New Natural Disaster! 8/27/2011 Hurricane Irene
Alex Rubenstein
alex at corp.nac.net
Mon Aug 29 18:33:25 UTC 2011
Yeah, I was going to respond to the original post but can't find it.
The statement made by Mr. Wallace borders on insulting. The devastation in my county alone is something I have never seen. Thousands of houses destroyed, tens of thousands displaced. Businesses completely wiped out. A major thoroughfare (intersate 287 in Parsippany / Boonton) washed away:
http://photos.nj.com/4504/gallery/part_of_287_north_collapses_after_hurricane_irene_/index.html
This is major connector carrying tens of thousands of cars per day. The impact will be very severe to our region.
NJ power company JCPL, which only covers a small part of the state, has 380,000 customers affected. There are wires burning peoples yards and houses down.
So, if a normal day of living in Scotland means floods, people dying, freeways disappearing, mandatory evacuations, and everything else that I have dealt with in the last 48 hours, thank god I am not there.
Check out the level recently, versus the "record" in 1979:
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=phi&gage=bonn4&view=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0
The main reason for the impact was because we had already had one of the wettest months of August on record.
Give me a couple days, I will have some photos and movies up.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Graydon [mailto:paul at paulgraydon.co.uk]
> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 3:10 PM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: New Natural Disaster! 8/27/2011 Hurricane Irene
>
> On 8/28/2011 6:01 AM, andrew.wallace wrote:
> > It looks like the DHS, FEMA got this emergency wrong... by the time it got to
> NYC it was the equivalent of a normal day in Scotland.I live in Scotland...
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> I'm sure the rest of the East Coast will be particularly appreciative of that
> sentiment whilst they deal with billions of dollars of damage from the wake of
> Irene.
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