Thread: Is Gov. Christie dumb?

History has taught us that inland flooding is the number one cause for loss of life from tropical cyclones. Gov. Chris Christie forced more than 1 million people from a safer Jersey Shore region to inland flooding zones.

At least 45 deaths have been attributed to the storm, including that of a 50-year-old man who was sucked into a sewer pipe on Wednesday while trying to drain his property in Lawrence Township, N.J.

Originally Posted by basionok

History has taught us that inland flooding is the number one cause for loss of life from tropical cyclones. Gov. Chris Christie forced more than 1 million people from a safer Jersey Shore region to inland flooding zones.

At least 45 deaths have been attributed to the storm, including that of a 50-year-old man who was sucked into a sewer pipe on Wednesday while trying to drain his property in Lawrence Township, N.J.

Is he dumb for ordering the evacuation of the shorline as a hurricane approched the shore? No. What was he supposed to do, evacuate the entire state of New Jersey?

He was a bit, shall we say, motherly in his rhetoric.

Originally Posted by Commodore

He was a bit, shall we say, motherly in his rhetoric.

Oh, I don't know about that... Mom would never say 'get the hell off the beach!'

Dad might... but not Mom...

Originally Posted by tsquare

Oh, I don't know about that... Mom would never say 'get the hell off the beach!'

Dad might... but not Mom...

My mom would have. Probably followed up with "What the hell were you thinking?"

Originally Posted by Sluggo

My mom would have. Probably followed up with "What the hell were you thinking?"

My Mom would not have said 'hell' She would have said:

"What EVER were you thinking?"

Does the OP author think that we are dumb? He tries to make it appear that all 45 deaths were in NJ, and all in areas deemed safe by the governor.

You gotta figure that Christie made his proclamation to get off of the beach with the best hurricane track information the weather men could provide him.

Unfortunately, predicting the weather, and hurricanes in particular, is not an exact science, so to answer the OP, "No, he wasn't".

Hey, if Governor Christie was dumb for ordering the evacuations, you'd think the smart Democrats would have done their civic duty and ordered everyone in New Jersey to evacuate to the shores, where Lord Obama would lower the waters to save them all.

This, by the way, is one of the lamest threads I've seen on here.

Gov. Chris Christie screwed up and now is itching for federal aid. Instead ordering the evacuations, he should have been better prepared to fix power lines, roads and bridges. Around 150,000 in New Jersey are still without power and some communities remain flooded. The storm killed seven people in the state.

"New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie joined calls for immediate increases to the FEMA disaster aid budget in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, slamming fellow Republicans such as House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Va.) who have called for additional funds to be offset by equivalent spending cuts.

“Our people are suffering now, and they need support now. And [Congress] can all go down there and get back to work and figure out budget cuts later. You’re going to turn it into a fiasco like that debt-limit thing where you’re fighting with each other for eight or nine weeks and you expect the citizens of my state to wait?,” Christie said. “They’re not gonna wait, and I’m going to fight to make sure that they don’t. I don’t want to hear about the fact that offsetting budget cuts have to come first before New Jersey citizens are taken care of.”
Christie slams calls to offset Irene disaster aid - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room