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Hurricane Sandy = non event

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Jaskalas said:
#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.
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I know. I feel like some people believed this would be a storm so strong and vast that after 10 hours everything would been whiped off the face of the planet underneath the storms path...

And when it proved it wasn't they then stated it was "non-event"
 
Jaskalas said:
You think there are two storms?

*facepalm



Sandy is the 'hybrid'. It is a Hurricane that loses its warm core (after landfall this time) and then the surrounding atmosphere enhances it further through the jet streams and various winds moving in its favor. Particularly the cold air that has been feeding into it for the past few days. This made her stronger than she otherwise would have been.
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Facepalm this.

Dire predictions for Hurricane Sandy

The storm – which is expected to collide with a nor’easter -- will likely move ashore Monday or Tuesday afternoon across the South Jersey shore and Maryland, but states all along the East Coast will feel its effects. WNBC meteorologist Janice Huff reports.
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http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/49574990#49574990

That's why they were calling it a Hybrid storm. It was supposed to collide with a nor’easter and create a hybrid storm they were nicknaming “Frankenstorm” that was supposed to slowly move into New England reeking havoc for days.

And I thought I didn’t watch enough news in the past few days…..
 
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#non-event

currently 7 million+ without power, and growing
current damage approaching $20 billion

what an exciting place to live, to have such exciting non-events
 
Sis in law lives in Mahopac, north of NY. In a nearby town, a tree fell on a families house. Killing tow of their children. Damn, I can not imagine...:'(
 
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Clearly this is an emotional subject for many of you so I hesitate to say anything else. I really did get the impression though that the media was blowing it out of proportion. I'm overseas and I literally had friend's here calling me and asking me how my family was and if this was going to be another Katrina. That it is luckily not. When I think of a messed up big storm I don't really look at the $ signs. I look at the human lives and with any luck we won't lose 1800 people to this storm like we did down south. As an aside it's windy as fuck over here and won't stop raining. I wonder if we're affected across the pond too.
 
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An amazing sight of mother nature.
 
randomrogue said:
Clearly this is an emotional subject for many of you so I hesitate to say anything else. I really did get the impression though that the media was blowing it out of proportion. I'm overseas and I literally had friend's here calling me and asking me how my family was and if this was going to be another Katrina. That it is luckily not. When I think of a messed up big storm I don't really look at the $ signs. I look at the human lives and with any luck we won't lose 1800 people to this storm like we did down south. As an aside it's windy as fuck over here and won't stop raining. I wonder if we're affected across the pond too.
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Why do we need to rank storms and only care about the biggest? The fact is people have died, millions are without power and there has been billions of dollars in property damage. Even if it's not as devastating as Katrina, there's no need to marginalize the storm as a "non-event" or "overhyped" when it's the largest destructive force to hit the area in our lifetimes. It doesn't need to rack up the kill count of Katrina before it becomes a serious storm, does it?
 
randomrogue said:
Clearly this is an emotional subject for many of you so I hesitate to say anything else. I really did get the impression though that the media was blowing it out of proportion. I'm overseas and I literally had friend's here calling me and asking me how my family was and if this was going to be another Katrina. That it is luckily not. When I think of a messed up big storm I don't really look at the $ signs. I look at the human lives and with any luck we won't lose 1800 people to this storm like we did down south. As an aside it's windy as fuck over here and won't stop raining. I wonder if we're affected across the pond too.
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Most people around here thought the media was blowing it out of proportion, especially after Irene. That's why so few evacuated.

Katrina was bad because it was a super powerful storm concentrated in an area that's used to hurricanes, but not on that level. Even without levees breaking it would have been bad.

Sandy was bad because it was a relatively powerful storm that had effects over a really wide region, that isn't particularly used to hurricanes. It's widespread minor damage, not enough to kill a lot of people or destroy many buildings, but enough to make life difficult for a millions and millions of people. It's the most populated region in the country, and its heavily reliant on public transport.
 
Did it occur to anybody that moonbogg might really be a very nice person who has suffered a lot of tragedy and lives in an altered reality because he doesn't want anybody else to feel his pain. Maybe his tragedy was so great that he can't face the possibility that something else that is bad was about to happen, that his mental denial was a warding event, that he wanted to cause the storm not to happen by assuring himself and the world that it wouldn't. Maybe what he predicted would happen he predicted because he is deeply kind and just couldn't face the possibility that others might suffer as he has. Maybe that's what all denial is really all about, the desperate longing for goodness over pain, the traumaturgic transformation of base reality to gold via imagination. What if we are holding in contempt what springs from the best within us.

If so then it would seem that our salvation, the rational processing of reality and optimism happens only when we can tolerate and experience our real inner pain.
 
I don't understand. Why do people want to minimize an event like this? Bullshit is rampant on this forum, but most of the time I get where the bias is coming from. I don't understand this at all. The magnitude of a natural event like this shouldn't be a matter of picking sides and arguing about it. What is this really about?
 
woolfe9999 said:
I don't understand. Why do people want to minimize an event like this? Bullshit is rampant on this forum, but most of the time I get where the bias is coming from. I don't understand this at all. The magnitude of a natural event like this shouldn't be a matter of picking sides and arguing about it. What is this really about?
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I think it was just a combination of ignorance and jumping the gun because the devastation wasn't happening fast enough for him.
 
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