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A better question should be "what hurricane?!?".
All week, the news has been clammoring about Isabel was going to wreak havoc on the NY metro area.
Well, Isabel has already come and passed, and while the wind did pick up enough that we could hear it inside, we didn't get a single drop of rain, at least in my area of northern NJ.
I think the news made WAY too big a deal out of it, for this area in particular. I think it was just because they didn't have any other news of significance to overly sensationalize this week, so they latched onto this.
It's one thing to raise the red flag for coastal areas directly in the path of a hurricane. It's another to sound the alarm for an inland area that was going to be 100 miles east of the path of the storm that was 500 miles away from the point of landfall.
At most, I was expecting a bad rain storm with some higher-than-average winds. We didn't even get that much.
All week, the news has been clammoring about Isabel was going to wreak havoc on the NY metro area.
Well, Isabel has already come and passed, and while the wind did pick up enough that we could hear it inside, we didn't get a single drop of rain, at least in my area of northern NJ.
I think the news made WAY too big a deal out of it, for this area in particular. I think it was just because they didn't have any other news of significance to overly sensationalize this week, so they latched onto this.
It's one thing to raise the red flag for coastal areas directly in the path of a hurricane. It's another to sound the alarm for an inland area that was going to be 100 miles east of the path of the storm that was 500 miles away from the point of landfall.
At most, I was expecting a bad rain storm with some higher-than-average winds. We didn't even get that much.