Hurricane Sandy = non event

boomerang · Oct 30, 2012

ericlp said:
I find it kinda funny that Virginia was one of the states to deny global warming ... Maybe they will wake up when their asses are under water? Hmmmmm

What???

3chordcharlie · Oct 30, 2012

michal1980 said:
you fail at life.

That's very clever.

shortylickens · Oct 30, 2012

michal1980 said:
The left like always wants to create super victems. Is it an event, yes?

Is it this super death storm that is wiping out the east coast? doubt it.

costly storm is a terrible measure of impact - population density, hitting a high value area will do that, as will inflation

Umm, only people like YOU ever called it a super death storm.

randomrogue · Oct 30, 2012

Doppel said:
Who ever said anything about it wiping out the east coast?

6 million without power, records broken in water height, many billions in damages. Do you guys need thousands of people to die for something to be an event?

Cost of storm is not a terrible way to measure impact because of density, unless you think that a cat 5 storm hitting an area with zero people is a bigger deal than a low cat hitting with millions (apparently you do?). Because if the latter, there was a major storm in the antarctic region yesterday and another one today. It's going to be devastating on the ice bergs in the area.

A storm simply hitting a huge metropolitan area will be expensive. I think human lives are the way to really measure a major event. So far there have been very few deaths and several of the ones reported so far have been due to the usual human stupidity. Few deaths is a good thing. If you're all lucky it will continue to be nothing but power outages and flooding. Insurance will cover it.

Wasn't there a thread here recently about the impact 3" of snow would have on Southern California? That would lead to more deaths than I can imagine yet most likely have very little property damage. If you compare the two it's clear which one is a big even and which one is not.

Either way, it's not over yet.

Buxaroo · Oct 30, 2012

moonbogg said:
Epic hype. Thats all it is and people are catching on. Since Catrina, people play it so damn safe, that its nothing more than crying wolf to the extreme just so noone can say that they weren't warned. The reports on the storm will evaporate faster than the light showers that it produces.

(OP was infracted for trolling. -DrPizza)

I love how this "Epic hype" just sodomized your low IQ prediction. Please, keep up the stupid. This country needs more of it I hear.

So...

Socio · Oct 30, 2012

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ay-system-flooded-in-worst-ever-disaster.html

Surging seawater forced ashore by Hurricane Sandy flooded seven New York subway tunnels and six bus garages in the worst disaster in the history of city transport, the network's chief said on Tuesday.

michal1980 · Oct 30, 2012

dawp said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG5QWMpDDo0&feature=player_embedded#!

Explosion at power station in Manhattan

nice little non-event there.

oh noes, a transformer blew. end of the world. sky is falling, the sky is falling.

michal1980 · Oct 30, 2012

shortylickens said:
Umm, only people like YOU ever called it a super death storm.

wrong, thats the short version of the news for the past few days.

diesbudt · Oct 30, 2012

I like how people think if the storm isn't the storm of all storms, it is "non-event".

This storm was not overhyped. It has done the damages and such as expected. And with it merging with a cold front, is expected to rain hard still yet in the areas for 2+ days.

michal1980 · Oct 30, 2012

3chordcharlie said:
That's very clever.

with dmcowen674. you cant be too clever, or blunt.

nextJin · Oct 30, 2012

How long before we see this?

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=FCTMMKSs7Ng&desktop_uri=/watch?v=FCTMMKSs7Ng

We already have looting so we are just standing by!

michal1980 · Oct 30, 2012

diesbudt said:
I like how people think if the storm isn't the storm of all storms, it is "non-event".

This storm was not overhyped. It has done the damages and such as expected. And with it merging with a cold front, is expected to rain hard still yet in the areas for 2+ days.

Its to early to make that claim.

Charles Kozierok · Oct 30, 2012

On what basis do you claim the storm was "overhyped"?

It's already broken records in countless ways, affected millions of people, and will probably be one of the most costly storms on record.

You're consistently one of the least-informed posters around here, and you never provide any arguments to back up your claims. And now you're trying to minimize a tragedy and also try to somehow introduce political bashing into it.

Why should anyone care about your opinion?

diesbudt · Oct 30, 2012

michal1980 said:
Its to early to make that claim.

7 million power out?
Flooding in streets and tunnels and transit systems?
16 deaths?
14000 flights cancelled?
Billions of dollars in damages?

Are you sure I cannot make that claim yet?

Doppel · Oct 30, 2012

michal1980 said:
wrong, thats the short version of the news for the past few days.

No, it really isn't. The news said it had the potential to be the worst storm to hit the east coast in a very long time, if not ever. Based on what actually happened was saying that wrong? Nope. This is not 1800 and the only warning of a storm is the fact a tidal wave just hit you. Models and public awareness alone are the reason why so few have died from this. The truth is you're not likely to ever have a weather event that causes thousands of deaths in the US.

I've seen weather hype. Most of us live with it all the time, whether it's tornados that will kill us all or a snow storm that will bring 20' of snow and everybody dies. Mostly I just ignore these warnings for the tripe they are, but this was a real event and evident before it hit that it would be.

Slick5150 · Oct 30, 2012

michal1980 said:
Its to early to make that claim.

Your entire argument is that the lack of major losses of life means it's not an event. Yet, the only reason there HASN'T been a major loss of life is that people were warning others that this WAS a major event and to take appropriate precautions (which you rage against them doing in the first place, calling it "overhyped").

So, if they hadn't called it a major event, people wouldn't have taken precautions and there would have been significantly more deaths, making it a major event in your mind.

Logic win!

waggy · Oct 30, 2012

Howard said:
The amount of retard in this thread makes me fear for humanity's gene pool.

yeah.

though most of it by people i already knew were fucking idiots. so it's really not much of a surprise.

the amount of damage this storm is going to do is not going to be good.

BD2003 · Oct 30, 2012

OP can go fuck himself, that was one of the worst nights of my life. And I got off easy.

Rvenger · Oct 30, 2012

My basement window blew in and shattered... I didn't check for missing shingles yet though. OP is a troll in VC&G and CPU forum too.. no surprise.

michal1980 · Oct 30, 2012

Slick5150 said:
Your entire argument is that the lack of major losses of life means it's not an event. Yet, the only reason there HASN'T been a major loss of life is that people were warning others that this WAS a major event and to take appropriate precautions (which you rage against them doing in the first place, calling it "overhyped").

So, if they hadn't called it a major event, people wouldn't have taken precautions and there would have been significantly more deaths, making it a major event in your mind.

Logic win!

Did I say it was a non event?

No.

So go talk a long walk of a short pier.

I just said its to early to say if the story was overhyped.

I'm currently leaning towards yes, based on the early news reports, vs the gloom and doom, end of the world stories the news put out.

Charles Kozierok · Oct 30, 2012

michal1980 said:
I'm currently leaning towards yes, based on the early news reports, vs the gloom and doom, end of the world stories the news put out.

What "gloom and doom, end of the world stories"?

This is a classic straw man argument. You invent overhype so you can say the story was overhyped.

diesbudt · Oct 30, 2012

michal1980 said:
Did I say it was a non event?

No.

So go talk a long walk of a short pier.

I just said its to early to say if the story was overhyped.

I'm currently leaning towards yes, based on the early news reports, vs the gloom and doom, end of the world stories the news put out.

I have heard this would be a big story that would do tons of damages?

Has it? Yes.

I have heard this storm would be the biggest of the year to hit NE?

Is it? To date this year yes.

I have heard that this storm will cause power outages and be devestating?

Has it been? Billions in damages and 7mil+ people w/o power that will likely last a week or 2, yes it has.

So no, it has NOT been overhyped. For everything I have heard about it HAS come to terms.

dawp · Oct 30, 2012

michal1980 said:
oh noes, a transformer blew. end of the world. sky is falling, the sky is falling.

that's a little more that a transformer on a pole blowing, that is a power substation going boom

Jaskalas · Oct 30, 2012

#nonevent, strongest storm to ever hit NYC. And it didn't just hit New York. Much of the NE coastline is battered.

Was it destroyed? Of course not, this wasn't a Major Hurricane, but it was still a Hurricane.

Londo_Jowo · Oct 30, 2012

dawp said:
that's a little more that a transformer on a pole blowing, that is a power substation going boom

That was a high voltage (38kv to 115kv) transformer that exploded.

Hurricane Sandy = non event

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