Posted on 09/19/2018 9:18:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Thanks for posting this article!
The same argument would apply for Florence, “barely above a tropical storm” and then only for a few hours. However there as in the Carolinas, high water is a very major factor as it was in Houston. PR on the other hand had very strong Cat. 4 and 3 winds.
Actually if the Democrats were smart they would use these elevated death statistics from Sandy to show how dangerous “global warming” is becoming and also collect them for Houston and the Carolinas. It appears that extreme rain conditions are definitely on the rise, whether from rising CO2, minimal sunspots, or other causes, to be determined. Is it wise for the Trump administration to weaken building standards in flood zones so that our insurance rates keep rising as houses built and often flood insured keep being destroyed and paid for by our taxes or insurance companies?
A big problem with the PR statistics is that so far there is no indication of exact causes of death after the immediate storm: loss of Insulin (how many weeks without refrigeration or supplies, presumably worse than NJ, TX, or NC and SC), heart attack or inability to get heart medication (for how many weeks in each place), death from initial injuries or subsequent accidents for failure of medical supplies (how many weeks in each place), etc. etc.
I saw a recent report that another problem is that there has been a shift in the Jet Stream patterns which is contributing to the severity of these storms and rainfall. What is causing that? Do you know what percentage of power was lost because of the Manhattan power plant you mentioned. I thought a lot of power came from the Con Ed plant which is well up the Hudson on high ground near the NJ north border.
Regarding people staying to help. A lot of those who went were children and presumably family members. My son stayed and it was 3 months before his children were back in private school. It is planned to close many of the public schools because so many are gone. Apparently these stupid lazy people DO care about their kids’ education. He has electrical training and has been very busy working there. He is also upset that Home Depot is not sending an extra ration of electrical supplies, but is apparently keeping to it’s pre-Maria schedules of resupply. How stupid is that!! His Puerto Rican wife is continuing her work in a health service business. So yes people have left, often for their kids’ welfare, but many have stayed, and mainland stores are not doing a good job of finding out what people really need to fix things or get back on their feet daily living wise, and then seeing that their PR branches get those things. Like, for example, “winter coats” for Burlington Coat Factory: how dumb is that!!
In 2006 I posted this piece to memorialize the 200 or so Latinos who were killed in the 9/11 World Trade Center destruction. I tried to enter this in search and it was not found. I hope that posting it like a comment will work better. Any other ideas on how to access my old post?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698978/post (9/10/06)
I clicked it and was told this does not exist on this server.
Looks like you dropped the “s” in /posts
Here’s the working link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698978/posts
Sometimes using a search engine (I use Bing) is easier/more effective than FR search, especially if you remember title or article wording. I searched:
“freerepublic Latinos who were killed in the 9/11 World Trade Center”
Thank you for that “s”. The link from you works, and I have also corrected it in my “about” page. The translation to English was my own, and I have no idea where my notes from 2006 can be found.
Glad I could help -- most of the time I can barely find my own "s", much less someone else's. ;^).
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