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Donal — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:27:43 +0000

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That's a shame. I used to

Donal — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:13:52 +0000

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That's a shame. I used to spend a lot of time in Brattleboro, and enjoyed the throwback 60s culture there.

Right. Vermont never gets any

Oxy Mora — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:51:59 +0000

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Right. Vermont never gets any respect from national news anyway, so this is no different. Vermont suffered a real blow. It may not be large in absolute numbers, but relative to a half million population, it's very large. The towns of Bennington and Brattleboro are completely under water. I own an old arc of a house in Vermont and have a "caretaker" to look after it and make sure it doesn't fall down when I'm not there. Luckily, the sump pump was working, and my house wasn't affected. But I have friends there whose property has been devastated.

I guess massive flooding,

cmaukonen — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:07:06 +0000

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I guess massive flooding, crushed cars and houses and busses (and who knows what else) doesn't qualify as a disaster. I suppose to to qualify there has it has to be of biblical proportions. Like maybe accompanied by a volcano or some such.

Irene Forecasters Missed

Donal — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:43:50 +0000

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Irene Forecasters Missed Storm’s Intensity While Correctly Predicting Path

Forecasters overestimated the strength of Hurricane Irene even as they accurately predicted the direction and timing of the storm’s destructive path along the U.S. East Coast.

“This was one of their better forecasts,” Hans Graber, a professor of marine physics at the University of Miami, said in a telephone interview. “Definitely, it helped to save lives.”

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While forecasters have gotten better at estimating the trajectories of storms because the winds propelling them, known as steering currents, have gotten easier to predict with computer models, projecting intensity is driven by dozens of variables that make modeling more difficult ...