BTW...one more hurricane thought.
The media has pretty much adopted the name "Superstorm Sandy" instead of Hurricane Sandy or as is the case now, Tropical Storm Sandy. The NWS has some fancy name for it at this point now that it no longer is packing 75 mph sustained winds...post tropical cyclone...whoopdeedoo. But anyway...the North Eastern snobs can't have a hurricane or a tropical storm, no. They have to have a SUPERSTORM! I added the exclamation point in honor of the new and improved BO campaign theme of FORWARD!
What incredible snobs. They get what amounts to a garden variety Cat 1 hurricane with a bonus amount of rain and it's a SUPERSTORM! You would think that they were being clobbered with a thirty or forty foot storm surge accompanied by tornados but no...they have an 11 to 13 foot storm surge and it's the storm of the millennia or something.
These people are going to piss and moan about having to go without power for a few days like it's the end of the world or something. When the gulf coast gets the crap pounded out of it by 150+mph sustained winds the people down there just deal with it. Well, except for New Orleans which goes into full looting and dependency mode. Everywhere else they just pick up the pieces and move on without much bitching at all.
Not that I don't sympathize with those who's homes have flooded or otherwise totally ruined...I do. BUT, this nonsense about this being a SUPERSTORM! is just overwrought hype driven by a narcissistic/self absorbed NE media. It's all about them. The rest of the country (where they have real storms) is nothing to them. Fly over country. So they have to have a SUPERSTORM! because, hey, New York...ordinary rules just don't apply to the elites.