Official Thread: Hurricane Irene (how much, Miami, insurance, companies)
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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 agree the news people overhype such storms. And such overhype can cause a false sense of security when another such storm hits. However, one should not discount even a tropical storm's strength. News mainly focuses on wind damage. That makes for exciting footage. But the danger with such storms is rain, storm surge, and tornados.
Actually being from a hurricane region and looking at this storm iIwould be more worried about the size of this storm and now fast it moves, In many of those areas near the coast a 6-8 ft storm surge which would not mean much here will be a real problem especaily has its driven by winds with its debre. Always better to move out of the way of storm surge as its the real killer. One only has to see cars and other debre floating in surge driven by wind to see what it can do. Its nothing like just flooding rains.Better safe than sorry.
Question- Do they even bury the power lines in these coastal states or do they just keep stringing em back up to be blown back over again next time around?
Our water table is fairly close to the surface and our soil is fairly moist. They keep them above the ground. It's a matter of cost, engineering, and soil.
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.
You guys are clueless. The Category only refers to wind speed, not to rain or surge potential. This storm is the size of Europe, and has a very low pressure. There is going to be massive flooding, which is usually the worst part of hurricanes, not the wind.
Question- Do they even bury the power lines in these coastal states or do they just keep stringing em back up to be blown back over again next time around?
Since you apparently know everything, you should be able to answer your own question.
Obama can't even make the dreaded hurricane machine work right.
He'll blame Bush (or accuse the Tea Party). Give it time.
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Originally Posted by AeroGuyDC
Isn't it a little early to declare that there's nothing newsworthy about this hurricane?
In all fairness, I suppose so. The last thing your economy needs is a major disaster. Even worse than a major disaster would be a series of seemingly minor disasters, like heavy flooding and rain/storm damage. It results in lost production time, lost profits, lost wages/salaries and the States and cities have to spend, spend, spend and they don't exactly have the money.
Oh they'll make it newsworthy one way or the other. Hell there were storms that blew through KC last week packing 90 mph winds. No nat media running wild telling folks to head for the hills.
All this will do is **** folks off and the next time around they'll say yeah we listened last time and ran off all for nothing. Wolf anybody?
Uh oh they just showed a shingle getting blown off a house in the outer banks. It's getting serious now folks.
I see you have been watching Fox News try to make it as bad as possible. The one shingle thing tipped it off.
TWC newpeople were all but peeing on themselves the other night. Now they just look moody.
Another casualty is Obama's weekly golf vacation, he pulled the plug and ran from Martha's Vineyard. I bet #2 is mad too, no weekend of gorging herself on taxpayer lobster.
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.
I'm sure you would be the first to start a new thread had the warnings not of happened.
Pitiful.
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