Posted on 08/27/2011 2:17:46 PM PDT by jimbo123
There’s no calm before the storm.
As frenzied New Yorkers emptied grocery stores, grabbed at every last flashlight and evacuated their homes, the MTA shut down its entire transit system in anticipation of Irene walloping the city.
The storm is on track to strike east of the five boroughs by 8 a.m.
Transit workers began the arduous system halt — the first weather-related one in history — at noon. Bus and subway service might not get moving until well into Monday afternoon.
The apocalyptic standstill leaves five million riders without a way around.
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“apocalyptic standstill” L0L!
Perhaps he’s trying to stop the looters. Did you think of that?
“Plus, there’s no way to get around without the subways and all the restaurants and shops were closing in my neighborhood.”
You know, as someone from the south, I try to understand people who live in the north in heavily populated cities.
But I’m sorry, that’s pathetic. You have no transportation on your own and no food?
I wonder if looters sacked all of the undamaged, vacant homes. Wouldn’t that be something? Looting caused by mass evacuation alone.
I grew up on a farm, miles outside of a town of 8,000 people. So I know what it’s like to be self-sufficient. Unless you’ve lived in a place like New York City in a power black-out—there’s no way to describe it, I guess. That’s why I went out to the suburbs.
Right now, the weather station in Duck, NC is reporting the wind is 18 mph.
http://www.wunderground.com/US/NC/Duck.html
The weather station in Norfolk, VA is reporting the wind is 16 mph.
http://www.wunderground.com/US/VA/Norfolk.html
Not much of a hurricane.
It’s not just the wind you need to worry about but the rain and storm surge. That storm was huge and pushing a lot of water. People found out with Ike, Rita and Katrina that diminished winds doesn’t mean lower storm surge in large storms.
Ike hit 100 miles west of Rita but the storm surge for Ike was 2 feet higher in the Rita impact area. I had friends and family get wiped out twice from the two storms.
He would never try to stop the looters. Chances are he’s trying to stop good citizens from standing up to the looters.
4-4.6 storm surges so far. Head for the hills...
A STORM SURGE HEIGHT OF ABOUT 4.6 FEET HAS BEEN OBSERVED AT OREGON INLET NORTH CAROLINA...AND A STORM SURGE HEIGHT OF ABOUT 4 FEET HAS OCCURRED SO FAR AT THE MOUTH OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT4+shtml/272253.shtml?
lol
I heard that if the tropical storm gets too bad, Mass. & NY might have to postpone gay weddings.
while the media certainly profits off of THE STORM OF THE CENTURY OF THE WEEK, and I share my fellow conservatives' disgust with the learned helplessness and entitlement culture displayed my most of the evacuees, this storm does have the potential to be all those things (“historic” and “devastating” and “apocalyptic”) to those in its path. it's certainly an event, and is far from minor for those of us in the eyewall. at the very least, what's going on here isn't consistent with valuing innocent human life, and the contempt for the region WILL betaken personally by your ideological brethren here.
is the tree on top of my friend's house somehow different because it's a tropical storm and not a hurricane?
while the media certainly profits off of the hype, and I share my fellow conservatives' disgust with the learned helplessness and entitlement culture displayed my most of the evacuees, this (like it or not) unique event is far from minor for those of us in its path, and the contempt for the region WILL be taken personally by your ideological brethren here.
Fuhgedaboudit New Yawk! It came ashore in VA Beach/Norfolk with 33 mph winds (sustained) with gusts a little higher. Sure there are flooded streets and felled trees, but that happens around here with every heavy rain.
Bloomberg has watched too many episodes of, “It Could Happen Tomorrow” on the Weather Station.
Whatevs, had the storm not sucked up the dry air at the last moment you wouldn’t be saying the same thing. I live on the Gulf coast, have been through 4 major storms and know the drill.
New Orleans got in trouble precisely because of all the near misses. They just assumed the same thing would happen with Katrina. One of the factors for delaying the calling of the mandatory evacuation was due to the businesses complaining about the $$$$$$$ lost the previous year with the mandatory evacuation called for Ivan.
When you are looking at the POTENTIAL impact on millions the government officials have to think way ahead, not wait for the last minute to see what the storm will do.
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