Everybody okay (again)?

[Joe Allonby]

Raining sideways in Boston. Pretty windy. The brunt of it isn't
supposed to get here for another two hours.



On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 9:33 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> We had a ton of rain here in NYC; the wind was not so powerful, maybe
> 30 kts with higher gusts but nothing, from what we've seen here, above
> 75 kts as forcast by NOAA & NWS, no hurricane winds, no trees down or
> power lines down here. The rain, measured at about 6 inches in Central
> Park thus far, with more (maybe 4-5 inches more) on the way will cause
> flooding in lower evacuation areas still. The subways are closed; this
> makes sense, as we know from V. the system under the street here has
> several layers and getting the water out to the rivers and to the
> Atlantic can be very difficult under these circumstances.  The beaches
> have suffered again, but erosion of beaches is ongoing and, in the
> long run, a battle we will lose here. Much comes down to prep work and
> money. So trees were trimmed and drains unclogged and streets
> maintained and so on in wealthy parts of the city, so the impact is
> lower than in areas poorly maintained. I suspect the storm was a net
> positive to NY, as the federal, state, city, along with its citizens,
> spent money and, at least for a few days injected the pent up demand
> that Ben Bernanke so desperately wants to ease into the economy.
>