Well, we'll just have to disagree on this one. I believe it was indeed much ado about very little. The federal government declared New York a disaster area before it was a disaster area -- something that essentially never happened. It's no wonder fallen branches were picked up immediately in Boston -- the thousands of troops and workers called in to deal with the storm had nothing else to do. We spent billions in tax dollars on this one, unnecessarily, for the most part. If we do that for every sub-tropial storm weather event, we'll soon be in the crapper. Paul On Aug 28, 2011, at 10:47 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
> Paul there is something you are missing here... While I agree that > _post_disaster/event or what have you no matter what it is can suffer from > overkill in the media - Here the media was instrumental in Bloomberg's > success in getting people to comply with the program for > keeping people safe - getting the word out BEFORE in the media.. > > Right now Irene is causing major, major flooding all over New England... > much ado about very little? much ado about less than it might have been > but this was a long way from "very little" > > and here is the thing - there are still things that have to be done and > cautions to be taken - there is still big weather here (meaning the north > east) > > Joplin was a shocker and certainly beyond in devastation - but the > coverage I watched certainly didnt' neglect Joplin - it's apples and oranges. > There is a diffference between covering a tragedy of great magnitude of > which there have been several in the last year or so, > Santiago, Japan, New Zealand , Haiti in addition to Joplin and Katrina. > > This story all up and down the coast was as much about people doing something > preemtively to protect people and it worked. It is also rather important now > for us to know where there are problems to keep from going there.. > > There was coverage in our area for hours and hours without breaks for > commercials! It was the media acting responsibly - I forgive them some > redundancy > > ann > > On 8/28/2011 21:38, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> 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. -- 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.
