Jay Miller
Jay Miller
Mandatory evacuation for first floor dwellers only so it looks like I'm staying put.
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Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
My neighbor tells me that the 'mandatory' evacuation is actually still voluntary. It just means that emergency crews will not come look for you.originally posted by Jay Miller:
Mandatory evacuation for first floor dwellers only so it looks like I'm staying put.
Well, rats and roaches are pesky critters, but in Puerto Rico this week they had bigger problems.originally posted by VLM:
what is really going to suck is when everything floods, the rats will be everywhere. There won't be anywhere to hide, they're heading for higher ground just like you and can swim. Oh yeah, and roaches.
{thanks, LL)
I was in DC Friday-Saturday helping my daughter move back into her dorm. Flights all cancelled and no hope of flying out until Tuesday evening. Rented a Nissan Altima yesterday afternoon and played race the hurricane back to Boston, arriving in one piece around 7 AM this morning. Good times. Hope y'all are high and dry in NYC.
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
Everything is whole and dry here. Lots of leaves and twigs on the ground, but no flooding, no broken windows, no down trees, no alien invasion, no rapture. Just dull, dull, dull.
Time to break out the rest of that Foillard and Foreau.
Time to break out the rest of that Foillard and Foreau.
I heard an interview with the guy who founded The Weather Channel whilst driving over the Hudson at about 3:30 this AM. His contention was that all the news outlets, including TWC, were way overcalling this and it was basically going to amount to a lot of rain and beach erosion but fall short of Armageddon.
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
Sure. A well-known effect: they've got 24 hours of air-time to fill and there's never that much to say, so they do special reports on how awful it could be and how awful it was 50 years ago. Blah, blah, blah.originally posted by Dan McQ:
I heard an interview with the guy who founded The Weather Channel whilst driving over the Hudson at about 3:30 this AM. His contention was that all the news outlets, including TWC, were way overcalling this and it was basically going to amount to a lot of rain and beach erosion but fall short of Armageddon.
Fairly coarse spatial resolution? Dunno. They understate the problems on the West Side, too.originally posted by Cliff:
I get thatBut why does the National Hurricane Center map of storm surge possibilities show a 90% chance that parts of 5th Ave would be under water? Is this a graphic design problem? Am I reading this thing wrong?
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As one who regularly gets sick of NY and DC mediacentrism, it was telling to me that the national coverage seemed at least equal if not more than the lead up to Katrina...even the NYT couldn't help itself with a Sunday headline of "Hurricane Drives Toward New York with Deadly Fury"...when it was clear that wasn't happening. Yesterday's headline on NYT online was about casualties beginning with an elderly gent who fell off his ladder while boarding up his windows, and had to go to the ER. I would be disgusted if I lived in NOLA.
My family and I flew out of Philadelphia last night at 9pm. The airport closed at 10pm. The first 10 minutes of the flight was a little too exciting.
Speaking of NOLA, it looked like the NYC hospitals learned a good lesson from Katrina. The evacuation of patients in NYC seemed to go quite smoothly from the reports I heard.
Speaking of NOLA, it looked like the NYC hospitals learned a good lesson from Katrina. The evacuation of patients in NYC seemed to go quite smoothly from the reports I heard.
Cole Kendall
Cole Kendall
Airlines canceled 9,000 flights along the East Coast, Amtrak stopped all trains from Boston south and Greyhound suspended bus service between Richmond and Boston for the rest of the weekend. Capital Bikeshare halted all bike rentals in the District.
Nicely done fake. The original shot can be found here.originally posted by SFJoe:
Small Favors
Well, rats and roaches are pesky critters, but in Puerto Rico this week they had bigger problems.
Well, it's only fair. VLM's rats were fake, too.originally posted by slaton:
Nicely done fake. The original shot can be found here.originally posted by SFJoe:
Small Favors
Well, rats and roaches are pesky critters, but in Puerto Rico this week they had bigger problems.
I actually got a lot of mileage out of the water moccasin story at a dinner party Friday.originally posted by SFJoe:
Well, it's only fair. VLM's rats were fake, too.originally posted by slaton:
Nicely done fake. The original shot can be found here.originally posted by SFJoe:
Small Favors
Well, rats and roaches are pesky critters, but in Puerto Rico this week they had bigger problems.
Good to see you the other night, btw.
"I am deeply disturbed by all the alarmist rhetoric these days. Turn on your television, and you’ll find it. Shouting. Chaos. Fear-mongering.
Fox? MSNBC? Amateurs!
I’m talking about the Weather Channel.
John the Baptist had nothing on these people. Only some of the people who heard him repented.
I repented eight times in the course of a single Weather Channe l broadcast. It was a mere half-hour into my first Weather Channel marathon that I had made a will, covered my house in plastic sheeting and started to hoard canned goods. ..."
Rest of column here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...come-on-irene/2011/08/26/gIQAEF4MgJ_blog.html
Fox? MSNBC? Amateurs!
I’m talking about the Weather Channel.
John the Baptist had nothing on these people. Only some of the people who heard him repented.
I repented eight times in the course of a single Weather Channe l broadcast. It was a mere half-hour into my first Weather Channel marathon that I had made a will, covered my house in plastic sheeting and started to hoard canned goods. ..."
Rest of column here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...come-on-irene/2011/08/26/gIQAEF4MgJ_blog.html
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
As Noam Chomsky says, the networks' business is to sell their viewers' attention. The more pinball machine-like the story, I guess, the more aggregate attention they have to sell.
As I've heard the narrative told, networks used to put up news programs as a kind of public service until realization dawned - with, I think, 60 Minutes - that news shows could also command ratings, and thus contribute to profits. Since then, news measured by the standard of responsible reporting has been largely crowded out by news measured by the standard of ratings draw.
The shift in CNN's approach to news was palpable after Fox slaughtered them in the ratings a couple of years running, with a program mix based on a fair amount of sensationalism and polemic.
What's the best news source these days for thoughtful viewers?
As I've heard the narrative told, networks used to put up news programs as a kind of public service until realization dawned - with, I think, 60 Minutes - that news shows could also command ratings, and thus contribute to profits. Since then, news measured by the standard of responsible reporting has been largely crowded out by news measured by the standard of ratings draw.
The shift in CNN's approach to news was palpable after Fox slaughtered them in the ratings a couple of years running, with a program mix based on a fair amount of sensationalism and polemic.
What's the best news source these days for thoughtful viewers?
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
What's the best news source these days for thoughtful viewers?
The live feed from the Wine Disorder webcam.
originally posted by maureen:
real insight by alexandra petri"I am deeply disturbed by all the alarmist rhetoric these days. Turn on your television, and you’ll find it. Shouting. Chaos. Fear-mongering.
Fox? MSNBC? Amateurs!
I’m talking about the Weather Channel.
John the Baptist had nothing on these people. Only some of the people who heard him repented.
I repented eight times in the course of a single Weather Channe l broadcast. It was a mere half-hour into my first Weather Channel marathon that I had made a will, covered my house in plastic sheeting and started to hoard canned goods. ..."
Rest of column here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...come-on-irene/2011/08/26/gIQAEF4MgJ_blog.html
Ha, Jim Cantore, harbinger of doom.
The people selling batteries and bottled water are happy with The Weather Channel.