Posted on 08/16/2004 11:08:09 AM PDT by tbpiper
During Hurricane Charley, the local authorities throughout Florida performed superbly and courageously, and every resident of the state should be grateful.
However, the actions of the National Hurricane Center need to be questioned and scrutinized. Its predictions and forecasts were, at best, wildly inaccurate. At worst, the forecasters of the National Hurricane Center may have been criminally incompetent.
We have all heard that no one can predict what a hurricane will do. If predictions cannot be relied upon, then why issue them? Why did they issue forecasts that Tampa Bay would be struck, thereby causing millions of people outside the Tampa Bay area to assume they were safe, when in fact they were in great danger?
Once the dust settles and we begin to reconstruct what went wrong, it should become clear that the National Hurricane Center displayed an incompetence so profound that the resignations of the director and staff of the center should be called for. Perhaps we can find capable and dependable meteorologists and scientists to do the job rather than the staff we have now, which apparently can only mimic what the computer models say.
The intelligence agencies of this nation are undergoing a complete overhaul since 9/11. Hurricane Charley will be the 9/11 for the National Weather Service in general and the National Hurricane Center in particular.
TOM WILKINSON, Valrico
Valrico is a little community just east of Tampa. I'm just a little farther east myself and all we got, like this guy, was a little wet. Imagine what he would have said if Tampa had actually gotten hit.
This guy is a complete and utter maroon.
Once the dust settles and we begin to reconstruct what went wrong, it should become clear that the National Hurricane Center displayed an incompetence so profound that the resignations of the director and staff of the center should be called for.
The eventual landfall was well within the zone of uncertainty of the forecast track.
Idiot.
Dumba$$ Alert!
[Tom Wilkinson, not you tbpiper]
....."At worst, the forecasters of the National Hurricane Center may have been criminally incompetent.
"..........
SIT DOWN AND STFU! IDIOT!
We knew it would come to this - It's Bush's fault.
Check out this maroon.
If you can find them, you'll be the first ever. If meteorologists can't predict rain during a 24 hour stretch, they'll never pinpoint hurricane paths.
This guy is an idiot! The Hurricane Warnings wwent from Tampa south to Key West. When you'e in a hurricane warning area the only sensible thing to do is to act as though that monster is coming straight at YOUR house and prepare accordingly. Nobody should have assumed that they were safe.
THe NHC NEVER said Tampa was going to be struck you ignorant Buffoon. They issued a forecast track that said that Tampa had the highest PRobablility of Landfall, but that the Storm could move in any direction and ALL PEOPLE IN THE PATH SHOULD MAKE PREPARATIONS.
It was your precious Moron Media that said TAmpa Tamp Tampa you whiney little snot.
Gee I hope that wasn't too over the top. I can never tell. :-)
People who didn't take it seriously or just hoped it wouldn't come near them took that chance and should live with it.
Trouble is, some emergency worker might have to risk his neck to find him.
Next he'll be wanting us to predict the exact paths of tornadoes.
Moron.
What a crock. Apparently, this idiot has never watched the weather forecasters discuss how difficult it is to accurately forecast the exact path of a hurricane. Why does this fool think they forecast using a 'cone' to show potential areas of landfall?
The wrong people always end up with a front porch lodged in their forehead because of hurricans.
I'd agree with him if the hurricane had come ashore in California last Friday. This guy is quite the pantsload.
Heck, meteorologists have a hard enough time predicting weather day-to-day.
There have been many times that I have shoveled 6 inches of "clear and sunny" off my front porch steps......
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