hurricane irene......THAT'S IT?!? The storm was nothing....people over exaggerated....Well, maybe NY just have a good sewer system....or maybe it just got a lot weaker coming from the south..
Hind sight is always 20/20. Given the Katrina experience (in which government was slow to act and over 1800 were killed as a result), authorities are forced to act on the better side of caution. In this case I think that they pretty well did an admirable job. IMHO, we got lucky. It could have been a lot worse. For me, I look upon it as now being able to have a lot more hot pot meals in the next few weeks, LOL...
thank god we're pretty safe over here. yes, at least still have water AND power, unlike some other areas, out of power since yesterday :(
well now i can move back homeeee =) but since i booked hotel for 2 nites, might as well stay =P hahah
In Boston...didn't prepare for the storm. Still got power, food, water and internet. I'm good. I understand the craziness in NY and other states, but they definitely played it up here in MA. It isn't even really that bad.
by the time it reached ny, it wasn't as bad as i thought it could have been but i guess after all the previous stuff, precaution is always better especially when u could see down the jersey shores and effects it was having there, definitely potential for disaster
Post event, the thing that I find incredulous is that some (as reported in the news) dismissively stated that the whole thing was over exaggerated and an over reaction by the government. To me, that is sort of like playing Russian Roulette, and after surviving the first hammer fall, say that the danger isn't all that it was stated to be. I guess some people just don't get it. Of course, the silver lining in all this was it gave me reason and purpose to train my sons about survival considerations; something that they never had to think about before.
and at the same time, u find how stupid and over-reacting some people are during the earthquake, u had these people saying evacuate evacuate evacuate and get outta the place and say if a earthquake did hit here in the highrise area, anyone going outdoors would all get crushed with falling debris yet with all these announcements/trainings/warnings... the most basic things still don't go into people's heads i know, it's always a catch22 situation... what if it was a cat2/3 when it hit would we all then say it was the "perfect" decision?
Yeah, I know. People fall either into the glass half empty or half full situation. The bottom line is, one cannot please everyone, but always has to err on the side of caution when doing public service. Imagine had the Mayor of New York City, decided NOT to evacuate, and hospitals, along with other at risk residents got flooded; who would the public blame? Even though the storm died out before reaching NY, Bloomberg made the correct decision in terms of the public good. IMHO, he's doing exactly as he's paid to do. He prepared for the worst case scenario and left nothing to chance. :biggthumpup: But seriously, given the damage reports coming from all along the coast, both before and after New York, it could have easily been a lot worse. http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/29/irene.aftermath/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
It depends where you live, some places got hit worst than others, I only had lag and minor internet issues but overall, it wasn't as back as expected in my area. I even went out for a bit and it was kinda fun, almost no one on the streets but it was wet as fck with some minor flooding on the streets where the water isn't draining.
True, it was notably regional in terms of damage. Just look at the incredible and extensive flooding that has hit Vermont. According to officials there, since the entire state is, except for the mountains, of a relatively low lying topography; it would have been really impractical to evacuate as there was no really safe place to go to. Hence no evacuation was ordered for anyone in Vermont. Luckily this hadn't caused many deaths (though the number for total Irene related fatalities in the entire US is now 40 and climbing). Official 'guesstimates' right now are hovering around 45 Billion in damages. [video=youtube;iMUy8V1MN3M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMUy8V1MN3M[/video] [video=youtube;T0_GESfXHbo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0_GESfXHbo[/video] [video=youtube;DsdfsY2BBiw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsdfsY2BBiw&feature=related[/video] Sort of looks like the Tsunami that had recently hit Japan One wonders if Irene had retained it's full strength and had then hit the entire coastline as a Category 3 or 4, what the results had been. Again, IMHO officials, especially guys like Christie (Governor of New Jersey) and Bloomberg (Mayor of New York City) did stellar jobs in protecting the public to the best of their ability and didn't politicize the process. Kudos to both.
