you make it seem like natural disasters are easy to predict down to the precise movements and effects for eacn individual.
i'd love to see that app or service you're making, sounds really powerful. dare i say clairvoyant?
http://fox41blogs.typepad.com/wdrb_weather/2012/10/could-a-s...
Jeff Master's Blog is excellent as well: http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/article.html
And yeah, I was born in NYC. We're tough.
It's important to not only empathize with things you could believe personally might happen to you, but also to the millions of others who you might know.
Maybe someone has updated their YC several times. But they also haven't heard from a family member in 24 hours in Manhattan.
I don't need proof that we knew the storm was coming, I'm just asking you to put yourself in other people's shoes and anticipate that maybe things are bigger and more out of control than we think.
Equating human tragedy with an application to YC is inane. It's an application, that's all it is. Apply next time. Or drop a note to pg with an explanation if it's that important to you.