Gothamist: Hold onto Your Hats: Tornado Warning in Effect

Jerky

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:56:04 -0500

Weather radios worked fine. But if you own one, you're definitely in the minority!

JacqueMehoff

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:00:02 -0500

any warnings or alerts from those weather radios?

dadoc

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:01:09 -0500

What ever happened to the old Civil Defense sirens that I remember as a kid in Bkyln in the '60s? (Remember, Forgotten-NY?) They were tested every day @ noon. Kinda surreal experience as a kid: every day @ 12, church bells & sirens. And I grew up right where th '07 Bklyn Tornado hit.

Jerky

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:21:57 -0500

Considering there's been two damaging tornadoes in the metro area in the last couple of years (2006-Westchester, 2007 Brooklyn) the lack of EBS activiation is somewhat appalling. Are all the local emergency managers asleep at the wheel? Too busy with terrorism or bicyclists? I guess they seem to be unaware that killer tornadoes ARE a real, but small, risk in the Northeast, e.g. google the 1953 Worcester Tornado or the May 31 1985 outbreak.

Steven

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:51:45 -0500

There wasn't many delays on the subway this evening. LIRR and Metro North trains fared much worse with tons of delays.

NannyState

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:41:03 -0500

What would it take to lure three or four twisters to the Hamptons? Drink coupons? Free coke?

pete

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:10:50 -0500

The Emergency Broadcast System is a joke. It didn't activate on 9/11, and by definition Tornados warrent an activation (thats what EBS is used for mostly, in the midwest). Perhaps the Emergency Broadcast System exists to inform citizens to report to labor/death camps when the New World Order arrives?

Jerky

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:34:22 -0500

Tornadoes don't care too much about what's on the ground. The scale of tall buildings is still minimal considered to the scale of processes involved in tornado formation. And if anyone was following this, the TV and Cable warning and information was pathetic. I was in one of the warned towns...no warning tone or scroller activation on cable, no coverage on channel 2, and the rest of the stations didn't start covering it until well into the warning. Just about the worst severe weather coverage I've ever seen....

spnder

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:11:43 -0500

There was just that tornado in downtown Atlanta last spring, so no... you don't need flat land.

JoeSchumacher

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:52:19 -0500

A tornado in Manhattan would look like any other tornado. They do not need a flat space.

mrguy

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:18:38 -0500

what would a tornado in manhattan look like? don't tornadoes need lots of flat space?