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All sorts of toxic waste after a storm. Hope he had private insurance and doesn't blame it on Irene. I just got word from my kids in MD that they are OK. Trees down in the neighborhood but none on them. No power for ten hours.
All sorts of toxic waste after a storm. Hope he had private insurance and doesn't blame it on Irene. I just got word from my kids in MD that they are OK. Trees down in the neighborhood but none on them. No power for ten hours.
NYC and Long Island aren't all there is to New York State.
Check what this itty bitty tropical storm has done north of you....you know...the bigger part of New York State.
Disastrous is an understatement for up here and adjoining Vermont.
Some of those people killed were outside during or just after the storm which is something people should not be doing.
Up here in Maine, the winds and rain started later in the day with the winds picking up in the night time hours.
The power went out around 8 or 9ish. I was texting my brother on the cell and because I'm in Maine, I don't get much coverage so this requires I stand next to the door to get a signal. When the power went out, I got my flashlight, turned it on, went over to the candles I had lined up, lit them, turned off the flashlight and resumed my texting.
Not 10 minutes after the power went out, while the winds were still blowing pretty good, I saw many of my neighbors get in to their cars and drive away.
That was not a smart thing to do. If there is a potential for trees or power poles to fall, stay in the fricken house! Light some candles, talk to each other, play a game, read your e-book reader if it has a book light, turn on your wind up radio...something but do NOT go out IN the storm!
This is how so many get killed.
The storm here was not that bad. It sounded more menacing than it actually was but, again, there was the potential for trees to fall and around here, there's tons of trees all over the place...why put yourself at risk to have a tree land on top of or in front of your car while you're driving or worse yet, a power pole just because you can't handle a few hours without electricity?
Ridiculous. I still believe the storm was over-hyped...in that I mean, highcotton, that it wasn't the catastrophic demolition of the entire eastern seaboard that some of those reporters will still trying to say it was going to be even as they stood outside clocking the highest wind speed at 25mph, but I also believe that people should listen when they are told to stay inside. Stop going out to the beach to "look at it", stop wandering around looking at damage when the storm is still going on or just after the storm has passed, use fricken common sense.
A man in our area died because a tree fell on his camper while he was sleeping. A girl died in another state when a tree fell on her home. A man was electrocuted by downed wires in NY. There are 23 people stranded in the Catskills because they left Brooklyn during the evacuation and now all bridges leading to the home are washed out. An elderly woman died in Connecticut when a tree fell on wires outside her home, sparking a fire. There are many other similar stories.
BTW, we all do "not smart" things. Doesn't make these people's deaths any less tragic for their families. Nor does it mean the deaths are not attributable to Hurricane Irene.
Irene made landfall Saturday morning at Cape Lookout, N.C. — a bull's-eye in the field of weather forecasts. It hit where forecasters said it would and followed the track they had been warning about for days.
"People see that and assume we can predict everything," National Hurricane Center senior forecaster Richard Pasch said. But when Irene struck , the storm did not stick with the forecast's predicted major hurricane strength winds.
"It's frustrating when people take our forecasts verbatim and say, 'This is where it's going to be at this time and this is how strong it's going to be,'" Pasch said. "Because even though the track is good it's not certain."
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