Has anyone ever watched anything like this unfold?

[xiamiam]

I don't watch tv..so everything I'm getting is from the net..mostly reading the reports

I don't ever remember NYC shutting down the subways, evacuating, airports closing..the eastern seaboard appears to be closing up shop in slow motion...while some calamity is on its way.

I watched Katrina the day and night before and knew that a major american city would never be the same. This is different ... in many ways more eerie.

[Firebrand Gary]

1. Post Katrina.

That was the game changer.

[Chorophyll]

2. Mayor Bloomberg doesn't want to get caught away from his post again

like he did for the blizzard of 2010. Plain and simple. I'm in the NY suburbs and I appreciate all the precautions. It's really not eerie.

[FarLeftFist]

3. It will be bad, but mostly over-hyped I believe.

[Raschel]

8. I think so too. At least I hope so.

[JDPriestly]

4. And, who knows, the whole thing may be an exaggeration or an

underestimation of the danger, assuming the danger really materializes.

Hurricanes are not always predictable.

[catabryna]

5. I don't know where you are...

but if you weren't in the south during those times, I might imagine how you could feel that way.

[anamandujano]

6. I'm thinking Last Days of Pompeii.

I hope it fizzles just in time.

[Lex]

7. Post-Katrina, people are way more cautious and freaked out

and of course the media always simultaneously causes and milks the hysteria.

[MaggieTheVoter]

9. Hurricane Gloria.

Ended up being a dud.

[Liberty Belle]

15. Not a dud were I was holed up! See my story here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1823578&mesg_id=1823818

[jberryhill]

19. Depends on where you were... Same as Hugo

[kestrel91316]

10. Well, exactly ten years ago there was that whole unpleasant thing with the

airplanes and the tall buildings.........

[Chorophyll]

13. ...

Yeah. I'll take the hurricane precautions instead, thanks. Much less inducing of the brick-shits.

[Alameda]

11. Better safe than sorry....I remember Gloria, it was hyped too

as it turned out, not a lot happened in Manhattan, but it was disastrous to Long Island.

[Liberty Belle]

16. Hyped? Not. I was in Gloria in Maine; it was really scary and I got hurt and coulnd't even get help

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1823578&mesg_id=1823818

[Alameda]

18. only in retrospect it was hyped for New York City....

it could have been all that was talked about, fortunately, those things didn't happen..........I'm sorry you had such a difficult time. Now I'm talking with friends in NY who are very skeptical and scoff the warnings. Always be safe, not sorry....if you can.

[gateley]

12. They were saying that NY hadn't been hit like this (like they're

projecting) in over 40 years, so I think some of what they're doing is unprecedented. I think the fact that Manhattan is involved is alarming -- how the hell do you evacuate Manhattan? Thankfully it's "only" some areas.

DU is always first with the news I've found, so keep checking back on the Latest page.

[Liberty Belle]

14. Hell yes, I was in Hurricane Gloria back in the '80s.

Predicted to be worst hurricane ever to hit the US. We were vacationing on the East Coast; cancelled plans to stay in Massachusetts on the beach and headed inland with friends who had a cabin in the Maine woods. Wound up hitting the Maine coast instead of further south. We lost power for 3 days, tree fell across a road and we were stranded. We chopped our own wood in preparation; I went up to the attic looking for lamp oil and as I stepped onto the top stair coming down the power went out. I lost footing and slid down the slick steep stairs; thought I was paralyzed!Couldn't feel anything or move for about 5 minutes. Except my fingers hurt like hell; I'd had my one and only manicure with fake fingernails in my life and ripped every one out below the quick trying to stop my fall down those stairs with no rail.

Eventually managed to get up (with disk damage and cracked ribs, I later learned.) Impossible to get to a doctor or hospital in the hurricane. Winds were 90 mph, even though we were 90 miles inland!!! Never been more scared in my life.

Thankfully one of our friends was an army paramedic and the other was a former chef so we did great cooking over a fireplace for 3 days until the road was cleared; we stayed up all night playing cards in the kitchen because it was the only room with an attic above and there were trees falling down all around. I propped up on pillows and hung in there. Didn't know I'd cracked 2 ribs until much later....ow.

After the storm was over we went to NYC to visit friends there. Windows were boarded up and streets deserted still. We were told it was the cleanest we'd ever see the City, as the hurricane had blown all the trash out of town!

[johnnie]

17. Yeah

A lot of us here at DU watched Katrina unfold, sadly the media didn't pay as much attention until it was too late.