On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 09:01:45 PDT, "andrew.wallace" said: > 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 doubt you actually have the sort of flooding Vermont is seeing as a normal day. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44305129/ns/weather/ NYC got 8 inches of rain. Call that 20cm. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/08/hurricane-irene-august-wettest-month-new-york-city.php The *total* average rainfall for Glasgow for June, July, August, and September *combined* is 19.75cm. But yeah, you see that sort of rain as a "normal day". http://weather.uk.msn.com/monthly_averages.aspx?wealocations=wc:UKXX0061 Now admittedly, Glasgow and company had a spell of heavy rain earlier this month: http://news.stv.tv/scotland/265795-road-and-rail-chaos-as-heavy-rain-batters-scotland/ But the 60mm (2.3 inches) was reported as one of the heaviest 24-hour rains since they started keeping records in Glasgow. And what NYC got was almost 4 times as much. 41 dead, 5.1M houses still without power, flooding and downed trees all over the place. I'm pretty sure that's not a normal day in Scotland.
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