Posted on 08/28/2011 6:28:09 AM PDT by kelsiejackson
It's a hurricane, not Armageddon. Good grief. A Category 1 storm, you'd think "Irene" was the worst storm America has ever endured.
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Yeah, but how’d you like to have been the guy sitting in that chair? Not so funny now, is it?
:-)
You really are the drama queen. I live an hour north of NYC -- about 40 miles. The "eye-wall" will probably pass right over my house. Winds are 17 mph with one gust in the last hour that topped 24 mph, which is significantly less that what we typically get in March when a cold front moves through. (We call them "March Winds.") Yes, the rain is heavy right now, but not as heavy as the two day storm that we had two weeks ago that dumped 10 to 12 inches of rain on us. Although my house is surrounded by trees, the only evidecne of this killer hurricane is a single twig and a couple of oak leaves on my deck. As far as losing power and water for a few hours, sure that's a possibility, but so far it hasn't happened, although we did lose power last weekend when an ordinary line of thunderstorms blew through the area. And if we lose power again, I'm sure we'll survive the inconvienence for a few hours or or even a few days. It has happened before and somehow we managed to survive without power. Oh the inhumanity.
> Stay in until passes, clean it up and move on. That’s what
> the rest of us do.
That’s what we do, too, and we welcome your prayers and help.
> The world is snickering at the over the top news coverage.
We’re not responsible for the news coverage. Laugh at them, not us.
You guys up north should know if you are going to have a weather related disaster, better make sure it's not during winter, us southerners can't handle the cold very well / S
Blood is thinned out from the heat and humility
Yeah, obama borrowed the bush/cheney hurricane machine to showcase their amazing abilities, yeah, that’s the ticket. And I bet they sent their little tornado machines into Jersey to make Christie look bad and oh wait what about the transformers blowing up - betcha obama has little gnarly men to do that job too. I’m not an obama fan but saying this is political is ridiculous.
Hey. Up here in Massachusetts, it is raining outside, and I am simply terrified.
What if I lose power for a few hours?
The restaurants are all closed...where will I eat?
People don’t get how serious this is.
On a lighter note, I hope I don’t spend the next 6-12 hours bailing out my Father in Law’s basement. Last time there were big rains, the pumps couldn’t keep up and I was up to my knees doing a bucket brigade and pouring them into a shop vac. Ugh. That isn’t life threatening, but it sure is annoying and tedious.
So people thought that would happen again with Katrina - and basically it did, but Katrina was so huge of a storm that it was able to flood NOLA with a shot from the weaker side of the storm.
But what are officials supposed to do? Not evacuate? That's what is whacked here - this storm had Cat 3 pressure - not easy to predict it two days out it will only be Cat 1 when it arrives in NYC.
Been there, done that. And, the answer is YES. Our church is making up a list of potential helpers as we speak.
And, we'll do it regardless of your attitude.
Stay safe...
(Odd that you would still have internet with all the destruction occurring around you...)
I live in PA, and we deal with snowstorms all winter. Maybe it would be tough for you to deal with that.
How true. In the Texas Panhandle a couple of years ago, some friends stopped to check on their neighbors (ranchers) as they were fleeing the fire. The neighbors were loading kids and pets, getting ready to leave. The friends drove off thinking they were fine. The neighbors didn’t make it. No hype at all for our wildfires.
> (Odd that you would still have internet with all the
> destruction occurring around you...)
We have a generator and enough propane for at least a few days.
I was in the path, and I’m more than the least bit amused.
Probably if the media would get themselves out of the story no one would be making fun. I think the mockery is more about the media and not our fellow citizens.
Shep is giddy with excitement. I saw a CNN reporterette claim the water was 2 feet deep when it was clearly just abover her ankle. Unless she was wearing 1.5 foot high heels there is no way the water was 2 feet deep.
Saw the clip of another reporterette on CNN scream and run from a wave. She threw her microphone at her cameraman who never budged from where he was standing.
I was in college during a hurricane - I wasn’t even near the ocean. It is scary ... I know how you feel. Although my room mate said a prayer and slept through the whole thing.
Normal circumstances through spring, summer and fall here in mid-Michigan, with our frequent thunderstorms and occasional tornadoes. Damage is much worse on our sunset coast, which gets pounded on a very regular basis.
We don't even make the in-state news, much less national, even when multiple deaths are involved.
PBS had a documentary from their American Experience’ series on Friday night about the truly huge and horrific hurricane that struck Long Island, Connecticut and Rhode Island in late September 1938. People in the NE ought to get hold of that, note the damaqe in it (Galveston-type damage), then pull up the ‘damage scenes’ currently showing on TV. I suspect there won’t be much comparison.
Here in NC, we had Irene blow through at Cat 1. I saw the damage pix from the outer islands, such as Okracoke, Kill Devil and Atlantic Beach. Yeah, some buildings were torn up, street signs pulled down, trees uprooted. But, bad as it was it wasn’t anything like what the tornados did in my very town of Sanford last April (two dead in our county besides those killed elsewhere in NC). And the damage Friday wasn’t a patch on what Wilma did a few years ago when she bounced off our coast two or three times.
I am sorry for those whose property was damaged and most sorry for those who lost family. But I tuned out of the coverage Saturday morning because the hysteria was painful to watch. If I’m going to watch people make fools of themselves, I’ll switch to subjects that are already and intentionally fictional. Seeing them doing it about what can be checked and is actually happening is just sad.
“I live in FLA and we deal with stuff like this weekly in the summer. Get over it.”
A friend who lives in Florida emailed me and said he’s grilled in worse conditions lol.
As far as I can tell my little New Jersey borough hasn’t been following the hype. Most of us prepared diligently, although unfortunately some are evacuating due to high flood waters. We are sure to have more flooding in the coming days. Emergency personnel (which includes my husband) are out and about. However, people are helping people in response to what actually occurred, not what the media was telling us “could” occur.
The media and political drama isn’t effecting all of us out here. We’re just doing what we do to take care of ourselves and our neighbors.
It’s breaking up here in Rockland County, NY. Still raining but the sky is lightening.
The cat was howling for me to let her out. The birds are all around my birdfeeder wondering why I took the feeders in (I’ll have to come up with something to tell them, maybe the “monthly birdfeeder maintenance” excuse).
I have a river running through the back yard.
No power loss, and tons of entertainment by fellow Freepers and the weather channel.
Another beautiful day...
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