Hurricane Sandy - "Perfect Storm"

[Manter]

HTH.

Honestly Corax- are you auditioning for the redcoats or something?

 

[Greebo]

I read them on a plane this morning, and they were all about Sandy.... I clouding the slightly bizarre Ferienparadies in Ruinen.... Have I yet again missed something

Tbf I had to do a search on Spiegel to find JS, and Bild mentioned him a couple of days ago.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Man on the radio kept pronouncing it as 'hurricane Samedi' earlier and all I could think was 'rain rain down on the man'

It makes more sense than the names of women. Baron Samedi is a powerful loa.

 

[Manter]

Tbf I had to do a search on Spiegel to find JS, and Bild mentioned him a couple of days ago.

I only read the front page of Bild.

Oh, who am I kidding.... Looked at the pictures. James Bond and pictures of firemen hugging children in the rain, since you ask

 

[Corax]

Honestly Corax- are you auditioning for the redcoats or something?

Had really bad insomnia recently. I think it's the sleep deprivation.

 

[Manter]

Had really bad insomnia recently. I think it's the sleep deprivation.

We are all hoping you get some sleep

Really hoping

 

[Greebo]

I only read the front page of Bild.

Oh, who am I kidding.... Looked at the pictures. James Bond and pictures of firemen hugging children in the rain, since you ask

Fair enough, I read it (and Taz) because it's less tiring than a lot of the other German papers. BTW there's an English version of Bild at bild.com

 

[Manter]

Fair enough, I read it (and Taz) because it's less tiring than a lot of the other German papers. BTW there's an English version of Bild at bild.com

I have this thing about reading junk in foreign languages only.... Makes me feel better about looking at beach cellulite photos if they are captioned in Russian or German....

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

HTH.

 

[dylans]

It's not like it's a new thing in the slightest though. Some wars are front page, some are invisible. Some disasters are covered in depth, some ignored. It's been the way forever, and seems to hinge largely on how much people are aware of the place. If British people live there, or go on holiday there, or watch TV programs made there, etc, it's big news. If not, it ain't. I'm not saying it's 'right', but it's not a new phenomenon.

"A major earthquake in Rulambistan killed 58 people today, including three Britons."

You're right of course, its nothing new. It just seems that they have gone particularly over the top about this particular storm with headlines such as "hurricane Sandy causes "unthinkable damage" etc, which is all the more noticeable in that the reality of it hasn't lived up to the hype. To the extent that the guardian are reduced to posting photos of a fallen tree with the title "a fallen tree blocks the street"

Or what about these gems

People walk in the rain alongside swollen Potomac River

or

Terrifying stuff.
Hardly Bangladesh or Thailand is it?

 

[Miss Caphat]

I'm also very uncomfortable with the BBC reporter calling what has happened "total devastation" every time I've heard that report today it's made me pretty angry, not because of how folk in the US are reacting cos to them it might feel like total devastation but how it's being reported over here.

To report what has happened as total devastation does detract from truely totally devastating events such as the earthquake in Bam.

ok, this is a post that makes sense.
I'm sorry, but we have no control over how you report things. It was not really like that over here, at least not the coverage I was watching

 

[petee]

the reality of it hasn't lived up to the hype.

4 1/2 million are without power (inc. us, i went in to work to type this) in the NYC region alone, and 2 dozen or so are dead. that just doesn't measure up.
but as i said above nobody apart from tv presenters who need to manufacture content to keep people watching is freaking out. we, for example, spent the evening reading by candlelight, and retired early. god we're such narcissists, reacting like that.

Hardly Bangladesh or Thailand is it?

true, all storms which deserve the name ought to be so bad.

but y'know ...

edit: my guess was modest:

There were at least 38 deaths in eight states over 48 hours, when the storm toppled trees, whipped up destructive winds and sparked fires in several areas, government officials and emergency authorities said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/31/...els-region-leaving-battered-path.html?hp&_r=0

and while i can't deny that some headline used the word "unthinkable", what bloomberg (for one) said was that it was "unprecedented" (for nyc), and that's correct.

 

[ferrelhadley]

A cyclone, Cyclone Nilan, is expected to hit India tomorrow. I am sure the media will pay it as much attention as they are giving Hurricane Sandy.

Sanctimonious hypocrisy at its most amusing.

You have not shown the slightest bit of interest in hurricanes, typhoons and other tropical weather systems and the huge devastation they wreak until you can use it as a stick to beat the media. You dont not give a rats arse about those people and had there been no coverage of the New York hurricane you would have been oblivious to this weather system.

I have tried often enough to raise interest on natural disasters on this forum and there is zip unless it can be fitted into a political agenda.

You are just using other peoples misery to bolster your own sense of worth.

Empty, venal and off course: shrill.

 

[editor]

I liked the way that much of the American news coverage featured reporters standing in the precise positions where they were told it was not safe to do so and then being filmed getting covered in sea water.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I liked the way that much of the American news coverage featured reporters standing in the precise positions where they were told it was not safe to do so and then being filmed getting covered in sea water.

Freak waves hitting reporters is good for programmes featuring funny clips, along with emus pecking reporters and kids puking over reporters and animals shagging in the background

 

[Manter]

I liked the way that much of the American news coverage featured reporters standing in the precise positions where they were told it was not safe to do so and then being filmed getting covered in sea water.

That is what US local news is made of- have you ever watched NY1??!!

 

[Corax]

I liked the way that much of the American news coverage featured reporters standing in the precise positions where they were told it was not safe to do so and then being filmed getting covered in sea water.

 

[Manter]

Just perfect.....

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I liked the way that much of the American news coverage featured reporters standing in the precise positions where they were told it was not safe to do so and then being filmed getting covered in sea water.

Yeah, but its going to be fantastic television when one of them gets washed out to sea.

 

[19sixtysix]

I liked the way that much of the American news coverage featured reporters standing in the precise positions where they were told it was not safe to do so and then being filmed getting covered in sea water.

The British do exactly the same to honest. I expect to a reporter swept to their death live on TV some day.

 

[petee]

I liked the way that much of the American news coverage featured reporters standing in the precise positions where they were told it was not safe to do so and then being filmed getting covered in sea water.

WABC-TV reporter Phil Lipof wobbled as he tried to hold the frame, pushed and pelted by wind and the swirling debris of the beach in Seaside Heights, N.J. Chip Reid of CBS dashed away from an incoming wave, just escaping its crash. Jonathan Viglotti's transmission was cut as he stood in front of a blazing house in Long Island.

As Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged the citizens of New York City to evacuate or stay inside, news networks were sending their reporters into the eye of the storm.

...

"This is our Super Bowl," Myers told The Hollywood Reporter during a break from his round-the-clock coverage. "We have people that will be in the way of this storm, and people will probably get hurt."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...ters-go-into-storm-cnn-weather-channel-384034

 

[Anudder Oik]

Only America counts. Remember that.

 

[wiskey]

Very little of what I saw when I was posting on this thread last night was news, I had the World Service on the radio - everything else was social media, first person accounts shared on fb or twitter or boards.

 

[lizzieloo]

I liked the way that much of the American news coverage featured reporters standing in the precise positions where they were told it was not safe to do so and then being filmed getting covered in sea water.

I know which reporter you mean there, he was practially throwing himself into the sea

 

[Citizen66]

Sanctimonious hypocrisy at its most amusing.

You have not shown the slightest bit of interest in hurricanes, typhoons and other tropical weather systems and the huge devastation they wreak until you can use it as a stick to beat the media. You dont not give a rats arse about those people and had there been no coverage of the New York hurricane you would have been oblivious to this weather system.

I have tried often enough to raise interest on natural disasters on this forum and there is zip unless it can be fitted into a political agenda.

You are just using other peoples misery to bolster your own sense of worth.

Empty, venal and off course: shrill.

Coincidentally, you bringing your hobby horse onto this thread is exactly the same as the politicos bringing their hobby horses onto your - and indeed, this - thread.

 

[RaverDrew]

 

[editor]

Very little of what I saw when I was posting on this thread last night was news, I had the World Service on the radio - everything else was social media, first person accounts shared on fb or twitter or boards.

Churchill sort of got it right:

 

[Yossarian]

Turns out one of the people starting false rumors on Twitter as Sandy hit New York was a Republican campaign manager.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jackstuef/the-man-behind-comfortablysmug-hurricane-sandys

 

[Gingerman]

Turns out one of the people starting false rumors on Twitter as Sandy hit New York was a Republican campaign manager.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jackstuef/the-man-behind-comfortablysmug-hurricane-sandys

Hedge fund analyst and Republican political consultant...cant get much lower than that.

 

[Kanda]

heh...

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