Re: New Natural Disaster! 8/27/2011 Hurricane Irene

[Joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On 8/28/11 12:29 , John Levine wrote:
> > It looks like the DHS, FEMA got this emergency wrong... by the time
> > it got to NYC it was the equivalent of a normal day in Scotland. I
> > live in Scotland...

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/actualmonthly/

22.5cm seems to be the max for the month of august. some locations on
the eastern seaboard got close that in about 5 hours.

> I've been to Scotland, and I don't recall this being a daily
> occurrence even in the Highlands:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtaphotos/6089986106/in/photostream
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtaphotos/6088662319/in/photostream
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtaphotos/6088640941/in/photostream
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtaphotos/6089062244/in/photostream/
>
> R's,
> John