For the last couple of days, I have been saying (irl) that all this Sandy nonsense is a bunch of hype, much like the latest James Bond film or the Romney surge. The TV stations need something to talk about, they want the election to be close, James Bond provides plenty of footage of explosions and whatnot but how this is actually news, I don’t know, and then there’s Sandy.
Atlantic City, New Jersey, is already starting to look like Venice
It looks like I’m going to have to eat my words on Sandy. This looks like one mean storm. People have already died. There is serious flooding. And the main body of the hurricane hasn’t even hit yet.
New York City is vulnerable. I don’t think it’s going to actually knock any buildings down, but the city is not above sea level by much at all, and it’s almost inevitable that the subways will get flooded. In the 2002 flood in Prague, it was over 6 months before the yellow line was up and running again. What if Kennedy airport winds up under water? That could mess up international travel for a good while.
Anyway, I hope all of my friends and relatives in New York (and everywhere else in the path of the storm) are in safe places and have plenty of support around them.
Will this have any impact on the Presidential election? I doubt it. I’m pretty sure that anybody who actually plans on voting has had their mind made up for a long time. There is one little thing that might come back to bite Romney in the pants, though. There was a point, during the Republican primary debate, when Mitt Romney said FEMA should be scrapped and emergency disaster relief should be handled by the states, or private agencies.
If the media plays that heavily, it could hurt Romney, but they won’t. Because that would make Romney look bad.
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