Kiss My Ass Irene

My bitch is that the "Storm of the Millenium" bullshit that was being pitched by the Weather Channel and taken up by local stations is despicable reporting

NO different than NYC doing evacuations for the first time or Amtrak shutting down the NEC for the first time for a storm that hit North Carolina as a CAT 1.........there is zero chance this degree of panic is warranted,

That is how I see it.
The data thay give us do not support the emotion thay give us.

We shall see after the storm if the citizens appreciate the shutting down of the transit systems and the theatrics ..

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We shall see after the storm if the citizens appreciate the shutting down of the transit systems and the theatrics ..

First you tell us that this is all one big staged event then you tell us that the citizens won't appreciate these officials shutting down the theatrics. Can you make up your find, for gosh sakes, Hawk!

“The cause of the cascading outages across the mass transportation system this morning was the inability of our drainage system to handle what was, we believe, three inches of rain within a one-hour period,” Mr. Spitzer said. The drainage system was designed to handle only about an inch and a half of rain over an hour, he said.

Governor Spitzer said it was the third time in seven months that a sudden downpour of rain had led to “a total outage of our mass transportation system,” although the two previous failures were not nearly as severe and dramatic as today’s.

The paralysis of the subway system this morning has happened before. On Aug. 26, 1999, and Sept. 8, 2004, to be specific.

In 2004, torrential downpours associated with Hurricane Frances inundated the city with more than two inches of rain an hour. Hundreds of thousands of commuters were stranded. The 1999 downpour brought 2.5 to 4 inches of rain over two hours.

As Ian Urbina of The Times explained in 2004, a quick, heavy rainfall can be a formula for chaos in the city’s subways.

As rainwater seeps through tunnel walls and flows down subway grates and stairwells, sump pumps in 280 pump rooms next to the subway tracks pull the water back up to street level. That water then naturally flows toward the storm drains — but the storm drains themselves are often unable to handle the flow of water.
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The fact is we have a 100-year-old system, and that is a constraint. We may be dealing with meteorological conditions that are unprecedented.

Hawkeye, If you want to shriek about government's response, shriek about the fact that they could be putting people to work fixing the problems with their 100 year old system so the subways don't shut down every time it rains heavily.

The 2pm updates auto-loaded above. Another very small shift to the west bringing NY and NY more into the center of the target.