RAH RAH RAH !

I opened the garage door yesterday and cast eyes on my winter saber: the snow blower. I can confidently state, being the first day of June here in the Northeast and not being the first of June in northern Montana, that I can bid the snow blower a seasonal remission. No having to track a snow threat on television and its projected accumulations. No hotels in the city to have to stay at. Although, the last time the company set me up they did do a fine job with the Plaza Athenee. Too bad it was for work and not pleasure.

Honestly, I have felt that the threat of snowfall has left us now for about 60 days. But the way that I see it, it's not until the weather slicks on TV and radio deviate away from an overnight frost. Once the chances of an overnight frost are gone, the chances of snow or ice go with it. Sasquatch has slowly devolved and achieved stasis until deep into November.

Technically, today marks the start of "hurricane season". It's time to tip the seasonal hourglass over on the folks who gloat about their winters. On the ones who opt to live in the flimsy stucco and press-board dwellings that dot the hurricane vulnerable southern coastlines in the USA. The hourglass is now slowly dropping its grains into their summer. It's the Russian Roulette time of the year for them.

I cannot imagine another direct hit on New Orleans this year. I cannot envision how the folks who live in New Orleans can top the destruction and lawlessness that ensued after Katrina. If it were to happen again, would we hear tales of cannibalism this time? How will the people of New Orleans top the tales of babies getting their throats slit and seven year old girls being raped in The Superdome? Well, I can think of some things for those folks, but I could get arrested just for writing about them.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0,,1563532,00.html

The prognosticators and all the folks with boy scout genes, have begun whistling a different tune for the population centers of the northeastern United States this season. Basically, the threat level of a hurricane making landfall in Manhattan, Philadelphia, Washington or Boston this year has been highly publicized to be up to a 7 percentage points of a chance to occur. ABC News released a report today that insurance risk assessors deem New York City with the number two highest risk for a storm surge if a hurricane were to come up the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and eye right through The Battery and up Broadway.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2028833&page=1

Big freakin' deal. Hurricane "Bullshit" comes and hits the Tri-State region and it's a mortal lock that no reports of babies being raped or grannies shot execution style on the streets of The Big Apple after the storm passes will surface from this region.

In the years since I've lived in and around NYC, quite a few events have occurred that other areas of the country could not have handled without something extreme happening by their populaces. The Yankees have won The World Series FOUR times and no one rioted and no one got killed because of it. In fact, the 2000 World Series featured the Mets and the Yankees and no tribal wars occurred in New York or anywhere in the region. The Herculean choke against the Boston Red Sox in the American League Championship game did not create uncertainty in the streets of New York in 2004. The Great Northeast Power Blackout of 2003 occurred and no looting happened. In addition to that outage, parts of New York City have suffered power outages in past summers and no looting has occurred then either. The New Jersey Devils have won the Stanley Cup three times and the New York Rangers have won it once, and guess what? No fires, no overturned cars, no arrests. The NFL football Giants won the Super Bowl and everyone lived. Two one-hundred and ten story skyscrapers with thousands of people in them collapsed and people coped in a very decent manner. Hell, both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions have been held within the last 16 years and guess what.......nothing.

In today's New York, people worry about a nuclear device going off or are concerned about a mass poisoning. In the back of every New Yorker's head is the threat of another major act of terrorism occurring again.

I profess one thing. Lawlessness and a breakdown of society will not occur here if a particularly inoculable pandemic breaks out or if the region were to get hit by a small comet.

No, no, no. What this region and the rest of the world should fear with horror down to their bones are the Knicks winning and their fanatics celebrating an NBA Championship.

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posted by JerryNJ @ 7:51 PM