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so there is a GIANT tidal wave that will come in 24 hours - it is serious and evacuation is recommended for NYC dwellers. do you stay and DIE or leave?
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05.06.08, 10:06 AM [ Flag ]
- Leave
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  - according to the poster below - you should stay and die.
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    - moron. people in that part of the owrld don't have access to cars, places to stay. you are a class A ass
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      - People in the new orleans part of the world had the same problems
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  - How are you going to do that? Private helicopter off roof?
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    - So you would just stay because you may not get out? I would rather die trying to go than sitting home on my ass
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      05.06.08, 10:10 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      - It really depends on the topography of where you can get to. In Burma, the entire place is a swamp. So, home might be the best choice.
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      - NP: Not me. Give me a pack of smokes and a few bottles of wine and that's how I would like to go.
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- omg. do you think you can compare NYC to Burma (or whatever it's called now)?? Really??
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- do you really know 1 day in advance?
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- you do realize that a lot of these ppl have no $$ and no way to leave, right?
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- hmmm, sounds like something that happened about 2 years ago in a place called New Orleans....
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  - or say, Myanmar where 22,000 are dead. Makes NOLA look like a little drizzle
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- so my choices are to die in my apartment or to die stuck in traffic.
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  - LOL
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  - you're funny
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    - np: She's absolutely correct. We do not have the infrastructure to support a mass evacuation, either.
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  - Basically. My mother tried to evacuate Houston when that big hurricane was bearing down on them -- 8 hours and she never made it past city limits.
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- leave...
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- I think that it would be impossible to leave, and many more will probably die in the process. Having said that, I'd at least try.
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- How will all the villagers carry their entire family up a mountain on a bicycle?
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- lol--can you IMAGINE how crowded the routes out of the city would be? Most of us wouldn't make it out. And most of us lucky enough to have the means to escape--many of the people in Myanmar weren't.
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  - so you wouldn't even try?
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    - of course I'd try. But I doubt I'd succeed.
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- Oh yes, because it's always that easy.
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- you seriously have NO understanding about how people in the rest of the world live, do you?
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  - Actually, it's no different here in NYC
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    - except that here in NYC we at least have access to (a) up-to-the-minute communication technology, so we get warnings well in advance, and (b) money and vehicular means to at least make the attempt to escape, even though it would be unlikely we'd succeed.
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      - So the outcome would essentially be the same
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        05.06.08, 10:17 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        
        oh, yes, the outcome would likely be the same. But the decision-making process would have different factors.
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        05.06.08, 10:21 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- you all should move now so I can buy an apt. go somewhere safe
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  - LOL!!! Love this answer!
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    05.06.08, 10:12 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- Packing my shit and moving to Kentucky is what i am doing!
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- I live in new orleans and I say get the hell out of there
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- Conceivably you can walk to the Palisades
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  - Which route would you choose to avoid the other 4 million city residents?
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    05.06.08, 10:14 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- I don't like to live in the hypothetical
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- Off to the country house.
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  - Hope you're a good swimmer
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- well, I have a computer, so I heard about it in advance, I have access to the mainland, and a car to get me there, I also have access to canned food and bottled water. so I go. and you are an idiot if you think the 3rd world lives this way.
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  - LOL. How quickly do you think that car and thousands of other cars will make it to that mainland? You get even get to the Hamptons on a Saturday.
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so there is a GIANT tidal wave that will come in 24 hours - it is serious and evacuation is recommended for NYC dwellers. do you stay and DIE or leave?

Leave

according to the poster below - you should stay and die.

moron. people in that part of the owrld don't have access to cars, places to stay. you are a class A ass

People in the new orleans part of the world had the same problems

How are you going to do that? Private helicopter off roof?

So you would just stay because you may not get out? I would rather die trying to go than sitting home on my ass

It really depends on the topography of where you can get to. In Burma, the entire place is a swamp. So, home might be the best choice.

NP: Not me. Give me a pack of smokes and a few bottles of wine and that's how I would like to go.

omg. do you think you can compare NYC to Burma (or whatever it's called now)?? Really??

do you really know 1 day in advance?

you do realize that a lot of these ppl have no $$ and no way to leave, right?

hmmm, sounds like something that happened about 2 years ago in a place called New Orleans....

or say, Myanmar where 22,000 are dead. Makes NOLA look like a little drizzle

so my choices are to die in my apartment or to die stuck in traffic.

LOL

you're funny

np: She's absolutely correct. We do not have the infrastructure to support a mass evacuation, either.

Basically. My mother tried to evacuate Houston when that big hurricane was bearing down on them -- 8 hours and she never made it past city limits.

leave...

I think that it would be impossible to leave, and many more will probably die in the process. Having said that, I'd at least try.

How will all the villagers carry their entire family up a mountain on a bicycle?

lol--can you IMAGINE how crowded the routes out of the city would be? Most of us wouldn't make it out. And most of us lucky enough to have the means to escape--many of the people in Myanmar weren't.

so you wouldn't even try?

of course I'd try. But I doubt I'd succeed.

Oh yes, because it's always that easy.

you seriously have NO understanding about how people in the rest of the world live, do you?

Actually, it's no different here in NYC

except that here in NYC we at least have access to (a) up-to-the-minute communication technology, so we get warnings well in advance, and (b) money and vehicular means to at least make the attempt to escape, even though it would be unlikely we'd succeed.

So the outcome would essentially be the same

oh, yes, the outcome would likely be the same. But the decision-making process would have different factors.

you all should move now so I can buy an apt. go somewhere safe

LOL!!! Love this answer!

Packing my shit and moving to Kentucky is what i am doing!

I live in new orleans and I say get the hell out of there

Conceivably you can walk to the Palisades

Which route would you choose to avoid the other 4 million city residents?

I don't like to live in the hypothetical

Off to the country house.

Hope you're a good swimmer

well, I have a computer, so I heard about it in advance, I have access to the mainland, and a car to get me there, I also have access to canned food and bottled water. so I go. and you are an idiot if you think the 3rd world lives this way.

LOL. How quickly do you think that car and thousands of other cars will make it to that mainland? You get even get to the Hamptons on a Saturday.

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