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

[Alex Rubenstein <alex () corp nac net>]

Yeah, I was going to respond to the original post but can't find it.

The statement made by Mr. Wallace borders on insulting. The devastation in my county alone is something I have never 
seen. Thousands of houses destroyed, tens of thousands displaced. Businesses completely wiped out. A major thoroughfare 
(intersate 287 in Parsippany / Boonton) washed away:

http://photos.nj.com/4504/gallery/part_of_287_north_collapses_after_hurricane_irene_/index.html

This is major connector carrying tens of thousands of cars per day. The impact will be very severe to our region.

NJ power company JCPL, which only covers a small part of the state, has 380,000 customers affected. There are wires 
burning peoples yards and houses down. 

So, if a normal day of living in Scotland means floods, people dying, freeways disappearing, mandatory evacuations, and 
everything else that I have dealt with in the last 48 hours, thank god I am not there.

Check out the level recently, versus the "record" in 1979:
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=phi&gage=bonn4&view=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0

The main reason for the impact was because we had already had one of the wettest months of August on record. 

Give me a couple days, I will have some photos and movies up.






> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Graydon [mailto:paul () paulgraydon co uk]
> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 3:10 PM
> To: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: New Natural Disaster! 8/27/2011 Hurricane Irene
>
> On 8/28/2011 6:01 AM, andrew.wallace 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...
> > Andrew
> I'm sure the rest of the East Coast will be particularly appreciative of that
> sentiment whilst they deal with billions of dollars of damage from the wake of
> Irene.