IDA REMNANTES LEAVE 10 DEAD and MANY MISSING Historic Weather Disaster in NY NJ PA CT MA Yet Very Little Coverage BEFORE & Very Little This Morning. Epic Historic Flooding

Hurricane Ida, now downgraded to "remnants" created a tragic, horrendous historic Flood disaster from NJ to NY to New England. This began with flooding in Maryland and moved fast up I95 as if Ida was a traveler looking for more places to destroy after leaving a trail of destruction from Louisiana and Mississippi to New England. Yet, the death toll is higher far from landfall the way many other strong hurricanes have done from Camille to Donna and causing more widespread damage than Sandy on some levels as Sandy damage in NY was mostly from storm surge in coastal areas or along the rivers and bay.  This was anywhere the water ran downhill and in NJ NJ and CT there are many places downhill as there is terrain. Water poured through the ceiling of homes, 2nd story homes as water rose up from the basement. 

They had to cancel a tennis tournament. The question is why was the tennis game not cancelled in advance due to the many watches and warnings for severe weather and flash flooding. Why were baseball games not cancelled?  Subways ran until people were stranded, yet one train after another was stranded yet everyone waited in real time to see what would happen. Why did it take the Mayor way too long to even declare a State of Emergency in New York City? 

This is history in the making yet I have to look through 3 different news channels waiting for them to catch up with the reality of how Ida has paralyzed the largest metropolitan area in the US. The Financial news network is droning on discussing stocks, bonds and futures. TWC with their over used "rising water graphic" didn't cover it live last night but kept replaying video from a tornado in New Jersey. This morning they are showing images from TWITTER and that brings me back to my point this morning. Yet they are running a story on Louisiana that was taped yesterday rather than show it later and cover the weather that is happening NOW that is a historic, epic event. Such a disconnect with reality.

Where do we get our news? Apparently Twitter and WhatsApp.

MNNBC did a great story just now on the building collapse in Miami Beach interviewing survivors. A good story but not this morning perhaps? CNN is bitching about the abortion bill in Texas, though to be fair they did have a few reporters on air interviewing people stuck in subways as if they were unaware of the vastness of the flooding in homes, apartments and basements.  FOX complaining about Biden's handling of evacuations and yet evacuations were ongoing all night as people with Kayaks were out and about trying to get people out of cars stuck in rising water. Name a place from Maryland to Cape Cod that did not get horrific damage last night yet TWC as showed the same video from a murky sky in Mullica Hill, NJ because that's the only place they have someone from their channel there. Pathetic but I'm sure they will catch up to the story or just move on to the next named storm.

Cars were floating away everywhere. Children drowned. Water was shooting out of toilets, sinks and running through hallways out to the street. Houses of worship of all kinds were flooded and there were few places to go to find safety in the flood waters and yet it's not news if there is no agenda angle to grasp onto it seems.

Something is wrong with how meteorologists and NEWS channels convey NEWS in advance to the public. That really is the bottom line. I know sometimes they do and people just don't pay attention as they are used to it being not much to write home about but in Boro Park community groups in the Jewish community and Crown Heights were rescuing people with Kayaks so it seems they have their own style of the Cajun Navy. Good thing because apparently in today's world you are pretty much on your own until the system and infrastructure can snap back in place. 

It takes a village indeed.

We are only starting September and this is not the end of the hurricane season.

Go back in my blogs I have been talking about the Mid Atlantic, NY and NE since before the hurricane season began as a sort of Ground Zero for trouble aside from the usual suspects of Florida and Louisiana.  Many mets have yet very few are listening in our fast driven world where everyone is too busy to stop and pay attention to the news or the weather until their own drama becomes part of the news cycle itself.

We really need to find a way to convey and cover this without obsessing about agenda stories rather than the news.

Good luck because this is the beginning of the heart of the hurricane season when hearts are broken everywhere every year.

Besos BobbiStorm

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Sad, so I'm showing New York newspapers I know well but you can look online to the Daily News for this story.