Well back on topic I'm not alone, Even Forbes said
"Get Real: Hurricane Irene Should Be Renamed "Hurricane Hype"
The sad thing is the overreaction will hurt chances that people will respond to a legitimate threat next time.|||Quote:
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Well back on topic I'm not alone, Even Forbes said
"Get Real: Hurricane Irene Should Be Renamed "Hurricane Hype"
The sad thing is the overreaction will hurt chances that people will respond to a legitimate threat next time.
Yeah, the 900,000 homes and businesses that are still without power, the at least three reported deaths, and the at least 14,000 people whose homes are underwater right now - all these people are probably thinking, "What's with all the hype?"
Of course, we should definitely sneeze at this because hundreds of people didn't die and the damage isn't in the tens of millions. Hell, if my streets storm drains weren't flooding into the intersection and the side of town with the ice cream shop had power, I'd probably take the wife down to get a cone to celebrate.
Cheers to having no comprehension of civic engineering. And cheers to not understanding the limits of predicting and preparing for catastrophes. Really, I think the meteorologists, a profession I have no expertise in, should ignore the indicators and the knowledge their field has amassed and assume that every hurricane will be a light sprinkle until proven otherwise, and then tell people and public services to make do.|||http://apps.coned.com/weboutageinfo/...r/default.aspx
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so far its still nothing but hype and over reaction
let's see what happens over the next 12 hours|||Quote:
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so far its still nothing but hype and over reaction
let's see what happens over the next 12 hours
I can look out the window and tell you its not hype. You are aware that the storm has not hit New York City yet so power outages in NYC are not a gauge for the hype. There are 900,000 homes and businesses without power right now: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/08/2...-as-irene.html. More than one town is flooded.
Winds here are steadily at 46 mph with gusts in the 60-70mph range. The roads are flooding out of the storm drains. It is not safe to drive. I doubt it is safe to fly.
But, yeah, it's all hype.|||Its all a matter of perspective. Where I live, we tend to laugh at the people closing schools and businesses and raiding grocery stores over a half inch of snow. I'm sure people well north of here laugh at us over the storms we get.
That's just an example, but I think you can get the point.
By the way, I'm not sure where you're getting this "Irene is hype, so we shouldn't close any airports" crap from. Airports get closed due to lousy weather all the time. So do roads. It doesn't mean that the storm is finger-of-God level.|||Quote:
Its all a matter of perspective. Where I live, we tend to laugh at the people closing schools and businesses and raiding grocery stores over a half inch of snow. I'm sure people well north of here laugh at us over the storms we get.
That's just an example, but I think you can get the point.
By the way, I'm not sure where you're getting this "Irene is hype, so we shouldn't close any airports" crap from. Airports get closed due to lousy weather all the time. So do roads. It doesn't mean that the storm is finger-of-God level.
Second that.|||Dud.
I think there was a chance (20%, 30%?) that the storm was significant, but it didn't turn out that way.|||Quote:
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By the way, I'm not sure where you're getting this "Irene is hype, so we shouldn't close any airports" crap from. Airports get closed due to lousy weather all the time. So do roads. It doesn't mean that the storm is finger-of-God level.
Irene is hype so we shouldn't be closing SUBWAYS
subways and buses closed at noon on Saturday, but the heavy rain didn't even start till 11 pm
at 7 pm saturday I was walking around with 100's of other new yorkers trying to find a restaurant to go to, but they were all closed because their staff had no way of getting to work
getting a hurricane in NYC is about as bad as getting an earthquake in NYC
you can bet, next time there's a mandatory evacuation, everyone will just laugh it off|||Had power out for 9 hours. good thing just rain and no winds or lightning.
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Its all a matter of perspective. Where I live, we tend to laugh at the people closing schools and businesses and raiding grocery stores over a half inch of snow. I'm sure people well north of here laugh at us over the storms we get.
I'm sad to say that even here in the infamous winter wastelands of Canada, many make a big deal out of a slightly heavier than normal snowfall, even though it's nothing new and we get lots of snow nearly every year.
The news was making a big deal out of the 72 hour period. You can basically wait that period off with some water and a can of beans or whatever is on your spice rack. They act like the big disaster is not living in luxury while waiting out the storm.
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