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Hurricane Center Off Target
Tampa Tribune Online
| 8/16/04
| tbpiper
Posted on 08/16/2004 11:08:09 AM PDT by tbpiper
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Not only do we have to suffer the aftermath of a major hurricane, we have to suffer fools like this.
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.
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posted on
08/16/2004 11:08:11 AM PDT
by
tbpiper
To: tbpiper
This guy is a complete and utter maroon.
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posted on
08/16/2004 11:09:55 AM PDT
by
Leatherneck_MT
(Goodnight Chesty, wherever you may be.)
To: tbpiper
This guy has to be a Democrat.
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.
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posted on
08/16/2004 11:10:08 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Forget Berger's socks - has ANYONE searched his skin folds for classified documents?)
To: tbpiper
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posted on
08/16/2004 11:10:37 AM PDT
by
Lunatic Fringe
(This tagline was censored by freerepublic.com!)
To: tbpiper
Dumba$$ Alert!
[Tom Wilkinson, not you tbpiper]
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posted on
08/16/2004 11:10:52 AM PDT
by
RebelBanker
(Now I understand! "Allah" is Arabic for "Satan.")
To: tbpiper
....."At worst, the forecasters of the National Hurricane Center may have been criminally incompetent.
"..........
SIT DOWN AND STFU! IDIOT!
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posted on
08/16/2004 11:12:03 AM PDT
by
aShepard
To: tbpiper
We knew it would come to this - It's Bush's fault.
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posted on
08/16/2004 11:12:05 AM PDT
by
tirednvirginia
((But things are looking up!))
To: tbpiper
Where is the insufferable fool alert?
The same people who readily accept that the weather man is not able to tell them if it is going to rain, quickly assume that the same weather people can predict the path of a hurricane - simply amazing.
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posted on
08/16/2004 11:12:13 AM PDT
by
taxcontrol
(People are entitled to their opinion - no matter how wrong it is.)
To: mhking; Howlin; MineralMan; Dog Gone; Pyro7480; nwctwx
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posted on
08/16/2004 11:12:17 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Forget Berger's socks - has ANYONE searched his skin folds for classified documents?)
To: tbpiper
Perhaps we can find capable and dependable meteorologists 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.
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posted on
08/16/2004 11:12:35 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: tbpiper
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? 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.
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posted on
08/16/2004 11:12:54 AM PDT
by
pgkdan
To: tbpiper
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? 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. :-)
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posted on
08/16/2004 11:13:33 AM PDT
by
commish
(Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
To: tbpiper
Nearly the entire west coast of FL was under the gun, the forecast maps showed the warning area clearly, and the actual landfall was well within that warning area.
People who didn't take it seriously or just hoped it wouldn't come near them took that chance and should live with it.
To: tbpiper
The author writer is an unqualified idiot moron cretin, and probably a liberal-demokkkRAT, to boot.
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posted on
08/16/2004 11:14:05 AM PDT
by
7.62 x 51mm
(• Veni • Vidi • Vino • Visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
To: tbpiper
It's OK.
The next time the NHS says here comes hurricane Tom, headed straight for Valrico, this guy won't believe them. He'll stay right at home.
Trouble is, some emergency worker might have to risk his neck to find him.
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posted on
08/16/2004 11:14:09 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: tbpiper
Next he'll be wanting us to predict the exact paths of tornadoes.
Moron.
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posted on
08/16/2004 11:14:40 AM PDT
by
brothers4thID
(We are going to take from you to provide for the common good)
To: tbpiper
"However, the actions of the National Hurricane Center need to be questioned and scrutinized"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?
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posted on
08/16/2004 11:14:54 AM PDT
by
MEGoody
(Flush the Johns - vote Bush/Cheney 04)
To: tbpiper
The wrong people always end up with a front porch lodged in their forehead because of hurricans.
To: dirtboy
Its predictions and forecasts were, at best, wildly inaccurate.I'd agree with him if the hurricane had come ashore in California last Friday. This guy is quite the pantsload.
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posted on
08/16/2004 11:15:17 AM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: tbpiper
This guy is a nutcase. He must think hurricane prediction is as easy and fool proof as predicting that the sun will rise tomorrow.
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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posted on
08/16/2004 11:15:30 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(John John Kerry Edwards change positions more often than a Nevada prostitute!!!)
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