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Hurricane Irene Prompts Unprecedented Evacuation of NYC
oxide7 links this bit of sobering news, as reported by the International Business Times: "For the first time, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has ordered a mandatory evacuation of 300,000 residents of the cities coastal areas as Hurricane Irene barrels up the East Coast. Buses and subways prepared to shut on Saturday as Hurricane Irene approaches as well. All New Jersey rail service will be suspended from noon Saturday, while the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) will institute a shutdown of trains and buses starting at the same time. The suspension will include subways, buses, the Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North Railroad and Access-A-Ride. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will suspend PATH train service at noon as well. 'This is a mandatory evacuation,' Bloomberg said. 'By five o'clock tomorrow you have to be out. Waiting for the last minute is not a smart thing to do. This is life threatening.'" Good luck to everyone in the storm's path: Irene is big. (Hat tip to Matt Lord.) What, if anything, are you doing to prepare? Having spent more than an hour in worse-than-usual D.C. traffic after Tuesday's earthquake, I shudder to think of leaving New York in a rush. Update: 08/27 06:43 GMT by T : An anonymous reader points out the official evacuation map (PDF), on the swamped NYC server, and suggests "Lets mirror this file anywhere we can ... put it on all social media. Make these systems do what they were supposed to — help us. I'm in Long Island City ~100 yards from the East River in the orange (highest risk) area."
They don't actually do that in Texas.
Now, panicked limousine liberals might have their hired armed security dudes do that for them, though.
Oh come on! Let's just say what everyone else knows. No one has, so I'll just say it. It's political, period. Pure and simple. We have DC and NY along with other eastern coast cities that generally vote Democrat. And guess the types of media that is in the tank for them? Wild guess anyone? This is nothing more than a hype so at the end of the day, the politicians come out as heros for putting their own neck on the line and getting their hands dirty.
If we can ride out Ike, i'm sure the rest of you should have less trouble with Irene. Good luck, and be safe.
Life is not for the lazy.
LOL. It's political in the sense that it would be fucking politically unsavory to let a huge financial center get washed away. Remember when Bush ignored Katrina and let a major hurricane hit a city that was below sea level without even a mandatory evacuation? And remember how that didn't play over well politically? That's what they're trying to avoid here.
What kind of media? I don't know, the Pat Robertson media that blamed America for the earthquake damaging the Washington Monument? Fox News, which dominates the cable news industry but likes to complain about the liberal media? The Republican-run media, which somehow had everyone convinced that they were the underdogs facing off against the liberal media even though they had three branches of the government for eight years? LOL. Sarah Palin? Who complains about the liberal media even as she expresses her pain for the events of 9/11 even as she says that those who died weren't really Americans because they were East Coast elites?
Yeah, I have no fucking clue what you're saying, either.
A NYC lawyer blogs. http://www.chuangblog.com/
Earthquakes, hurricanes. It is abundantly clear god has chosen sides in the New York gay marriage debate.
I'm no scientist, but I'm fairly certain both the epicenter of said earthquake, and the projected landfall of Hurricane Irene, are both in red states.
OTOH, NYC is about 100 years overdue for an enema.
Good time to flush that self-hating jew Bloomberg. He kisses the Muslim ass that would happily cut his head off.