[dixie sass]

They expected Charlie (just like a man - gives you a line and then does something else - fickle!) to go in at Tampa Clearwater and it made a sudden turn on them.

The people should have been prepared for this eventuality but we have gotten so use to believing the weather man and his predicted paths, that we forget nature does it's own thing and we can't control it.

[mean lunch lady]

"The people should have been prepared for this eventuality but we have gotten so use to believing the weather man and his predicted paths, that we forget nature does it's own thing and we can't control it."

You are so right, and when it's over the people either complain that they weren't warned strongly enough or if they are lucky and it's not bad, they complain that the news people made too big a deal of it. I'm sure it's very hard to get it exactly right, that's what makes "prediction" so difficult.

[leadpenny]

(just like a man - gives you a line and then does something else - fickle!)

hmmmm . . . . Who might we have in mind?

[js1138]

we have gotten so use to believing the weather man and his predicted paths, that we forget nature does it's own thing and we can't control it.

The storm was well within the predicted path, even if it was at the edge of the prediction. The predicted path is always a wedge, not a line.