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Who cares what happens to NYC?

by Jonn Lilyea••11

So this hurricane, a category 1 hurricane, basically a strong rainstorm, is headed to New York City and everyone who is outside will get wet. The horrors of broken window panes and storm tossed boats really hit home when you watch reportage like this from Fox News;

Nanny-mayor Bloomberg went on television last night to warn citizens to be careful with candles, which, apparently are somehow, fire hazards. Did you know that? I didn’t until Bloomberg told me. Geraldo Rivera was live on Fox News all night reporting that the Fox office building was getting wet. The horror of it all. He played clips from disaster movies when they came back from ads – it was all so much drama over a big rain storm. Don’t they realize how ridiculous they appear?

Is there nothing else going on in the world? Does anyone really care if the streets of Manhattan get rained upon? Or if the vacationers at Fire Island have to cut short their vacations?

UPDATE: Now Irene is downgraded to a tropical storm. Think that’ll downgrade the news coverage?

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11 thoughts on “Who cares what happens to NYC?”

  1. Jonn–working at the plant today (storm crew and other crap.) Right now we’re looking at winds of 25 mph with gusts to 35. Might get winds of 35 with gusts to 50 later.

    Big. Friggin. Deal. We saw MUCH worse during the windstorm/Nor’Easter last February. But hey, if they want to pay me double time, who am I to argue?

    But yeah, my big bitch about all of this is how in the 24-hour news cycle, it gets completely blown out of proportion. This is a Cat 1 (correction: just downgraded to TS.) Compare that to the 1938 hurricane which hit NYC and was a Cat 5, compared to Katrina was a strong Cat 3. I went through Typhoon Omar in 1992 which was a Cat 4 when it hit Guam. They’re pissing and moaning about a 5-foot storm surge, when Katrina had a nearly 30-foot surge.

    So how the hell do we take these idiots seriously when the REAL shit goes down?

  3. Compared to the Ice Storm of ’98, this is nothing. Anyone who went through that one can deal with just about anything, I suspect. 🙂

    Sparky has it right on: The hyperbole and bedwetting is way over the top with this storm. What would scare me more is having Bloomberg, Obama, and all those idjuts in charge if a REAL natural disaster happened. People would die based upon their panic pronouncements.

  4. I wasn’t around for 1998, but I was for 2008. And the windstorm last year, which, IIRC, had over 90 mph gusts off the NH coast. Lost power for a week in each case. And the Patriot’s Day storm in 2007 with over 12 inches of rain in one shot. Whee.

    So NOW the weather newsies want to go, “Oh, noes! We’s all gonna dies!!!”

    Bitch please.

  6. For anyone that bitches about how hard they have had it in New York City during Irene, tell them to go to http://www.army.mil and have them click on the soldier from the 3rd US Infantry on his post guarding the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier during Irene, that shouls shut their fat asses up,… hopefully

  7. I was in Guam in Dec 2002 when it was hit by a Typhoon, or as it was designated, a Super Typhoon. Super Typhoon Pongsona had sustained winds of 144 mph with gusts to 173 mph. Now that was a storm.

  8. I live on the Florida panhandle, pretty much everyone here can’t stand the sensationalist BS going on. I’m sure everyone else on the gulf coast is fed up with idiots acting like a windy rainstorm is the apocalypse.

    Hell, at my old job(Electrician) we had to come into work as long as the incoming storm didn’t get above Tropical Storm status. Lightning is not common during a Tropical Storm so it’s really not that dangerous.

  9. Meanwhile, we have friends in Iowa who still have no idea if, much less when, they will be able to return to their towns and/or homes from the floods there last spring. Evidently the waters upstream are finally being slowed enough that maybe the flooding in their towns will begin to receed? Or maybe not.

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