In London, of all places.
We’ll probably see a lot more of this in the northeast as autumn goes to winter.
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Potempkin VillageBy lex, on October 29th, 2011
October 29th, 2011 | Tags: buffoonery | Category: buffoonery
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Same will happen here with those harsh infamous Chicago winters. The freeloaders are staying in Grant Park/Millenium right next door to Lake Michigan. Just wait till those very cold and harsh winds AND the lake effect snows!
They should go at night and remove any tent that isn’t occupied…easy enough to clean up when nobody is around.
And, our Northeast is having a winter storm this weekend – it will be interesting to see what happens to the OWS crowd when the reality of freezing weather sets in.
Good thing they didn’t start this whole mess in Sandy Eggo…
…My understanding is that it’s been snowing in NYC fairly heavily today. Oh, and the NYPD/NYFD did ‘fire hazard’ raids last night, confiscating generators and fuel.
Might get just a tetch cold there in the Big Apple tonight.
Mike
Yes, the weather is pretty ugly here today. On Long Island we had some snow mixed in with the rain but it’s mostly rain and strong winds. It’s not Nome in January cold, but it is wet and cold. Perfect for the tough OWS types.
Yep -even with the right gear that type of REAL cold, not the “oh it’s 40 degrees cold”, is a challenge.
I would say good luck OWS, but I would not mean it.
Empty tents – empty headed idiots – cheered on by the empty headed fool in the White House…Did I miss anything??
Empty ideology.
Bravo Sir. Well played.
Ever tired to sleep in a wet cheap sleeping bag?
Bet the OWS crowd is very unprepared for this..
I’ve tried to sleep in wet pricey sleeping bag. It ain’t fun either way.
OWS was doomed once cold weather set in. I never believed they would last. A bunch of babies are all they are.
“We’ll probably see a lot more of this in the northeast as autumn goes to winter.”
It just did. 33 degrees, 20kt wind out of the north, snowing like mad.
I hope they all end up with cholera.
The original story is bad journalism at best, and a series of lies at worst.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/26/occupy-london-tents-rubbish-science
http://alexhern.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/9-out-of-10-tents-are-empty-bullshit/
I’m sure that there is plenty of scope for criticism of the protests without resorting to this.
Sorry, ErrolC, but don’t have much use for anonymous “experts.”
…One of my first reactions was “What? Tent materials are now a perfect insulator?” Unless he meant something else by saying “tent materials are almost always opaque to thermal imaging.” That translates to “the tent materials block heat images.”
Won’t even comment on the wordpress blog post, as that individual has no discernible knowledge or expertise in the subject field. I remind you of the aphorism about opinions…
Since then similar imagery has been taken of New York and there is a clear difference. Given that most tents sold now belong to global brands ,I can’t see the US tents being less insulated / thermally opaque than the UK ones – certainly not for those sold on the East coast anyway!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2055044/Occupy-Wall-Street-Protesters-toughing-coldest-temperatures-New-York-City–thermal-images-Zuccotti-Park-tents-occupied.html
@ErrolC…..and you can tell if the ‘expert’ is actually what he says he is? My opinion is that either side could be full of BS, based on the info provided in that article. But if I was one of those idiot OWS slackards, I would most certainly slip out the back and head for a nice warm hotel/pub for the night.
The fact that it’s from the Guardian sets my BS meter clicking, the fact that they don’t name their expert pegs the needle, and his argument snaps the peg and turns the damn thing into a helicopter.
The images clearly show occupied and unoccupied tents, furthermore the whole point of a tent is to trap a bubble of air that your body can warm. That air is going to heat the fabric, which will then radiate in the IR. An occupied tent at equilibrium is going to emit ~900 mW no matter what kind of sleeping bag they’re using. Thermodynamics is your friend.
This “expert” says you’d need to jack the sensitivity way up, but then why do some tents appear to be occupied?
All this rests on the tents being at equilibrium. If the tent is recently occupied it’s going to look empty. So they’re going to be under counting the number of occupied tents. If the pictures are taken at 8PM, when people are still moving around and visiting with tent flaps open the under count will be significant. If the pictures are from 2-3 am they’ll be much more accurate.
A tent will block the IR radiated from a human, as shown in the one pic he has on the post. I’d expect the same if he were holding a flashlight and it was slipped down where the tent was between the camera and the light. That, however, does not explain why some tents show as occupied and others don’t. Your post does that.
The tent material will block the IR from a human, but the tent fabric itself will also radiate IR simply because it’s being warmed by the air inside the tent, which in turn is being warmed by the occupant.
Something that has occurred to me. Do the London protesters have space heaters? I know the NYFD confiscated all the fire hazards at Wall St. Has something similar happened in London, or should the headline more properly read “9 in 10 tents at Occupy London lack space heaters”?
Fire hoses. No direct hard stream. Nice gentle spray. Just enough to get them good and soaked.
Further irony is that these imbeciles are being brought to hospitals all over the NE with hypothermia. Where somebody else (the 53%) will pay for their care and treatment. And if they have to stay overnight, they will be warm and clean and fed. All to save them from their own stupidity. Which seems a very apt metaphor for the entire addle-headed group of lazy sheep.
When you eliminate the Darwinian culling of the stoopid members of the herd, decline is inevitable.
So, let me get this straight. As a member of the 53% I get to pay to clean up the mess left behind, pay for the medical bills of these poor sots with Hypothermia, and feel guilty aboot (that’s Canadian) not doing my fair share when I go to work on Monday to uh, um, earn a living and feed my chillern? Am I missing something? ….. I has a tent..where do I sign up to “join” the 99%???
Remember, being a liberal means never having to say “that’s my responsibility.”
I like the bit where the police cannot remove the unoccupied tents because it would deny the free speech rights of people who are not there speaking. And it allowed to block the use of a public place by the rest of the public – St. Paul’s Cathedral.