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[QUOTE]Originally posted by dilly: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [qb] However, let it be noted that "we from the Northeast" do know adverse weather beyond a NorEaster.[/qb][/QUOTE]Very true. And like you, Mr. Norman, I've spoken with friends and relatives scattered throughout New York City's five boroughs during the past twelve hours. Strangely, no one has experienced the Doomsday Armageddon that -- according the news media -- has "brought the entire city to its knees." Some streets are messy. Some basements and ground floor interiors are waterlogged. But the Japanese earthquake/tsunami it ain't. True, the subway system, commuter rail, and Amtrak aren't running. But that's happened numerous times over the years due to rainstorm flooding, blizzards, power blackouts, equipment malfunction, and labor strikes. Typically, the service is out for days. People can't get to work. It's nothing new. And true, some neighborhoods are without power. But that happens surprisingly regularly in New York (my neighborhood has lost power twice during the past year). And the number of people affected this time around is a drop in the bucket when compared to the massive blackouts that darkened the entire eastern United States during the 60s, 70s, and as recently as the early 2000s. As for the flooding, most of the impacted waterfront areas that you're seeing on TV and in the NY Times -- especially in Manhattan and Brooklyn -- are either city parks, industrial sites, stretches of highway, beachfront, or vacant land. Relatively few are densely residential (and those that are are mainly high rise). Most have flooded during previous storms or unusually high tides. Over the past 30 years, on several occasions, I've even put on my high Wellington boots and gone out to wade around. This time, the water rose higher and stretched a block or two further inland (in some cases flooding the basements of previously dry apartment buildings), but it's nothing totally new. As my brother-in-law says from experience, once you've got three feet of water in your basement, an additional six feet of the stuff doesn't really matter. That doesn't mean that small oceanfront and riverfront communities on the distant fringes haven't experienced serious damage. Only a fool would own a house in those places without flood and hurricane insurance. Or stay in the house despite warnings to evacuate. Unfortunately, however, the news media seems more obsessed with the idea that New York City has been flattened by the Apocalypse -- a notion that's totally absurd. Save it for the far more powerful hurricanes that are sure to come. --------------- [/QB][/QUOTE]
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