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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Having said that, it still behooves us to avoid the temptation to form up into circular FR firing squads.
We're basically all on the same team here, and armies generally do much better when not fighting amongst themselves.
I simply maintain that the ego-stroking naysaying recently evident, regardless of motivations, does nothing but cause dissension among the troops.
I'm as apprehensive as the next guy/gal of the opportunities for further fraud that Sandy's presence may have introduced.
But a measure of calm and conditional empathy will not only help keep us focused as individuals on the imperative of deposing Ødious, but also present a more inviting 'face' to any visitors here looking for kindred spirits.
Job one is to keep our powder dry and our muzzles aimed down range at deposing this marxist muslim traitor.
Self-righteous tantrums and expending said powder on each other in here are not conducive mission success.
/.02
(gawd, more coffee, stat)
Good advice that I am going to take even though it is sometimes difficult.
Take my advice .. I'm not using it
LOL ;-)
Waiting on the government to help them out of their dumb decision of not evacuating.
IT WAS STILL OVERHYPED !!!
It was a Cat 1 hurricane. It was not a ‘SuperStorm’.
A Cat 5 hurricane such as Katrina or Rite were ‘SuperStorms’.
“I live in NJ. People are dead and homes and businesses are completely destroyed. Not overhyped!”
Waiting on the government to help them out of their dumb decision of not evacuating.
The Press is prone to hyper-ventilating.
For Ivan (Cat 5 that went into Miss the year before Katrina), I knew that New Orleans was ok (was evacuated to Monroe) because all the Press could show on TV was a flooding public restroom that was on the water side of the Levee.
For Andrew, the Press reported LaPlace as being ‘wiped out’. Sure enough, there were about 45 homes in LaPlace/Reserve that had been wiped out by a tornado. But once you got past the tornado area, there was minimal damage. My house about 5 miles away was not even damaged.
For Katrina - no damage.
But for Isaac - we flooded. So after all these years of living on the Gulf Coast, mother nature finally spanked me.
Now my daughter got flooded out by Katrina and Isaac. I have made a mental note to not be anywhere near her on the seventh anniversary of Isaac and the fourteenth anniversary of Katrina.
A friend of mine lives just South of Houston and tried to evacuate. After about 6 hours on the road they had only made it 20 miles North. They gave up and headed back home to ride it out rather then being stranded on the highway.
Please get a few things through your head:
a) “Category” refers ONLY to wind speed in the said storm, not anything else - not pressure, not width and breadth, not movement speed, nothing. It is very simplistic.
b) “Superstorm” does NOT refer to the “hurricane” by itself, per se. It was used to describe the tropical cyclone mixed with the front from the west.
This dismissive attitude it irritating.
Look up Agnes. That was what I feared here. A “minor” storm by doctrinairs like yourself, but so huge in impact over a HUGE area, not just a few hundred miles of coastline. It was certainly major in scope, if not as much in scale as Katrina. Which wasn’t as major in scope. Except for the fact apparently massive permanent residency changes were made.
HA! But the ducks were ok, right?!
Sounds like lower manhattan may be in bad shape.
http://gothamist.com/2012/10/31/outrage_in_the_powerless_zone_a_dis.php
Blog describes no food, no red cross, no FEMA. Oh, and no flushing toilets.
One must presume the roof sitters were waiting on “Snooki” to rescue them. :)
One must presume the roof sitters were waiting on “Snooki” to rescue them. :)
The root problem is people simply thinking this is just a joke of a storm that is being hyped up on purpose because of where news centers are.
As if no other storm/problem was hyped.
And often it’s a competition with them: “my storm is worse than yours”.
How childish.
I think they have learned how to help people evacuate. Have gasoline available at different intervals on the highways for people who run out of fuel. Same with bathroom stops - portables. Some snacks or easy to eat food to help with the little kiddies have no idea its hot, nothing is on at home, everybody is driving, AND WHERE ARE WE GOING? I also think they are going to reinforce when people should leave by their zip code zones. If you in direct path and are in the zip, you go first. As zones are cleared, more zones are let to go for evacuation.
I think these few things will really help to help people evacuate in the future - should help freeways (are backroads!) to clear more easily.
But, every storm is different. There are always unintended events.
Yes, 2 weeks prep for an emergency, gathering at usual grocery shopping.
And filling the car gas tank when half empty.
But we know - - -
We can suggest, urge, slightly frighten, and still many prefer to think “it’s not going to happen. . .”
Often they’re right, however, well, once it happens to them, or a relative - - -
That is fair enough. But it is still deeply unfortunate that we are seeing Christie praise Obama for his relief efforts. It doesn’t matter that it is what expected, I still wish like hell Christie would have just stayed silent. Now people think that Romney would have just let the people on the east corridor die and waste away in the absence of FEMA and for all we know that all by itself could be enough to cost him the whole election.
Yes, better that CC wasn't seen to be such a groveling turd.
But at the end of the day, most of the rest of the country is only mildly (w/o meaning to be callous) interested in and/or aware of the 'big storm' that hit the East.
With the vast majority of the nation, it's still almost ENTIRELY about the economy/unemployment/uncontrolled debt/health care costs.
I'm sticking with my prediction of weeks ago that it's R/R 300+, including my adopted state of Pennsylvania.
Preppers are labled white militia groups by the liberal msm and their supporters. My take on this is “ To survive one must be prepared for all situations.
I am glad I am a prepper for, I love God, family and Country.
That is part of the BLT(Black Liberation Theology) mindset as to what occurred during Katrina in NOLO the 9th ward. It as simply anti- white racist propaganda form calypso louie and his fruit-bars of Isthem.:)
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