[ClearBlueSky]

AMEN!
These weatherpeople, seeking on-air-time, sensationalize every group of thunderstorms in the tropics. They ' want' The Big One. They want wholesale disaster and death. It's news, it's ratings!

Tell me- if the weather I'm seeing on radar came from the north, instead of the Gulf, would there be all this commotion?
No.
WHY a 'hurricane warning' for what never became a hurricane? The terminology, attached to ' shu-shu' storms like this, is what's going to get people killed eventually. Sitting in a 'hurricane warning' area today means a little wind and a few squalls. They are desensitizing people. It's stupid and dangerous and it's encouraging cowardice and victim mentality.

WHY are things without closed circulations even NAMED? To personalize and dramatize. Tropical Storms should be numbered, a system should EARN the name hurricane. 130mph is serious, 150mph is Big, over that is Major.

I feel sorry for anyone who thinks THIS is serious tropical weather. As many have said- there are worse lines of thunderstorms every day! Look at the midwest today! Tornado outbreaks don't get this kind of hype in the press.
Look folks- it's weather! Rain + wind. It comes and goes- some are worse than others, but it's just weather! '
Tropical' is no worse than any other because it's named.
If you wouldn't panic over a line of thunderstorms with 60mph winds, don't about a bunch of them because they come from the tropics and some sissy weatherpeople decided to name it.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

This media overreaction has the added effect of desensitizing people to a future real threat. That will cause added damage and harm to people who weren't prepared for it by the media who "cried wolf" one to many times.

[My Favorite Headache]

Straight up. The people who went through Jeanne,Frances,and Ivan last year..."me included" have to know that winds were not at CAT 3 status when the storm hit land. Ivan was a 2. People would shit themselves if they went through an actual 3-4-5. Most of the time the winds being reported are flight level winds and not surface. CAT 3 winds were not recorded during Ivan on the surface. Had they been on the surface that place would be a fixture at the bottom of the GOMEX right now.

When I saw a hurricane warning go up for this it totally made me realize the NHC has gotten in bed with the media so badly with these storms you can actually see depression settle in when the numbers are not high enough in the wind speed or the storm is dying down.

Funeral like.