tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post825541391048919699..comments2024-03-28T23:57:50.103-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: Emergency preparation, part 15: Looking over the post-Sandy messPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-50715738080409487872012-11-03T12:47:41.213-05:002012-11-03T12:47:41.213-05:00There are a lot of unanswered questions about the ...There are a lot of unanswered questions about the Staten Island woman whose kids were washed away. For one thing, if her story is to be believed, she left her house (which is in a perfectly safe location) at the height of the storm to stay with relatives in Brooklyn. Getting there would require driving over the Verrazano Bridge, which is in a very exposed location and in any event would have been closed before she could have reasonably been expected to reach it. She then turned onto a road that runs directly along the ocean rather than getting to the bridge via a more inland and protected route.Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04266094188872421777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-22471066272258849872012-11-03T02:25:18.402-05:002012-11-03T02:25:18.402-05:00Funny, the way I read it was that the kids got was...Funny, the way I read it was that the kids got washed away when her car stalled, then she tried to get people out of their houses to help her find them...Sebastiannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-73978695467533596472012-11-02T20:30:21.601-05:002012-11-02T20:30:21.601-05:00It's actually a good thing that much of the Ne...It's actually a good thing that much of the New York subway's switching and signalling equipment is quite old. Being so old, the equipment does not have as many fragile electronic components as newer versions.Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04266094188872421777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-36727857929030373442012-11-02T10:35:27.080-05:002012-11-02T10:35:27.080-05:00Borepatch said it first, but it's what I was t...Borepatch said it first, but it's what I was thinking when I read the story. I think it's likely that there's some exaggeration here, if not outright fabrication. However, even if the woman's story is true and accurate, the mystery man who denied shelter to Glenda Moore and her two children has not broken any law that I'm aware of. Now me, personally, I would have let them inside, but I'm armed and I know how to shoot. I think guns are all but completely illegal in NYC - truth or fiction?<br />Mad Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06190137186843630543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-55476601608749124892012-11-01T22:12:16.068-05:002012-11-01T22:12:16.068-05:00Peter, I'm skeptical about the story of the Mo...Peter, I'm skeptical about the story of the Mother and the kids. I'm reserving judgement as to whether it's true or not. It's exactly the sort of thing that the biased media would play up, and that's exactly the sort of thing that would encourage an irresponsible parent to use to deflect blame from their poor decisions.<br /><br />I'm a bit sorry to be so cynical, but looking around it's hard not to be.Borepatchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.com