Yeah, I actually came to post something similar. CNN, 9Gag, Facebook, our national news, almost all of the reporting on this is "Oh my God Americans are suffering right now! It's so horrible!" conveniently leaving out the other people suffering worse.
Agreed that media coverage isn't necessarily reflective of what the actual populace is feeling or experiencing. If anything, in person, I've heard more people realize how bad things were/are in Canada because of it's reach. More so than just the news reports on the fires.
The news reports we’re seeing here, just the network feed repeated on local news, it all comes across as “it’s so horrible here in NY, look how bad the sky looks, the smoke is from some wildfires in Canada, but the wind is blowing all the smoke here and it’s so horrible; and we can’t do anything about it and the Yankees might have to postpone some games because of it, and the shows on Broadway are worries about lowered attendance. This is just so horrible for NY.” And of course by NY they only mean NYC because the rest of the state is possibly imaginary.
As someone who lives in the mythical not-NYC part of New York, it’s also not nearly as bad here as it is there (though it’s still pretty bad).
You and your homeowners insurance got very lucky.
My liability coverage was enough to cover the car if had come to that. But being without a car even for the short term sucks balls
“Throw a bucket of ice up into the air and it’s boiling by the time it hits the ground!”
Likely from all the Hurricanes. They tend to spawn a lot when the system dies or hits land.
