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Why are people acting as if NJ is going to get slammed and NYC is going to get nothing? This storm is gigantic and NYC and NJ are not all that far from each other. If the storm makes landfall in central NJ like they are predicting it to you can bet NY will be feeling major effects from it, especially coastal areas.
The city, and Manhattan in particular, may feel confident because our powerlines are underground. We rarely if ever lose power in a storm, whereas it happens all the time in Connecticut and New Jersey, even for relatively minor storms. I'm sure they feel differently on Long Island. I'm especially worried about Fire Island.
Very true. Unfortunately we won't be on the periphery- we WILL be in the center. This is a storm thats hundreds of miles wide and will not follow typical hurricane patterns. We might not see the eye, but we will be in the zone that gets hit hard. It's going to sit on top of us for days rather than move right across like a typical hurricane.
With time this storm has moved further west and south of NYC. NJ will get crushed. It looks like we'll be spared most of it.
I think we may be looking at it with our NYC narcissism. This storm isn't dangerous because it's headed for NYC. It's dangerous because it's going to hit a lot of places in the US. It doesn't have to hit NYC in order to be a big deal. lol
I don't think you realize: just because the storm is not moving directly over us does not mean we will be "spared". This storm is gigantic and its effects will be felt for miles and miles east and west of that cone you are seeing. We are certainly close enough to the epicenter to feel a lot of it.
I don't think you realize: just because the storm is not moving directly over us does not mean we will be "spared". This storm is gigantic and its effects will be felt for miles and miles east and west of that cone you are seeing. We are certainly close enough to the epicenter to feel a lot of it.
Absolutely, positively. People have lost homes in the NC on the coast today, and they are nowhere near the epicenter.
With time this storm has moved further west and south of NYC. NJ will get crushed. It looks like we'll be spared most of it.
I think we may be looking at it with our NYC narcissism. This storm isn't dangerous because it's headed for NYC. It's dangerous because it's going to hit a lot of places in the US. It doesn't have to hit NYC in order to be a big deal. lol
lol you're completely missing the point. Just because the cone does not hit is does not mean we won't be hit with 70 MPH winds and heavy rain. Theres no NYC narcissism involved. It's not dangerous because its headed toward us. Its dangerous AND its headed toward us.
I don't get why people get bent out of shape when decisions like this are made as a precaution. It's hard to predict exactly how the storm is going to go, and it's better to be safe than sorry. Yeah, maybe it won't be as severe as originally expected, but if it is and people get injured because transportation wasn't shut down everyone would get their panties in a bunch and blame the same people for not doing enough to prevent a tragedy. It's not like they shut it down for every storm.
I don't think you realize: just because the storm is not moving directly over us does not mean we will be "spared". This storm is gigantic and its effects will be felt for miles and miles east and west of that cone you are seeing. We are certainly close enough to the epicenter to feel a lot of it.
I'm not saying that we will be spared. I'm simply stating that we won't get the brunt end of it and as time goes on, we may even be spared the brunt end.
This is NYC narcissism at work.
NYC NARCISSIST LOGIC:
SINCE WE KNOW THIS STORM IS EPIC THEN IT MUST BE BECAUSE IT WILL HIT NYC HARD.
IF THIS STORM DOES NOT HIT NYC HARD THEN IT CANNOT BE EPIC.
ANYONE WHO SAYS THAT THIS STORM WILL NOT HIT NYC HARD IS THEREFORE SAYING THAT THIS STORM ISN'T EPIC.
SINCE WE KNOW THIS STORM IS BEING PROCLAIMED AS EPIC, IT IS BECAUSE IT WILL HIT NYC HARD.
ANYONE WHO SAYS THIS STORM WON'T HIT NYC HARD IS THEREFORE DENYING THE EPICNESS OF THIS STORM AND IS WRONG BECAUSE THIS STORM IS CLEARLY EPIC PRECISELY BECAUSE IT WILL HIT NYC HARD.
Widespread power outages -- over several states for several days -- are expected. Even if you don't live in a "house" neighborhood with trees falling on power lines, you may suffer from the outages because the power system is interconnected.
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I'm not saying that we will be spared. I'm simply stating that we won't get the brunt end of it and as time goes on, we may even be spared the brunt end.
This is NYC narcissism at work.
NYC NARCISSIST LOGIC:
SINCE WE KNOW THIS STORM IS EPIC THEN IT MUST BE BECAUSE IT WILL HIT NYC HARD.
IF THIS STORM DOES NOT HIT NYC HARD THEN IT CANNOT BE EPIC.
ANYONE WHO SAYS THAT THIS STORM WILL NOT HIT NYC HARD IS THEREFORE SAYING THAT THIS STORM ISN'T EPIC.
SINCE WE KNOW THIS STORM IS BEING PROCLAIMED AS EPIC, IT IS BECAUSE IT WILL HIT NYC HARD.
ANYONE WHO SAYS THIS STORM WON'T HIT NYC HARD IS THEREFORE DENYING THE EPICNESS OF THIS STORM AND IS WRONG BECAUSE THIS STORM IS CLEARLY EPIC PRECISELY BECAUSE IT WILL HIT NYC HARD.
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People have lost homes in the NC on the coast today, and they are nowhere near the epicenter. 
