Posted on 08/29/2011 3:32:47 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Yes the media does hype stories and weather.Everyone is sick of watching Cantore pick the wrong worst place to report in Hurricanes.
I just got off of a generator with minimal things powered since Friday.I am in NC and I am just now catching up to NC/local news.People came back today to no homes whatsoever.The tobacco farmers lost they're crops to a tune of 16 milliom in losses in one county so far. The JOKER Purdue has not toured completely to asseses. There are people right now without water,electric and the temps have returned to very hot and humid.I just wanted to remind everyone that just because the weather channel is probably still trying to dig ever so hard to find suffering from Irene in NYC. NC and I heard Vermont are indeed suffering.
Exactly well said. I got 85 mile an hour winds from that cat 2, evacuated 30 miles inland.
I am so sorry for your problems. What offended me was the East Coast media elite’s hysteria because it was happening to THEM! Oh the humanity. They’ve never whipped themselves into such a state for flyover country or monopolized the airways for so many days over weather in the south, southwest, midwest, west, etc. But at no time did I lose sympathy for anybody who was truly affected. Hope things get back to normal for you sooner rather than later.
In Texas in 1998 and 2001, tropical storms sucked up moisture from the gulf for 8 days and dropped 20 inches of rain on us in less than ten hours...thousands of people’s home underwater. We lost 20 people within a radius of 50 miles, not the whole freaking eastern seaboard. In 2002 the clouds burst and dumped 32 inches of rain on us and we had houses stacked up on top of each other for over 100 miles upstream and down stream, and we lost 33 people within the same 50 mile radius, again, not the whole eastern seaboard. In my housing addition alone, we lost 75 homes.
Not a politician one standing up trying to look relevant and important, and barely a warning on tv. And there was a lot of suffering and power outages.
The point is, this was totally hyped by the Oblame-o press corpse so that would look like he was taking a leadership position, when we all know he hasn’t a clue. And of course Bloomberg was almost hysterical and looked like a fool.
We can just all be thankful that it putzed out before it hit land and there was not greater suffering.
THAT said....you can't, and no one can tell me...some or much of the pub on this was NOT politically driven.
The MSM is IN THE TANK FOR THE DEMOCRATS....
DO YOU NOT KNOW THIS???
In the MSM...the N.E. rules period.
As a life long sports fan...who grew up on the West coast...I came to see the bias pretty fast.
That bias still exists to this day...
When you inject politics into the equation...you get a near TOTAL LEFTIST slant to everything.
I have a generator and am using it sparingly. Just enough to keep the meat frozen and the milk cold. Showers too.
I think Rush went too far today.
I won’t say the media overhyped the storm, but what I will say is they lied about it, continuously, for the entire duration of it.
SC may have had a hurricane, but none of the other states did. The other states had a Tropical Storm, period. The numbers don’t lie, but all of the networks did.
It just wouldn’t do for NYC to ONLY get hit by a Tropical Storm, so they kept the hurricane label even though the numbers didn’t jibe.
That’s a real dumb question.
It appears that the public schools in North Carolina do not teach spelling and grammar.
As usual, the media focused on NEW YORK, ignoring the real devastation in North Carolina. I live in southern New Jersey...yes, we had damage especially at the shore but I think what people are upset about is NOT that they hyped the NC hurricane..but that they focused on places that the “media” think are most important, i.e New York and Washington
The information the news media broadcast about the storm, its path and its intensity - while it was happening and while they had realtime data - was simply incorrect. Either they were wrong and my community was not in the path of the eye or the eye passed over my community 5 hours ahead of schedule.
Also, many of the "Irene deaths" were idiots committing suicide and were not really the fault of the storm - the death stats have really been inflated. For example the clown who decided it was a good idea to go camping in a copse of large trees during a hurricane, or the teen who thought putting on a seatbelt was not cool and who was thrown from a car in an accident during the storm while the other three belted people inside the car were treated for bumps and bruises.
Over-hyping depends a lot on who’s ox is being gored. If you’re in the path, there is no over-hyping.I suppose if you watch TV 24/7 everything is over-hyped. I read the live thread here and saw a lot of storm envy types with nothing to add to the discussion other than “my storm was bigger”. I wasn’t near the storm and was wanting to see first person accounts, but the jerks hijacked the thread
Didn’t watch CNN, TWC or FOX even. What I saw here were people who probably never rode out a hurricane in their life comparing it to Camile, Andrew ad nauseum. As of latest count, by the way, it has killed nearly twice as many as Andrew and the flooding in VT isn’t over yet
Can you reply to any of the post?
It was also not comparable to the hurricane that pretty much shut down Galveston Island a few years ago.
Yeah it wasn’t comparable. Irene wasn’t nearly as potent wind wise. Ike also didn’t move down the coastline to the east a thousand or so miles pushing storm surge the entire way. Apples and oranges
I know people here make fun of Vermonters, but there are a lot of good, hardworking families there.
Last I heard there are Americans living there. I hope you endure these “over-hyped” floods and come back stronger. Over-hyped is over-blown.
I live in NH and we were supposed to get 60-80 mph, right up until Sunday morning.
In a way it was like Katrina, because there was more damage from water than from wind. Floods kill more people than any other weather event.
Good grief. The storm was over hyped to the max.
Guess it depends on how much TV you were watching and where you were in relation to the storm.I’m in the mid-south and didn’t get the over-hype stuff at all. If it’s hitting you it’s not over-hyped. It hit NC,VA, MD,Del, RI,DC,Philly,NY,Boston and the rest of New England. Cat 1 or not, that is a substantial number of people affected by floods and tornadoes
You are blessed. I live in NH, and I lost power for twenty minutes...in addition; the wind bent the stems on several of my tomato plants.
According to the NBC evening News this evening VA, MD, and DE did not get hit with this storm. It skipped straight from NC to NJ.
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