Mayor Bloomberg urges residents in evacuation zones to flee (We're all gonna die...)

NY Daily New ^ | 8/27/11 | KATHLEEN LUCADAMO AND JONATHAN LEMIRE

[jimbo123]

As Hurricane Irene steamrolled up the East Coast Saturday morning, weakening slightly in intensity but still packing a dangerous punch, Mayor Bloomberg urged those living in low-lying areas to flee - before it is too late.

The ferocious storm was downgraded to a Category 1 after it slammed into North Carolina, but its landfall in New York is still expected to produce winds of 75 mph and a powerful storm surge that could flood much of the city's coast.

"It is going to be a very serious thing," Mayor Bloomberg said at a press conference on Coney Island, one of the neighborhoods where a mandatory evacuation order is in place. "You have to leave right now."

"Staying behind is dangerous," Bloomberg said. "Staying behind is dangerous - it is against the law."

[jimbo123]

Bloomberg is RETARDED! There is no public transit in NYC as of 12 noon and the storm isn’t supposed to hit for another 15 hours! And it won’t even be a hurricane when it hits.

[Iron Munro]

“New York is the only city that when it rains it makes its own gravy.”

— Doug “The Greaseman” Tracht

[presently no screen name]

Most people took it good-naturedly,

They still had a pioneer attitude/spirit.

but times were different.

Liberalism turning them into wusses - you need our/big gov't help, you little peons.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I dunno if it was pioneer spirit, this was Queens, after all. But just about every adult man was a World War II veteran and a hurricane was the kind of “disaster” that one could easily shrug off.

[presently no screen name]

I know! And didn’t NYC just get hit w/10 inches of rain and no closing of transit/subway.

Can you imagine if he were mayor on 9/11!! Thank God, Rudy, was there for such a time like that!

[presently no screen name]

I dunno if it was pioneer spirit, this was Queens, after all.

That's my point - how could it be expressed but there be some turmoil. Like you say, times have changed and so has that neighborhood/those who reside their now.

every adult man was a World War II veteran and a hurricane was the kind of “disaster” that one could easily shrug off.

When men were men and the young had someone to learn from.

[Roccus]

"Staying behind is dangerous - it is against the law." - Bloomberg

"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." - Rand

[Roccus]

...and I should have added to my #27

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H.L. Mencken

[Snickering Hound]

[foreshadowed at waco]

Heard on WINS radio today that it takes 8 hours to shut down the transit system. Most of the trains are underground and the tunnels and stations often flood knocking out electricity. Maybe Bloomberg is just trying to avoid people being stranded in locked subway cars with no light or food and limited oxygem or he could just be an idiot.