New York is under attack again, but this thime terrorists aren't the culprits; it's Mother Nature on the rampage; the Herald reports:
New York City's mayor has ordered mandatory evacuations of low-lying areas and the city's entire system is to be shut down as Hurricane Irene makes its way towards land.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the city had never ordered a mandatory evacuation before and stressed they would not be doing this if they did not believe Hurricane Irene posed a serious threat.
The areas to be evacuated are coastal areas in Brooklyn, Queens, including all of the Rockaways, and Staten Island, along with Battery Park City and the financial district in Lower Manhattan and Governor's Island.
"You only have to look at the weather maps to understand how big this storm is and how unique it is," the mayor said at a news conference, "and it's heading basically for us."
The image above is of Hurricane Irene two days ago. Since then the storm has tracked north-west and intensified, and the upper eastern seaboard from the Carolinas to Massachusetts is under threat.
This certainly looks to be a storm of considerable significance. We will follow Irene's progress with interest.
7 comments:
Crikey!
Are the world's weather systems becoming more unsettled and intense, harder to predict and explain?
Hope human activity isn't contributing to this. It's going to make farming and food production more difficult, having a misbehaving climate.
Robert - yawn.
Time to turn that record over and try the B-side.
The A-side has not proven to be much of a hit except with a small, overzealous group of Luddites, anti-capitalists and catastrophe shlockmeisters.
But then the green-wash fundies are easy to please as long as the metaphorical sky is falling.
Ford Anglia.
And Robert; have you also considered the fact that it's Hurricane Season in that part of the world?
I'm with Bobby here .. I mean how many hurricanes does the US have for goodness sake. I have heard, keep it to yourself team, that it will piss down in India soon .. almost like a monsoon
Monsoons? In the monsoon season? Oh my giddy aunt; Global Warming is killing us!
and it snowed up here in Waiuku/Pukekohe a week ago .. oh noooo. We need the Greens to save us
I have heard that the hurricane was caused by John Key
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