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[Jarl Johnnie Walker]

BP93 wrote...

As a Floridian, I find the Sandy hype machine quite amusing. There were two different storms that were forecasted to hit where I live (but never did) this year and nobody batted an eyelash. Yet, you'd swear the East Coast would cease to exist here in a few days.

****ing wusses.

I slightly concur with this.

Hurricane Sandy is only a cat 1.
Me living on the gulf coast, a cat 3 isn'teven that big of a deal. The media always loves to make things appear worse then they really are.

If Sandy was coming my way I'd be excited!

But to be fair, the east coast doesn't get nearly as much hurricanes as my area does. Thus they're housing may not be as prepared as it should be. As mentioned before, throw a hurricane party and watch the beautiful destrution. Whether it be outside or inside. Personally I'd be outside in the middle of the storm just like I was when Issac hit. (Which btw, Hurricane Issac was a joke. Like, nothing happened. Lol.) But still be safe!

[AngryFrozenWater]

Being from Europe, this type of weather violence is alien to me. Stay safe people.

[CroGamer002]

AngryFrozenWater wrote...

Being from Europe, this type of weather violence is alien to me. Stay safe people.

Though, made me think.

How scared we would be in Europe if we get a hurricane?

[Jarl Johnnie Walker]

Tropical storms are just SLIGHTLY more powerful thunderstorms with just slight high winds.

Cat 1 and 2 hurricanes are just a wee bit more destructive, but nothing much happens. You might lose a few branches and roof shingles, but that's really it.

Cat 3s are slightly more rough. Small trees will fall. You'll get flooding, but not really enough to wash away houses. You'll get a hell of a workout the next day cleaning up debris.

Cat 4 and 5s... I'm getting the hell out. Katrina was a Cat 5, but it reduced down to a Cat 4 when it struck land. I remember coming home to nothing but a concrete slab of where my house stood. No power for two weeks. Smack in the middle of August, the hottest month of the year, and no air conditioner. It was 40 degrees cel. People died more from heat exhaustion than the actual storms destruction.

[Arch1eviathan]

BP93 wrote...

As a Floridian, I find the Sandy hype machine quite amusing. There were two different storms that were forecasted to hit where I live (but never did) this year and nobody batted an eyelash. Yet, you'd swear the East Coast would cease to exist here in a few days.

****ing wusses.

This. And it's only a catagory one. 

[Fidget6]

I'm in Chicago, so nope!

[RedArmyShogun]

Arch1eviathan wrote...

BP93 wrote...

As a Floridian, I find the Sandy hype machine quite amusing. There were two different storms that were forecasted to hit where I live (but never did) this year and nobody batted an eyelash. Yet, you'd swear the East Coast would cease to exist here in a few days.

****ing wusses.

This. And it's only a catagory one. 

Arh, I live in a state that often gets hit by major ones. And Sandy? Frankenstorm? More like Frankenbore. If anyone dies in it, it'll likely be the homeless drowning in the subways which I'm sure the fine major cities of the North East would welcome anyways. Its largly the folks who never seen a hurricane that get all worried about nothing. I mean I've lived through storms that were strong enough to change our coastline and force us to buy tons of sand from the Saudi's to rebuild our sand barrier.

On the one hand I kinda wonder if all this hooplah is purpose designed. The same way the Media handles Obama's Presidential run. Overhype and sensationalism. At the same time encouraging the people to go out and buy massive supplies while screaming "THE END IS AT HAND!" is nothing more than a shoddy, self serving, and yes, criminal attempt to bring up consumption, and prices due to "shortages".  If it causes any major damage I'll be highly surprised considering the weather sent an advisory warning to my region, and jack happend.

[Hainkpe]

Yep. I am to the south of the landfall.

The main issue is flooding and power outages. The power outages can last days to possibly weeks for literally millions of people. Not to mention that area of the country is highly populated so there will be problems in the days to come.

[Brockololly]

I'm in upstate NY so the most we'll get is a little rain but freaking cold northerly wind. It usually gets windy here with winter storms but usually from the west. Wouldn't be surprised if the power goes out.

Modifié par Brockololly, 29 octobre 2012 - 03:10 .

[LPPrince]

BP93 wrote...

As a Floridian, I find the Sandy hype machine quite amusing. There were two different storms that were forecasted to hit where I live (but never did) this year and nobody batted an eyelash. Yet, you'd swear the East Coast would cease to exist here in a few days.

****ing wusses.

You're discounting that New Englanders are not used to Hurricanes hitting them.

The same thing happened with the earthquake that hit the East Coast. West Coast people were like, "Oh that was nothing, we get worse."

Well yeah, but to a lot of East Coast Americans, that was their first earthquake that they could actually feel.

So its not so much being wusses as having a completely normal reaction.

[RedArmyShogun]

pft lies LPP I was not botherd in the least by that, I didn't even notice lulz.

[LPPrince]

That earthquake was the first one I felt. I remember sitting on my bed using my laptop(ironically on the BSN) when everything started shaking.

I thought it was cool.

My stepbrothers on the other hand(all older than me) screamed like little girls.

I know.

I heard them.

[Sarquindi]

I live in Ohio, but I don't think we'll get much of the aftermath. Maybe some storms and high wind. Hopefully it won't be like the one year where I was out of power for a week. I ate a lot of peanutbutter during that time. >_> Too bad I didn't chose this month to stay in England! Goodluck to everyone on the coast and stay safe!

[ManOfSteel]

As a Brit, I'm lucky not to have to endure such freak weather, but to anyone that will be affected, stay safe.

[lil yonce]

I live in Ky, so we won't face Hurricane Sandy. I'm glad. That storm looks enormous in the satellite images captured from space. http://www.nydailyne...ticle-1.1194559

[legion999]

Youth4Ever wrote...

I live in Ky, so we won't face Hurricane Sandy. I'm glad. That storm looks enormous in the satellite images captured from space. http://www.nydailyne...ticle-1.1194559

That storm looks bigger than my country...

Also that sidebar with stories is depressing.

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

So it's a wusses hurricane .. pfft!

[Fast Jimmy]

LOL I've talked to clients in both Philly and New York today... its pretty much pure insanity, from what I can tell. Glad I'm flying SOUTH today.

[Brockololly]

Pretty cool comparison:


Its a big storm.

Modifié par Brockololly, 29 octobre 2012 - 06:03 .

[LPPrince]

Oh cool. That's over me right now.

[TheBlackBaron]

LPPrince wrote...

BP93 wrote...

As a Floridian, I find the Sandy hype machine quite amusing. There were two different storms that were forecasted to hit where I live (but never did) this year and nobody batted an eyelash. Yet, you'd swear the East Coast would cease to exist here in a few days.

****ing wusses.

You're discounting that New Englanders are not used to Hurricanes hitting them.

The same thing happened with the earthquake that hit the East Coast. West Coast people were like, "Oh that was nothing, we get worse."

Well yeah, but to a lot of East Coast Americans, that was their first earthquake that they could actually feel.

So its not so much being wusses as having a completely normal reaction.

Well, I don't know. I felt an earthquake last year while I was in Norman, OK for the A&M-OU game. Not something I'd ever experienced, but I felt some shaking and then was like "So...that's it?"

Mind you, it may be that the propensity of Texas to change the weather every ten minutes has sort of densensitized me to any sort of extremities of meteorology or geology. 

[LPPrince]

Well, when things are shaking, falling over, and you have no idea what's going on, I imagine you may react accordingly.

Not everyone. Like I said, I thought it was cool. But the screaming, gah. SHUDDAPA YO FACE I wanted to tell them.