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The New York Times is reporting that the city is on its toes for Nor'easter 2007, with Mayor Bloomberg saying we should hope for the best as far as storm havoc goes, but prepare for the worst.
The mayor said evacuations were unlikely, but in a cautionary move, city emergency planners have identified possible shelters in the highest-risk areas and have alerted hospitals and nursing homes there to be prepared to relocate patients and elderly residents in the event of severe flooding.This is in stark contrast to the situation 15 years ago, when NYC seemed stunned that a December storm that was just forecast as rain and wind could wind up being so disruptive. We looked at what the Times was saying the day after Nor'easter 1992 and the lack of preparation seems almost quaint in our present post-9/11, post-Katrina frame of reference.City officials have mapped out several areas most at risk for flooding, including the Financial District, Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive and the Lower East Side in Manhattan; Coney Island and Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn; and the Rockaways in Queens.
As highways, subways, airports, bridges and tunnels closed, as hundreds of people found themselves trapped in flooded homes and cars, as power failed and accidents multiplied and the city seemed to lose its aplomb in the tumult, Mayor David N. Dinkins toured stricken areas, mapped strategies with aides and asked New Yorkers to call 911 only in dire emergencies. He appeared on the three major local television news broadcasts at 11 P.M., giving a status report on the storm.An official at the city's Office of Emergency Management said it had received a warning from the National Weather Service, but it "was not thought to be anything unusual."
(Flooding of FDR drive during the December 1992 nor'easter. Photograph from Bloomfield, et al. Hot Nights in the City. Environmental Defense Fund, New York)
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Your link to the NYT in 92 is a link to a TimesSelect article. Can you fix it (do a printable view and link to that instead or just quote it)?
So where this Noreaster? It seems pretty calm outside.
David Dinkins was mayor in 1992. Enough said.
Too rainy even for a bloody and an asiago omelette.
Too rainy even for a bloody and an asiago omelette.
Hey double poster.
Asiago? I prefer manchego.
Maybe you should make your own.
Ah, a rainy day manchego omelette sounds great! I just can't make it.
I know for a FACT you can make an omelette!
Make, yes. Good, no.
Make, yes. Good, no.
Make, yes. Good, no.
Posting is finicky today, no?
Give yourself some credit. I'm sure your omelette can be pretty satisfying for a famished person in the morning.
Oy vey. That's an itchy trigger finger. What's up with posts not posting for three hours? Good thing it's such a thoughtful and insightful post - hopefully you get something new out of it after every reading.
The Nor'easter of 2007 must be affecting some kind of proxy whatsit.
This nor'easter was weak until 8 minutes ago, right as I walked in the door with groceries. Awesome karma I think because I walked across the store out of guilt to put an unwanted grocery item back in the correct spot.
That IS good karma, and you deserve it for returning that item to its rightful shelf, which I fully support. And shopping in the middle of a nor'easter? Sounds like a famished person will get a manchego omelette in the morn. Nice use of italics! Some things have been learned...
No, but someone will get figs and manchego now. And that's not nice--just cause you're out 3k, you don't need to go tossing around yiddish slurs at people.
Puh-lease, I was up to that italic level long ago. You were/are beyond that, too, as I recall.
Yiddish slur? Famished? Two meanings, the one above in regular old English. There's no slur, and I certainly would be careful about using one in a public space, what with this Imus debacle. Usage: You must be famished about the yiddish slur because you're famished. Figs and manchego will cure that, and you won't be famished or famished any more.
I'M not up to that italic level, that's for sure. If I was that I'M would be italicized.
I know, just touching on an old email, which I'm sure you realize. But they're not spelled the same: fa-misht. Maybe i've been hanging out with that crowd too much.
Oh, I thought you jazzed up that newsletter thing with html.
Don't get your reference, actually. But look at you with your yiddish spelling! Nicely done - your Jewish education continues.
Oh, you have access to it, guess that's why I assumed.
"Yiddish slur" yields no results in old emails, so don't know where to look.
Do you think Gothamist readers are puzzled? Following along to see what happens next? Annoyed?
ha, i meant in my email. in the folder that i've been trying to bring myself to delete for a little while now.
yes, i'm sure we're generating tons of traffic. And in the process vaulting these lame posts to 'most commented,' in a sanjaya malakar kinda way.
Oh...that email. I'll take a pass on that search as it may read "Yiddish slurs yielded no results - did you mean 'Neurotic jew?'"
Don't slam the Gothamist posts as lame, though - it's not their fault we're forced to conduct our business in a public forum. The attention to a two day old Nor'easter post must be puzzling, though.