Posted on 09/19/2018 9:18:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I’ve been waiting for this article ... first thing I thought of when I heard how creative they were with the numbers ...
Good find. If they bring this up again, I hope Trump uses this. Or he could say it at the TX rally when talking about the fake news media.
Obama, 5/9/07: "In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed," the Democratic presidential candidate said in a speech to 500 people packed into a sweltering Richmond art studio for a fundraiser.The actual death toll was 11.
“Hurricane” Sandy? What a joke. It was barely above a tropical storm, a low grade cat 1 hurricane.
It’s only claim to fame is it stayed off shore but close enough to do damage to the East coast, then came ashore in the most populated area of the East, New Jersey and NYC at a very high tide, followed by a storm from the north.
And all the chilluns yelled...”Proof of glo-bull warming!”
That's what didn't happen in Puerto Rico. People who had the ability to help in their communities instead left for the mainland, and haven't returned to help. Local officials had no plans or interest in doing what had to be done on the ground so the death total after the storm isn't worse than during it.
The study was a one of a kind, unprecedented hit job. When will Sandy get the same treatment, Or Matthew, Or Irma. They won’t because the ill wind blew during the Obama regime.
They did something like this after the Iraq war, where they claimed several million were killed. How did they arrive at that number? They estimated, at pre-war levels of population increase, how many people there ought to be. Then estimated (*estimated*) how many people there were in fact. The delta was supposedly the number Bush killed.
All of it was mush statistics, and assumed people continue to have babies after a calamity at the same rates they did before, which is preposterous.
Fast boi Crispy Cream gave the faggot boi king a reach around too ...
“That’s what didn’t happen in Puerto Rico. People who had the ability to help in their communities instead left for the mainland, and haven’t returned to help. Local officials had no plans or interest in doing what had to be done on the ground so the death total after the storm isn’t worse than during it”.
The second part of your statement is true. The local government collapsed. The first part is not true. people here helped each other immensely, and did so for many months under dire conditions, and learned to survive without the government. I know. I was there.
hard to blame fat Boi. He needed the money... Just saying.
Manhattan lost power because one of its major power plants was sitting right on the water.
With power lines from other locations as backup, relocating them inland (in Manhattan) isn’t reasonable.
Puerto Rico, on the other hand, had ALL of their power plants on their coast, with NO other sources of power.
I used this one a lot.
Look at all the nodding heads on stage with him. Helps to convince the mindless idiots in the audience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjO8Qc5s1fY
They had a margin of error of 9/11. That puts into perspective the worthlessness of this propaganda
I was on a cruise in January and the day in San Juan left a bad impression. There were eight ships in port. Other affected ports only had two ships and everything else was dedicated to recovery. There was a festival going on in San Juan. I get it that a few ships should be there to bring back the tourism industry as recovery was done. But so many? A festival draining resources and effort that could've been used toward recovery?
The ship I was on had a real good passenger base. So many wanted to learn about the recovery and help if we could. The other two impacted-area stops gave us that. It isn't the fault of the good people of PR; I know that. But somehow, you've got to get better leadership.
FWIW, I was scheduled for a walking tour of Old San Juan with a lunch at a small local restaurant. It was cancelled. With any innovation from liason with the cruise ship, the owners could've been brought on board to supervise a meal for us. In another port, a school full of children took a tour of the boat. Cruisers shared boat transportation to a beach that was available to taxi both residents and cruisers to a beach that had been cleaned up. That kind of connection was real healthy.
That’s not quite right.
You are completely right that Hurricane Sandy had diminished to a minor tropical storm - however, it then ran into a cold front and developed into a huge, and hugely-powerful non-hurricane. Its’ major effects reached into Illinois.
It was really huge.
http://www.sciencebuzz.org/blog/storm-sandy-makes-her-presence-felt
You are right of course, that this had nothing to do with global warming, as it wasn’t abnormally warm at any point along its path, and it only became a monster when it ran into a *cold* front. Hurricanes gain effect from differentials, anyways, not absolute temperature, along with a specific balance of wind-shear.
If wind shear is to little, they don’t spin up. If it is too much, it disrupts the hurricane.
Sorry that you had a bad impression about your visit, but a very important goal after the storms was to restart the tourism industry ASAP, and that’s what you saw. Most of the damage on the island was up in the mountains. San Juan fared quite well, and its harbor is huge and can handle eight cruise ships while at the same time handling cargo on the non-tourist piers. If those eight cruise ships hadn’t been there, the disaster for many people would have been worse. Above all, we needed jobs, and that’s what you, unwittingly perhaps, helped provide. And thank you, btw.
Liberal robots are still insisting on the 3000 number - because their betters told them.
Next visit am I going to meet people in villages and get a real Puerto Rican meal? This year, the cruise I’m taking isn’t stopping in PR. I try NEVER to take a tour where I’m a disconnected tourist.
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