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(Updated Aug. 29, 11 a.m. ET) -- As many as 1 million travelers were stranded by flight disruptions caused by Tropical Storm Irene. John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark Airports are once again operating, though airlines are scrambling to reposition planes to start relieving the backlog of people.
If you're one of the many travelers looking to rebuild your itinerary, here are some helpful links to bookmark:
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Well DUH!!!!
what about Amtrak?
wha about amtrak?
p.harris, just call ahead to Amtrak to see what the situation is at the departure and arrival sites.
good night irene...
Irene keeps giving me the eye. I think she wants it. ;-)
heh. If you get a chance to be in the eye, step outside for a few minutes, it should be fairly calm and sunny in there. It's pretty cool
Facts, its call a Hurricane because that's what it is. It has sustained winds of at least 75 mph, then a hurricane, not a rain and wind storm.
I lived on the Texas gulf coast for many, many years. I can tell you from experience that anyone that doesn't respect a hurricane is a fool. It is not just the wind and rain, it is the immediate aftermath. Flooding, immobility. trees down , no water, NO ELECTRICITY which in todays times means no T.V., no computer, probably no cell phone, no refridgerator, no COLD beer, not much food or way of cooking it, maybe no flushing the commode, no lights unless battery operated and maybe no good batteries. No security alarm. No EMS service. WHY? WHY? WHY? do people who have a choice not leave the area? and, leave early and avoid the rush traffic and jams at airports. Oh, by the way, depending on the area, there may be lots of SNAKES looking for dry high ground. Probably not many in Manhatten, however. Yeah, right! Truely, good decisions and good luck.
Why are there rats climbing the Empire State Building?
There is something called the "venturi effect".....meaning 80 mpg winds when pushed through areas with bldgs(in a dense and large manner) such as NYC the velocity is magnified so that what is a tropical storm 10 floors up becomes a CAt 1 and this is again magninfied greater as you go higher. The windows are gonna take a beating. ANYONE who thinks this is not gonna be catastphic to areas above Irene is a total idiot. Am 58 lived in the South most of my life and live in tornado alley. Been through dozens of thhis monsters. The remnants of Katrina finshished up in my part of the South and they were no fun. You folks up north are about to see what we have delt with for years. If I am wrong and i hope so then i shall eat my words.....gladlly. If i am right well we shall wait and see. Its the water your about to get thats gonna make you suffer......nevermind the wind.
It's been a busy week for New Yorkers. First an Earth Quake and now this. Thank God the Earth Quake didn't do any damage or at least we hope it didn't. While living in California the buildings needed to have structural inspections, meaning they had to open walls in some buildings to see if the steal beams had not cracked at the welds or joints. I worked on Santa Monica Hospital patching all the holes they opened and yes there was structural damage, lots of cracks.
Pictures of NYC getting ready for Irene:
I 'm happy to have the information I need to make a decision. Being forewarned is being forearmed. If someone decides they don't need to follow the instructios,fine,but don't complain or want help if you choose to be stupid.
Memo to Mayor Bloomberg: A perfect opportunity!! Since JFK, La Guardia, Penn Station and Grand Central are close (no crowds save the rats), take the opportunity to get some City workers into these facilities and clean the damn places up just in time for Labor day!!! That will be a first, just like Irene!! If that's not practicial, please get the snow plows ready....
I live on the other side of the globe and in the Tropic of Capricorn, in Mauritius an island in the indian ocean and have been following with interest and sorrow the devastation caused by Irene. Here we call it a cyclone and gust speed can reach as much as 160mph , but what's in a name, the damage is the same.Our experience is that the cyclone's intensity dramatically reduces on its path from north east toward the cooler south west (in your case south east toward north west) and on reaching a large land mass (Madagarcar in our case and North America in yours). So you should not worry too much about the wind velocity when it reaches New York, but guy beware of the flooding and disruption in electricity supply on which we rely so much. On the question of fatality, we have learnt so much from past experience that we can have some advice to profess to the US; the last casualty was in 2006 when a woman of 65yrs died not from the direct effect of the cyclone but from a heart attack resulting from the noise of a fallen tree on her house.