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Originally Posted by Whirlaway
Overblown estimates by politicians who want bailouts from the rest of the country. NY/NJ should pay for their own clean up and rebuilding......the midwest had the same number of citizens killed in a single tornado that lasted less than seconds. NY had days of warning and wasn't prepared.
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You are getting increasingly loathsome. Not quite Choomczar territory yet, but you are on final approach.
Louisiana got loads of FEMA money after Katrina. The whole country paid for that.
Texas got loads of FEMA money after Ike. The whole country paid for that.
Why should NY and NY pay for their own clean up?
And from where does your fantasy come that NY and NJ were not prepared? They appear to have been exceptionally well prepared.
And your comparison of Sandy to the tornados in Tuscaloosa and Joplin actually refutes your point - if in fact you even had a point.
The whole reason why a tornado is so deadly is that THERE IS NO WARNING - or very little. Which is why, even in a low population area like Joplin, Missouri, 129 people died in minutes.
Sandy hit in an area that probably had 15-20 million people living with a 50 mile radius of where it came ashore. And yet only dozens died. And many of those weren't even in the NY/NJ shore areas.
So why was death toll so low? Because they WERE prepared. They evacuated the beach communities and they moved rescue workers in close to the area where they will be needed.
The proper point of comparison for Sandy is not a tornado, but another hurricane - like Katrina or the Galveston one in the early 1900s. Clearly we have come a long way since the Galveston hurricane. We are even much better than we were after Katrina.
So far, NY, NJ and the federal government have done a good job.
What exactly do you think they could have done differently? Do you think they could have moved all the subways above ground?
Sandy Devastation pictures
New York!
