I survived Irene in my Rickety house for all who care.

[Crazyman93]

Slept until 3 too.

[Leo]

The gods owe me a goat and a calf.

[Snowbound Milk]

gj

[Croix]

i was in a balloon

[Pterrydactyl]

You know, from what I here, Irene was a pretty pussy storm.  I mean, the winds were nowhere near what us in the midwest walk to work in.  I mean, this year alone the Midwest has been hit by some bad-ass storms, and new-york gets hit with a category 1 hurricane and shits itself?

apparently the east coast is made of pussies.

[Croix]

east coast never gets hit with anything, then an earthquake and a hurricane within a week of each other?

[Leo]

east coast never gets hit with anything, then an earthquake and a hurricane within a week of each other?

lol at Croix thinking he experienced either an earthquake or a hurricane in the past month.

[Mia]

Virginia is pretty pathetic when it comes to snow.

[Croix]

east coast never gets hit with anything, then an earthquake and a hurricane within a week of each other?

lol at Kwaw thinking he experienced either an earthquake or a hurricane in the past month.

for the east coast, yeah I did.

[Brian]

i was so sad when i saw this post, i had such high hopes! also...you live in a house?...

[Pterrydactyl]

Lol snow.  Chicago is one of the few places on earth where even CRIMINALS stop commiting crimes when it snows, because theres that much fucking snow.

I mean, people dig out parking spaces and then MURDER people who steal them.

His lordship, Mayor Daley, even said:
" i tell people, if someone spends all that time digging their car out, do not drive in that spot. This is Chicago. Fair warning" .

[undiscoveredbum]

You know, from what I here, Irene was a pretty pussy storm.  I mean, the winds were nowhere near what us in the midwest walk to work in.  I mean, this year alone the Midwest has been hit by some bad-ass storms, and new-york gets hit with a category 1 hurricane and shits itself?

apparently the east coast is made of pussies.

It's still a hurricane you insufferable ass. And that part about the wind, not even touching that.

[Gibsonator21]

You know, from what I here, Irene was a pretty pussy storm.  I mean, the winds were nowhere near what us in the midwest walk to work in.  I mean, this year alone the Midwest has been hit by some bad-ass storms, and new-york gets hit with a category 1 hurricane and shits itself?

apparently the east coast is made of pussies.

I'm in New York, it was pretty pussy compared to the hype, but it was still pretty bad compared to what we're used to. We got a shitton of rain, it was pouring all day (it's rained harder, but never for that long). Winds weren't too bad, I only say two or three tree's taken down.

The reason it was so bad (at least in my area) is because we had a mudslide take out a garage, and every single body of water (stream, river, lake, whatever) is at a record height and still rising. The Hudson River is (or is supposed to get to) 9ft over the flood gates (or something?), which are are 20ft, so it's rising nearly 30ft. There's a couple small dam's that have given out, and there's at least one more threatening an entire town.

[Pterrydactyl]

You know, from what I here, Irene was a pretty pussy storm.  I mean, the winds were nowhere near what us in the midwest walk to work in.  I mean, this year alone the Midwest has been hit by some bad-ass storms, and new-york gets hit with a category 1 hurricane and shits itself?

apparently the east coast is made of pussies.

It's still a hurricane you insufferable ass. And that part about the wind, not even touching that.

It was a category 1 hurricane.  I was in a fucking Category 4 hurricane when I was in georgia in the Army (the winds actually slid my truck sideways across a slightly muddy road and into a ditch while I was in it).  Not to mention I was in the hurricane Response Brigade that took over for FEMA after it failed with whats-his-nuts in command during katrina.  I got to drive to the hurricane areas BEFORE they hit to help facilitate communication with response teams and prepare for the arrival of our brigade if it became necessary.  So I can say, I've seen my fair share of storms. 

Thats why a category 1 hurricane hitting the northeast doesn't impress me when we had super-cell thunderstorms decimating cities in the midwest so bad that afterwords rescue workers were getting struck by lighting just to make sure nobody missed gods point.  There were 65 MPH winds in cermont?  That was a fucking tuesday during our super-cell thunderstorm month.  We got hit with 80 MPH winds.


So, sorry if a piddly little category 1 hurricane doesn't impress me.


And everyone is all "OMG A DISASTER ZONE".  You know what we did out here after the storm?  We picked up the branches, cleared the roads and GOT ON WITH OUT LIVES.  The biggest loss was that power wasn't restored as fast as people were back to work carrying on with not being scared of storms.

I don't know if it's cause I'm from the midwest, but it just irks me when the northeast bitchs about tiny things happening like a weak hurricane or unusually strong storm for them.

Now, I'm not talking about the east/southeast, cause I know that those hurricanes are serious business.  But new york and the surrounding area with their whole "THE WORLD BE ENDING CAUSE IT GON RAIN!" attitude is just stupid.

Again, we had storms wipe towns off the map, then circle back to drop tornadoes on the only standing hospital(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389737/Joplin-MO-tornado-At-89-dead-twister-cuts-4-mile-swathe-Missouri-town.html), and finally, as a final middle finger, STRIKE RESCUE WORKERS WITH LIGHTNING (http://www.fox4kc.com/news/wdaf-metro-cop-hit-by-lightning-during-joplin-relief-effort-20110523,0,4547007.story)

[Leo]

We picked up the branches, cleared the roads and GOT ON WITH OUT LIVES.

That's...that's kind of sad...

[undiscoveredbum]

All you've done in this thread is regurgitate some twisted sense of superiority over the fucking weather, completely unprovoked. It's annoying.

[Mia]

Honestly I hate how people go "my area is better than yours". Fact of the matter is different areas are more prepared for different types of weather than others. Virginia for instance would be better prepared for a hurricane than a blizzard whereas Minnesota is more prepared for tornadoes and blizzards. People die in these natural disasters and it should not be a pissing contest over who is tougher because they "pulled" it together. Different circumstances play into how well an area holds up with it but fact of the matter is no matter where you live during a natural disaster and it hits you, it does damage. They need our support, not condescension. I've lived in both the Midwest and the East Coast. They both have their weak areas when it comes to weather but I don't judge them because I know each area is more equipped to handle certain types of disasters moreso than others. Instead of turning something needlessly into an egofest, have some fucking sympathy or the next time a disaster hits your area, how would you feel if people say "pull it together" when billions of dollars of damage is done to your town?

[Pterrydactyl]

Listen, it's not that were better in the midwest, it's that I'm bothered by the fact that the media is all in an upstart and a shitstorm about a hurricane that hits new york, and there was barely any coverage of Joplin in which over twice as many people died, and much more damage was done (3 billion to just joplin, with 1 billion total from irene).  The town was literally wiped off the map, and within a week, they were rebuilding and clearing out the damage so they could move on.  But all i hear about irene is how they need help, and nothing will ever be the same, and blah blah blah.

Again, Joplin was WIPED OFF THE MAP, and they are moving on, I'm sure the coast that was hit with 1billion of damage spread across it will be much easier to get back to normal that the small city which received 3 billion directly to it.

Death toll for Irene is 46.  Death toll for Joplin?  116.

I'm just sick of people bitching about irene.

[undiscoveredbum]

Listen, it's not that were better in the midwest, it's that I'm bothered by the fact that the media is all in an upstart and a shitstorm about a hurricane that hits new york, and there was barely any coverage of Joplin in which over twice as many people died, and much more damage was done (3 billion to just joplin, with 1 billion total from irene).  The town was literally wiped off the map, and within a week, they were rebuilding and clearing out the damage so they could move on.  But all i hear about irene is how they need help, and nothing will ever be the same, and blah blah blah.

Again, Joplin was WIPED OFF THE MAP, and they are moving on, I'm sure the coast that was hit with 1billion of damage spread across it will be much easier to get back to normal that the small city which received 3 billion directly to it.

Death toll for Irene is 46.  Death toll for Joplin?  116.

I'm just sick of people bitching about irene.

You make an interesting point, but nothing you were saying before was even remotely about the media coverage of the hurricane. It was about you, and how awesome you are for putting up with with worse events, that perhaps the region you are from is used to and knows how to handle... but how often is New York hit with hurricanes again?

It's like when that earthquake hit, and everyone in California was all "lol noobs we call that Tuesday"

[Pterrydactyl]

Exactly.  And everyone in California gets to say that, cause they live in california and are constantly on the verge of falling into the ocean after "the great big one".  The Midwest gets to say that when places get hit with storms that are nowhere near as bad as the media makes them out to be, and new york got to laugh at us when almost had to instate martial law in chicago to deal with the crime.