Irene brings worst flooding in century to Vermont

AP ^ | 29 Aug 2011 | Dave Gram

[mojitojoe]

Agnes in 1972 was just a tropical storm when it hit the NE. It ended up being the most destructive tropical system to date as far as dollar amount of damage
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Why do you keep repeating that falsehood over and over again? You know it’s not true and don’t forget Agnes also hit FL, GA, NC, SC, MUCH of that cost was there, not in the NE. You can’t make stuff up, enough, also why do you never post links to back up your so called facts? The reason you don’t is because you make them up.

Billions Name Year
$81.2 Hurricane Katrina[1] 2005
$40.7 Hurricane Andrew[2] 1992
$37.6 Hurricane Ike[3][4] 2008
$29.1 Hurricane Wilma[5][6][7][8] 2005
$18.6 Hurricane Charley[9][10] 2004
$18.1 Hurricane Ivan[11][12] 2004
$15.2 Hurricane Agnes[13] 1972
$14.1 Hurricane Hugo[14][15] 1989
$10.5 Hurricane Rita[16] 2005
$10.4 Hurricane Frances[12][14][17] 2004
$10.2 Hurricane Gilbert[18] 1988
$10.1 Hurricane Irene 2011
$9.4 Hurricane Betsy[14][19] 1965
$8.5 Hurricane Gustav[20] 2008
$8.2 Hurricane Mitch[21][22][23][24][25] 1998
$8.0 Hurricane Jeanne[12][14][26][27] 2004
$8.0 Hurricane Camille[14] 1969
$7.9 Hurricane Fifi[14][28] 1974
$7.9 Hurricane Georges[27][29][30] 1998
$6.8 Hurricane Diane[14] 1955
$6.6 Hurricane Donna[14][31] 1960
$6.5 Hurricane Frederic[14] 1979
$6.4 Tropical Storm Allison 2001

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_costliest_Atlantic_hurricanes#Overall_costliest

[mojitojoe]

Death Tolls by Area Area Deaths
Canada 2
Cuba 9
Florida 9
North Carolina 2
Virginia 13
Delaware 1
Maryland 19
New Jersey 1
New York 24
Pennsylvania 50
Total 130

Wiki says 130, 11 of which were not in the United States. Which would be 119 in the U. S. hardly the deadliest storm.

[deport]

There is another storm out there that the models indicate may head northward along the coast. Hopefully it will stay far out and not touch land if it does develope.

[dirtboy]

What part of Agnes was the most expensive storm 'to date' do you not understand? Agnes as of 1972 caused the most damage over all major hurricanes that predated it. Other hurricanes since exceeded it, but it demonstrates a measly tropical storm in the NE can well exceed major hurricanes in damage.

That is just a correction of your post.

[Doe Eyes]

It was 24/7’d as the storm of the century only because it was headed for the cities that house the elite media.

No kidding. All media hype. Once Perry gets elected, you won't see the White House all worried about rain storms that only affect the Liberal Northeast.

[conservativebuckeye]

You may not realize it, but you come across as thinking you’re superior to northerners. It’s no better than the condescension exhibited by napscoordinator towards you southerners.

[Daffynition]

I saw some YouTube vids of my little, beloved Jamaica ...I’m so worried about our little cabin on the side of Pikes Falls.

I loved the way the folks of Jamaica rolled up their sleeves and made Rt 30 passable to emergency vehicles.

All are in my prayers and thoughts.

[angcat]

Were did they go? Just curious. Vermont looks so beautiful.

[wardaddy]

I don't think in terms of superior.

But we are more regionally chauvinistic down here and more socially conservative.

Whether that is superior is debatable.

I do not understand northern whites...why do so many lean socially liberal?...and busybodies..do gooders?

I lived amongst them. Beats me.

People lump the south as Naps did with the perennial bad stats but they lack the courage to explain why our stats are so bad...it's just how it is.

When folks make fun of white trash northerners, it's “southern” Hoosiers or southern or Appalachian Ohioans...occasionally one hears of the Pine Barrens folks in Jersey conveniently in southern Jersey..lol

We are reacting to Yankee condescension...one we have known and felt since toddlers. I grew up in Mississippi knowing very young that northerners looked down on us about race and basically everything else but our women. IF our reaction seems that way then my apologies.

You do realize this theme has been in play since the founding even before there was a midwest or deep south...then it was between New England versus Maryland south in the colonies

the most distinct difference tween us and ya’ll is personality and it's a paradox to be honest...myself notwithstanding...southerners are loathe to confrontation, warmer and more surface friendly and all that but if crossed will kill you quicker

I'm not sure these ways are gonna hold up frankly...the youth here are becoming more blended and some thuggish like black trash...the old ways are dying out quick in the mid South where I now live...we are half northern anyhow now...

in Mississippi where I come from...they are holding on

I could deal with Indiana if I had to and I actually like the panhandle of Nebraska

but at my age I am more at home with my own kind...my very first day here 11 years ago I saw folks here calling my southern ancestors Nazis and call for all slaveowners to have been hanged ..man, woman and child. ago to any southern thread and you will see it right now..

and on a conservative forum if we white southerners did not vote like WE do, we woulda all gone down the crapper 20 years ago...our fairly rigid bloc is the electoral punch that makes it happen...thank God for Texas...we lost VA and NC on the great black hope...and why the demographic shift in those two states? well...it gets back to precisely the same thing.

IF white northerners voted like we do, we would not even need this forum.

[mewzilla]

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

John Donne

[Montanabound]

They mostly went to live near their children and grandchildren in other states. Their children had to leave because there are no jobs for them. http://www.snellingcenter.org/filemanager/filedownload/phpRBSz25/3-20-08%20Southern%20Vermont%20population%20declines.pdf