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Unimaginable storm Sandy knocks out eastern seaboard
Okay, I’ll also mention that Saturday was the 27th, not the 29th. I missed that the first time through but caught it in one of the other comments.
I will point out just one of the many, many grammar problems a good proofreader would have caught and fixed before this otherwise decent article was posted: “World Train Center”
It was Monday 29 October, not Saturday as you state in your article.
Even media hype reaches Trains: “never before imagined.” Please. The 2nd most vulnerable city in the U.S. for a hurricane strike has always been New York City (#1 is New Orleans). And global warming has nothing to do with it because the Earth has been cooling for the last 10 years, not warming.
Okay, okay - those of us familiar with the lines involved can quibble about spelling and completeness, but the overall idea reflects the widespread damage done to services. Let’s cut the author a little slack, and perhaps the editors will have another look at the article and get the author to, ummmm, “punch it up” a bit (he grinned).
a reasonably competent 8th grader could have done a better job of proof-reading this article.
or maybe … the article came through very late and he gets fined if he picks up late at the day-care.
“Unimaginable storm Sandy hits eastern seaboard”. This storm was not unimaginable, it was as predictable as it was inevitable. Climate scientists have warned for decades of the dangers of increasing levels of carbon in the atmosphere.
“All forms of mass transport in the NY tri-state area began an orderly shutdown on Saturday, Oct. 28 at 7 pm.” All forms of mass transport will stage a highly disorderly reopening within the coming days, weeks, and months.
This clearly looks like the dirty work of the Sierra Club and their wacko supporters!
The route of this storm and its potential distructiveness was predicted days ahead of time by the National Weather Service and by the Weather Channel. Even local TV weather forecasters in Boston predicted what could happen. It has nothing to do with “Global warming” and “carbon levels”. There were 3 or 4 weather events which influenced “Sandy” and caused it to turn westward into NJ, to broaden out, and to strengthen. They were the wrong events at the wrong time. The storm would otherwise have turned east into the North Atlantic. The full moon on Mon night didn’t help since it influenced the very high tide.
There is a crazy kiwi aboard. Mother Nature and the Sierra Club are not synonymous.
Thanks for the comments from the peanut gallery in New Zealand. We’ll be sure to return the favor come the next tsunami.
Due to lack of connectivity problems, I dictated the overall text and a couple of minor transcription issues resulted. For those that doubt the severity of the storm, the tunnels in NYC have never been flooded like this which is NOT a minor issue. Devastation is everywhere. Try living without power, shelter, food etc for a couple of days.
If someone ever has any qualms that the promised effects of global warming were imaginary, I strongly suggest a deep examination of the devastation that occurred in the New York Tri-state area. Mother Nature and Hurricane Sandy left their calling cards.
Due to lack of connectivity problems, I dictated the overall text and a couple of minor transcription issues resulted. For those that doubt the severity of the storm, the tunnels in NYC have never been flooded like this which is NOT a minor issue. Devastation is everywhere. Try living without power, shelter, food etc for a couple of days.
If someone ever has any qualms that the promised effects of global warming were imaginary, I strongly suggest a deep examination of the devastation that occurred in the New York Tri-state area. Mother Nature and Hurricane Sandy left their calling cards.
Mr. Calisi, please do not fall into the “global warming” trap. A hurricane took a similar track through NJ in 1903, are we going to blame global warming for that one? Just because we have never have experienced it doesn’t mean it never happened. As a shore-line resident I can attest that houses built to the 100-year flood were undamaged or suffered minimal damage. If it was “unprecedented” how did they know the 100-year flood line? The flooding in other areas was the result of the fact that the storm hit during a new-moon tide, not the storm’s strength alone. In fact, the storm was downgraded from a hurricane prior to land fall and was not nearly as strong as most of the storms that have hit the east Coast in the past 100 years.
Just recently the global warming mafia has stated that Romans action of burning forests to make farmland contributed to global warming so maybe we should blame the Romans for Sandy. The fact that the scandal at the University of East Anglia has been swept under the rug and suppressed, I’m going to remain a skeptic. Yes the world is getting warmer, the receding ice sheet is what created the “Finger Lakes” region of your fair state, maybe you should protest that.
What happened was an odd combination of events none of which are tied to global warming. Please stick to reporting railroad-related issues and leave climate-change rhetoric to the “experts”.
October 29th was a Monday, not a Saturday. I think the author or a transcription error got both the day of the week and the date wrong and Sunday October 28th was probably intended as the evening that an “orderly shutdown” got underway. The storm struck the NY/NJ area on the evening of Monday, October 29th.