hurricane coming...

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"

it could be phased out but the only people who stand to benefit are "all taxpayers" and there are plenty of special interests who count on the NFIP so no that will never ever happen. The insanity will continue, and I'll keep drinking coldbeers on Topsail Island in hot tubs newer than the last hurricane.

Considering that my street in Hoboken was under a foot of water a couple weeks ago from a fairly average storm, I'm not looking forward to this.

they should end the program right this second to avoid hurricaine Irenes catgina attack!

Kind of psyched about the chance to build a coracle...

Oh why couldn't it have been real ;_;

http://www.mediaite.com/online/wait-is-that-really-a-shark-swimming-in-a-puerto-rican-street/

Kind of psyched about the chance to build a coracle...

Was thinking about buying a large plastic wash-tub or an inflatable children's pool before the stores sell out.

Looks like no way the Carolinas or the northeast coast will avoid a hit. Good luck, guys!

have fun in florida!

why does weather.com still only have an 80$ chance of rain on sunday if apparently I'm gonna die in a hurricane

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still undecided if i'm going to camp out this weekend with my parents inland in central NJ ... or stick it out in Hoboken so close to the Hudson River (and hoping that there's enough space left in one of the municipal garages so that my car doesn't get fucked up by water or flying debris).

are your folks that bad?

god just doesn't want you to have a car

haha ... no. it's more that they're not really safe from flooding either (they're about a mile from the Raritan River and their part of the state gets hit hard by flooding on a regular basis).

more accurately, they live on a hill so their house doesn't get flooded out (and they have a good sump-pump system in the basement). but when the river floods they are essentially living on an island surrounded by a moat ... which could make getting home a problem.

this shit just keeps moving farther westard, looks like my hometown of binghamton might get as much of an impact as i will at school now!

we're gonna get fucking SLAMMED.