It was certainly a major storm. But it was the object of round-the-clock television coverage, and billions of tax dollars were spent preparing for it. It received far more press than the devastating tornadoes that literally leveled Joplin, Missouri. Perhaps not much ado about nothing, but certainly much ado about very little. It could only happen on the east coast.
Paul On Aug 28, 2011, at 9:31 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > Ann Sanfedele wrote: > >> I think your daughter's youth probably helped to minimize what was going >> on -- but also, it _was_ rather irregular in impact and in the next few >> days more flooding is expected. It was pretty windy out today and on >> Long Island ( i.e., those powered by the Long Island power company) the >> news just said there were over 400,000 people without power! >> >> The stories keep coming in -- the Saw MIll parkway is a river in >> sections .. more buildings are falling down along the shore -- etc... >> Yet I only know this because I see it live on TV - > > I believe Annsan. We only had winds up to 65 mph here and I can't > imagine they weren't stronger in NYC. Lisa went out for a walk around > Jamaica Pond late this afternoon when things had calmed down a bit and > reported uprooted trees and downed limbs blocking paths everywhere. > Fortunately all the advance hype paid off and there were already crews > out cleaning up. > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
