Posted on 08/29/2011 3:32:47 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Kinda makes one wonder how bad the ‘500 year’ flood of Tennessee was, eh?
Oh nevermind, that barely got media coverage...
The one in Nashville got plenty of coverage. The one the same day in west TN got zero and was as bad or worse. A lot of this over-hype stuff is just coverage envy
What offended me was the East Coast media elite’s hysteria because it was happening to THEM!
If you’ve ever lived in hurricane territory, the local media goes 24/7 nuts on your area. The local media in this case was DC, Philly, NY, and Boston. I saw it on the Texas Gulf coast so many times when a storm was anywhere near and never even had a drop of rain. But if you’re there, it is important to know
It was not a hurricane it was a tropical storm. I did not say it wasn’t bad, I have been in several really bad storms myself, however this constant update, hysterics was over the top.
Pun intended? lol
I am not in Vermont, my parents are. And, they are fine. A lot of areas around them were flooded.
Shame on you, anti-hypers! Shame!!!
Irene was not a Hurricane once it reached the USA, had it been a cat4 or even a cat3 then the damage that was done in some areas would have been, much, much worse. Most areas suffered little or no damage, not even flooding to any extent. Yep there were a few deaths and some flooding and trees blown down in some areas. Nothing that should have deserved the hype the media put out. I am sorry if you had damage but the truth is, it is nothing compared to what the media was hyping. Plus, they continued the hype once Irene made landfall and was downgraded to a tropical storm. They were so full of sh** that people just naturally got tired of it and bitched about the hype, and hype it was.
Better to over prepare and have the event be less than it could have been.
The whole purpose in preparation was to minimize loss or property and people; I thought.
Why did you keep watching? I watched none of it, except to check in on the live thread to get first hand stuff on FR
On the radio every fifteen minutes there was someone giving an update. If you did watch TV, top and bottom of every hour they interrupted the show to give an up date. Crawlers on internet pages, updates. Couldn’t get away from it.
Does any school aside from homeschooling teach spelling and grammar? Or anything else for that matter.
Yeah, you don’t hear much about the people who have died in the southern/Texas heat wave... do you?
“Fear, uncertainty, doubt” aka FUD is an old and effective-short term sales technique. So effective that “short term” can mean a salesman’s whole career and his son’s too. But eventually it fails as a sales tool in a given market. Eventually folks wise-up. Or the market disappears because it was an outdated one.
To an extent it was Obama, on his perma-campaign advisors.
But the bigger impetus for this attempt at a massive con job, the lies to keep the storm in a higher cat and greater danger than it was, is to panic the market for storm forecasting and emergency management so as to grow the Federal Bureaucracy and Crony connected firms and individuals.
I’m perfectly aware that the MSM is in the tank for the Rats.
In my view, that has nothing to do with what computer models tell severe weather forecasters and what objective data about meterological events may or may not mean for highly populated areas.
I think Rush and others are using very shallow thinking when they conflate media reporting with disaster preparation. There is nothing that government officials did, in my mind, that was a wild overreaction to the objective data — admittedly interpreted by human meterologists who are, well, human and thus subject to operator error — on a storm event we could all see on the radar coming at population centers on the east coast.
It’s important to remember that these officials should be planning for not just actual storm effects, but for the possible law enforcement and national security situations that may present if there is certain kinds of disruptions. This is one of the few legitimate functions the Constitution gives to government. I wish there was this level of outrage at the government for true “Nanny”-isms.
As for the MSM using the storm for political effect, SO WHAT? Is this new? NO. And there is nothing that can be done about it, except what is already being done about it: people are developing an alternate media that over time will completely marginalize any one venue’s ability to “control” the news.
You know, conservatives, rightly, sit around and criticize the climate hoaxers for passing themselves off as being able to understand weather well enough to extrapolate to huge climate trends.
Yet when it comes to what is also a highly complex and variable weather event, a hurricane, there are those who act appalled and disgusted that meterologists could not predict that a front of drier air, sufficiently strong enough to accelerate the breakdown of the eye wall of Irene, would appear at the exact time and location it did and change Irene from what the DATA HAS SHOWN — a truly catastrophic storm — to a less dangerous storm.
As I’ve said, failure of the worst case scenario to materialize does not prove that the storm was overhyped or that the worst case scenario was not the worst case scenario.
If one doesn’t like how the MSM uses various events for their political ends, that’s completely fair. But glossing that into people whining because the storm that actually was a huge dangerous storm moving toward populated areas luckily degraded because of factors that meterologists cannot (as of yet) predict is not helpful.
I’m perfectly aware that the MSM is in the tank for the Rats.
In my view, that has nothing to do with what computer models tell severe weather forecasters and what objective data about meterological events may or may not mean for highly populated areas.
I think Rush and others are using very shallow thinking when they conflate media reporting with disaster preparation. There is nothing that government officials did, in my mind, that was a wild overreaction to the objective data — admittedly interpreted by human meterologists who are, well, human and thus subject to operator error — on a storm event we could all see on the radar coming at population centers on the east coast.
It’s important to remember that these officials should be planning for not just actual storm effects, but for the possible law enforcement and national security situations that may present if there is certain kinds of disruptions. This is one of the few legitimate functions the Constitution gives to government. I wish there was this level of outrage at the government for true “Nanny”-isms.
As for the MSM using the storm for political effect, SO WHAT? Is this new? NO. And there is nothing that can be done about it, except what is already being done about it: people are developing an alternate media that over time will completely marginalize any one venue’s ability to “control” the news.
You know, conservatives, rightly, sit around and criticize the climate hoaxers for passing themselves off as being able to understand weather well enough to extrapolate to huge climate trends.
Yet when it comes to what is also a highly complex and variable weather event, a hurricane, there are those who act appalled and disgusted that meterologists could not predict that a front of drier air, sufficiently strong enough to accelerate the breakdown of the eye wall of Irene, would appear at the exact time and location it did and change Irene from what the DATA HAS SHOWN — a truly catastrophic storm — to a less dangerous storm.
As I’ve said, failure of the worst case scenario to materialize does not prove that the storm was overhyped or that the worst case scenario was not the worst case scenario.
If one doesn’t like how the MSM uses various events for their political ends, that’s completely fair. But glossing that into people whining because the storm that actually was a huge dangerous storm moving toward populated areas luckily degraded because of factors that meterologists cannot (as of yet) predict is not helpful.
I had no electricity when she made landfall as a nothing TS up north. I briefly saw Cantore freaking out over nothing in NYC.There is utter devastation in NC and Vermont but they won’t cover it now because they wanted NYC sci fi movie and didn’t get it.
Couldn’t find something else to do besides watching TV? The networks know something after all, they had you hooked. And you blame this on them alone?
That is so cute, yo missed the part of “radio” in the sentence. Point being you could not get away from the coverage, unless you turned off your own power and stopped reading, listening to, or watching.
Well, this Freeper from the state of Maryland (who didn't get hit) is finally back online for the first time since Saturday night. Our power was restored Monday late afternoon but cable (phone included) not until this afternoon.
A figure I saw from my county is of 42,000 electric customers, 30,000 were without power. Trees fell and landed on houses. True, there was NOT a lot of damage, but there was widespread suffering from it.
Let us just be thankful it wasn’t worse. Glad to hear all is back for you.
That is so cute, yo missed the part of “radio”
Tether yourself to the media and then bitch about the content. Let me guess you were glued to the iphone with the radio app
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