Get the hell off the beach!

“I saw some of these news feeds that I have been watching upstairs of people sitting on the beach in Asbury Park,” said Christie. “Get the hell off the beach in Asbury Park and get out–you’re done, it’s 4:30–you have maximized your tan, get off the beach, get in your cars and get out of those areas.”

New Jersey Governor Christie and NYC Mayor Bloomberg are taking heat for their hard-core evacuation and emergency shutdowns of their respective fiefdoms. Some are saying they should have taken their information from the National Weather Service and not the media hype known as the Weather Channel.

They made the proper decisions. What sort of fallout would we have seen had they not been stern, and Irene turned out to be a Katrina of the Northeast?