What do you think?
Posted on 10/28/2012 9:22:49 AM PDT by chopperman
I’m not sure he could, since elections are actually a function of the states. But I believe he’s capable of trying.
“The exact opposite.”
I agree. Most of the affected areas are 0 strongholds anyhow...but Republicans and Tea Partiers will be much more enthused about voting this time.
I expect R&R will have no problem regardless.
R&R ‘12!!!
Yes, but I had to go to work in it anyway. If I didn't show up for work, they had to hire overtime to cover my job, and the State of NY frowned on that. I don't remember exactly, but I may have even been stuck for an extra shift at some point, because somebody else was snowed in.
I also remember the Blizzard of 1966 too. I got pregnant about that time. I lived in Rochester, NY then, and remember them having to bring payloaders and dump trucks down our street to clear it out. There was so much snow, the plows were useless.
Nobody is "calculating" the number. It is the precise reading provided by Hurricane Hunter military flights through the storm itself.
Further, the storm is not "entering colder waters" as it proceeds north. It is tracking the Gulf Stream along the coast, so it remains in hurricane-friendly water temperatures and will tend to strengthen.
What do you think?
The storm could increase the chances of increased chaos, broken processes, less effective poll watching, and overall manipulation by the ‘RATs in Philly and maybe even Cleveland... Can you say ‘found bag of votes’?
Why would God help Obama?
If I have to crawl, swim raging flood waters, and fight 100 MPH winds, I’ll get there. Somehow, I’ll get there. We need to get rid of this abortion, gay marriage, gays in the military clown.
If I have to crawl, swim raging flood waters, and fight 100 MPH winds, I’ll get there. Somehow, I’ll get there. We need to get rid of this abortion, gay marriage, gays in the military clown.
I remember Carter...I’ll tell ya, Republicans are more fired up now than at that time. I ran two miles to vote For Reagan and I was barely 18. Republicans will walk thru broken glass, barefoot, in a snow storm before any mind numb obot will.
Yes in a catastrophe high Amish concentrations and their related ilk is a an elevated risk factor
A valid concern
Exactly. 75 mph, cat 1 hurricane? That’s no different than a good hard rain. Maybe the snow factor makes some big difference I don’t know about, but otherwise, I would only be concerned about a cat 1 if I was out on a shrimp boat.
Max wind I see here is 55 mph. around coast wind about 35 mph. This is hardly “the biggest storm ever” as Katrina had 175 mph winds at this stage.The media is saying “this is the biggest storm ever to hit the U.S”. if that were true then thousands of Americans will die , mass flooding etc. do you really believe that?
http://www.intellicast.com/National/Wind/Current.aspx?region=ilm
May I go back to an old but germane standby?
If a frog had wings, he would not bust his butt everytime he jumped.
We should not forget that the POTUS is not sole and final judge. That office has silent “mamagers” as well as Congress and SCOTUS, if the POTUS goes nuts, some or all of those would more than likely shut it down, including simply ignoring his EOs.
First of all, this is being called the biggest storm because of the size of the wind field, not the intensity. Also, it will impact some 60 million people. Just the number of people being evacuated in New York is about the size of the population for New Orleans.
Second, from this point forward, there will be a mix of tropical and baroclinic energy, which will expand the area of hurricane-force winds considerably.
And the impacts for a Northeast storm are very different in certain ways. Surge is always a concern in such large storms, and New York City could see the subways flooded. But by far the greatest impact will be power outages. The Northeast has many, many old trees to fall down on power lines. Limbs start dropping with 50 mph gusts. We're talking 50 mph sustained in cities such as Philly, with gusts to 75 mph. Major power outages among a population with a large segment who expects government to take care of the preparations for this kind of situation. And due to the size of the impacted area (that wind field size thingy), it could take weeks to get power restored to some people.
So please do us all a favor and quit trying to sell your idiotic conspiracy theory. Yeah, Katrina was a nastier hurricane in many ways that what is coming into the Northeast. But Katrina didn't have 60 million people in its path, either.
It won't be the wind, it will be the water. Rainfall, storm surge, high tide, full moon.
And while every year seems to feature "the biggest storm ever", this one has a chance to be extremely destructive in terms of property damage -- given it's going to hit the New York City and Philadelphia metros instead of New Orleans.
If you don't understand the differences, there is nothing I can do to help you.
I think you need a geography lesson.
It was, and IS a big storm, I think they meant by size, not wind speed. Are you still saying it was overblown?
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