Sincerely,
The City of London, England.
Perhaps you’d like to come down here and join us in our “little storm”.
Don’t be jealous now, not very becoming :o)
We’re working our way up slowly to mass riots and looting...
It is. It's all Irene, all the time. It's like the Sham-Wow commercial from hell.
We have a been doing this alot in recent modern history, overhyping every little thing and causing panic and fear, which allows for government to do whatever it wants if they convince the people that armageddon is coming.
(example: 700 billion dollar bailout)
Recent generations are also growing up with the feeling of entitlement, and overconfidence and little know how. Basically kids who are smooth talkers with little action behind those words. Now im going off on a tangent, apologies.
After this non-event, the cities and states along the east coast wil NEVER be able to convince the masses to evacuiate again. This is be like the fable, ‘ The boy who cried wolf’.
Nonetheless, the Governors and Mayors of the east coast cities are going to request hundreds of billions of dollars from the Federal Gov’t for “disaster recovery”.
What a joke!!!
Relatives who live in trailers evacuated ... when I went to check on their places this morning there was no damage in the neighborhood at all.
The Weather channel is so used to reporting the mundane that when the unusual occurs, they have to magnify it to appear like another Katrina.
as usual, the narcissists of the urban east coast.
Very appropriate. This “storm” like the people hyping it are nothing more than pimples on the ass of time.
There are 10 people dead so far because of this “overhyped” storm, including an eleven year old child who was apparently allowed to go outside by parents who thought this was a “little, over-hyped storm”.
Scoffing at the potential of this “little storm” is just as foolish as “unncessarily dire warnings” although I’m not sure there is such a thing.
A pox on both your houses.
No storm will ever equal Katrina for PC and political mileage.
You've survived all that because of who you were.
You won't survive Muslim immigration and the liberal welfare state because of who you've become.
In 25 years London will be Sarajevo on the Thames.
Good Luck.
I’m in Central Mass. and my parents from Florida are calling me in a panic to see if I’m still alive. My message to the media: “STOP SCARING MY PARENTS”.
Oh, and please somebody post a pic of Geraldo standing out in the rain.
Bloomberg is missing out on a great opportunity here, he should be out there with a bullhorn with his arm around Al Roker.
“We will not tire, we will not falter, we will rebuild”
Fox News has been disparaging all the passers by as if they are stupid dolts, folks jogging down the boardwalk and so on. It sickens me. The truth is these folks have more common sense than these nanny state jerks from all branches of government and the media. The storm turned out to be weak, just like most of them knew it would.
I don’t think I can take anymore of the East Coast news media’s hysteria. This does not appear to be a cataclysmic event and can be adequately covered by local news with hourly updates for the rest of us. I pray all are safe, but come on people. There are other news stories out there. I’ve had Fox on for two hours and still don’t know if the world is spinning outside of NYC. Putting on my flame retardant suit.
It is...Today...
I believe we can tell from the various posts who relies most heavily on the national media rather than just looking out the window.
11 deaths from the Hurricane? I know the first few reported were auto accidents - and I recall one was someone who drove too fast through standing water and crashed into a tree. Another was a heart attack while putting plywood on windows. To my recollection one death - the 11 year old kid who was killed when a tree fell into his apartment could legitimately be attributed to the hurricane.
Before the flaming I own a home just north of Daytona Beach. I have every insurance known to man on the place. I have actually lived through two category 2 hurricanes (not at my current house) - yes they are windy and noisy and all that but with preparation we were fine.
The news media and weather services are of the opinion that people are too stupid to take care of themselves so they keep hammering the hype on everyone.
So far this year we have been lucky to escape certain death from Coronal Mass Ejections, “severe” thunderstorms, meteor showers, and gamma ray beams from distant stars. Not to mention the end of the earth predictions.
Its as if these agencies and the news media can’t wait for the next big event - even if not so big.
One of the worst case weather scenarios is a strong hurricane hitting making landfall in NYC form the south east/south. This track was projected for Irene back when she was over the Bahamas as a very large and very powerful hurricane. Early on the concern was certainly warranted. As the days passed and all models converged on the worst case track, concern grew justifiably.
But then a miracle happened, right before land fall in N.C. Irenes’ eye wall collapsed. Without an eye wall Irene was just a large disorganized mass of wind and ran. Yeah high winds and lots of rain but no longer really a hurricane. Everyone that knows tropical storms knew that with Irenes’ eye wall collapsed, over land in N.C. and ingesting dry continental air she would not be the Big One for NYC. All that happened 2 days before Irene hit NYC.
My worry is Irene could affect people in the N.E. like Rita effected the people of Houston and south on the Golf coast. After Rita everyone was saying “never again will I evacuate.” One should not cry wolf without there being a wolf about. The north east deals with bad nor-easters all the time. Which post N.C. is pretty much what Irene was.