The Oceans will begin to recede!
Posted on 10/30/2012 12:31:32 AM PDT by Dallas59
NEW YORK (AP) — Television networks offered compelling pictures and a gripping narration of the monster storm that put Monday on hold for millions of people in the eastern part of the country — and more than a few mixed messages, too.
Anchors and reporters repeatedly urged viewers to stay at home and stay safe during the storm, yet they solicited pictures and videos to show evidence of Hurricane Sandy's might and displayed them on the air.
Reporters with rain dripping off their windbreakers expressed incredulity at civilians walking around outside, like when CNN's Ashleigh Banfield noted joggers at New York's Battery Park City.
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“Way back about 1982 was the last time we had a residual hurricane “eye” pass through the neighborhood.”
If it only passed through your neigborhood then how “epic” could it have been?
Now that I’ve been able to comprehend the scale and scope of what tsunamis can and have done, I think I have a better understanding of what epic proportions really are. If the eye of a hurrican passed through MY neighborhood, I might feel different but the aftermath of this storm or natural disaster they call “Sandy” will pale in comparison to the 2004 and 2011 tsunamis.
The problem is not that people second guessed the severity of this storm; rather, they second-guessed the MSM and govt warnings, which is what happens when these media and govt attention whores over-hype every weather event.
Yes, Sandy's impact on relatively small, but densely populated areas is no doubt severe and epic. But as of Sunday afternoon, the MSM was pimping for viewership by hyping death and destruction for a 900 mile-wide path stretching from Maine to Virginia to the Canadian border. The reality, however, is that when Sandy finally blows out of the area, the vast majority of that 900 mile swath will have suffered a mild to moderate rain event with a few gusts of wind on par with a mid-summer thunderstorm. Many of us will have lost electricity for a few hours or perhaps a few days and some us will have suffered flooded streets and basements, neither of which is all that unusual in July or in January.
To put things in perspective, as a result of the media hype, all the local schools and govt offices where I live in the northern NYC suburbs, decided on Sunday morning (if not earlier) to close on Monday, even though by Sunday afternoon, the models uniformly showed that Sandy would make landfall in southern New Jersey, nearly 200 miles away. Some local governments even declared a state of emergency 24 hours before the first few raindrops and gusts of wind. Workers stayed home, businesses shut down, millions of dollars were sucked out of the local economy. Yet as a storm, Sandy dumped a whopping .31 inches of rain in the area and whipped up a few 60 mph wind gusts. Except for the media hype that shut down the local economy, Sandy's impact was less than a severe summer squall.
This is at least the fifth time in the last three years that the MSM has hyped a weather event that failed to live up tp the hype. Cry wolf often enough and the people stop listening.
Don’t inject reality into the very small brains posting here. Their brains could explode.
I was on the last flight out of Nassau, Bahamas before Andrew hit - coming home from my honeymoon... Flying through the Bermuda Triangle in a hurricane - even though it was just the first part of the rain was NOT amusing! I thank God we were able to get out of Miami as they snagged my boarding pass for my connection on accident when they were rushing getting us all on board in Nassau. Tensions were really high in the Miami airport already with people rushing to make sure they didn’t miss their flights so they could get the heck out... That was scary for me, and I can’t imagine what it was like for those who had to STAY there!
Even with thunderstorms you can’t tell from looking in YOUR yard how bad it may have been even 2 blocks away. Was through one storm that saw a tornado on the river a few blocks from our house, but thankfully it was short and stayed over the water... That happened to us last week as the bad front moved through too - lots of lightning, thunder, hail, etc... in my town, but a few towns over people lost their barns, outbuildings and livestock. You never would have known looking at my block...
In a storm like this? Ridiculous to underestimate, deadly in fact... I have a horrible feeling there are going to be some bad numbers coming in once people can actually get IN to the areas that were hit the hardest. In many places they are reporting gas leaks all over, but the FD cannot respond as they are still underwater... The big fire in Queens - in a mandatory evacuation zone - involved the FDNY in boats and scaling buildings to evacuate at least 30 people in the path of the fire. And that’s only those they could reach...
Have you even LOOKED at what’s going on a bit to the South of you - STILL at this hour??? I’m happy for you that it’s not worse. You should feel LUCKY, not self-righteous.
No doubt... It’s sickening, really. I think I’ll go and check up on a fellow FReeper that was listening to them calling in gas leaks pertaining to her brother’s building, and her friends’ building next door. I’m sure she doesn’t think this was “over-hyped”.
I know people will be hurt and there will be damage but I’m having a hard time getting worked up about this storm. Living in the Southeastern US teaches you what a real hurricane is. All this non-stop news coverage about a Cat 1 storm, pffft. I keep thinking to myself “You bunch of damn babies! Call me if a real hurricane shows up.”
My wife says ‘Well, that part of the country isn’t used to this sort of thing so they’re not prepared. It’s the same as a bad snow storm down here. Our infrastructure just isn’t designed for it.” I know, I know, but I just can’t help feeling that the reason this storm is soooo important is because it’s landing up around NYC where all the “important” people live. If it was a Cat 2 or 3 smashing into Butt Scratch, Alabama none of these people would even care. (Well, except for the weather guys. They just love having their picture taken in a high wind.)
I am well aware of what is going around an hour south of me and the warnings for the NYC metro coastal area were spot on. A lot of people didn’t take the warnings seriously because the MSM, particulalry in the NYC area, has a bad habit of turning the even the most beneign snow storm into the blizzard of the century and as result, when the big one is real, people don’t take the warnings seriously. One size does not fit all.
Same with solitons, or standing wave forms, particularly the big ones. Yesterday they had 25 foot waves in Lake Michigan. That means there was probably one or more solitons several times that height. Depending on time and opportunity that could have sunk all the big boats on the lake, or crashed into Chicago's Loop and destroyed downtown.
Later on they reported 22 foot waves on Lake Erie. Similar problems could ensue.
It's pretty obvious to geologists who study such matters that the shorelines of all the Great Lakes have been raked by great masses of water.
So, what is it you want? Perhaps you'd like hundreds of thousands of bodies ~ we could have had that ~ simply direct all the folks who live on the shore to just stay there and pretend nothing is happening.
The fact is a modern society knows what to do in the face of certain disaster and does it. The dead bodies disappear. The epic nature abates.
Sunday made a sudden move yesterday and landed in Delaware Bay and for 200 miles either side ~ that was a surprise to those of us South of the expected zone ~ so, no, ‘they’ hadn’t decided that it wasn’t going to show up in NYC.
It’s obvious you have no idea where hurricanes go after they’ve come through your neighborhood.
The Oceans will begin to recede!
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Actually, I’m pretty certain that I know about hurricanes after 40 years of dealing with them. I didn’t say it was harmless. It just seems to be a lot more important to the media because this time because it’s headed for them.
People facing a hurricane probably all feel the same way ~ that the media don't really care about them.
This particular hurricane endangered Buffalo NY and Gary IN ~ which may have been more of a motivator for some of the newsies that you can imagine.
Dig up a Gulf Coast hurricane that endangers Gary and you got a winner eh!
There are also population numbers ~ this storm was a threat to over 50 million people ~ 1/6 of the population. Something like that always draws attention.
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