That is possible. Since they seem so rare, anything's a possibility. That doesn't mean there isn't tropical storm hits on our mainland in June. Certainly there have been some. Agnes was the terrible storm that was a brief Cat 1 at landfall in the Florida Panhandle that went up the coast, turned inward and caused all that flooding rain, bursting a dam in Corning, N.Y. and forever changing my hometown of Elmira due to a damaging flash flood. Elmira has NEVER been the same since; their city lost population; their leaders don't build anything really new, crime has soared in Elmira. Many ruined businesses didn't come back from the '72 Flood. Elmira will NEVER be the same ever again.
Oh that is so horrible. I am sorry to hear of such destruction. My original home town of Pontiac, Michigan was a pretty little town with the Clinton River running through it when I was a child. A fairly safe place as even as children of 10 we were able to take the bus downtown alone to go to movies and window shop (didn't have money for much). My town's disaster was economic rather than natural. General Motors had several plants in the city so our economy was booming. Then the closed Fisher Body, followed by the foundry. A few years later Pontiac Motors closed. By then a lot of local businesses had closed, downtown lost all of its major department stores and theaters. It became a dive bar wasteland, the river had been covered up and built over. People were leaving in droves. There had been over 30,000 students when I was young. By 2014 when I left Michigan there were under 5000 and most of the schools were closed. The library used to have satellites but they were long gone and the main had thousands less books than when I graduated in 1970. GM Truck and Coach was the last plant to close then the Detroit Lions broke their agreement with the Sillverdome and moved to Detroit causing more loss of income. It had started to recover when some Hollywood studios decided to make pictures there with tax breaks from the state but that didn't last long as former Governor Snyder cut that out and they left. The city went bankrupt after the downturn in 2008, they gave up their police department and cut fire department services down. The crime rate soared. I had moved back into Pontiac after decades away in 1994 and it was a pretty and pleasant neighborhood but well before I left it too had become crime ridden. It was why I fled to south Florida in 14. I've seen videos of the town now and it is pretty much a ghost town in comparison. to even 15 years ago. It will never recover and I never want to go back to see how bad it has become..
That's a very sad story to hear. So this downturn started in the 60's with the closing of those auto plants.......Sounds like the auto industry was their economic lifeline. Had i lived there, I wouldn't want to return either. Look at Detroit.........I've seen comparisons between how Hiroshima Japan was rebuilt after the war, and in the same decades after the war Detroit actually SHRANK and became kind of a run-down dump. Yeah, I guess Pontiac sounds like what happened to Detroit. Meanwhile, Hiroshima Japan, and Nagasaki became thriving big cities after the war.
Fisher Body and the foundry closed in the 60s, the others in the late 70s to 80s. I think Truck and Coach was around 2000. I kind of consider Pontiac a mini Detroit now but at least Detroit has some parts that are still great. I loved and really miss going to the theater district, the museums, Corktown, Greektown and Mexican Village. I never had a problem going to any of those areas and I often went alone and at night. Not all of Detroit is bad.
Glad to hear there are STILL some good spots in Detroit, as long as you know where those are but would you still go alone at night? You would have back in the day. Try doing that in Chicago, where you might be pretty lucky if you didn't get shot or shot AT. It's a mess in a city like Chicago, unless you like going to fun stuff like the Cubs and White Sox, where you can still have a good time watching baseball games. Same with New York City where the Yanks and the Mets play.
I did it right up until I left in 2014 and some of my friends still do and never have any problems. If you know the city and are careful then you can have a great time quite safely there The two fairly new stadiums for the Lions and Tigers are close to the theater district but I'm not a sports fan so would never have gone there. All those areas are easily accessed by major freeways that are very close to them so you don't have to go through more dangerous areas of the city.
I hope that record continues for another 37 years.
That is possible. Since they seem so rare, anything's a possibility. That doesn't mean there isn't tropical storm hits on our mainland in June. Certainly there have been some. Agnes was the terrible storm that was a brief Cat 1 at landfall in the Florida Panhandle that went up the coast, turned inward and caused all that flooding rain, bursting a dam in Corning, N.Y. and forever changing my hometown of Elmira due to a damaging flash flood. Elmira has NEVER been the same since; their city lost population; their leaders don't build anything really new, crime has soared in Elmira. Many ruined businesses didn't come back from the '72 Flood. Elmira will NEVER be the same ever again.
Oh that is so horrible. I am sorry to hear of such destruction. My original home town of Pontiac, Michigan was a pretty little town with the Clinton River running through it when I was a child. A fairly safe place as even as children of 10 we were able to take the bus downtown alone to go to movies and window shop (didn't have money for much). My town's disaster was economic rather than natural. General Motors had several plants in the city so our economy was booming. Then the closed Fisher Body, followed by the foundry. A few years later Pontiac Motors closed. By then a lot of local businesses had closed, downtown lost all of its major department stores and theaters. It became a dive bar wasteland, the river had been covered up and built over. People were leaving in droves. There had been over 30,000 students when I was young. By 2014 when I left Michigan there were under 5000 and most of the schools were closed. The library used to have satellites but they were long gone and the main had thousands less books than when I graduated in 1970. GM Truck and Coach was the last plant to close then the Detroit Lions broke their agreement with the Sillverdome and moved to Detroit causing more loss of income. It had started to recover when some Hollywood studios decided to make pictures there with tax breaks from the state but that didn't last long as former Governor Snyder cut that out and they left. The city went bankrupt after the downturn in 2008, they gave up their police department and cut fire department services down. The crime rate soared. I had moved back into Pontiac after decades away in 1994 and it was a pretty and pleasant neighborhood but well before I left it too had become crime ridden. It was why I fled to south Florida in 14. I've seen videos of the town now and it is pretty much a ghost town in comparison. to even 15 years ago. It will never recover and I never want to go back to see how bad it has become..
That's a very sad story to hear. So this downturn started in the 60's with the closing of those auto plants.......Sounds like the auto industry was their economic lifeline. Had i lived there, I wouldn't want to return either. Look at Detroit.........I've seen comparisons between how Hiroshima Japan was rebuilt after the war, and in the same decades after the war Detroit actually SHRANK and became kind of a run-down dump. Yeah, I guess Pontiac sounds like what happened to Detroit. Meanwhile, Hiroshima Japan, and Nagasaki became thriving big cities after the war.
Fisher Body and the foundry closed in the 60s, the others in the late 70s to 80s. I think Truck and Coach was around 2000. I kind of consider Pontiac a mini Detroit now but at least Detroit has some parts that are still great. I loved and really miss going to the theater district, the museums, Corktown, Greektown and Mexican Village. I never had a problem going to any of those areas and I often went alone and at night. Not all of Detroit is bad.
Glad to hear there are STILL some good spots in Detroit, as long as you know where those are but would you still go alone at night? You would have back in the day. Try doing that in Chicago, where you might be pretty lucky if you didn't get shot or shot AT. It's a mess in a city like Chicago, unless you like going to fun stuff like the Cubs and White Sox, where you can still have a good time watching baseball games. Same with New York City where the Yanks and the Mets play.
I did it right up until I left in 2014 and some of my friends still do and never have any problems. If you know the city and are careful then you can have a great time quite safely there The two fairly new stadiums for the Lions and Tigers are close to the theater district but I'm not a sports fan so would never have gone there. All those areas are easily accessed by major freeways that are very close to them so you don't have to go through more dangerous areas of the city.