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Author Topic: Hurricane Irene: Bracing for Impact? Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-29-2011 09:14 AM                        Things weren't so bad here. We got rain and wind. Lots of basements got flooded, and some trees and limbs fell. My power, DSL, and telephone service had no issues (my lines are all underground, not on poles). Some weird contradictions: Lots of television reporters drove out to the coastline to do live reports to tell people to stay home and avoid being near the coast. The governor told people not to drive, yet eliminated tolls on the Massachusetts Turnpike for the day. Also, the MBTA (public transportation authority, mostly providing bus, subway, and train service) shut down, potentially forcing people who needed to go somewhere to use more dangerous means of transport. Logan Airport stayed open, but had no inbound or outbound flights.  |  IP: Logged Jeff Kane Film Handler Posts: 74 From: corpus christi, tx Registered: Jun 2011 posted 08-29-2011 11:29 AM                     ..and Jim Cantore running around looking for disaster. He's been down here a few times. Thankfully, every time he shows, the storm seems to be a no-show. Well, y'all sent us snow in 2004, so it's the least we can do to return the favor.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-29-2011 12:16 PM                        There was 24 wall-to-wall "news" coverage, most of which by 2am Sunday night consisted of an ABC news van driving around in the rain and inane commentary by the two half-asleep anchors. I kept thinking, surely at some point these people are just going to simply run out of crap to say. Evidently not. At one point (and I REALLY wish I have taped this), the guy in the roving news van actually went nearly silent after saying in 2 billion billion different ways, that there was water in the street and that it was RAINING and WINDY, all the while trying say something ANYTHING that was even remotely interesting. He noted that, "Oh there is a police car on that corner. They are just parked there as it is too windy for them to cruise." Then, to my utter amazement this guy actually said, "And I can see a paper cup floating by in the water." It think he meant to show that the water was deep enough for debris to float by, but it sounded so pathetic as to make me laugh out loud. They almost seemed to be disappointed when the storm began to diminish. When it was downgraded to a tropical storm and no longer the hurricane with 100mph distructive winds that they had been talking about incessantly for 12 hours straight, they were almost beside themselves to keep the drama pumped up. The woman anchor said, "Yes, it is a tropical storm now, but THE DANGER ISN'T OVER..." and then almost gleefully, "...tropical storms can cause TORNADOS!" her voice going up an octave on the word tornados. I think they really get off on this stuff. Now the make every storm sound like it's impending Armageddon. They were doing that all winter long with the snow storms as well....those "trecherous 'Nor'easters," which evidently are we are in such a rush to get away from that we have to drop out the "th"...take way to long to say North East. And I have also noticed they will call ANYTHING a nor'easter. One winter storm last January was coming in from the south west and the weather guy still kept calling it a nor'easter. I guess it's just not as scary if you just call it a freakin snow storm. I say send all weather people to Syberia.  |  IP: Logged Alan Plester Expert Film Handler Posts: 209 From: great yarmouth england Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-29-2011 03:15 PM                     I cant begin to think what some of you may/will go through at work or your home, my thoughts are with you  |  IP: Logged

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