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Why was there such little flooding in New York City during the all time record rain the other day?

August 26th, 2011 2 comments

Normally, when you set an all-time record daily rainfall for any given city, massive flooding occures. Offically, about 8 inches of rain fell on Aug. 14th. However, I am looking online, and there are very little news stories on the houses flooded with feet of water, or deaths, which are normally assoicated with this type of rain. If you look at the all-time record rainfall for most cities in the U.S., it does not even approch 7 inches for the day. Wash DC, Philly, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Detroit, along with many more cities have never seen 7 inches of rain in one day. In fact, Central Park has just seen 3 days in the last 141 years with rainfall over 7 inches for a day.

I live in Philly and the reason I can think of is because the rain normally moves and doesn’t stay in one spot yet in south Jersey they had 10" of rain fall because of the rain training over the same area

just think if all this rain came during the colder months we would be in a blizzard

Who else wants the names of Minors who are convicted of crimes to be exposed?

April 17th, 2010 5 comments

After that bias crime that happened in New York’s Lower East Side where two 12 year olds and a 15 year old were captured their names must be released and they must be sentenced as Adults. No more cuddling or "sealing" their records. The Death Penalty must be applied to Minors as well. No more of this Liberal Justice. This nation needs a return to the Reagan Laws.

I am familiar with this case- the acts were despicable and thankfully the victims will be okay. I am also very angry about this. At the same time I remember the Central Park jogger case- also horrible- and the ad taken out by Donald Trump suggesting that the people arrested get the death penalty. I don’t remember the exact age of the defendants but they were all juveniles. Several years later, after the defendants were convicted and had served over 5 years, DNA pointed to the person who really committed the horrendous acts. Charges against the original defendants were dropped.

Following particularly heinous crimes there are always calls for the death penalty. That is one of the reasons we have a trial and tread very carefully.