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I would tend to disagree with you jrock. Nearly all the models talked about this storm wrecking this type of havoc.

• jrockway 14y ago
  I meant ordinary citizens, not emergency planners. Despite being told that they could be without power, many of my friends did not believe it. "How could Manhattan lose power?"
  • TillE 14y ago
    > "How could Manhattan lose power?" Seriously? Were they not living in New York in 2003?
    • jrockway 14y ago
      They were not. I'm guessing everyone is basing their experience on last year's "hurricane", which was not nearly as bad as this one.
    • mturmon 14y ago
      Same thing happens with people who moved to LA after the Northridge quake. They don't really believe in earthquakes at a gut level.
  • mturmon 14y ago
    I live in California, so I know what you mean (s/weather/earthquake/). People were forgetting about events like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_blackout_of_1977 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_blackout_of_1977 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_1965 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_1965 Humans have a hard time reasoning about events on decadal time scales.