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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Exactly.
But it is easy to deal with the weather: You cannot do ANYTHING about it.
Yes, 20% of the people in the country were affected by the storm. And that is a lot. But, that leaves 80% of the country looking at us and wondering why we are so special.
But that news is being handled by the local news stations and the radio broadcasts.
I am sitting here in my office. I have been watching what is going on in MD and NJ for the last hour. Mostly flooding that is no worse than a good March spring thaw.
Do I really need Fox news telling me not to drive through big puddles?
Come on....this is another example of people THINKING they have to rely on someone else to tell them what they naturally know.
Oh please, several people we know work for utilities and are on their way. We routinely send tree removal crews north to the Carolinas for hurricanes. We appreciate same.
But c’mon. A TS/Cat 1 blows into FL, AL, MS, LA or TX and we’re going to yawn, roll over, and go back to sleep until it clears up and then we’ll go clean up our yards and get on with it.
We have gone through a couple of weeks without power after storms and in it’s not pleasant but it’s hardly the end of the world. A minor inconvenience at most. We drag our generators for the refrigerator and fans, drag out the grills, play cards and board games and go to bed with the sun. It’s actually kinda fun :-)
Well you kind of have to, being dead tired from cleaning up all day, the next day, the next day, etc, etc :^)
it is very calm here now in the Bristol-Hartford CT area. Must be the eye passing close by. Makes me feel special. Like the whole country is watching us as we have our 15-min of fame. have one of them reporterettes stop by and interview me about the peaches that fell off the trees all over my yard.
We’ve been told not to go out until we are sure the tornado threat has past.
Yeah I usually pick up a branch a day. It takes weeks and weeks to clean up from a Tropical Storm!
After Gustov (Cat 2 when it hit), which ran over us, the neighbors and I hauled enough trees and branches to make a pile 12 feet tall and about 70 feet in diameter.
Talk about a fire when we lit it up a couple of weeks later!
We drank beer and partied to the wee hours watching it burn.
Having lived though an Andrew and several CAT 3 storms in Florida I’m sort of chuckling at all this Irene drama.
Go though a Andrew and every other hurricane is a walk in the park...
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I agree. I evacuated and didn’t go through Andrew but I came back to what the most unimaginable things I had ever seen. I will never forget it. Irene, bah, like a bad summer tropical thunderstorm.
Actually, Irene was very good to central NC. We’re going through a severe drought and we desperately needed the rain she brought. The winds were not even interesting (though I really love to watch trees react to wind).
It’s probably his first tropical system, he’s all excited.
My power DID go out...twice.
Here’s the kicker: the first time was during a rain band 6 hours before Irene’s winds even arrived. I still don’t know what caused it. The Second was about 12 hours after Irene went by.
Inconvenience at most. Irritation at least and I was only worried that someone had intentionally shorted things out because it truly could not have been due to the storm.
You are special.
Do be aware of the threat of tornadoes though. That can be nasty.
BUT OMG JOSE IS COMING!! oh....wait....
If you live on the water, you will eventually live in it. I live on the open Atlantic, 50’ out my back door. It’s been in my house, in my yard, in my business which is several miles from here, destroyed my landscaping many times, ruined 2 decks(now have pavers, wonder if it will take them too) cost me a small fortune in landscape, repairs, evacuations, having the boat pulled and put in storage, it’s the price you pay for living on the water.
When it’s all over, you begin to clean up, call your insurance company if there is any damage that can be claimed, move on and thank God you have a house left to clean up and repair.
‘What ifs’ are ridiculous. That thing was a TS when it hit land. It is what it is and what ifs are irrelevant. The MSM is treating it like it was a ‘what if’ when it actually was much ado about nothing.
Hey mojito I just got kicked off the “Live Thread” for daring to mock the overreaction to this “storm”.
It’s so funny!
Victim mentality on parade, I’m just so disappointed to see it here, of all places.
Those of us who went through Ike think it’s a little amusing to watch the angst and hand wringing.
I don’t think it’s a matter of “my hurricane was bigger than your hurricane” but that the hyperbole is dangerous.
The reporting needs to be what could happen and what you need to do. Period.
Anyone with 1/2 a brain could see this was not a monster storm when her eyewall collapsed and she started breaking apart before making landfall.
Please tell my wife that 110 MPH is boring. If it’s 75 she wants to evacuate because she hates seeing and hearing the damage done to her extensive collection or rare landscape plants and because it’s a pain to try to let the dogs to out to use the bathroom. sigh
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