[mojitojoe]

Ah dirtboy, boy who desperately wants to make Irene into a catastrophic storm when it’s not and that has now been proven false... whatcha doing here stinking up this thread? See the title of this thread? Now head on over to NN’s thread and continue on with your fake catastrophic storm stories. Bye now.

[dirtboy]

And mojitoejoe, making the outrageous claim that the NHC was lying about the barometric pressure of a storm over land where citizens with their own barometers could and did report the pressure they were seeing.

You're a real classy representative of your band of fellow second-guessers. A real know-nothing naysayer making a stupid, easily-refuted accusation.

I'm glad Irene's winds were not a large-scale problem. The rains are another story, there are some record flood levels on streams in the Philly area and elsewhere. The point is, Irene was unpredictable and therefore precautions were a good idea. A guy like you was probably advising his neighbors in the 9th ward in 2005 that they really didn't need to evacuate, because look how many times the forecasters got it wrong in the past.