Just the possibilty of Mitt Romney becomming president is enough to anger the weather gods...
I've just emailed a couple of people I 'know' in the area wishing them all the best. I suspect that the Frankenstorm won't be quite as bad as it is forecast to be, but all of that rain will still be destructive.
for some reason, because it's about to hit new york, it's suddenly an international event that the world has to take notice of. i've just watched a 3 minute bbc weather report on the thing - a percentage of the license fee that we'll never see back.
don't recall anyone being that bothered when it caused havoc through haiti and cuba.
But they were poor brown people...
i've just watched a 3 minute bbc weather report on the thing - a percentage of the license fee that we'll never see back.
Why, for flips sake, is that a problem? Do you have nothing better to moan about? Sheeshhhhh.
FWIW I love weather watching, and I've been acticaly looking for news on this subject. I do feel for the Yanks as well, wouldn't wish this on anyone.....
Oh, and in a week or two, I imagine we'll get some pretty nasty weather too, we generally get the tail end of anything that hits the USA
I think the storm will expend itself over the NE USA, but there may be a vigorous atlantic depression arriving over the UK for next weekend.
Why, for flips sake, is that a problem? Do you have nothing better to moan about? Sheeshhhhh.
no, i'm questioning why i need to be told about what's happening in the u.s - it has nothing to do with me at all and i don't want valuable resources wasted on it.
have you got nothing better to moan about than people making perfectly valid but ultimately pointless statements on the internet ? Sheeshhhhh.
no, i'm questioning why i need to be told about what's happening in the u.s - it has nothing to do with me at all and i don't want valuable resources wasted on it.
You don't get out much, do you?
I'd rather hear about the storm than the BBC hair-shirting itself over Jimmy Saville.
no, i'm questioning why i need to be told about what's happening in the u.s - it has nothing to do with me at all and i don't want valuable resources wasted on it.
yeah the Americans share your attitude and are quite heavily criticised for it
It's news because of the severity of the storm and the fact it's likely to hit NY. Shutting down all the public transport systems of one of the world's major cities is certainly news worthy.
For the Caribbean, Florida, Carolina's this is reasonably common, in around NY much less so.
The big storms further South often make their way over to us, will be interesting to see how this develops.
You don't get out much, do you?
yeah actually. i am able to think about stuff and get out occasionally.
but i do understand if you have to choose one or the other.
You can't deny it is messed up that it hardly gets mentioned when it kills a load of people in the Carribean but gets constant coverage before it has even hit the USA.
My 15 year old daughter is in New York on a school trip. I'm not keen on these long haul supposedly educational jollies, but got bullied by her into letting her go.
Bet she wishes she was back in sunny Cardiff. I know I do ! !
it has nothing to do with me at all and i don't want valuable resources wasted on it.
So WHY THE HELL do do you ever watch ANY news? 90% if it is 'nothing to do with you' is it?
And what 'Valuable resource' are you droning on about? Coal? Oil? Gas?
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3 minutes on the TV. Hardly killing polar bears is it? You've now spent more effort moaning about it than you could have spent doing something about it - i.e. Pressing the 'off' button.
My 15 year old daughter is in New York on a school trip.
Changed days.
I don't remember a school trip that was more than 30 miles away from my school.
"no, i'm questioning why i need to be told about what's happening in the u.s"
It's closed Wall Street the world's largest fincancial centre ... that's pretty big news really
trailmonkey - isn't NY one of the biggest financial centres in the world?
Fairly newsworthy I'd have thought.
It was on the news when it hit Jamaica. Now it has intensified, it's hooking up with some cold fronts to make matters worse, and it's going to hit one of the most crowded urban and heavily populated coastlines in the worldincluding one of the biggest and most economically important cities in the world and several others on my a day it less significant.
So from a logistical point of view it is a huge challenge, I think this is why it is occupying more news time than when it hit Jamaica.
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Dramatic anything happening to a big city is interesting, regardless of where it is. Though I noticed nobody's being too shy about getting in with the 9/11 references...
Hope someone can plot out exactly what affected areas are republican and democrat and find out who Gaaaaahd is angry at.
[url= http://news.sky.com/story/1004013/hurricane-sandy-ny-braces-for-wall-of-water ]I think it's fascinating[/url].
They think Manhattan could get hit with up to 11 feet of water from the storm surge. Hundreds of thousands have been told to evacuate and they've shut down the New York Stock Exchange. As storms go I'd say this one is pretty newsworthy!