a bit blowey in the US

bianchimoon
bianchimoon Posts: 3,942
edited October 2012 in The cake stop
are they panicing unecessarily?, evacuation hubs, CNN advising people not to eat food from fridge if powers been off for more than 4 hours, has the world gone ultra-cautious, elf and safety mad?
All lies and jest..still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest....

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  • ben16v
    ben16v Posts: 296
    http://nyharborwebcam.com/

    get to watch it live here
    btw i`m not a spammer lol
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  • bianchimoon
    bianchimoon Posts: 3,942
    ben16v wrote:
    http://nyharborwebcam.com/

    get to watch it live here
    btw i`m not a spammer lol

    water must have got in the cam, it's not working here :o
    All lies and jest..still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest....
  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
    The potential is there, mostly due to stormsurge caused by the very low pressure associated with this hurricane.
    It's only a class 1, wind's have gusted up to 95mph. The big worry was it would wander over New York.
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    bianchimoon wrote:
    are they panicing unecessarily?, evacuation hubs,

    No, look what happened in New Orleans.
    bianchimoon wrote:
    CNN advising people not to eat food from fridge if powers been off for more than 4 hours,

    OK, that one's a bit weird.

    My mum, brother and step-dad are in NYC at the moment so I've very worried.

    Still, you'd think that the 69 people killed by this storm in the Caribbean didn't count for anything given the amount of coverage given to them.
  • tiredofwhiners
    tiredofwhiners Posts: 598
    A lot of NYC area is dangerously close to sea level and the city relies 24/7 on pumps to keep the basement levels of the city from going underwater, even before there is a storm surge.

    http://geology.com/sea-level-rise/new-york.shtml

    Try setting the level to 3m or 4m to see what the surge will do if it continues for too long.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    ^^^ Well that's made me feel better.
  • bianchimoon
    bianchimoon Posts: 3,942
    i'm sure your family will take heed of the warnings, good luck to them
    All lies and jest..still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest....
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    A few strava segments are going to take a battering with 95mph tail winds ;)
  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    bianchimoon wrote:
    are they panicing unecessarily?, evacuation hubs, CNN advising people not to eat food from fridge if powers been off for more than 4 hours, has the world gone ultra-cautious, elf and safety mad?
    Yep, clearly OTT - I mean there is only circa $12bn damage done
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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    A bit overhyped in the media but imagine if London was threatened by a 3.3m surge?
    There would be a few panicking on here.
    And it could happen if a storm was to cause a surge to head down the North Sea.
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • desweller
    desweller Posts: 5,175
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,449
    You lot should come to the West Coast of Scotland. That thing in America is a gentle breeze !

    PS Great bit of copy/pasting OfftheBackAdam. Dunno how you did it.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • DrKJM
    DrKJM Posts: 271
    pinarello001 wrote:
    You lot should come to the West Coast of Scotland. That thing in America is a gentle breeze !

    PS Great bit of copy/pasting OfftheBackAdam. Dunno how you did it.

    Yes, but the bits of Scotland where that's true are comparatively empty. Low population densities and buildings that are low to the ground help. New York is a little different.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,449
    DrKJM wrote:
    pinarello001 wrote:
    You lot should come to the West Coast of Scotland. That thing in America is a gentle breeze !

    PS Great bit of copy/pasting OfftheBackAdam. Dunno how you did it.

    Yes, but the bits of Scotland where that's true are comparatively empty. Low population densities and buildings that are low to the ground help. New York is a little different.

    Don't you mean: New York, where the people are comparatively dense and a little empty whereas in Scotland we are low to the ground and live in bits of buildings?
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • DrKJM
    DrKJM Posts: 271
    That too.
  • willhub
    willhub Posts: 821
    I never knew hurricanes hit Scotland all the time. Well I guess it's possible since Scotland did used to be attached to Canada.

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