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
That's because the city estimated it would take eight hours to secure the trains and equipment to avoid their destruction.
And any remotely competent person wouldn't cut it to the last second and leave extra time to take care of things in something went wrong or got delayed. No doubt the taxpayers are glad someone like you isn't in charge of planning this stuff, as I'm sure they'd be upset about having to fork over millions of dollars and possibly sending someone to relatives if they STARTED removing the equipment when the heavy rain STARTED.
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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
Again, a stroke of brilliant planning on your part.
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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
Then that's on them. People are stupid. And people will die because of stupidity.
|||Irene was a non-issue in South Williamsport, Pa.The teams from Japan and California remained locked in a 1-1 tie
heading into the bottom of the sixth inning of the Little League World Series Championship.
The stage was set for an epic win in walk-off fashion for the Little Leaguers from Huntington Beach.
The sun emerged from behind the veil of clouds known as Irene;
enthusiastic cheers echoed around the stadium from the crowd of over 9,000 supportive fans;
California's best hitters were due up.
Several minutes later, the game was over, and there was a victor.
However, after just a brief celebration by the winning team,
congratulations were shared between teams, and they enjoyed the moment together.
Sportsmanship shone through, like the sun through the clouds,
as we so often see in the Little League World Series.
But along with that, there were some pretty sweet plays made by these future major leaguers.
And in First hand Reports from on the ground in NY
that the media does not cover.
P.S.
You may have over-prepared for the hurricane - consider donating the water and food you don't need to your local shelter or food pantry.
Homeless Shelters
Food Bank NYC
Feeding America|||Bobcox
$7 billion in damage, 4.5 million lost power and at least 8 persons lost their lives. This could have been a lot worse if people didn't head the warnings.
The meteorologists make the best forecasts they can in the window they are given for taking proper precautionary measures. And even if these forecasts were right only 10% of the time - and they are right far more often than this - we would do well to continue to heed them because that 10% is devastating.|||I'm late, i know, but i do want to say something and give some tips just in case this happens again or whatever....
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“North of Delaware, most hurricane force winds will very likely be gusts, not sustained winds,” said Dr. Simon Atkins CEO, Advanced Forecasting Corporation [AFC].
“The demise of Irene has already begun,” Dr. Atkins explained. “There is no visible eye. The storm intensity is down to 99 mph. This would be a low-end category 2 or a strong category 1 storm, while 36 hours ago some predicted a catastrophic category 4 storm. Air Force Reserve aircraft have found that Irene’s eyewall has collapsed, and the central pressure has risen — rising pressure means a weakening storm.”
Cat 1 isn't too bad. Fallen down trees, storm surge, billboards gone. it's powerful, but it's not a Cat 4 or 5 and that also depends where on the coast you are and where you live. When Ike hit, Bolivar Point on Galveston was completely demolished. 4 years later, a lot of the buildings are still not rebuilt or constructed and Bolivar is no more not because of wind and rain but because of the storm surge GOING BACK to the ocean. Where I was, we got a lot of wind, rain, fallen tree branches and our power was out for three days, awesome compared to some who had it out for three weeks.
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The NE is not the Gulf.
thank you.
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The question isn't whether NYC or the Atlantic coast can handle a modest storm surge. They can't. The question is, will a modest storm surge hit NYC and the rest of the Atlantic? Last I saw, there was a 10% chance that NYC receives an 8'+ storm surge. That might sound low, but it's sufficiently high to prepare for. There isn't much they can do to prepare aside from preemptively shutting things down and evacuating.
yes.
and to anyone who cares.... (Lucky/Mal, if you're reading this, it's for you!)
Tips on How to Prepare For a Hurricane!
A few to several days before it hits, here's some helpful tips on how to prepare yourself so you're not TOO ****ed.
1.) Get gasoline. Fill your car/truck up because the day before, the pumps will be empty or there will be long lines... and pumps empty. and don't try driving down the street to the next gas station because more than likely they are out too. trust me, i learned that the hard way and got an earful from my screeching banshee of a mother.
2.) get supplies ahead of time. you don't want to be the guy/chick at Home Depot or the grocery store left with canned **** you've never heard of before... like in that one Simpsons episode where they prepare for the hurricane. Canned squid or something... ? so do yourself a favor and get bottled water, jug water, more bottled and jugged water and food that can last you a while and you don't have to cook it really (can goods, bread, and Pop Tarts are good beginning items). If you have ice chests and an ice maker, awesome! you can store some lunch meat and cheese in it. if you don't have an ice maker (and im sure most of us don't. the only reason i mentioned it was because my great-aunt has one for some reason. >.>), try to get some ice.
3.) not necessary, but if you have a generator, you'll be fine. give it breaks so you don't waste your gas.
4.) before you lose power and water and you know you're going to lose power, fill your bathtubs, sinks, empty jugs around the house with water! that's going to be your supply until you get your power back. that means your bath water, your toilet water, your toothbrush water, your drinking water, everything. and here's another tip from experience: don't flush your toilet every time you wee. as gross as that sounds, if you flush every time you numero uno, you'll run out of water quicker. happened to my neighbors across the street. so save it for numero dos. as for bathing, use a washcloth.
i know, im late to the party and wasting energy, but im hoping someone will find this useful and any other tips anyone else wants to contribute.
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$7 billion in damage, 4.5 million lost power and at least 8 persons lost their lives. This could have been a lot worse if people didn't head the warnings.
The meteorologists make the best forecasts they can in the window they are given for taking proper precautionary measures. And even if these forecasts were right only 10% of the time - and they are right far more often than this - we would do well to continue to heed them because that 10% is devastating.
I still think it was hyped too hard.
Sorry
|||Grr Tiger Attack|||Quote:$7 billion in damage, 4.5 million lost power and at least 8 persons lost their lives. This could have been a lot worse if people didn't head the warnings.
Or it might not have been worse, but live in perpetual fear anyway, if that's what floats your boat.
|||Quote:Or it might not have been worse, but live in perpetual fear anyway, if that's what floats your boat.
Perpetual fear? If experts in a field tell me to take certain precautions because there is a potential threat and if those experts have a record of being right at least a fair amount of the time, then I heed their advice.
It's not like I spend my nights in bed worrying about terrorist threats because there isn't anything I can do about them or anyway I can prepare for them, let alone any real source of information on them given the nature of the beast.
There's a big difference between perpetual (irrational) fear and taking precautions. If you don't believe me, ask the parents who let their kid out to play in this "rain storm" in Spring Valley, New York. The kid is now in the burn unit because he got swept into a flood with electrical wires in it. The man who tried to save him is dead.
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Irene is going to be nothing more than an average heavy rainstorm
Well you were proven very wrong!
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