While it was a non-event for me personally, I don't want to make light
of the effect it might have had on others.
The high winds, even at Cat 1, were enough to topple trees & killed at
least 2 people here in NC. And beyond the property damage, the flooding
endangers human lives as well.
Something else I heard on the news is the wind-speeds quoted are
"surface winds". The speed increases above the surface & in NYC poses a
danger to high-rise buildings from blowing out the glass, so that you
have a danger inside from wind driven broken glass & a danger below from
falling glass.
And I heard that the NYC subway system has been shut down for the first
time ever due to the danger of storm surge driven flooding. I don't
reckon it would take too many feet of surge to put some station
entrances under water. I'm sure they have pumps to empty the system out,
but I doubt they have the capacity to handle the mass of water that
could introduce. At least not in the short term.
From: "P. J. Alling"
I'm just getting a little tired of the hype, Irene is most likely to
come ashore as a category one, maybe even as a tropical storm, dangerous
yes, but unless you actually live in a flood zone, it's probably better
to stay put rather than evacuate. When this proves to be a meh event,
it will be much harder to get people pay attention when that category
four shows up to smash things...
On 8/27/2011 2:11 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
From: Christine Aguila
Stay safe, John! cheers, Christine
It's pretty much been a non-event around here so far. There's some
news of flooding down east, but it doesn't look like even that's too
serious.
I'm sure there's a good bit of property damage, but it looks like it's
more from there being a lot denser population in eastern NC now than
in the days of the legendary hurricanes like Hazel. More property
there to be damaged, rather than from the power of this storm.
The greatest effect for me personally is I got distracted checking the
weather & forgot what I was doing. Diced my tomato instead of slicing
it, so I ended up using it to make an omelet instead of a BLT
sandwich. 8-D
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