Please don’t be upset that this storm hasn’t lived up to its hype in your area. 30 people are dead and millions without electric/gas/drinking water. Count your blessings that you prepared for the worst case scenario and recieved the best case scenario.
If you wish to be in the thick of the disaster, then hop in the car and go help out downstate. They need it.
It’s amazing how many people I’ve heard bitch about not getting hit today and I’m not just speaking about nyspeed either.
Keep in mind this is all with respect to WNY but…
Its not people bitching about not being hit… Its people bitching about inaccurate/incomplete/misleading/hasty (whatever you want to interpret it as) information. Its a reaction to an overreaction. For every newscast that advised western new yorkers to stock up on supplies and generators, there should have been an equally broadcasted disclaimer that this could just turn out to be a quick overnight thing. If people want to want to waste their time and money preparing for every questionable event mother nature throws at us, by all means but all the current complainers are doing are reacting to an overreaction.
I look at it the other way… theres millions of kids in NYC right now that should be in classes right now that cant be, whereas we have kids in Buffalo that could be in classes but arent because of what?
You can thank the Katrina “victims” for all of the pre-hype.
This. Over reaction causing kids to get days off for no reason today. Same thing happened with a snow storm the other year. Why does anyone get off (school) a day or 2 before something actually goes down? Why are they not doing like they did for me and the rest of us growing up, letting us know at 5am that school is cancelled. They used to wait till the last second to cancel school for snow, but found that streets got plowed and weather changed in a matter of 2 hours before buses would head out. 2 hours is plenty enough time for things to change and things to be corrected.
Considering this system did have all the makings for “the perfect storm”, you really can’t blame them that as soon as the system hit land, it basically fell apart. They were right on for when the system hit land ny NYC/NJ, but after that is when it dropped in size and destruction.
Cant blame them? From my understanding, the way a Hurricane works… the warmer weather means the longer it lasts/more power it can potentially gain. It moved into a cold mass/met up with a cold front… I’m not weather man, but I’d figure the two would clash and cause the Hurricane to drastically decline in power.
Again, thats my guess… I didnt go to school for this.
PS…
That’s a picture of Lake Erie in Cleveland. This storm is living up to the hype a long ways from NYC and NJ.
No school for the kiddies makes the drive home a little bit easier. Also quieter at work for me.
I am no weatherman either, but the barometric pressure had reached the lowest it ever has on this coast. NYC took all of this storm and more. NC hills and WV are still getting pummled with snow…You honestly can’t blame them for giving out warnings to people. It’s not like they issued evactuations for Buffalo guys. They gave just enough warning that if something did happen, they could say they had everything in place.
I’m not talking about any other place but Buffalo. Why are schools cancelled today? lol Thats my whole argument. Why did they cancel before actually seeing the destruction of the storm? We never did that when I was in school. It was a find out first thing.
Lets take several things into account. 1 - it was a category 1 hurricane over 400 miles from Buffalo. 2 - what type of weather do we see in Buffalo. (wind, snow, Rain)
We have windmills creating power for a reason, because we are known to get constant winds and winds that can reach 30+ mph. It was 90 mph at the shore with 400+ miles to go, clearly it wasnt going to stay 90mph winds, and we’ve delt with all the weather we got last night several times over. Our area over hyped the whole thing.
:word: By the time schools got canceled last night it was pretty obvious WNY wasn’t getting any horrible weather.
Yammy, you always make the worst counter-arguments. I appreciate you for it.
Actually about 100 people died.
I can’t argue with you on the school closings, that just blows my mind. I guess they just thought with the winds we were having last night that things would be bad. Deebo, where are you getting 100 from? Most I saw was 29?
1 day of school closures is NOT the end of the world. Get over it. Weather predictions are not an exact science.
"Much of New York City remained shut down Tuesday in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, a rare, powerful storm that killed at least 30 people in seven states and knocked out power for an estimated 7.4 million customers.
The storm killed 69 people in the Caribbean before hitting the United States, where it left many coastal communities under water."
The article was later updated to 33 people killed in U.S
I just don’t get how people can say they over-hyped it. What do you want them to do, shrug it off and when we do get blasted say it was a mistake? You are talking about lives here. Better to be cautious than to be wreckless IMO
It was how the closing was carried out… Its part of this cover your ass pussification of this country. Because heaven forbid youre the one superintendent who uses good judgement and leaves his school open when everyone else is closing, and a kid does get blown over and hurts his pinkey. They could have waited till the morning. I think im just bitter because these lazy tenured teachers already get paid to sit on their ass enough lol.
There is no point. It’s 1 day of school. 1. Not a month. Not a week. A day. A single insignificant day.
Get over it.