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I don't know why the heck this tiny storm is getting so much attention. It's ridiculous.
Because it's not tiny? It will affect more people than almost any hurricane in history. It may not be extremely powerful, but it's massive, has very low pressure, and will directly impact 80 million people.
If one lives in "hurricane country" then those types of things are to be expected. They were screaming about NY and NJ being underwater and all kinds of nonsense for a week. How all those folks in the Caribbean manage to survive I'll never know.
I live at the SC/NC boarder where the first affects of the storm were to be felt. The news and weather channel never said a word about us. They said 10 words from Atlantic beach hen went right to NY.
They've been hoping the sheet would hit the fan for the last week. Too bad for them they won't have a big group of storm "victims" to try and get ratings off of or anybody to blame. Globals must be upset too. First hurricane in like three years to hit and its not the one they need to prop back up their warming insanity. Maybe next time folks.
Hmmm...maybe they could slum it and report on Michelle's massages and expensive Vodka?
Your are being premature again, KU. Until the storm is over, no one can predict accurately how strong it may become or not, or how much damage it will do.
Remember that New Orleans wasn't hit by Katrina. The hurricane hit on the opposite end of Lake Ponchatrain, filled the lake, and the levees failed. The lake drained into New Orleans, causing the flooding.
Mean Irene doesn't have to be a strong storm to create major flooding- there is going to be an extremely high lunar tide that will combine with it. As long as there is more water than places to drain it off, flooding will happen.
It's the number of major storms, not their severity, that will be evidence of global warming. It's happening, bub. The only thing that's unknown is just how much the human contribution to it is going on, and whether or not we can affect the change. As far as I can see it, the time is past where the world's people can alter it now.
We can all expect to live through colder winters, hotter summers, more big storms and less predictability from one year to the next. The US may not get it all, but we will get our share.
Much too logical, factual and science-y a post for the some. They would more quickly buy into it being an anti-gay marriage hurricane caused by the wrath of God.
My favorite is an interview by the New York Bubble Boy media with someone who lives on the upper west side of Manhattan. Plenty of coastal areas deeply effected by flooding and beach erosion and they're interviewing someone who won't have elevator service in her high rise.
It's a slow news day. They're gonna make a big deal out of a puny cat 1 storm. They don't want to report on their disinfo in Libya so they're gonna use the hurricane to distract the masses.
Towns to the east of me are under mandatory evacuation, portions of NYC to my west, too. We are in the crosshairs -- it's still a Cat 1 when predicted to make landfall here at high tide under a new moon. Storm surges are going to cause a lot of flooding. Much of the south shore is being evacuated, too. Winds are supposed to start 8PM tonight continuing through 7 AM tomorrow.
I live at the SC/NC boarder where the first affects of the storm were to be felt. The news and weather channel never said a word about us. They said 10 words from Atlantic beach hen went right to NY.
I'm on Long Island, and if it's any solace, we've been hearing a lot about OBX and Nags Head.
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