Did "Sandy" storm match expectations?

[jefwyn]

Looked like a nothing burger on TV to me, someone who has been through some real hurricanes here in Texas. My recommendation for NYC pick up the one piece of plywood in the street and your good to go, might take four hours to plan though and decide who's going to move it. Minor damages right on beach areas, nothing more. Barely brakes the "news" threshold for me.

HS

It wasn't even a tropical hurricane, it came ashore as a sub tropical cyclone......
Sandy was not a hurricane, technical but true.

HS

No one cares about a subway, pay for your own trains that only you ride. That's yestercity stuff....

HS

It is clear to me you are not a rational man. I will look at every post I see from you in that light.

 

[dave1949]

As to Newbury's thought that we should LEARN to get out of harm's way, we need to THINK. The levee system and seawalls aren't any sort of success in N.O.. There are those who remain outside their protection and the more that are built, the more the delta-coastal ecosystem is destroyed.

I am afraid with the number of people involved, the cost, the absolute lack of public will, the missing legal concepts, insane politics, etc., no real thinking will be applied to these problems.

 

[Carl Bert]

No one cares about a subway, pay for your own trains that only you ride. That's yestercity stuff....

HS

PROBLEM SOLVED!! Lets just shut down the NYC subway system. You are just the man we need down here to take charge.

I think you need to read your posts out loud, before hitting reply.

 

[newbury]

So you'er blaming the people that put themselves in harms way, for causing all the damage? Interesting take on things.

Seems we have a Tuesday morning quarterback here, telling us what we should have done.

You do realize that this storm was beyond anyones expectations. What happens if there is a storm twice its size next year, should we be prepared for that? There is only so much preparation you can make for the things, that we have no control over, such as the size of a storm.

No - I'm blaming people that rebuild beach houses time and time again often with TAXPAYER $$. I'm blaming governments that KNOW places will flood and allow people to rebuild. Last year Hurricane Irene just about topped all the seawalls, that was the warning.

I'm blaming Gov. Christie for promising to rebuild what get's wiped out.

I'm blaming the people, like me, that say "Oh, that's a nice tree, save it" then it takes out your house or car.

If you watched the footage of the people being "rescued" in Northern New Jersey due to flooding most of the area had two story houses and it was the same areas that flooded LAST year.

We've an area here in Northern Virginia, Huntington Creek, that the local govt. is FINALLY talking about not letting people rebuild, after bailing them out about every other year for thirty years.

Mother Nature is like most mothers, she's always right, and get's the last word.

I don't blame the people who are not smart enough for being ignorant. However most climatologists, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, know that storms are getting bigger and stronger thus

storm was beyond anyones expectations

doesn't say much about "anyone". Witness record hurricanes, record snowstorms, record drought. There is a "New Normal".

People have to learn to suffer or prepare.

 

[Carl Bert]

sorry repeat post

 

[s219]

Re: Did "Sandy" storm match expectations?

Originally Posted by houstonscott
Looked like a nothing burger on TV to me, someone who has been through some real hurricanes here in Texas. My recommendation for NYC pick up the one piece of plywood in the street and your good to go, might take four hours to plan though and decide who's going to move it. Minor damages right on beach areas, nothing more. Barely brakes the "news" threshold for me.


Originally Posted by houstonscott
It wasn't even a tropical hurricane, it came ashore as a sub tropical cyclone......
Sandy was not a hurricane, technical but true.


Originally Posted by houstonscott
No one cares about a subway, pay for your own trains that only you ride. That's yestercity stuff....

Wow, what a legendary A.H. Dozens of Americans dead, tens of thousands of homes destroyed, millions without power, and billions in damage. And he keeps going. I don't think TBN deserves to have posts like this in the "rural living" forum, that's for sure.

 

[jymbee]

Wow, what a legendary A.H. Dozens of Americans dead, tens of thousands of homes destroyed, millions without power, and billions in damage. And he keeps going. I don't think TBN deserves to have posts like this in the "rural living" forum, that's for sure.

As jefwyn pointed out, we're clearly not dealing with any kind of rational thought process here when it comes to this fellow. When he states that he doesn't trust ABC, NBC, CBS, or CNN to cover a story without bias kinda' makes you wonder where he DOES get his news from and who he does trust. :confused2:

Not really worth the effort to respond to his rants on this topic any further...

 

[PapaPerk]

We have a WINNER!!

Also they saved all their bobsled runs!

Rofl!!! Nice!

 

[PapaPerk]

As jefwyn pointed out, we're clearly not dealing with any kind of rational thought process here when it comes to this fellow. When he states that he doesn't trust ABC, NBC, CBS, or CNN to cover a story without bias kinda' makes you wonder where he DOES get his news from and who he does trust. :confused2:

Not really worth the effort to respond to his rants on this topic any further...

The National Inquirer and Fox News I'm sure... Oh and some Rush and Beck. Lol!

I'm sure he loves all the attention we are giving him.

 

[ray66v]

It is not accurate to say this storm is beyond anyone's expectations.

The record shows that Joe Bastardi predicted this would happen, He also predicted the damage from this storm accurately.

He says this is a cyclical pattern, and it is the same pattern that developed in the fifties. "The Atlantic's warm; the Pacific's cold. It's the 1950 all over again".

He says it will like last for at least the next few years.