Irene was a lot of hyperventilation

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cr1 …. i beleive this depends on who’s point of view your looking from …. To be dead honest i would rather be prepared for the worse the not be prepared at all …. With all the over hype people go out and prepare for just that …. that way there ready for the worse that could hit them …. btw i live in baltimore city and this is what i woke up to this morning …


The mini van is my wifes and the other is my neighbors …. Over hype ? again depends who’s view your are looking from

Gone crazy hope you make out alright. I had a car crushed during a storm, I just got out of the car to run in the house and a gust of wind took 2 trees down and they came down on the car. That was a fews yes back.

Cr1 where are you located in NJ?

We got 10 inches of rain here but I was on the western end of the storm and it petered out to a tropical storm but I still have lake front property at the moment and a wet basement. It could be worse.

Hope all are safe.

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perspective is always a determining factor.

I have water in my cellar my crick is surging it’s banks and there are some good gusts. But a man eater it was not. They were selling this thing like it was going to be worse than a nuclear attack

We have winds, but the only wood I lost was already dead or dying. My 80 year old elms seem to be able to touch their toes and spring right back

I’m in beautiful lovely down town Hunterdon County where the taxes are the highest in the known cosmos and beyond.
The dope whom I purchased this property from sold off the plot where his barn was situated for a lousy 20 Gees and since then this property has fallen just under the mandatory minimum for a Farm Exclusion. I’ve be saving about 13 Gees each year if he’d not sold that off.

They forced an evacuation of a nearby town, High Bridge. Evacuated the whole bloody town and for nothing.

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I’m one of those wack job survivalists (in some people’s opinions). I’m always preapred with my emergency supply kits (bug-out bags), weapons and ammunition, coleman lanterns, coleman stoves, plenty of extra fuel, tents, emergency rations, first aid supplies, and everything that a true crazy, nutty, conspiracy theorist, survivalist, boy scout needs in order to survive indefinately.
Ever since Katrina, where we lost power for close to two weeks, my wife watches the weather like its a religion and worries over ever little storm that brews up.
I have the same mindset I’ve always had. The weather will do whatever the weather decides to do. The guys on the TV and radio can predict it only slightly better than I can. Be prepared at all times and don’t worry about it until it happens.
As for the media stirring all this up. It seems to me that these days the media is responsible for so much panic on so many different levels. I fear sometimes that some people have gotten so faithful to what the televisions, radios and computers tell them these days that they don’t think for themselves enough.
It’s not the media though. The media is doing what it has always done. Even when all the news that was news was on printed paper, th media even then jumped on anything that may have made a good headline. The problem these days stems from the access there is to it.
The media now can run a report about the butterfly on one side of the world that flaps his wings to make a hurricane. The media can get that story to people on the other side of the world now before some kid even gets the chance to catch said butterfly and pluck it’s wings off. The interesting fact about all that though is just how many people will believe that butterfly’s wing flap is sending a massive hurricane towards them and start evacuating.

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Just curious but, do you realize there is absolutely no way of telling what a storm is going to do? When I worked with Homeland, the most difficult thing to do was to get people to realize they needed to get prepared. Just like those unfortunate people in New Orleans, thinking it was just another storm. Refusing to head the warnings often results in catastrophic results. Rather than being thankful for the warnings being wrong, it’s much easier to place blame. But, the first time no warning comes and people get hurt, look out, cause no one warned us. Some people can never be satisfied but can sure bitch and moan.

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Why in god’s name would the evacuate high bridge???? Ungh… A little flooding of the basements here as well. Further south where its lower, the river flooded over. Just got power back now. Spent the day playing Monopoly with the family up in Alpha. Warren County was like, “huh? hurricane? wha?”

My boss in NYC already confirmed that I’m in again tomorrow/tues, and he said there were a few spots in Long Island with some flooding and some power outage temporarily, but manhattan, for the most part, just got a really windy, really rainy summer storm.

But you’re right. WAAAAAY overhyped.

I wonder how much of a “big fat bust” Irene was for these folks in Vermont.

http://www.weather.com/weather/hurricanecentral/article/raging-waters-in-vermont-hurricane-irene_2011-08-28

It is easy to whine and complain about the media coverage of what a hurricane might or might not do… but until one comes along and destroys your home, shop and everything you have ever accumulated during your life, you don’t have a dam thing to complain about.

I lost everything during hurricane Katrina except my family, my car and my pets and the clothes I was wearing on my back. If there were no warning from the media we might have lost our lives also.

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Well I guess better err on the side of caution!

The only time I pay any attention to the weather is during tornado season and when we hear the warning signal my wife and I always go to the basement. We’ll keep doing it because whenever there is an actual warning 90 percent of the time somewhere in the close vacinity houses are usually heavily damage or destroyed.

As far as the media in general – forget it. I don’t believe half of what they say and you can guarantee at the very least there be a terrible spin placed on any story. The only way you can get the truth is get your news from several varying sources and do a little research and try to work it out in your mind as best as you can.

-- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau

This storm was kind of like the TSA at the airports. Maybe it is a little like Chicken Little. Yep, PITA, but….better to be prepared early than find out you aren’t prepared. You only get one chance at it. Better to go home happy and have a home to go to than an empty lot.
If a person could control the weather they could control the world. Mother nature will never give mankind that kind of power.
I say Kudos to the weathermen for doing their job to the best of their abilities.
As far as media goes, anyone that stands in water up to their nose in order to tell me it’s raining is suspect in my book.

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A person cannot control what the media transmits but can control what he chooses to receive.

At the other extreme, my mother was living in Worcester, MA on September 21, 1938. Most people had no clue of what was on the way that day. She walked to school as always and ended up walking home in a hurricane. She never forgot that terrifying day.

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If it wrecks my home what will excessive hyperventilated media coverage have done ?

I submit not a single thing.

Or maybe I should have run for my life like they were telling us all to do?
Evacuate the whole of the eastern seaboard?
Why?

I’m a big fan of common sense.
If you know a big blow is coming engage the brain or risk being a Darwin Award winner. But my position is take responsibility for one’s self.

A little perspective might be in order.

More than 40,000 Americans die each year just trying to get to and from on the roads in the USA.

How is it that a little water and wind gets so much more attention than Forty Thousand deaths that occur each year like clockwork year in and year out.

And why use words like “whine” when addressing a fellow LJ?
Isn’t that a personal attack?

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It’s indeed based on one’s own perspective. I’m in one of the areas that was supposed to get hit hard and I bought a few things just in case we lost power and or water (mostly made sure I had milk for my son). I could cook on my gas grill (and even make coffee) if need be.

The thing is that nobody knew how bad or not it would be so some preparation was good. Greg made a good point and he and his family were fortunate to even have been able to get to safety and I’m sorry for your loss Greg.

Perhaps I’m just voicing my LEFTIST/SOCIALIST opinion but it was a bit insensitive/uncaring when people HAVE died from this storm and property continues to be lost and to say that hyping some kind of impending weather occurence is bad, well in the matter of creating panic, yes, but if it saves lives then I’m all for it.

BTW: the vehicle accidents are rarely caused solely by natural phenomenon. It’s usually bad driving on someone’s part (including inexperience), alcohol, drugs, or some other thing that affects the driver. Even on ice, one can avoid at least causing an accident usually by slowing down.

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