate the need to click on a link.
Nothing garners ratings - and thus sells advertising - like disaster.
Joe is good at pulling historical data and comparing it to present day situations. In the case of a Cat 4 or Cat 5 cane going up the entire east coast, there is very little historical data because it rarely happens. He unfortunately probably got hood winked by those Computer Models. You would need sea water temps that were 3-5 Degrees C higher then normal between the Bahamas and North Carolina to support such a rare event. The sea temps were normal.
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