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Nothing eventful occurred here in Southwest Brooklyn, had a very minor leak in the basement because of the exhaust vent... That was it.
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So yeah... Didn't really get anything here. At all :/ Live in Boston
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On August 29 2011 03:53 mav451 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 29 2011 02:15 Moochlol wrote:
The winds following the ass of this storm, are becoming way more dangerous than I had expected, two huge trees came feet from landing on my house in NE PA. To the people claiming this is nothing but hype, hold your comments to yourself. Trees falling are fucking dangerous regardless of how much sensationalism the media has given this storm. Yeah I'd ignore those posts. Lot of metropolitan/city folk have extreme tunnel vision of the realities of what's happening outside. I know some people in Manhattan who are whining about it this being 'overrated'. Talk about a total loss of perspective on those idiots - I'd just ignore them. PS - Pepco, the worst electric company in the nation, is failing again. Hundreds of thousands in DC without power. Not a total surpise, but yeah.
I don't think anyone's saying that there weren't dangers or damage done. We're just saying that the media hype just wasn't justified. The fact that a tree fell a few feet from your house is pretty irrelevant to that.
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Hey guys, just got back from MLG Raleigh.
Aside from some annoying rain and wind the hurricane had virtually no impact on the weekend.
Good news all around 
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On August 29 2011 09:16 LegendaryZ wrote:Show nested quote +On August 29 2011 03:53 mav451 wrote:On August 29 2011 02:15 Moochlol wrote:
The winds following the ass of this storm, are becoming way more dangerous than I had expected, two huge trees came feet from landing on my house in NE PA. To the people claiming this is nothing but hype, hold your comments to yourself. Trees falling are fucking dangerous regardless of how much sensationalism the media has given this storm. Yeah I'd ignore those posts. Lot of metropolitan/city folk have extreme tunnel vision of the realities of what's happening outside. I know some people in Manhattan who are whining about it this being 'overrated'. Talk about a total loss of perspective on those idiots - I'd just ignore them. PS - Pepco, the worst electric company in the nation, is failing again. Hundreds of thousands in DC without power. Not a total surpise, but yeah. I don't think anyone's saying that there weren't dangers or damage done. We're just saying that the media hype just wasn't justified. The fact that a tree fell a few feet from your house is pretty irrelevant to that.
The hype was justified. Just because NYC didn't experience major damage does not mean that over 4 million Americans aren't without power, that parts of Philadelphia aren't under 15 ft of water, that Vermont hasn't had catastrophic flooding across almost every large riverbank in the state, nor that 16 (confirmed so far) people haven't died because of the storm. If the media told everyone to ignore evacuation orders and take the storm lightly, total damage and storm casualties may have been much worse. It's impossible to predict where exactly the worse wind damage and flooding will occur, especially given the massive size of what was tropical storm (hurricane) Irene.
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On August 29 2011 03:53 mav451 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 29 2011 02:15 Moochlol wrote:
The winds following the ass of this storm, are becoming way more dangerous than I had expected, two huge trees came feet from landing on my house in NE PA. To the people claiming this is nothing but hype, hold your comments to yourself. Trees falling are fucking dangerous regardless of how much sensationalism the media has given this storm. Yeah I'd ignore those posts. Lot of metropolitan/city folk have extreme tunnel vision of the realities of what's happening outside. I know some people in Manhattan who are whining about it this being 'overrated'. Talk about a total loss of perspective on those idiots - I'd just ignore them. PS - Pepco, the worst electric company in the nation, is failing again. Hundreds of thousands in DC without power. Not a total surpise, but yeah.
The people with no perspective are the ones who think this storm wasn't overhyped. Trees falling over, power going out, tornadoes, etc. occur in every single hurricane that makes landfall. We get about 15 named storms every single year. Thousands of people die from hurricanes in countries like Haiti all the time and we barely hear a word of it. Now we've got the a dozen states declaring a state of emergency, the President dedicating a lot of his time on this storm, and round the clock national coverage. Katrina didn't even get a fraction of this much attention.
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Clearly it's to prevent another Katrina from happening again.
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On August 29 2011 09:43 Cyberspace1 wrote:
Clearly it's to prevent another Katrina from happening again.
And clearly Irene wasn't a major threat at all and didn't need round the clock week long coverage like some kind of terrorist act.
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Apparently from Windham, NY:
Just received some incredible photos from Windham, NY. The fire chief says that downtown Windham has been "wiped out."
Source
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Drove from Rochester NY to Boston MA today. Saw a total of two downed branches the whole way.
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i was in the dominican republic last week when the hurricane crossed, i missed it, i slept like a rock, it was about 7 in the morning and everyone was like wtf, it's heavy, but not heavy enough to wake me up o.O
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On August 29 2011 09:27 Xivsa wrote:Show nested quote +On August 29 2011 09:16 LegendaryZ wrote:On August 29 2011 03:53 mav451 wrote:On August 29 2011 02:15 Moochlol wrote:
The winds following the ass of this storm, are becoming way more dangerous than I had expected, two huge trees came feet from landing on my house in NE PA. To the people claiming this is nothing but hype, hold your comments to yourself. Trees falling are fucking dangerous regardless of how much sensationalism the media has given this storm. Yeah I'd ignore those posts. Lot of metropolitan/city folk have extreme tunnel vision of the realities of what's happening outside. I know some people in Manhattan who are whining about it this being 'overrated'. Talk about a total loss of perspective on those idiots - I'd just ignore them. PS - Pepco, the worst electric company in the nation, is failing again. Hundreds of thousands in DC without power. Not a total surpise, but yeah. I don't think anyone's saying that there weren't dangers or damage done. We're just saying that the media hype just wasn't justified. The fact that a tree fell a few feet from your house is pretty irrelevant to that. The hype was justified. Just because NYC didn't experience major damage does not mean that over 4 million Americans aren't without power, that parts of Philadelphia aren't under 15 ft of water, that Vermont hasn't had catastrophic flooding across almost every large riverbank in the state, nor that 16 (confirmed so far) people haven't died because of the storm. If the media told everyone to ignore evacuation orders and take the storm lightly, total damage and storm casualties may have been much worse. It's impossible to predict where exactly the worse wind damage and flooding will occur, especially given the massive size of what was tropical storm (hurricane) Irene.
The problem with doing this is you're pretty much crying wolf every time you sensationalize an event like this. You can be realistic about the level of damage that a given area is likely to suffer without making it out to be the next world war with 24-hour coverage and nothing but pictures and videos of worst-case scenarios to strike fear into peoples' hearts.
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On August 29 2011 10:00 LegendaryZ wrote:Show nested quote +On August 29 2011 09:27 Xivsa wrote:On August 29 2011 09:16 LegendaryZ wrote:On August 29 2011 03:53 mav451 wrote:On August 29 2011 02:15 Moochlol wrote:
The winds following the ass of this storm, are becoming way more dangerous than I had expected, two huge trees came feet from landing on my house in NE PA. To the people claiming this is nothing but hype, hold your comments to yourself. Trees falling are fucking dangerous regardless of how much sensationalism the media has given this storm. Yeah I'd ignore those posts. Lot of metropolitan/city folk have extreme tunnel vision of the realities of what's happening outside. I know some people in Manhattan who are whining about it this being 'overrated'. Talk about a total loss of perspective on those idiots - I'd just ignore them. PS - Pepco, the worst electric company in the nation, is failing again. Hundreds of thousands in DC without power. Not a total surpise, but yeah. I don't think anyone's saying that there weren't dangers or damage done. We're just saying that the media hype just wasn't justified. The fact that a tree fell a few feet from your house is pretty irrelevant to that. The hype was justified. Just because NYC didn't experience major damage does not mean that over 4 million Americans aren't without power, that parts of Philadelphia aren't under 15 ft of water, that Vermont hasn't had catastrophic flooding across almost every large riverbank in the state, nor that 16 (confirmed so far) people haven't died because of the storm. If the media told everyone to ignore evacuation orders and take the storm lightly, total damage and storm casualties may have been much worse. It's impossible to predict where exactly the worse wind damage and flooding will occur, especially given the massive size of what was tropical storm (hurricane) Irene. The problem with doing this is you're pretty much crying wolf every time you sensationalize an event like this. You can be realistic about the level of damage that a given area is likely to suffer without making it out to be the next world war with 24-hour coverage and nothing but pictures and videos of worst-case scenarios to strike fear into peoples' hearts.
I don't really agree with that. These people aren't used to a hurricane, and as the flooding is showing they likely saved a good amount of lives. One life is worth it right? You would have to be stupid to blow a hurricane off because the last one was weak.
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seems like it turned into storm so it got weaken
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On August 29 2011 10:10 muse5187 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 29 2011 10:00 LegendaryZ wrote:On August 29 2011 09:27 Xivsa wrote:On August 29 2011 09:16 LegendaryZ wrote:On August 29 2011 03:53 mav451 wrote:On August 29 2011 02:15 Moochlol wrote:
The winds following the ass of this storm, are becoming way more dangerous than I had expected, two huge trees came feet from landing on my house in NE PA. To the people claiming this is nothing but hype, hold your comments to yourself. Trees falling are fucking dangerous regardless of how much sensationalism the media has given this storm. Yeah I'd ignore those posts. Lot of metropolitan/city folk have extreme tunnel vision of the realities of what's happening outside. I know some people in Manhattan who are whining about it this being 'overrated'. Talk about a total loss of perspective on those idiots - I'd just ignore them. PS - Pepco, the worst electric company in the nation, is failing again. Hundreds of thousands in DC without power. Not a total surpise, but yeah. I don't think anyone's saying that there weren't dangers or damage done. We're just saying that the media hype just wasn't justified. The fact that a tree fell a few feet from your house is pretty irrelevant to that. The hype was justified. Just because NYC didn't experience major damage does not mean that over 4 million Americans aren't without power, that parts of Philadelphia aren't under 15 ft of water, that Vermont hasn't had catastrophic flooding across almost every large riverbank in the state, nor that 16 (confirmed so far) people haven't died because of the storm. If the media told everyone to ignore evacuation orders and take the storm lightly, total damage and storm casualties may have been much worse. It's impossible to predict where exactly the worse wind damage and flooding will occur, especially given the massive size of what was tropical storm (hurricane) Irene. The problem with doing this is you're pretty much crying wolf every time you sensationalize an event like this. You can be realistic about the level of damage that a given area is likely to suffer without making it out to be the next world war with 24-hour coverage and nothing but pictures and videos of worst-case scenarios to strike fear into peoples' hearts. I don't really agree with that. These people aren't used to a hurricane, and as the flooding is showing they likely saved a good amount of lives. One life is worth it right? You would have to be stupid to blow a hurricane off because the last one was weak.
Yet plenty of people will blow it off next time and if the goal is saving lives, in the big picture, you will have failed because of it. This is really no different from the media crying "blizzard of the century" every other winter or droning on and on about the constant risk of getting blown up by a terrorist whenever you're out in public in NYC.
People close businesses, are inconvenienced, lose money, and all for what? Rain, wind and flooding in isolated parts of the city? Let those parts of the city worry about it and give me a realistic report so I know to get on with my life. I found it hilarious how the news was constantly talking about how New Yorkers don't take them or their warnings seriously when all they were doing with their overblown reports was just proving us right for not taking them seriously.
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On August 29 2011 10:23 LegendaryZ wrote:Show nested quote +On August 29 2011 10:10 muse5187 wrote:On August 29 2011 10:00 LegendaryZ wrote:On August 29 2011 09:27 Xivsa wrote:On August 29 2011 09:16 LegendaryZ wrote:On August 29 2011 03:53 mav451 wrote:On August 29 2011 02:15 Moochlol wrote:
The winds following the ass of this storm, are becoming way more dangerous than I had expected, two huge trees came feet from landing on my house in NE PA. To the people claiming this is nothing but hype, hold your comments to yourself. Trees falling are fucking dangerous regardless of how much sensationalism the media has given this storm. Yeah I'd ignore those posts. Lot of metropolitan/city folk have extreme tunnel vision of the realities of what's happening outside. I know some people in Manhattan who are whining about it this being 'overrated'. Talk about a total loss of perspective on those idiots - I'd just ignore them. PS - Pepco, the worst electric company in the nation, is failing again. Hundreds of thousands in DC without power. Not a total surpise, but yeah. I don't think anyone's saying that there weren't dangers or damage done. We're just saying that the media hype just wasn't justified. The fact that a tree fell a few feet from your house is pretty irrelevant to that. The hype was justified. Just because NYC didn't experience major damage does not mean that over 4 million Americans aren't without power, that parts of Philadelphia aren't under 15 ft of water, that Vermont hasn't had catastrophic flooding across almost every large riverbank in the state, nor that 16 (confirmed so far) people haven't died because of the storm. If the media told everyone to ignore evacuation orders and take the storm lightly, total damage and storm casualties may have been much worse. It's impossible to predict where exactly the worse wind damage and flooding will occur, especially given the massive size of what was tropical storm (hurricane) Irene. The problem with doing this is you're pretty much crying wolf every time you sensationalize an event like this. You can be realistic about the level of damage that a given area is likely to suffer without making it out to be the next world war with 24-hour coverage and nothing but pictures and videos of worst-case scenarios to strike fear into peoples' hearts. I don't really agree with that. These people aren't used to a hurricane, and as the flooding is showing they likely saved a good amount of lives. One life is worth it right? You would have to be stupid to blow a hurricane off because the last one was weak. Yet plenty of people will blow it off next time and if the goal is saving lives, in the big picture, you will have failed because of it. This is really no different from the media crying "blizzard of the century" every other winter or droning on and on about the constant risk of getting blown up by a terrorist whenever you're out in public in NYC. People close businesses, are inconvenienced, lose money, and all for what? Rain, wind and flooding in isolated parts of the city? Let those parts of the city worry about it and give me a realistic report so I know to get on with my life. I found it hilarious how the news was constantly talking about how New Yorkers don't take them or their warnings seriously when all they were doing with their overblown reports was just proving us right for not taking them seriously.
I understand what you are trying to say. The truth is that hurricanes are pretty unpredictable. It could have easily became a 2 or 3 and created some serious havoc. After katrina being such a massive failure it's natural the media goes crazy over it.
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What does Hurricane Irene and Kim Kardashian have in common?
They’re both overrated sluts who do absolutely nothing but are all over the television.
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Live on the edge of Boston. Lost power for a bit (like always  ), but nothing serious at all for me.
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On August 29 2011 10:30 muse5187 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 29 2011 10:23 LegendaryZ wrote:On August 29 2011 10:10 muse5187 wrote:On August 29 2011 10:00 LegendaryZ wrote:On August 29 2011 09:27 Xivsa wrote:On August 29 2011 09:16 LegendaryZ wrote:On August 29 2011 03:53 mav451 wrote:On August 29 2011 02:15 Moochlol wrote:
The winds following the ass of this storm, are becoming way more dangerous than I had expected, two huge trees came feet from landing on my house in NE PA. To the people claiming this is nothing but hype, hold your comments to yourself. Trees falling are fucking dangerous regardless of how much sensationalism the media has given this storm. Yeah I'd ignore those posts. Lot of metropolitan/city folk have extreme tunnel vision of the realities of what's happening outside. I know some people in Manhattan who are whining about it this being 'overrated'. Talk about a total loss of perspective on those idiots - I'd just ignore them. PS - Pepco, the worst electric company in the nation, is failing again. Hundreds of thousands in DC without power. Not a total surpise, but yeah. I don't think anyone's saying that there weren't dangers or damage done. We're just saying that the media hype just wasn't justified. The fact that a tree fell a few feet from your house is pretty irrelevant to that. The hype was justified. Just because NYC didn't experience major damage does not mean that over 4 million Americans aren't without power, that parts of Philadelphia aren't under 15 ft of water, that Vermont hasn't had catastrophic flooding across almost every large riverbank in the state, nor that 16 (confirmed so far) people haven't died because of the storm. If the media told everyone to ignore evacuation orders and take the storm lightly, total damage and storm casualties may have been much worse. It's impossible to predict where exactly the worse wind damage and flooding will occur, especially given the massive size of what was tropical storm (hurricane) Irene. The problem with doing this is you're pretty much crying wolf every time you sensationalize an event like this. You can be realistic about the level of damage that a given area is likely to suffer without making it out to be the next world war with 24-hour coverage and nothing but pictures and videos of worst-case scenarios to strike fear into peoples' hearts. I don't really agree with that. These people aren't used to a hurricane, and as the flooding is showing they likely saved a good amount of lives. One life is worth it right? You would have to be stupid to blow a hurricane off because the last one was weak. Yet plenty of people will blow it off next time and if the goal is saving lives, in the big picture, you will have failed because of it. This is really no different from the media crying "blizzard of the century" every other winter or droning on and on about the constant risk of getting blown up by a terrorist whenever you're out in public in NYC. People close businesses, are inconvenienced, lose money, and all for what? Rain, wind and flooding in isolated parts of the city? Let those parts of the city worry about it and give me a realistic report so I know to get on with my life. I found it hilarious how the news was constantly talking about how New Yorkers don't take them or their warnings seriously when all they were doing with their overblown reports was just proving us right for not taking them seriously. I understand what you are trying to say. The truth is that hurricanes are pretty unpredictable. It could have easily became a 2 or 3 and created some serious havoc. After katrina being such a massive failure it's natural the media goes crazy over it.
True. That's the whole point of history. To learn from your previous mistakes. As ridiculous as we make the warnings out to be. The politicians want to show that they're being safe opposed to being sorry.
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On August 29 2011 10:33 TriO wrote:
What does Hurricane Irene and Kim Kardashian have in common?
They’re both overrated sluts who do absolutely nothing but are all over the television.
Heh, the funny thing is I didn't even know who the heck Kim Kardashian is and then I found out she was some reality TV star. -_-
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