So many opinions flying around by newscasters. A lot of misinformation causing problems. Latest fun fact that this storm is going to be worse than Hugo.
That's exactly it. I've been so confused the more I listen to these people. I know storms can be tricky to predict but they've changed their models so much and it seems to be worse with every storm.
So basically all meteorologists can do is observe and report. Prediction methods are still junk science.
They absolutely salivate at destruction and heartache/break. It sells. I immediately think of Don Henley's song "Dirty Laundry".
I know and agree but their models are so confusing. One model has me barely getting any floods (if any flooding) and another model has me losing power just like the people on the coast of NC and I'm in the middle of SC!
it is larger than Hugo I heard. Which is why large rain accumulation is coming to inland areas.
I'm not understanding how you are coming to the conclusion that while the storm downgrades you are blaming the media for this.
We were joking in my office this morning about how the media here in NC leads with sensational quotes like "residents think this could be the storm of the century!" But the residents only think that because the media is telling them/us that Florence could be the storm of the century.
Every storm is now "the storm of the century, lifetime, millennium, etc". It's gotten old. They act like a hurricane during hurricane season is something shocking and rare. They hype up all these storms and 99% of the time they dont live up to the hype and we become numb to it.
Im blaming them for always hyping these things to the point that every storm is "the storm of a lifetime!". They said the same thing during the last hurricane and the one before that and the one before that. It's all about ratings now more than getting out the best information so you can be informed. They live to terrify people over nothing.
The size is larger (which usually means more rain) but the winds will be nothing like Hugo.
I agree they hype them up a bit sometimes, but go visit Puerto Rico and see if those folks agree with you.
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People were freaking out here in Charlotte.
but these are same folks who tell what the temperature will be 200 years from now.. They tells us if we submit to their communist taxes and regulations they can cool the earth by .03 degrees by the year 2100... I know they are full of shit!! My question is why does anyone believe them..
Our infrastructure is MUCH stronger and advanced than PR as well. They also didn't really have anywhere to retreat too. I know storms can get bad, really bad. My issue is not every storm can be the storm of a lifetime though because eventually that's going to fall on deaf ears. Many people also can't uproot themselves at the whim of the media and afford to be away for a week or more. Hugo was bad and to me that was a once in a lifetime storm, just like the ice storm we had a couple years ago but that doesn't mean every time it freezes and rains that that's the same result. Now every storm is going to flood the world because we had that bad flood and its fresh on people's minds.
The less cataclysmic the event, the harder it is to use it to puff the cause of climate change, formerly global warming.
Watch the camera they have on that big pier in NC. They are acting like it's a live feed but it isn't, they keep replaying the same 10 seconds over and over. Look real close. One big wave hit it and it rocked some, it took me several times of watching it and I was like "hmmm that wave looks the same as the one before.....wait a min that IS the same wave!"
Right, the one I sat in to watch the Holtz debut in Raleigh, and lived through it, thank you very much.
My beef is with the impetuous decision-making. Precisely because we have better information available now, some of the earlier machinations might have been deferred for at least a day - and altered.
Well, it does affect the South which isn't the nat'l media's favorite region. Tuned out the liberal nat'l media years ago. They have an agenda and they push it 24/7.
Now that's funny.
It's next to impossible to predict what these storms are going to do. I seem to remember them missing on several storms leading up to Hugo. People didn't seem to take Hugo too seriously. I remember people on the news at Edisto Beach saying they were having a hurricane party. SMH
Exactly. Check out the forecasts from SCDNR. Much more reasonable and sane.
Why don't you head to Wilmington tough guy. I bet you wouldn't be calling it a gnat fart.
