Posted on 08/27/2011 6:42:27 AM PDT by Former MSM Viewer
Shutting down the whole city? Evacuating everywhere? "I KNOW BEST. I AM BLOOMBERG"
As far as the 24/7 coverage, it's way overboard. I'll settle for .5/1
Out here we call them windstorms and we like them.
The Weather Channel has gone completely to hell over the past year...I can’t even watch it to get the latest stats...
Bloomberg’s presser yesterday was typical Nanny Stateism. At one point he was giving advice on how to remove a window air conditioner in high winds.
Bloomberg knows all - we are mere idiots in his presence.
I think more and more Americans want a nanny govt - and that distresses me.
Not just in NYC either.
Without all these warnings and faux panic from the government and the media we have today, how did people possibly survive Hurricane Hazel in Oct of 1954 without all these warnings? Hazel hit the Carolinas as a Cat 4 and moving inward as a Cat 3 moving north all the way up to Toronto.
The media is all guilty of over-hyping this. Some idiot on FOX News yesterday call it a “killer monster storm” It's a what, Cat 2, tops? What would they call a Cat 5 then?
Once again, the TV media has saved the lives of coastal dwellers. By lining the coastline about every 15’ with hyperventilating reporters in their sponsors’ windbreakers for four days before a hurricane, they pump enough hot air into the core of a storm so that it weakens and dies.
Nothing can stand up to the Wall of Hyperbole that the media and attention-craving politicians throw up during every “Storm of the Century.” Then they wonder why people no longer take their dire warnings seriously and refuse to evacuate their homes, leaving them to looters.
(And just a reminder, even Katrina would not have been that significant a disaster had the corrupt LA politicians not spent billions of federally-funded flood protection money on paving roads to their cronies’ casinos instead.)
I wish there was a 24/7 National Weather Service channel. Their radio frequency gets freaky listening to that robot voice over and over.
Wasn’t Katrina so devastating because a levee broke. If that had not happened, would we remember that one as particularly devastating?
We don’t need to worry about levees this time.
If what I’ve read is accurate, this storm is not going to be anywhere NEAR the grade they’ve been predicting. Time will tell, but Hurricanes lose power when they hit landfall. If they bounce around just off-land, they can generate more power, but once on land as they travel they always start powering down. This is not going to be another Katrina (again, from what I’ve read.) In the Gulf States, we have had many “bad” ones in the past few years — Katrina, Rita (same year), and a few years later Gustav which left most of BR shut down for most of 2 weeks. This doesn’t look like anything on the scale of what’s being reported hysterically. Still, people need not to be stupid.
GLOBAL WARMING IS COMING! RUN! RUUUUUUNNN!!!! SOMEONE CALL AL GORE!
“I trust the people to do the right thing for themselves and their families”.
I think you just hit the nail on the head! The government views its citizens as morons.. children that need to be TOLD what to do. There isn’t any sort of expectation that people (most of them, anyways) aren’t stupid imbeciles. I have noticed, for example, our weather station/news programs hype up the “HUGE snowstorm” warnings like the “end of the world”. Their voices will actually sound panicked with “expected snow fall between four and SIX INCHES!!!” The worst, absolute WORST is when some so-called reporter actually takes a RULER and starts measuring it. Really? It is no wonder that some people take what they say with a grain of salt. IMHO.
I think this nannyism with storms started after Bush 41 didnt race down to Florida after Andrew with massive Federal Aid.
After that, every ‘event’ was a political opportunity...
Mark Levin had a meterologist on yesterday who was howling that this storm was being hyped way too much. Said that there would be major power outages and some flooding but it would not be the disaster that the media and the weather pimps were hoping for...I guess I would include Shawn Hannity along with the rest of the media hypers.
And politics rears its ugly head.
After the liberals successfully politicized Hurricane Katrina, we see that politicians want to avoid political fallout.
Think about it. Ray Nagin and Kathy Blanco in Louisiana were good Democrats, and were in charge. Yet the liberals successfully blamed an evil Republican, President Bush, for the disaster in New Orleans.
I think politicians of all stripes are in CYA mode, fearing what will happen if another disaster gets politicized.
First, thank you for starting this thread to let us vent. I have been yelling at the TV for 3 days. I have turned it off. It is even ruining baseball with all the cancellations.
I am tired of the duelling press confernces by mayors and governors warning on impending doom. they are all a bunch of fear-mongers. where is an FDR when we need one, ‘All we have to fear is fear itself.’ (I cant believe I praised him, please forgive me.)
Be a Boy Scout. Be Prepared. and take responsibilty for yourself and your own actions. dont expect others to be there when you want them. sorry, end of rant. but that felt good ;)
As a New Orleanian I agree with every word you said. The hyperbole is dangerous. But re. Katrina it was the reverse. Katrina was DOWNPLAYED until the last minute here. The NWS was sending out dire warnings that the local media was ignoring. Even as late as Saturday morning, staring at a behemoth of a storm right south of the city, we were being told we would have no more than a ‘blustery day of tropical storm force winds’! We only got out because the weather people in Mobile were competent and lifesaving friends brought us to their home there.
Later, it was admitted that politics and tourism took precedence over safety re. Katrina.
Perversely, every storm before-and after- it was hyped with every florid adjective in the Thesaurus. And people get numbed to it all; then they think they’ve lived through a ‘devastating, dangerous storm slamming’ into them at 60mph!
So they figure they can handle the next ‘dangerous’ storm.
Never forget, too, that hurricanes mean ‘face time’ for reporters and especially weather people. Face time, ratings, money. Everything HAS to be sensationalized.
What makes storms like Irene seem more ludicrous is the fact that they know the farther north a hurricane gets, the weaker it has to get. Has a 3 or higher EVER gotten that far up in latitude?
Now ‘extra tropical’ will engender bulletins and warnings too. They even track REMNANT LOWS when storms fall apart, so you get reports of ‘former tropical storm Zelda’ !
Fear keeps you safe, no question-but stoking fear unnecessarily is counter productive.
A Cat 1 will NOT blow your house down unless its a shack.
Looking at the ocean during ANY storm is not a good idea;
but keep in mind that Caribbean islands get Cat 1-2 storms routinely and survive them. I think American cities can too.
Even Our forefathers survived storms, blizzards etc with NO warning and no modern conveniences. They coped. How is it that we, with stronger homes,cars,infrastructure and better education are MORE helpless in the face of weather?
Could it be that they were tougher people? Less spoiled and more realistic about life? They didn’t collapse when the barn blew down. How many today are paniced at the thought of not being able to ‘tweet’ and will define that as ‘disaster’?!
Katrina had between 10-20 foot storm surge on the MS coast ! Take a drive from Waveland MS to Ocean Springs and their thousands of empty lots everywhere where homes once where.
Hundred died in their homes. The storm made landfall Pearl River MS and cut off I-90 for months .
NOLA was sideswiped by Katrina but the Levees leaking for over two years collapsed.
Katrina did a number on Mississippi. Of course, all you ever hear about is New Orleans and “it was Bush’s fault”.
Chris Christie is no better.
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