No doubt... I was really disappointed by some of the posts I’ve read on the threads over the last 24 hours. Don’t people get it? It’s not JUST RAIN - especially when you’ve got so many millions of people packed into such a small area. The risks associated with damage FROM the storm - like fire (as we’re seeing in Rockaway Beach), from downed power lines, collapsing buildings, etc... Sad that so many didn’t seem to listen to the warnings - makes the FDNY and other department’s jobs so much harder, too.
TV says there are also blizzard conditions in some areas!
Not just rain; not just snow. Devastating.
I agree with you Liberty and I thank you for your support...i have been absolutely disgusted by the things I have read on here from Fellow Freepers...Nasty, ignorant and hateful comments...they would give the people from DU a run for their money...
This is not about the category of the hurricane...whether it was a 1 or a 5 or a Tropical Storm...I wish nobody ill will or feel like they deserved what they got...nor minimize anyone’s situation as ‘it’s just some wind and water’...
The people referenced in this article are the people I grew up with...i grew up in Wood-Ridge NJ which shares a High School with Moonachie. I played sports on the very fields that are underwater and still know people in the area...my friends have lost houses, are trying to get in touch with relatives, and are worried about what they will find when they go back home...
The people making hateful and stupid comments dont get it....it’s not that NY thinks they are better than anyone else, it is that it does not take a Cat 3 or 4 to mess things up...we have 3 major airports shut down affecting the entire country.. LaGuardia will be closed for quite some time....the entire US Financial system is on hold...every business in this country that is listed on the NYSE, AMEX or Nasdaq does not know what its value is today...lower Manahattan is under water, the tunnels were under water...it affected 40 million people....The Jersey shore is wrecked...Boardwalk in AC is severely damaged...The piers in Seaside are destroyed...Casino Pier is gone, Jenks is damaged...home upon home on the barrier islands are damaged...
Many Freepers seem to forget that there are other Freepers living through this and that while our states may not always vote Red, if you want to be purely political, NJ, NY, and PA send a good number of Republicans to Congress that contribute to our overall majority...Governor Christie has been outstanding, but apparently praising President Obama makes him a traitor...what is he supposed to say? Obama is a jerk? Maybe Obama has been helpful...i want him voted out next Tuesday, but to dedicate whole threads to this topic is stupid...Governor Cuomo has been outstanding as well, and while I do not agree with him politically, he has provided solid leadership, as has Mayor Bloomberg....the libs are supposed to be mean and hateful, I thought Freepers were beter than many of the things I’ m reading...
Centralized command, decentralized control.
Evacuating millions of people in a several day period, not knowing which way to go, could also result in as many casualties and deaths as riding out a Tropical Storm when public and private buildings are constructed to withstand greater forces.
PS, would you evacuate if you lived in a blue state, when the news reports indicate the storm would likely lessen to a Tropical Storm by landfall?