Who didn't know that? People aren't actually stuid enough to blame NOAA are they?
Some actually are stupid enough.
Although I will say that in the initial thread on the storm, I issued a wondering if the storm would go further south than predicted since it was obviously going more north/northeast than progged.
Still, blaming the NHC is idiotic. Hurricane tracking is NOT an exact science; it is one of the hardest forecasting areas, in fact...because even the slightest movement means a huge difference in who is impacted.
In this way, it is like perhaps one of the next-most difficult areas to forecast, snowstorms. Those are pains in the behind to forecast because being off even a tiny bit can make a huge difference to people like a hurricane. The number of things that can go wrong kind of is like hurricanes as well.
This is just ridiculous! A hurricane is a force of nature. They happen and it's nobody's fault! There's nobody to sue and nobody to blame. I can't believe that anyone thinks that NOAA or anyone else has anything to answer for here.
Jeb first, Dubya second, VRWC third
Mother Nature does not factor into the equation
Yes.
No, they are actually quite intelligent. Now some of them no doubt will go out and hire the likes of an ambulance chaser such as John Edwards to sue the weatherman. You don't have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing. If anything, they (the ones who are contemplating lawsuits) should sue themselves for their own obstinacy and stupidity. If you don't know by now that a storm can RAPIDLY increase in intensity...oh, well! -- Here I recall the Blizzard of 1978 in the northeast -- despite "up-to-the-minute" and timid weather forecasts, any FOOL could tell just by looking outdoors, and most certainly anyone who was trying to drive on roads already icing over and dangerous to negotiate, in the first few hours of the storm with visibility near zero, that the atmosphere was already overloading with snow and more snow (a RAPID convergence of several low pressure systems over land and ocean). People instinctively abandoned their vehicles and WALKED to safety!
I find it very odd that the probabilities chart on the NOAA web site had higer probability numbers for Naples, Ft. Myers, 12 hours before landfall, than they did for Tampa/St. Petersburg???!!!!.Now who is stupid?
Who didn't know that?.....
The nattering presstitutes are an ignorant lot and when they begin to babble the ignorance outs. The "lot" of people believe the omnicious pressies.