[144041] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Natural Disaster! 8/27/2011 Hurricane Irene
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel jaeggli)
Sun Aug 28 15:42:57 2011
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:42:16 -0700
From: Joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110828192934.66866.qmail@joyce.lan>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 8/28/11 12:29 , John Levine 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...
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/actualmonthly/
22.5cm seems to be the max for the month of august. some locations on
the eastern seaboard got close that in about 5 hours.
> I've been to Scotland, and I don't recall this being a daily
> occurrence even in the Highlands:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtaphotos/6089986106/in/photostream
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtaphotos/6088662319/in/photostream
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtaphotos/6088640941/in/photostream
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtaphotos/6089062244/in/photostream/
>
> R's,
> John
>
