No.
Furniture removed from inside of house after 9 feet of storm surge. Bottom right hand corner is where the ditch "used" to be, but its now filled with mud.
Broken windows from storm surge, everything in the house was a total lose.
give it up dude.
"And yeah, it's the same for snow. Sorry, area-that-doesn't-get-much-snow, we don't give a fuck if you got an inch of snow and freaked out about it. You're a pussy. Fuck off."
Don't seem mad at all. Your words seem to have a peaceful, calming effect on me.
Sunday evening the weather channel was making a big deal out of a couple of sailboats floating loose in some harbor in new york city. Seriously? Is that they best they could come up with?
After hurricane katrina, ships were washed inland.
After hurricane ike, barges were washed inland and blocked major roads.
How do you make a big deal out of a tiny sailboat?
If anything, the damage in Virgina and Maryland got less attention then 6 inches of water over some boardwalk in New York.
Well, to be fair, the south is used to hurricanes, while the north isn't. And let's not also forget, north and south alike, not even a week ago, cried together in unison like scared little bitches when confronted by a pissant little 5.8 earthquake.
should only people who experienced the 1970 Bhola cyclone be allowed to complain/worry about hurricanes?No.
Furniture removed from inside of house after 9 feet of storm surge. Bottom right hand corner is where the ditch "used" to be, but its now filled with mud.
Broken windows from storm surge, everything in the house was a total lose.
You know, houses collapsing, people dying and what not. I'm sorry if that's not disasterous enough for you tastes.
Heh, I wouldn't imply they're calming... I just hate stupid people. They don't make me mad, but I always end up berating them. Is this an interesting topic for you or something?
No you don't. More "frequently" than the Northeast, but certainly not "all the damn time" - this is the first hurricane to make landfall in the US since 2008. 3 years without a hurricane down there doesn't seem to meet the "all the damn time" criteria.All I or the OP mentioned were people making a big deal out of nothing. He's tired of hearing whiny Irene'ers complain about minor little piddly-shit "problems" incessantly. "Hey, good for you, you have to spend an afternoon cleaning up the "carnage." We have gigantic storms all the damn time" if you will.
1. To make his point, the OP resorts to using the third most expensive hurricane in US history.
2. Irene is probably on the list for most expensive hurricanes.
3. There were plenty of trees down. As the northeast isn't regularly hit by hurricanes, there are a lot more older trees that wouldn't be able to survive even sustained 40mph winds in conjunction with the ground saturation.
4. The boats in your example were pushed across a swamp. If you live on the downwind side of a swamp connected to a river, I don't think it's extraordinary that the wind pushed a few boats into your yard when the water was up.
5. But, if we use your logic, people can say "hurricane Irene blew a bus into my yard."
6. Apparently you've been watching the wrong stations - there has been some severe flooding in quite a few towns.
No you don't. More "frequently" than the Northeast, but certainly not "all the damn time" - this is the first hurricane to make landfall in the US since 2008. 3 years without a hurricane down there doesn't seem to meet the "all the damn time" criteria.
Please do not take my post as a lose of compassion. Lose of life is always bad.
The thing is, were the people in an evacuation zone? Did the local authorities call for an evacuation, and they not leave?
One guy died from a falling tree limb. Pro tip, do not go outside during a hurricane.
A lot of lives could have been saved with some common sense. Like a couple were driving around during the storm, when the car ran into rising water.
Most of the people who die in hurricanes, die from poor decisions. Not all of them, but the majority. If the local authorities tell the people to leave, leave, its that simple.
When Ike made landfall there were a lot of people that decided to ride out the storm in their beach houses. Some of their bodies were found 2 and 3 weeks later. Even though an evacuation had been called, they decided to ride out the storm, and they died.
It's easy to sit in your chair and say every preventable death was the result of people being stupid. But you don't know why that person was outside when he got hit by the tree limb.
1. To make his point, the OP resorts to using the third most expensive hurricane in US history.
East Haven, CT:No.
Furniture removed from inside of house after 9 feet of storm surge. Bottom right hand corner is where the ditch "used" to be, but its now filled with mud.
Broken windows from storm surge, everything in the house was a total lose.
10 million without power?
21 deaths?
Hmmm...
Irene "killed" 21. We'll discount 2 of those though, since they were the southern brand of idiots (Florida) and not the northern brand of idiots, like the guy who died canoeing in a flooded river.
But, since Texashiker wants to use Ike as the rubric, 195 people died from Ike. 21 from Irene. Hmmmm... And, Irene affected many millions more people. Seems that the people up North are a lot better about heeding the advice of officials than the people down South.
Hmmm...
Irene "killed" 21. We'll discount 2 of those though, since they were the southern brand of idiots (Florida) and not the northern brand of idiots, like the guy who died canoeing in a flooded river. (not that everyone who died did so doing something foolish; of those 21, quite a few weren't due to negligence in any way.)
edit: on second thought, it seems that nearly half of the deaths are wrongly attributed to the storm after car accidents. Apparently, if you're driving too fast for road conditions, and hydroplane into a tree, it's not your fault, it's Irene's fault, according to whoever makes these statistics.
edit edit: deaths from NC and Virginia should get lumped into the South, which along with the surfers in Florida, make up the majority of deaths from Irene.
deaths in the North: fire, stranded in car in high water (foolish), electrocution while saving a child, falling into flooded creek, 3 people outdoors killed by trees, and a driver crashed. So, a total of 6 people died as a result of going outside, and one of them was from simply losing control on a wet road, long before the real effects of Irene were present.
But, since Texashiker wants to use Ike as the rubric, 195 people died from Ike. Hmmmm... And, Irene affected many millions more people. Seems that the people up North are a lot better about heeding the advice of officials than the people down South.
Death toll is now 24 and climbing...
Seems that the people up North are a lot better about heeding the advice of officials than the people down South.
The people in the south might suffer from "complacency with disaster preparedness."
"Nothing happened during any other the other hurricanes, so why worry about this one?"
My family and I evacuated for hurricane Andrew, only for the storm to make a sharp turn to the north and go into Louisiana.
Hurricane Rita came through, and all we got was a lot of trees blown down and 18 days without power.
Hurricane Gustav came through Sabine Pass/Port Arthur, people were told to evacuate, and barely any damage was done.
By the time Ike came through, people were tired of evacuating.
By the time Ike came through, people were tired of evacuating.
lazy southerners. go figure.
Tell them to move.