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:p...@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.
