hurricane coming...

^^^remember that post, it might be fun to repost after thousands of people die

there's like a 1% chance that a tree or heavy tree branch falls on your car

this would have to be like cat 4 for something to fall into your apartment and do any damage

Wall Street under water, 20 years ahead of schedule, is fine by me

I'm hoping the subways flood and we can't go to work on Monday, tbh.

this would have to be like cat 4 for something to fall into your apartment and do any damage

Supposedly it's not an apples-to-apples thing w/r/t how much a category (n) will do in NYC. According to the gov't:

Due to regional geography, hurricanes in New York City — though infrequent — can do more damage than hurricanes of similar strength in the southern United States.

trailer parks and barely bothering to rebuild is a hedge against more frequent storms down here

Hipsturricane Irene Moves Toward Brooklyn

Looks more like Sunday afternoon for NYC now.

I'm hoping the subways flood and we can't go to work on Monday, tbh.

This would likely make the remaining 3 days of my work week HELL, so no thanks.

i had had plans to go to citi field sunday!
god does not want me to see the mets, i guess
good lookin out, god

2004-2006 we lost a few days of class on this, the first week of school, thanks to goddamn hurricanes. They're ok as long as you don't lose power.

p sure there's cannibalism, brother-on-brother murder & summary execution of looters all scheduled for city field next week, jc

I'm sayin git now - GET OUT OF NYC!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/08/hurricane-irene-poised-to-slam-new-york-city-and-beyond.html

The ironically named Irene...

I dunt git it

mmm this is really fucking up my weekend plans. have to make a decision based on the % chance that metro north will be fucked up Monday morning.

I'm saying it now - GET OUT OF THE METRO!

Okay okay I'll make a safety/supplies list.

** I was going to post the old noize borad thread about what a noizer would need to survive the end times, but I've been looking for 10 minutes and I can't find it. :((( **

lol @ this from that latimes article -- 1st & earthquake yards to go

Monica Carrera
1st and earthquake...now a hurracaine....:/

I dunt git it

Irene (or Eirene) is the Greek goddess of peace

Im sayin git now -GOODNIGHT IRENE

I hope Tuesday's NY Post headline will be IRENE DONE

IRENE'D OVER

I hope it peters our completely before if hits the rustic shores of Maine but I fear there will be turtle blood on my back deck

So NYC people this might be helpful?

http://www.nyc.gov/html/oem/downloads/pdf/hurricane_map_english.pdf

I don't want to scare anyone. I feel like it's mostly going to be like a bad thunderstorm but just in case?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmabwQ8omFc

never link to that clip again

According to FEMA, my house is not in a flood zone, but it's pretty damn close. If I get out of this unscathed I'm going to bake a cake.

I get after tihs bitch pisses through town there will be another one right after - just like Jerry said

in puerto rico today
http://cdn1.sbnation.com/fan_shot_images/212036/HiPkB.jpg

what the

i hate it when sharks just cruise along in the fast lane

what the shit

three sharkpoolers inside

Cannot complete either of two lame jokes, the one involving Jets vs. Sharks the other involving waterskiing Fonzie

Peurto Rico in spanish means "Sharks swim in our highways"

"He also repeatedly warned New Yorkers: “Do not swim,” no matter how inviting it seems to dip into the water with the rip tides. It’s too dangerous, he said."

Bloomberg

"Gee that lethal riptide looks inviting!"

Before a previous hurricane didn't then-governor Mario Cuomo tell people something like "don't go out to look at it, it's not the dragon in a Chinese movie" or something like that?

Do not vote for the billionaire, no matter how inviting it seems to dip into his financial 'expertise'

I'm in a Zone C hurricane evac zone in brooklyn, but right across the street it's Zone B (worse).

stay on your side imo

What's funny is that is also the exact dividing line for gentrification in my part of willamsburg right now (across the street = 'luxury condos')

there must be a hurricaine drain in the middle

i mean maybe it's no coincidence-- the reason gentrif peters out here is because this is where the 5 and 6 story tenements with tons of rent-controlled family residents begin. Maybe it's also less hurricane vulnerable because of the same mass of stocky bldgs?

i dunno what the actual dif between zones is but it makes sense to build upscale condos on cheaper land for wider profit margins..

Higher elevation, I would think?? All the flood zone areas are low-lying.

yeah that's what i'd assume.. lower = more flood prone = less valuable = better target for developers

its all a conspiracy - the rich dont want to be bothered with evacuations

Um the problem is that the low-lying coastal areas are also "water view" material, so actually a ton of expensive high-rises/luxury converted lofts/lol yuppies kind of buildings get built on them.

yeah its the rich kidz who will be evacuating sooner than the dominican families per the zones, sorry if i gave the opposite impression

The NFIP amounts to a type of anti-environmental socialism. Scott Faber of American Rivers, a conservation organization, observed, “Prior to the 1960s, you didn’t have much development in flood-prone areas because you couldn’t find any insurer crazy enough to underwrite it. But the federal government came along and said it is okay—we are going to make it financially possible for you to live in a flood plain. The effect of this has been much more dramatic in coastal areas, where we have seen a huge boom in coastal development in the last 30 years.”5

The primary effect of federal flood insurance is that far more property is now damaged by floods than would have occurred if the insurance had not made it possible to build in flood-prone areas.The Long Island Regional Planning Board in 1989 complained that federal flood insurance “in effect encourages a cycle of repeated flood losses and policy claims.”6 And, especially in places like Long Island, the program underwrites the vacation homes of the wealthy.

Consider the experience of Topsail Island, a 26-mile island off the North Carolina coast right in the middle of “hurricane alley.” At a time when North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt was trying to discourage rebuilding on the island, FEMA came in and deluged the area with more than $100 million to rebuild private and public facilities after two hurricanes hit the island in 1996. In 1998, the island was hit by another hurricane—and FEMA rushed in to spend another $10 million to repair things. The 1998 damage was greater than it otherwise would have been because FEMA had extended the sewer system after the previous hurricane, thus opening the door to new development.7 Federal relief spending over a three-year period amounted to more than $10,000 for each permanent resident on the island.8 “The original development wasn’t sound, and now for the third time in three years, we’re going to have to come in and provide assistance. There’s very little common sense,’’ observed Kevin Moody of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.9 FEMA paid almost the entire cost of rebuilding local government buildings and infrastructure, and federal flood insurance paid the large majority of the cost of rebuilding private homes. The News and Observer in Raleigh noted that “the taxpayer-financed (FEMA) bailout [after the preceding hurricane] has reimbursed resort towns for just about any piece of public property that blew away in the storm. . . . (It) has undermined years of efforts to discourage unwise development.”10

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/uncle-sams-flood-machine/

its been insanity for years but what can they do now just say "forget it"