Typical of government and their henchmen to hype a hurricane all out of reality.

The officious officials could access the Internet just like I can and they could see the REAL wind strength of Irene at all time yet, THEY CONSTANTLY exaggerated it by two categories.

Irene was a category 2 when it struck and wiped out Lovely Bay. There was a nice large eye about 25 miles in diameter that went right over the bay. Soon thereafter, they eye closed and it never opened again, zip, zero, nada. Yet the officious officials CHOSE to frighten hapless citizens by over-rating this category one hurricane which is all it amounted by the time it got to Eleuthera. It was a cat one only with no visible eye when it passed over Abaco Island. Wind velocity instrument dropped into the top of the storm around that time showed upper level winds to be in the 120 mph range with sustain winds at ground level to be 85mph max. Big ****ing deal.

And, they kept hyping it - saying it would likely turn into a cat 3 by the time it made landfall in North Carolina. WRONG!!! It got weaker. It was barely a cat 1 when it made landfall. There was no eye and the core was lopsided and ragged due it dry air sucked in from the west entrained. The outflow was visible thinner and less even than when over the Abacos.

LIARS to frighten people as fearful people are easier to herd like so many cattle and that's what the government deems is it's function these days. To act as the brain to the brain-dead masses. Sad.


Wilbur Hubbard

On Aug 28, 4:28*pm, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:
Typical of government and their henchmen to hype a hurricane all out of reality.

The officious officials could access the Internet just like I can and they could see the REAL wind strength of Irene at all time yet, THEY CONSTANTLY exaggerated it by two categories.

Irene was a category 2 when it struck and wiped out Lovely Bay. There was a nice large eye about 25 miles in diameter that went right over the bay. Soon thereafter, they eye closed and it never opened again, zip, zero, nada.. Yet the officious officials CHOSE to frighten hapless citizens by over-rating this category one hurricane which is all it amounted by the time it got to Eleuthera. It was a cat one only with no visible eye when it passed over Abaco Island. Wind velocity instrument dropped into the top of the storm around that time showed upper level winds to be in the 120 mph range with sustain winds at ground level to be 85mph max. Big ****ing deal.

And, they kept hyping it - saying it would likely turn into a cat 3 by the time it made landfall in North Carolina. WRONG!!! It got weaker. It was barely a cat 1 when it made landfall. There was no eye and the core was lopsided and ragged due it dry air sucked in from the west entrained. *The outflow was visible thinner and less even than when over the Abacos.

LIARS to frighten people as fearful people are easier to herd like so many cattle and that's what the government deems is it's function these days. To act as the brain to the brain-dead masses. Sad.

Wilbur Hubbard

"Irene - the lightweight of the year"

Just be glad it was. But still... 9 dead from the storm.

Just be glad it was. But still... 9 dead from the storm.

correction -18 deaths attributed to Irene, so far.

On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:45:44 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:


Just be glad it was. But still... 9 dead from the storm.

correction -18 deaths attributed to Irene, so far.

Yes but some of the attributions are a bit of a stretch in my opinion.
If you have a heart attack or accident while shopping for a generator
or while nailing up plywood is that the fault of the storm? (not real
examples but some are similar)

Wilbur of course is whistling past the graveyard since he is living
much of the time aboard a 20 something boat in the Florida Keys, not
exactly a low risk area.

Damage in the Bahamas was not trivial although the Exumas faired
better than I would have expected.

http://www.tribune242.com/08242011_acklins_news

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/08/2...ane-watch.html.

"Wayne B" wrote in message ...
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:45:44 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:


Just be glad it was. But still... 9 dead from the storm.

correction -18 deaths attributed to Irene, so far.

Yes but some of the attributions are a bit of a stretch in my opinion.
If you have a heart attack or accident while shopping for a generator
or while nailing up plywood is that the fault of the storm? (not real
examples but some are similar)


Excellent point about the deaths. Most of them are due to human stupidity or human infirmity and probably would have happened anyway even if there was no hurricane. People who die because they drown in a flash flood, for example. Did they die because of the hurricane or did they die because they never learned not to drive their cars across swollen rivers? It doesn't take a hurricane to overflow a river as they overflow regularly in normal wet weather patterns. Or did they die because they couldn't swim or had a weak heart and were the typical, out of shape couch potato?

Just like every patch of clouds in the Atlantic or Gulf this year has been called a tropical storm to pad the record and hype things up so do most of the deaths that occur durning a hurricane but really have little or nothing to do with the hurricane suffer from the hype factor.

If the electricity goes out in a nursing home and some ancient person dies because his oxygen pump stopped working should that be blamed on the hurricane or should it be called an inevitable death from infirmity and old age? Some idiot is out walking under the trees when the wind is blowing 60mph and gets crushed by a big branch that fell on him (the first death in N.C.). Is that a hurricane death or a Darwin Award death that could just as easily happened during a thunder storm?


Wilbur Hubbard

"Wayne B" wrote in message ...
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:45:44 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:


Just be glad it was. But still... 9 dead from the storm.

correction -18 deaths attributed to Irene, so far.

Yes but some of the attributions are a bit of a stretch in my opinion.
If you have a heart attack or accident while shopping for a generator
or while nailing up plywood is that the fault of the storm? (not real
examples but some are similar)


Excellent point about the deaths. Most of them are due to human stupidity or human infirmity and probably would have happened anyway even if there was no hurricane. People who die because they drown in a flash flood, for example. Did they die because of the hurricane or did they die because they never learned not to drive their cars across swollen rivers? It doesn't take a hurricane to overflow a river as they overflow regularly in normal wet weather patterns. Or did they die because they couldn't swim or had a weak heart and were the typical, out of shape couch potato?

Just like every patch of clouds in the Atlantic or Gulf this year has been called a tropical storm to pad the record and hype things up so do most of the deaths that occur during a hurricane but really have little or nothing to do with the hurricane suffer from the hype factor.

If the electricity goes out in a nursing home and some ancient person dies because his oxygen pump stopped working should that be blamed on the hurricane or should it be called an inevitable death from infirmity and old age? Some idiot is out walking under the trees when the wind is blowing 60mph and gets crushed by a big branch that fell on him (the first death in N.C.). Is that a hurricane death or a Darwin Award death that could just as easily happened during a thunder storm?


Wilbur Hubbard

On Aug 29, 8:04*am, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:
Some idiot is out walking under the trees when the wind is blowing
60mph and gets crushed by a big branch that fell on him (the first
death in N.C.). Is that a hurricane death or a Darwin Award death that
could just as easily happened during a thunder storm?

Wilbur Hubbard

that's a fair analogy

"WaIIy" wrote in message ...
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:04:43 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

"Wayne B" wrote in message ...
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:45:44 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:


Just be glad it was. But still... 9 dead from the storm.

correction -18 deaths attributed to Irene, so far.

Yes but some of the attributions are a bit of a stretch in my opinion.
If you have a heart attack or accident while shopping for a generator
or while nailing up plywood is that the fault of the storm? (not real
examples but some are similar)


Excellent point about the deaths. Most of them are due to human stupidity or human infirmity and probably would have happened anyway even if there was no hurricane. People who die because they drown in a flash flood, for example. Did they die because of the hurricane or did they die because they never learned not to drive their cars across swollen rivers? It doesn't take a hurricane to overflow a river as they overflow regularly in normal wet weather patterns. Or did they die because they couldn't swim or had a weak heart and were the typical, out of shape couch potato?

Just like every patch of clouds in the Atlantic or Gulf this year has been called a tropical storm to pad the record and hype things up so do most of the deaths that occur during a hurricane but really have little or nothing to do with the hurricane suffer from the hype factor.

If the electricity goes out in a nursing home and some ancient person dies because his oxygen pump stopped working should that be blamed on the hurricane or should it be called an inevitable death from infirmity and old age? Some idiot is out walking under the trees when the wind is blowing 60mph and gets crushed by a big branch that fell on him (the first death in N.C.). Is that a hurricane death or a Darwin Award death that could just as easily happened during a thunder storm?


Wilbur Hubbard


Set your line break to 72 or less, genius.



I'm using UTF-8 encoding, dude. I'll switch to MIME instead of uuencode - that should make it so your limited client can format the text properly.

--
Gregory Hall

On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:27:08 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

"Irene - the lightweight of the year"

Just be glad it was. But still... 9 dead from the storm.

If you assume people live to an average age of 75 and divide 350 000
000 by 75 and then by 365 you get a daily death rate of a bit more
than 12 000 per day.

Casady

On Aug 30, 9:09*am, Richard Casady
wrote:
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:27:08 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

"Irene - the lightweight of the year"

Just be glad it was. But still... 9 dead from the storm.

If you assume people live to an average age of 75 and divide 350 000
000 by 75 and then by 365 you get a daily death rate of a bit more
than 12 000 per day.

Casady

True, but not all attributed to the storm.