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On Twitter, I’ve been ridiculing the #stormporn in coverage of #Irene: the predictable and numbing repetition, alarmism, and idiocy that is TV. Of course, the storm is serious but the coverage is often laughable and, some would argue, a matter of crying wolf. The inefficiency of the coverage is also boggling: crews everywhere, all shooting the same wind and water, yet saying nothing new.
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Documenting the shutdown.
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Downtown Manhattan - taken from the Brooklyn Heights promenade ~4:30pm Aug 27
OUR FIRST SUBMISSION. Thanks, ecgroom.
Taking pics, quotes and more here.
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Maybe I’m just punchy from being inside all day but the weatherman’s smiling face in the middle of the radar map makes me laugh.
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1973 NYC Storm Evacuation Map
As we brace for Hurricane Irene, we thought we’d look to see what we had in the Records of the National Archives. We found this 1973 storm evacuation map for New York City.
