When the Frankenstorm coverage jumped the shark

After they reported that the New York Stock Exchange trading floor was buried under three feet of water, and it turned out to be a fake story (probably something someone made up on Twitter), I turned off the television.

Comments

[Peter]

Another story that circulated for a while said there was four feet of water in the East River subway tunnels. The MTA had to tweet a clarification, namely that there was four feet of water in a lower Manhattan subway station. The tunnels have yet to be checked, so any flooding remains unknown.

[James McKeane]

Yet they'll most certainly brush aside the burglaries and rapes that are bound to happen in NAM infested neighborhoods.

[An Unmarried Man]

I tuned this story out the minute some wise-ass reporter came up with the "Frankenstorm" moniker.

[HS: Actually, someone from the National Weather Service made it up.]

[Dr. Grzlickson]

Will you still do posts mocking climate change whenever it snows this winter?

[dearieme]

Can you explain why NYC has left its subway syatem vulnerable to flooding? Perhaps the risk is thought to be too infrequent to be economic to deal with?

[Thames]

--Can you explain why NYC has left its subway syatem vulnerable to flooding? Perhaps the risk is thought to be too infrequent to be economic to deal with?--

Perhaps because it is impossible to keep the subway system impermeable, you stupid git.

[Wade Nichols]

"probably something someone made up on Twitter"

Or maybe it was one of those Howard Stern fans named "Bob O'Booey".