UPDATE: THe National Weather services new hurricane path map comes out in 10 minutes, but i'll tell you what it says now. Irene's eye will go off shore overnight tonight and it should strengthen some- she better because if she doesnt she will be remembred as a extremely boring hurricane.
Just in: a man boarding up windows 2 stories up in New York City fell and is expected to die...Thats not on Irene. I blame that on an overaction. Also a surfer in New Symrna Florida beach drown in heavy surf there. I chalk that one up to stupidity. I attended the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne Florida so I surfed that whole coast and all of the surfers there are enexperienced small wave surfers, so clearly he shouldnt have been out there.. Also an 11 year old boy was pinned under a tree that fell on him..I'll credit Irene with that one, but so far thats the only one so i'm standing by my prediction of just a dozen deaths from the storm.
Vice Lord wrote: The Subway system will not flood. I repeat, the Subway system will not flood. And of course it has a drainage system, or else it would flood everytime it rained.
I guess he failed to take into account the drainage system will be flooded from all the rain. To call it a drainage system is a misnomer. The water doesn't drain. It is pumped out. Pumps run on electricity.
Even on a dry day, 13 million to 15 million gallons of water are removed by 200 pumps from the tunnels deep underground.
They're saying the subways will flood. It's just a question of how badly and how extensively.
(BTW, I got this information by Googling)
I know..I just did'nt have the time to explain all that to Rockdoc. Of course they are used to dealing with water..Thats common sense, it underground afterall. My information is that the pumps can handle the 3 to 4 inches of rain New York will get..And the storm surge there in my opinion will be negligible at best.
WayneH wrote: Once again, the pumps run on electricity.
Oh and they couldn't possibly have back up generators in NYC...jeez
UPDATE: two people died in Virgina beach after a Tornado went through there, so thats not on Irene- and someone blew a red light and t boned another vehicle killing a small child inside. Thats not Irenes fault..Only one Irene death so far
....I remember on the way to football practice in Evergreen on 9/11 there were 50 cars lined up at the gas station in Marshdale..
Ridiculous..the most dangerous part of these situations is peoples reactions to them. I don't care where you live, everyone needs to just stay home and relax
I'm not sure who is dumber. The Weather Channel knuckleheads who are standing out in hurricane winds in rain jackets and goggles with debris whizzing by their head so they can talk into a camera....or the equally stupid people I can see driving around in their cars behind them....the same people we will see getting fished out of their flooded car in a few hours.
I guess I CAN say that Darwinism is still alive and well and residing this evening on the East Coast. Seriously, although it's a relatively weak storm, it's still a killer. Unless you are dying from a heart attack or your wife is having a baby...get your stupid country ass under shelter and stay home so civil servants don't have to risk theirs to save yours. Seriously.
