With all due respect—no he doesn’t need to do that.
I’m sitting in a restaurant in Biloxi MS right now eating a fantastic shrimp poboy. Biloxi was pretty much wiped off the map by Katrina and a lot of it’s residents with it. Katrina kind of snuck up on people here not because they weren’t told it’d be the “big one” but rather because the same thing had been proclaimed relentlessly over every storm for several years prior. The weather channel had figured out that they could increase their ad revenue by a lot if they proclaimed every minor storm to be the storm of the century and rushed Jim Cantore onto the scene. Just like the Covid fraud right now people eventually got tired of the media crying wolf and started tuning out. When the real storm of the century arrived people ignored them because they’d been bullchitted so many times over the last few years and it ended up costing lives. It’s a huge PITA to board up everything, load the family, pets, and valuables into the car and drive several hundred miles to rent a hotel for several days only to realize that the media was hyping the whole thing for ratings. After the third or fourth time of doing that and it turning out to be nothing the cuteness factor tends to wear off.
I’d much prefer the media try a novel approach for them—-tell the truth. The truth is we don’t know yet what’s going to happen with these storms, we’re monitoring it and will let you know as soon as we know something. That’s what President Trump needs to say, not rush to the podium and proclaim imminent disaster to score political points.
The last thing we need is a return to the alarmist theater that existed prior to Katrina and resulted in the masses ignoring the legitimate warnings because they’d been BS’d so many times over the last few years. Just give us the facts, not hysteria.
Are any of the casinos open?