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A Hurricane of Hype
Minneapolis StarTribune ^

Posted on 08/28/2011 6:28:09 AM PDT by kelsiejackson

It's a hurricane, not Armageddon. Good grief. A Category 1 storm, you'd think "Irene" was the worst storm America has ever endured.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: hurricane; hype; irene
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Dear New York City,
In the nearly two thousand years since my founding,
I have endured floods, repelled invasions, stooped low before plagues,
risen again from great fires, shielded my people from Spanish fleets and
Nazi rockets, burned in riots, outlived terrorism, shivered in blizzards,
bled in civil wars, and declined and fallen, only to rise once again.

Your little storm? It wouldn't even make the footnotes of my history.

Sincerely,
The City of London, England.




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1 posted on 08/28/2011 6:28:10 AM PDT by kelsiejackson
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To: kelsiejackson

Perhaps you’d like to come down here and join us in our “little storm”.


2 posted on 08/28/2011 6:30:44 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: rockabyebaby

I already dealt with the little storm, and it was a little storm, and it was a joke.


3 posted on 08/28/2011 6:32:44 AM PDT by Doctor 2Brains (If the government were Paris Hilton, it could not score a free drink in a bar full of lonely sailors)
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To: kelsiejackson

Don’t be jealous now, not very becoming :o)

We’re working our way up slowly to mass riots and looting...


4 posted on 08/28/2011 6:32:48 AM PDT by onona ((optional, printed after your name on post: :))
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To: kelsiejackson
you'd think "Irene" was the worst storm America has ever endured.

It is. It's all Irene, all the time. It's like the Sham-Wow commercial from hell.

5 posted on 08/28/2011 6:34:25 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: Doctor 2Brains

It’s a joke when people die, it’s an even bigger joke when there’s a hurricane mixed with tornadoes. Those of us in the path of this “joke” are not the least bit amused.


6 posted on 08/28/2011 6:35:52 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: kelsiejackson

We have a been doing this alot in recent modern history, overhyping every little thing and causing panic and fear, which allows for government to do whatever it wants if they convince the people that armageddon is coming.
(example: 700 billion dollar bailout)

Recent generations are also growing up with the feeling of entitlement, and overconfidence and little know how. Basically kids who are smooth talkers with little action behind those words. Now im going off on a tangent, apologies.


7 posted on 08/28/2011 6:37:08 AM PDT by hannibaal
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After this non-event, the cities and states along the east coast wil NEVER be able to convince the masses to evacuiate again. This is be like the fable, ‘ The boy who cried wolf’.

Nonetheless, the Governors and Mayors of the east coast cities are going to request hundreds of billions of dollars from the Federal Gov’t for “disaster recovery”.

What a joke!!!


8 posted on 08/28/2011 6:38:25 AM PDT by NRG1973
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To: kelsiejackson
The eye of Irene almost went right over us here in Southern Maryland ... we didn't even loose power.

Relatives who live in trailers evacuated ... when I went to check on their places this morning there was no damage in the neighborhood at all.

The Weather channel is so used to reporting the mundane that when the unusual occurs, they have to magnify it to appear like another Katrina.

9 posted on 08/28/2011 6:39:56 AM PDT by dartuser ("If you are ... what you were ... then you're not.")
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To: rockabyebaby

People die every day. How many people have died evacuating? We won’t be told.

I live in Florida and have been through numerous hurricanes. Take basic precautions and stay inside.

People in the NE need to stop with the drama though. Right now the media is making you look like fools.


10 posted on 08/28/2011 6:41:21 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: kelsiejackson

as usual, the narcissists of the urban east coast.


11 posted on 08/28/2011 6:41:35 AM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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To: kelsiejackson

Very appropriate. This “storm” like the people hyping it are nothing more than pimples on the ass of time.


12 posted on 08/28/2011 6:41:38 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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There are 10 people dead so far because of this “overhyped” storm, including an eleven year old child who was apparently allowed to go outside by parents who thought this was a “little, over-hyped storm”.
Scoffing at the potential of this “little storm” is just as foolish as “unncessarily dire warnings” although I’m not sure there is such a thing.
A pox on both your houses.


13 posted on 08/28/2011 6:42:23 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: driftdiver

I don’t think potential record flooding is drama. And that appears to be on tap in many areas. Agnes was ‘just’ a tropical storm here in the NE and caused major flooding. That is the real danger of these systems up here.


14 posted on 08/28/2011 6:43:32 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: kelsiejackson

No storm will ever equal Katrina for PC and political mileage.


15 posted on 08/28/2011 6:43:49 AM PDT by umgud
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To: kelsiejackson
Dear LOndon,

You've survived all that because of who you were.

You won't survive Muslim immigration and the liberal welfare state because of who you've become.

In 25 years London will be Sarajevo on the Thames.

Good Luck.

16 posted on 08/28/2011 6:44:24 AM PDT by wny
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To: dartuser
Here in NoVa yesterday all of the local TV networks preempted everything for about 20 hours for wall-to-wall blather.
17 posted on 08/28/2011 6:44:35 AM PDT by Perdogg (0bama got 0sama?? Really, was 0sama on the golf course?)
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To: kelsiejackson; rockabyebaby

> Perhaps you’d like to come down here and join us in our
> “little storm”.

Rockabyebaby is right.

Kelsie,
Must be nice not having to deal with power outages, property damage, road washouts and flooding.

While it ain’t the end of the world for most of us, it has already been the end of the world for at least a few who won’t be down for breakfast today. Not to mention those who’ve had property damaged or destroyed and who won’t have water or lights today .

So Kelsie, stay comfortable in your nice little bubble. When and if you get hit with tragedy, we’ll be here to lend a helping hand and a soft shoulder. But we’ll know better than to count on the likes of you for the same.


18 posted on 08/28/2011 6:45:44 AM PDT by Westbrook
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To: rockabyebaby

It appears that the beltway crowd fears that with a little moisture they will dissipate like a cow pie. LOL

This is the most hyped steamer to come by for a long time. Real disasters have happened in fly-over this year and didn’t even get figuratively whizzed on by the Lefturds.

We need some real climate change if it will flush the east coast toilet, bring it on.


19 posted on 08/28/2011 6:47:39 AM PDT by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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I’m in Central Mass. and my parents from Florida are calling me in a panic to see if I’m still alive. My message to the media: “STOP SCARING MY PARENTS”.

Oh, and please somebody post a pic of Geraldo standing out in the rain.


20 posted on 08/28/2011 6:47:41 AM PDT by hugorand
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