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2011-08-28 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by tu3031 2011-08-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 My question is.... with the population center that will be without electric for a very long time ...... what is the cry?

We Gulf folks know..... sometimes it's weeks before electricity gets restore... just heard, one in five Americans can be without electric.....

Floods, floods...... floods.... already reports of dams overflowing ....

Posted by Sherry 2011-08-28 01:19|| 2011-08-28 01:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Sherry, this is how the East Coasties and their concentration of media outlets view the rest of the country. If its not part of the agenda, say like the massive flooding in Iowa or along the Missouri versus Katrina victims, it gets maybe two minutes of notice. That's why If the people of the Gulf Coast go without for months, its not a story.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-08-28 08:38|| 2011-08-28 08:38|| Front Page Top

#3 This hurricane will probably be downgraded to a tropical storm in an hour or so.

Winds and storm surge have been much less than feared. Rainfall has been heavy, however and there has been and will continued to be a lot of flooding.

Probably about 2 million customers either have lost or will lose power; that is within a region of 50-60 million people. But, other than NC and eastern VA, most of the electrical system problems have been localized and will be restored pretty quickly given the mobilization of repair crews.

Posted by Lord Garth 2011-08-28 10:10|| 2011-08-28 10:10|| Front Page Top

#4 This hurricane will probably be downgraded to a tropical storm in an hour or so.

Good practice for the real thing, then. Any real thing.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-08-28 10:15|| 2011-08-28 10:15|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm very glad to see that Fred & the 'Burg weren't washed away. And could someone please lock Geraldo & Shepard Smith in a closet for a ~~century~~ while?

Posted by PBMcL 2011-08-28 13:34|| 2011-08-28 13:34|| Front Page Top

#6 I didn't think Shep was out of the closet?

Posted by Frank G 2011-08-28 13:39|| 2011-08-28 13:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Yes, seems the only inflexible part of this exercise is the msm.

Good practice. Remember, flooding is the number one cause of natural disaster deaths. As the saying goes, turn around don't drown.

http://www.blinkx.com/watch-video/cnn-reporter-tells-tony-dungy-to-drive-through-flood/yQkipzcmVm8IqAa2jhXf3Q

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-08-28 14:01|| 2011-08-28 14:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Shep does have a sense of humor and recognizes the ridiculousnous of his job sometimes: he just showed a report from Seaside Heights, NJ to let the world know it seems to have survived and their tv world is saved.

Posted by Glenmore 2011-08-28 14:45|| 2011-08-28 14:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Reporting in from work in Richmond. Downtown has power (obviously), but a lot of the Richmond area doesn't, including my house. No cable, of course. :-(

Lots of trees down. The power company is saying it could be a couple of weeks to get everybody back on line - but I'm hoping that's for the outlying areas, not those of us in built-up areas. Life sucks without power.

Hope Rantburgers in the hit zone are OK (other than power outages).

Posted by Barbara 2011-08-28 15:18|| 2011-08-28 15:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Nifty... Irene passed through 9 hours ago and we are getting (I'm guessing) 45mph+ gusts in Brooklyn.

At least I won a (non-RB) pool for guessing that she would pull west of the committee-approved course and that a NYC bulls-eye was possible.

Posted by Free Radical 2011-08-28 17:07|| 2011-08-28 17:07|| Front Page Top

#11 300,000 out in Mass. I'm one of them. 2 100' trees came down the next street over and took out everything. Got a feeling it'll be a few days. At my mother's now for a visit to the 21st century.

Posted by tu3031 2011-08-28 20:41|| 2011-08-28 20:41|| Front Page Top

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