It Could Happen Tommorow: Albany NY (Schenectady, Scotia: rental car, sales, rental)

[NYfanatic]

No there isnt a episode with Albany but what disaster do you think they would use? Now Flooding of the hudson might work but it really never floods.
Tornado? We really dont see much of them here but it would be a f1 or weaker must likely. Which one would you see?

[Puru]

Probably a mass fire or something in the city. Or a drought--we've had one or two of those in the past 25 years. Or maybe a major earthquake? I don't know about the fault lines near Albany, but here in Schenectady we've had a few small tremors.

[NYfanatic]

Originally Posted by Puru

Probably a mass fire or something in the city. Or a drought--we've had one or two of those in the past 25 years. Or maybe a major earthquake? I don't know about the fault lines near Albany, but here in Schenectady we've had a few small tremors.

Droughts really are not somthing to freak about.
I did live in Schenectady and we had a small earthquake years ago. Mass Fire? like a wildfire? or a house fire?

[Puru]

Part of the reason I love living in the area is we're relatively safe from a lot of natural disasters and problems like Droughts (lots of lakes and rivers), tornadoes (since we're in a big valley), ect. I think the biggest worry might be if we had a really dry season and a big city fire (a wildfire would be worse). Mixed with an earthquake, it'd be disastrous.

[Rumblebelly]

It would be a swarm of blood thirsty blackflies, blown in by a strong wind from the North.

[Puru]

Originally Posted by Rumblebelly

It would be a swarm of blood thirsty blackflies, blown in by a strong wind from the North.

Ahh, or geese! I remember when Scotia had a huge geese problem and when we finally got rid of them they migrated to Albany.

I don't want to get attacked by geese or eaten by blackflies!
At least the horseflies aren't as bad as the blackflies. Too bad they hurt more.

[hats]

Something far worse and its already happening. Its called communist taxation. For what my parents pay for their modest 4,000sf home, I could pay less for a 20,000sf home valued at $10M more in a more desirable area like SE FL, Scottsdale, Dallas, Denver, etc.

Also, income taxes are insane in this state. NY has a millionaire tax proposal that would push income taxes up to 8.15% on anyone making over $525,000 per year.

In 2007 there were nearly 50,000 people making over $1M in NYS. There is now about 20% less (and only 5% were deemed income losers from job losses, etc). Studies show the people NY needs are flocking to FL, NV, and TX (no income tax). 83% of NY's tax revenue comes from those making over $1M. If they were smart they would lower their taxes to attract more rather than chase away the motivated.

To keep my rant going, NY offers extreme socialist programs that go to those that offer nothing (the poor). The state is ass backwards. You give to the hand that feeds you (the wealthy to keep them) and abuse the poor with high taxes and lose the programs to chase these undesirable worthless bums elsewhere because they are to costly and no longer offer anything like they did in America's indutrial days. Move them to China to work for $2.00 a day, all they're worth..

[GregW]

Building the Government Center downtown is as good a disaster as I can think of. That replaced at least a thousand three deck brick town houses with acres of barren concrete.

[juppiter]

787 sinks into the Hudson river.

[ss20ts]

Originally Posted by hats

Also, income taxes are insane in this state. NY has a millionaire tax proposal that would push income taxes up to 8.15% on anyone making over $525,000 per year.

It's not a proposal. It was part of the current budget. It was signed into the legislature by our clowns in Albany. And with the way they've been acting like 5 year olds the last two weeks, they are a bunch of clowns. They ALL need to be fired!

Seriously, we need term limits and to pay them pennies a day when they are session. In NH, they are in session for 15 days. They are paid $200. That's it. None of this crap in Albany. There's no income tax or sales tax in NH except on dining out, hotels, gas, rental cars, things like that.

Term limits may be our only hope for getting rid of the clowns! But they would never impose that on their cash cow.