Per Seanmahair:
I wonder if anyone at IMAO could educate me on the Hurricane Ida “super hurricane”? While I realize it was awful I have a couple of nagging questions.
1. Didn’t Ida hit land in Louisiana?
2. When this hurricane hit land it lost strength and was downgraded to a Tropical Depression.
3. So this tropical depression traveled at least halfway across the US and hit the coast of New York? How?
4. What were those in charge and the people of New York so busy doing they just didn’t notice the storm, the flood waters, and the bad, awful, nasty weather in general?
5. Where were Bloomberg/Cuomo/AOC/Hitlery/Sharpton and all of the other people who are usually so interested in everybody else’s life and decisions?
I realize that you may not know the answers to these questions but I’m hoping someone out there does because it just seems bizarre to me that NO ONE is asking these kinds of questions. Perhaps if they had asked before the crisis 50 people would not have died?
Ida was anticipated in the south as a ferocious hurricane that is typical of this time of year. It downgraded to a tropical storm before making its way towards the Northeast and was not expected to bring as much rain or tornadoes.
The hurricane took the Northeast by surprise on Wednesday, unleashing a month’s worth of rain in one night.
The first warnings about Ida came at around 7pm on Wednesday and by 10pm, NYPD officers were recovering dead bodies from basement homes.
At a press conference on Thursday, he said officials were caught off guard by the amount of rain that fell. He had predicted between three and six inches to fall in the entire day, he said, but that much fell in just one hour in some parts of the city.
I’ll do my best.
1. Yes it hit Louisiana as a category 4 hurricane and a real big one as far as square mileage.
-2 Yes. It becomes a tropical depression when it can no longer use water below it to gain strength. That’s why they usually downgrade when they pass over cuba, the Dominican, and Puerto Rico. They gain strength again when the are completely over water like in the Gulf of Texas.
-3 Yes, it was bigger than most hurricanes so it had enough strength to keep traveling as it dissipated. Also the east side of the hurricane is known as the “dirty side” because that’s where most of the rain and wind is. As it headed east, everyone got the business end of the hurricane.
-4 Maybe. I don’t know much about yankees. They also don’t usually have flood insurance so their coverage will not pay for most of the damage done.
-5 On a higher floor chortling quietly to each other over their plates of bacon wrapped shrimp and glasses of Martini & Rossi Austi Spumanti (Celebrate Life).
Probably not all the answers you wanted but it’s the best I can do.
Your Pal,
SMODeorolgist Rihar
It still seems to me like the Dr. Evil drone yelling “No-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-…” as the steamroller driven by Austin Powers rolled slowly toward him.
#5, best I can do is
Bloomberg: Funding Moms Demand Action
Cuomo: Hunkered down with Chris for strategy, perusing Careerbuilder &sending resumes to the MSM for a gig.
Hillary: On the phone with that Harris woman 24/7 giving advice.
AOC: Having her Tesla detailed (in a no parking zone)
Sharpton: Behind a megaphone as usual
Oh sorry, I thought this was a SLOTD.
Thanks all. My question was prompted NOT by what happened because here in the Heartland we have tornados that dump a lot of rain at one time. Also we have had Microbursts which contain wind and water. My question was prompted by the “press” (sorry, I threw up a little in my mouth) who continues to call what happened in the Northeast “Hurricane Ida”. It was that but was not a Hurricane when it arrived to bother the folks on the other left coast. So perhaps the “remnants of Ida” or “storm formerly known as Ida”, or “the dregs of Ida”, might have been more appropriate. Sad that people are so afraid of “the virus” that they don’t pay attention to things that have more than a 1.01 chance of killing them.