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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: How's the weather?
« on: August 30, 2011, 12:22 AM »Underwhelming MY ASS.
Yes, I think Nick means where he lives, as I meant in Manhattan, where we were expecting the worst, thanks to the media. Good thing it didn't turn out that way. But that certainly doesn't mean that no one gives a damn about the Carolinas and Virginia (I think they got a lot of coverage). It sucks for all that got effected by this. Hell, I have a friend that lives in the 'burbs of Philly and he was spending most of his night emptying out his basement of water.
As for the media, yeah, I think they may have given NYC a lot of attention, but Irene was supposed to make a huge impact on the city, the largest storm we were supposed to have seen since 1882, I think they were saying.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, because our experience was underwhelming doesn't mean we're belittling the experience others south of us did. Stay strong, McMetal.
Exactly. When a storm is projected by numerous forecasts to be headed for New York City, THE most densely populated city in the United States, people get a little nervous. Especially when you take into account just how many people were evacuated from their homes. The precautions that were taken in New York were well beyond the mark. All in all you're left thinking that the greater NYC area dodged a major bullet. As for my own situation? I was lucky. There are many in the tri-state area without power. Flooding has still left some communities cut off. A good number of roads are washed out. And water supplies in some towns have been compromised. But I think there were legitimate concerns about a hurricane making a direct hit on a major city, and Hurricane Katrina is still very much fresh in people's memories.
And that's not to diminish the flooding that's happened in upstate New York, parts of New Jersey and Vermont. Vermont has some SERIOUS flooding issues because of this storm, and has had these issues since the late spring. I was up there a few months ago and there had been flooding in the central parts of the state, and Irene compounded some of those problems.
I have no doubt that both North Carolina and Virginia took a pounding. That's where the storm came ashore, and from the coverage I saw out of the Virginia Beach area I know it was intense. I hope you're able to hang in there, McMetal.
