The overly hyped Hurricane Irene...
While
I am sorry for the loss of life of the people that actually lost their
lives due to Irene" and with all due respect to the people who died
through no fault of their own . . . It looks like most of the people the government claims lost from Irene actually died of stupidity, not from Irene.
In
an attempt to justify the overblown coverage and the politicians that
were out to prove that "We are NOT like George Bush" the press
has included just about everyone who died anywhere during, before and
after the storm what ever the reason.
Take a look at some of the 20 people that died "due to Irene."
Hurricane Irene leads to at least 20 deaths
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CONNECTICUT:
- In Prospect, one person was killed in a fire that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said was apparently caused by wires knocked down by the storm.
FLORIDA:
The Orlando Sentinel reports the high school teacher
55-year-old Frederick Fernandez died Saturday off New Smyrna Beach after he was tossed off his surf board by massive waves caused by Irene.
- In Flagler County, 55-year-old tourist James Palmer of New Jersey died Saturday in rough surf. Family members say they lost sight of him after he waded into the surf in North Florida. He was pulled to shore and his wife attempted CPR, but he was pronounced dead at the hospital.
MARYLAND:
- In Queen Anne's County, Md., 85-year-old Anne Bell was killed when a tree knocked a chimney through the glass roof of the sunroom where she and her son were sitting. They'd gone out into the sunroom after the power went out in her Queenstown home. Bell was struck by debris (glass), causing severe trauma. (The power went out so naturally you would go in to the glass house during the storm?)
NEW JERSEY
- Celena Sylvestri, 20, of Quinton, called her boyfriend and then 911 early Sunday seeking help getting out of her flooded car
in Pilesgrove, police said. Her body was found eight hours later in the vehicle, which was about 150 feet off the road, police said.
NEW YORK
- A man in his 50s was electrocuted in Spring Valley when he tried to help a child who had gone into a flooded street with downed wires.
The child was in very serious condition at Westchester Medical Center's
burn unit, said a spokesman for the Rockland County Emergency
Operations Center. This man is a hero but WHERE WERE THE KIDS PARENTS?
- State police said they recovered the body of a woman who apparently (sec)drowned after she fell into Onesquethaw Creek in New Scotland, near Albany.
NORTH CAROLINA:
-
In Nash County, a man was killed after a tree limb fell on him outside
his home Saturday morning as outer bands from the storm brought near
hurricane-force gusts inland. (Good going . . a under a tree is right where you want to be in Hurricane-fores winds are blowing.)
- Goldsboro police say a 15-year-old girl died Saturday afternoon after the SUV carrying
her and family members collided with another SUV at an intersection where Irene had knocked out power to traffic lights.
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-- Another man in Pitt County drove through standing water, went off a road and died after striking a tree on Saturday.
- A mother in Sampson County died Saturday morning when a tree fell on a car carrying her and two family members. This is probably the only death what was not stupid. Still, out driving around in a storm?
- New Hanover County deputies on Sunday afternoon recovered the body of Melton Robinson, Jr., who had been missing since falling or jumping into the Cape Fear River as storms from Irene reached North Carolina on Friday night. (Note: He jumped or fell in the river.)
PENNSYLVANIA
- A 58-year-old Harrisburg man was killed Sunday morning when a tree toppled onto his tent, state police said. The man was one of about 20 people at a PARTY on private property in East Hanover Township, Dauphin County, some of whom who decided to sleep outside. (Great judgment, Camping out under the trees when a storm is coming?)
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A man in a camper was crushed by a tree in northeastern Pennsylvania's
Luzerne County, state emergency management officials said. Police found
his body shortly before 11 a.m. Sunday. (Yip . . Right by a tree is where you want to park your camper in a storm.)
- A motorist was killed when he lost control of his car on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Carbon County, skidded over an embankment and hit a tree.
VIRGINIA:
- A King William County man killed when a tree fell on him as he was cutting another tree on Saturday night. (good idea lets go cut a tree down in the middle of the storm.)
Again, with all due respect to those who died . . . me thinks they are really stretching the truth to say these deaths were CAUSED BY Irene.
They counted all these so that Obama and the boys can say 'Seeeee . . .
we did something, we are not like that old George Bush." "We got out a
head of it . . . we declared a National Disaster before
it fizzled out." "If we tell the people how bad it was maybe they will
not think us to be stupid." Sure, there was some flooding . . . but
where was the Federal Government when there were floods in the "Fly
Over" states? They never did help them before, after or in between.
Another
difference . . . With Katrina, The Governors and the mayors did not try
to go it alone . . . None of them stood in the way of the federal
government. None of them said "no thank you we will take care of it."
None of them refused to use school buses to evacuate people, school
buses that sat in a parking lot full a fuel and all the other stupid
things that the mayor of New Orleans and the governor of Louisiana did.
Had the press not attempted so hard to make Bush look bad . . . this over reaction would have never occurred.
The worst part is they "called wolf" too soon, too loud and too much, so from now on many people will ignore legitimate warnings.
Reader Contribution by Mike K.
Posted by HUSTUSA at 8/29/2011 10:56 AM 
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