Damn, leave it to the Devil himself to make me think he didn't actually do anything.

Welp, since big boys are getting elected to Congress...maybe I'll have a go!

Aye, we went from that gasbag Tom MacArthur to Kim and now we're stuck with professional bench warmer Chris Smith. yay....

One step forward and two steps back...

You know, part of it was definitely this mindset that "oh, Irene wasn't that bad, it's just the news media blowing it out of proportion again!"

In a way, the worst thing that could have happened to us was Irene. I remember we went all out preparing for Irene. We were nervous, the fire department rode around telling us there was a mandatory evacuation, and - in our area - it was a big nothing burger. Power was out for a few days and nothing else happened really. Then a year later Sandy hit and - in the middle of it - we came to the realization that Sandy WAS the real deal. I had water lapping up against the tires of my first ever brand new car. I was convinced I was about to lose it to the surge. Thankfully, the water started receding before that. My neighbors weren't so lucky.

Yeah, I can't say I know where this hate for the NHC is coming from. I do know that there's some debate in the weather enthusiast community as to if Sandy made landfall as a hurricane or extra-tropical storm. Sandy making landfall as a named tropical cyclone would have upped the insurance deductibles a lot of homeowners would have had to pay. I know my deductible is pretty significant if such an event were to occur. It's significant enough to where I would have to weigh making the repairs out of my own pocket or paying the deductible and making a claim. There's a "conspiracy" theory that states the scientists downgraded Sandy to extra-tropical just before landfall under pressure from the government to keep insurance deductibles down. Yeah...I don't know about that one.

Also support banning them outright on public land (you wanna put one on your own lawn, more power to you)

The worst is when the election is well and truly over and you still see them on the side of the road. At what point does it become littering and we can charge the campaigns to remove them?

holy shit...we would have been screwed if he managed to primary smith. That guy is so MAGA, he's spreading Pro-Russian, Anti-Ukraine propaganda on Facebook. Heck he is still attacking Smith like his name is on the ballot.

You say he got creamed, I say those margins weren't big enough...

You know, part of me wonders if this is how we kick someone like Chris Smith out. Rile up the base, run as a radical MAGA Republican in the primary, win that, easily defeat whatever token Democrat usually runs in the 4th district (this year it's some guy who Wawa is threatening to sue because his campaign logo has geese in it and no, I'm not making that up: https://www.inquirer.com/politics/wawa-logo-matt-jenkins-new-jersey-congress-20221004.html ), swap parties, and caucus with Democrats when you get to Congress.

You'd only last 1 term and you wouldn't get any decent committee appointments because no one in either party would trust you but you could make Chris Smith fuck off for a bit.