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RE: New Natural Disaster! 8/27/2011 Hurricane Irene
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Mon Aug 29 14:35:07 2011
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@corp.nac.net>
To: Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:33:25 -0400
In-Reply-To: <4E5A928F.6070100@paulgraydon.co.uk>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Yeah, I was going to respond to the original post but can't find it.
The statement made by Mr. Wallace borders on insulting. The devastation in =
my county alone is something I have never seen. Thousands of houses destroy=
ed, tens of thousands displaced. Businesses completely wiped out. A major t=
horoughfare (intersate 287 in Parsippany / Boonton) washed away:
http://photos.nj.com/4504/gallery/part_of_287_north_collapses_after_hurrica=
ne_irene_/index.html
This is major connector carrying tens of thousands of cars per day. The imp=
act will be very severe to our region.
NJ power company JCPL, which only covers a small part of the state, has 380=
,000 customers affected. There are wires burning peoples yards and houses d=
own.=20
So, if a normal day of living in Scotland means floods, people dying, freew=
ays disappearing, mandatory evacuations, and everything else that I have de=
alt with in the last 48 hours, thank god I am not there.
Check out the level recently, versus the "record" in 1979:
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=3Dphi&gage=3Dbonn4&view=
=3D1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0
The main reason for the impact was because we had already had one of the we=
ttest months of August on record.=20
Give me a couple days, I will have some photos and movies up.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Graydon [mailto:paul@paulgraydon.co.uk]
> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 3:10 PM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: New Natural Disaster! 8/27/2011 Hurricane Irene
>=20
> On 8/28/2011 6:01 AM, andrew.wallace 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.=
..
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> I'm sure the rest of the East Coast will be particularly appreciative of =
that
> sentiment whilst they deal with billions of dollars of damage from the wa=
ke of
> Irene.
