Hurricane Sandy - "Perfect Storm"

[Treacle Toes]

That wasn't Americans though, it was blacks.

What are 'blacks'? Some kind of animal or objects?

 

[Corax]

Yes, because George W. Bush's handling of Katrina didn't contribute to his party losing control of Congress the next year, and the election of a black president two years after that, and his presidency going down in history as a failure - because black people aren't seen as Americans.

Why do people who are usually reasonably sound turn into complete idiots when it comes to anything American?

Cos it's fun to be trite?

 

[Corax]

What are 'blacks'? Some kind of animal or objects?

That was kinda my (trite) point Ruts...

 

[Barking_Mad]

The surge in NYC at Battery is already 2ft, half of Irene.

Link to surge updates although it seems to suggest higher levels than suggested.

http://hudson.dl.stevens-tech.edu/SSWS/d/index.shtml?station=N017

 

[Corax]

Yes, because George W. Bush's handling of Katrina didn't contribute to his party losing control of Congress the next year, and the election of a black president two years after that, and his presidency going down in history as a failure - because black people aren't seen as Americans.

Why do people who are usually reasonably sound turn into complete idiots when it comes to anything American?

More seriously than my last answer, I do think that Katrina would have received a more effective reaction from the US executive if it had been a white area, yes.

 

[DotCommunist]

unless it knocks over the verdigrised statue of irony I'm not interested.

 

[Yossarian]

More seriously than my last answer, I do think that Katrina would have received a more effective reaction from the US executive if it had been a white area, yes.

You're answering a question nobody asked - if you want to find somebody defending Bush's handling of Katrina, you're going to have to track down pbman.

 

[Corax]

You're answering a question nobody asked - if you want to find somebody defending Bush's handling of Katrina, you're going to have to track down pbman.

No. I was responding to aka pseudonym's post, which you then decided to respond to in kind.

 

[Yossarian]

No. I was responding to aka pseudonym's post, which you then decided to respond to in kind.

So your post quoted me, but you were actually responding to AKA pseudonym's post 50 posts ago, where he didn't ask if Katrina would have received a more effective reaction if it had been in a white area.

Has Hurricane Sandy taken a detour into your brain?

 

[Corax]

So your post quoted me, but you were actually responding to AKA pseudonym's post 50 posts ago, where he didn't ask if Katrina would have received a more effective reaction if it had been in a white area.

Has Hurricane Sandy taken a detour into your brain?

What?

http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/hurricane-sandy-perfect-storm.301261/page-2#post-11648204

 

[Barking_Mad]

Estimated maximum storm surge now 11.7ft at Battery @ 8.30am Monday (US time). Previous highest was 8.6ft in 1960, Hurricane Donna.

On August 28, 2011, Tropical Storm Irene brought a storm surge of 4.13' to Battery Park on the south side of Manhattan. The waters poured over the flood walls into Lower Manhattan, but came 8 - 12" shy of being able to flood the New York City subway system. According to the latest storm surge forecast for NYC from NHC, Sandy's storm surge is expected to be several feet higher than Irene's. If the peak surge arrives near Monday evening's high tide at 9 pm EDT, a portion of New York City's subway system could flood, resulting in billions of dollars in damage. I give a 50% chance that Sandy's storm surge will end up flooding a portion of the New York City subway system.

An excellent September 2012 article in the New York Times titled, "New York Is Lagging as Seas and Risks Rise, Critics Warn" quoted Dr. Klaus H. Jacob, a research scientist at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, on how lucky New York City got with Hurricane Irene.

If the storm surge from Irene had been just one foot higher, "subway tunnels would have flooded, segments of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive and roads along the Hudson River would have turned into rivers, and sections of the commuter rail system would have been impassable or bereft of power," he said, and the subway tunnels under the Harlem and East Rivers would have been unusable for nearly a month, or longer, at an economic loss of about $55 billion. Dr. Jacob is an adviser to the city on climate change, and an author of the 2011 state study that laid out the flooding prospects. “We’ve been extremely lucky,” he said. “I’m disappointed that the political process hasn’t recognized that we’re playing Russian roulette.”

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html

 

[Brubricker]

What are 'blacks'? Some kind of animal or objects?

Objects for showing off.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Wow.

this is pretty smart for showing wind strength.

http://hint.fm/wind/index.html

 

[Corax]

Wow.

this is pretty smart for showing wind strength.

http://hint.fm/wind/index.html

Das ist cool.

(not for the folks in its way I know - I just mean the visualisation)

 

[Barking_Mad]

Two models are predicting landfall will be made here, which is about 50 miles as the crow flies from NYC.

 

[Miss Caphat]

well, just did all the battening down of the hatches.
took the ac units out of the windows, took down the screen house and put it away until next spring
secured all outside stuff that might blow away.

now it's time to shop for supplies, such as batteries and beer.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Cape May

 

[Barking_Mad]

Ocean Grove, NJ

 

[Corax]

well, just did all the battening down of the hatches.
took the ac units out of the windows, took down the screen house and put it away until next spring
secured all outside stuff that might blow away.

now it's time to shop for supplies, such as batteries and beer.

Whereabouts are you Miss C?

 

[Barking_Mad]

Coastal flooding in Palm Beach, Florida

COASTAL FLOODING...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED THAT SEVERAL
STREETS ALONG THE COASTAL AREAS OF PALM BEACH...BROWARD...AND
MIAMI-DADE COUNTIES WERE IMPASSABLE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WITH
FLOODED ROADS AND WATER ENTERING HOMES AND BUSINESSES.

PEOPLE ARE ALSO TRAPPED IN HOMES IN THE NORTHERN FORT LAUDERDALE BEACH
AREA.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

now it's time to shop for supplies, such as batteries and beer.

Glad you've got your priorities right

 

[Miss Caphat]

Whereabouts are you Miss C?

very northern coast of Massachusetts. Right below New Hampshire.

 

[Miss Caphat]

I also want to try and get some pics. Depends on how bad it gets out there though.

 

[Corax]

very northern coast of Massachusetts. Right below New Hampshire.

Coastal though? Or higher ground?

 

[lizzieloo]

Wow.

this is pretty smart for showing wind strength.

http://hint.fm/wind/index.html

Mr loo's a bit stoned, we were gonna watch a film, he wants to watch that now

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Mr loo's a bit stoned, we were gonna watch a film, he wants to watch that now

Watch the film. If it's good, he'll come and sit next to you



maybe

 

[Firky]

Would you like to be one of the people in the path of that storm?

I'd love it! We have boring storms in Britain

Oh look, a static caravan has been blown over and a roof tile hit Rene from Allo Allo in the head.

Boring! I want to experience at least one storm of apocalyptic proportions before I leave this mortal coil.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'd love it! We have boring storms in Britain

Oh look, a static caravan has been blown over and a roof tile hit Rene from Allo Allo in the head.

Boring! I want to experience at least one storm of apocalyptic proportions before I leave this mortal coil.

It wasn't a roof tile, it was a scaffold pole! (Can't believe I remember that)

Actually, we're both wrong

Among the hundreds of people injured by falling trees and masonry was Gordon Kaye, star of the BBC's 'Allo 'Allo sitcom.

eta: and Wikipedia is also wrong

Kaye suffered serious head injuries in a car accident during the Burns' Day storm on 25 January 1990.[2] Although he cannot remember any details of the incident, he still has a scar on his forehead from a piece of wooden advertising boarding that smashed through the car windscreen.

 

[Firky]

very northern coast of Massachusetts. Right below New Hampshire.

Hope you and yours are safe and well. Take pics if you do a Dorothy won't you?

 

[Maurice Picarda]

http://hint.fm/wind/index.html

Ooer. Like a very badly behaved hearthrug.