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I guess the severity of the storm is all relative. In the three years I have been in this house, I have not lost power for more than 15 minutes. I am now over two days without power and driving around town shows me there is a lot to do. They could tell me power wouldn't be restored until next Tuesday and I wouldn't be surprised.
And I consider myself lucky as I see the flooding in the town next to me, or the neighbor's car crushed a block away from my place.
So yeah, for many (myself includes), they are still dealing with Irene. That to me makes it a bad storm.
all in all, we made it through relatively OK, but...40 people died across the path of the hurricane. roads are closed all over the northeast. houses and cars had trees do quite a bit of damage. water lines were effected. power lines and equipment were effected. i think a lot of people complained about the media throwing people into a panic, while i personally experienced a lot of people that didn't take it seriously enough.
here's an interesting article too. the costs are still yet to be known:
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There was no hype. The media keeps repeating information until the average person's head is ready to explode because so many people think that it doesn't include them.
The latest count is 40 deaths, mostly from electrocution & drowning. That means that at least the majority of those 40 deaths were people who thought that it didn't mean them. Who knows how many just got lucky.
Yes, there was some hype and the storm could have been much worse.
I agree with tallguylehigh. Just because a tree didn't fall on my house or car, power has been restored to my neighborhood and local flooding has subsided, roads and bridges intact, doesn't mean that others were so lucky.
Basically this storm was like a 400-mile-wide band of moderate to heavy rainstorms which lasted 6 hours, followed by a moderate windstorm. It was certainly damaging (My town is still under a "boil water" order because the water treatment plant was flooded), but nothing like what the news was making it out to be. Almost any given area has had regular old summer thunderstorms/squall lines which were worse; it's just that Irene affected a much wider area. The exceptions are places like Millburn, where quantity (of rain) had a quality all of its own, but even then the defining characteristic of a hurricane is the high winds, and what did most of the damage was the heavy rains.
I guess the severity of the storm is all relative. In the three years I have been in this house, I have not lost power for more than 15 minutes. I am now over two days without power and driving around town shows me there is a lot to do. They could tell me power wouldn't be restored until next Tuesday and I wouldn't be surprised.
And I consider myself lucky as I see the flooding in the town next to me, or the neighbor's car crushed a block away from my place.
So yeah, for many (myself includes), they are still dealing with Irene. That to me makes it a bad storm.
I think it's more subjective - some moron who lives on LBI said he had been evacuated one too many times and in his tenure of being evacuated and "being fine" he wasn't going to evacuate the "next time".
Hopefully that "next time" won't end up with him having to swim over to his neighbor's roof to wait for rescue.
How stupid and self righteous does one have to be?
Basically this storm was like a 400-mile-wide band of moderate to heavy rainstorms which lasted 6 hours, followed by a moderate windstorm. It was certainly damaging (My town is still under a "boil water" order because the water treatment plant was flooded), but nothing like what the news was making it out to be. Almost any given area has had regular old summer thunderstorms/squall lines which were worse; it's just that Irene affected a much wider area. The exceptions are places like Millburn, where quantity (of rain) had a quality all of its own, but even then the defining characteristic of a hurricane is the high winds, and what did most of the damage was the heavy rains.
What was the news making it out to be other than what it was?
I watched, it got downgraded, while it was pelting OBX.
What regular old thunder storm (they run up the east coast - hop water-ways and land and travel state to state?) in the past 100 years was worse and has caused as much destruction as little old, closer to the size of Texas than not, Irene did in NJ?
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