Posted on 10/30/2012 4:42:33 AM PDT by Kartographer
Hundreds of people are being evacuated after a levee broke in a northern New Jersey town early Tuesday. Bergen County executive chief of staff Jeanne Baratta tells The Record newspaper the entire town of Moonachie is under water and as many as 1,000 people could need to be evacuated.
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nope....really don’t need earth...just put the coordinates in (copy and paste) and your get a small map..hit MAPS..and you’ll get the immediate location....all done on still maps...nothing live...used satellite option up in right hand corner
Why, it’s no big deal whats a trickle of water going to do?
I’ve got contacts in upstate ny...Binghamton area...which had horrible flooding two years ago...and contacts in central pa and Philly...my nephew in Philly is fine, no power loss, did lose cable last night, but he’s on his way to work....
this is truely a natural disaster....more people impacted than the Nashville floods or the fires in Texas or other disasters...but people are EQUAL in value, and their property is just as important to them as anyone else’s....
Those of us who are all too familiar with hurricanes weren't laughing but couldn't warn enough what was headed their way. Storm surges have to be experienced to understand, I guess. I live 70 miles inland from the GOM and have only had trees on my house and without power for 3 weeks...no surge.
We feel for those people. Our news reports have shown the hundreds of utility trucks ready and waiting to head that way.
I’m curious... why do Presidents send navy divers into hurricane waters to dynamite levees? No one ever explained.
Any disaster in non-flyover country (the Northeast and Southern California) is overhyped by the MSM.
And since I don’t have tv, I don’t see that. :-)
A big factor, IMO, is that this one affected the personal territory of the media. They are reporting a personal disaster - not one somewhere “out there” where the little people live. Not to minimize the situation, as there are a lot of people going through a rough time. It’s only to say the reporters have a different perspective on this one.
this is a horrible storm but its not like ints unexpected to have storm surge...I know along some beaches in New Jersey, they build their houses on stilts....
but human behavior is certainly strange....anyone ever beeen to Atlantic City would know that they built all those tall Hotels/Casinos right on the water....its not hard to imagine how easily storm surge could be devastating...
along the Mississippi, people pack sand bags and line them up along the levee's....did they not think to do this in NYC?...
A very good point. I should have mentioned a source of protection such as a gun.
Unfortunately I lost ball of mine in the big duck hunting incident. LOL
A very good point. I should have mentioned a source of protection such as a gun.
Unfortunately I lost all of mine in the big duck hunting incident. LOL
Water in the streets around Wall Street; probably thousands of homes damaged severely, a huge amount of the US population at an economic standstill.
It’s nothing really; I guess....
Yeah, if you don’t live near there, it’s not that much of a story. The loss of life (which can affect loved ones all over the country) seems to be really low, though every single death is a tragedy.
I’m in central KY, we got a whisp of the edge of the storm. No rain. The wind is whipping up pretty good, but it always does this time of year.
Sounds like the main problem is that there are just so many people locally affected. I will re-iterate that it also seems that the storm surge (similar to a tsunami) was the main culprit this time.
Just remember a few points, Kart:
First, this is the regime that gave us the phrase, “Never let a crisis go to waste”. This weather couldn’t have happened at a better time for Odinga, personally. It blew Benghazi off the networks for a few days.
The media meme is going to be “Obama cares about the storm victims, UNLIKE GEORGE W. BUSH!” It’s already started on CNN-Obama with the fake Latina Soledad O’brien. The drumbeat of Katrina comparisons will escalate as the days go on.
Sandy itself was at max a Cat 1 storm. The other weather events that ties into it produced the more widespread problems. But this whole thing will be fuel for the disaster porn that will pervade the media and stifle the political climate.
I almost get the sense that people are getting a little euphoric high from the devastation...some are breathless talking about it....
THANK YOU! You said it better than I could.
Obamma did something~ He flew to Orlando and then flew back.
What to increase phony global warming?
I have a Coleman canoe. Magnificant vessel!
If we are ever to break the grip of the NYC-DC axis of evil and its Southern California outpost, we need leadership from south of the Potomac and west of the Alleghenies that stays put rather than migrates into the axis.
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