What's that, 75mph? We had thunderstorms with 60mph winds yesterday. I am so sick of everyone wetting their pants for weather that we've had how many hundreds of years of?
Andrew, Betsy, Camille, big suckers over 150mph- ok. But, honestly, getting into panic mode over every tropical thing with a name is sad.
Hard to believe we are descended from people who braved the elements in shacks- and survived. Now we sit in modern cities and get panic attacks over 75mph wind.
Good grief- why not just permanently force everyone from their homes within-say-100 miles of the Gulf Coast and be done with it?
Been watching the Weather Channel some tonight. They're positivley giddy. They've been worried sick about the lull in tropical activity the past month.
Now they got some bad news to report...
Umm, I said yeehaw dude. I am not taking this seriously. It looks like it's going to be just a cool low damage storm.
Haven't seen anyone requiring a change of pants for this weather. Apparently there aren't enough threads on FR to keep you otherwise occupied, or perhaps you would prefer to be removed from the ping list?
I agree with your point, the local weather folks try to drive us all into a frenzy over nothing, just to improve ratings, and I suppose they like feeling important, like most of us. One guy who does not do that is Don Noe, ch 10 meteorologist in Miami. He's my favorite for that reason, he just tells it like it is, straightforward, no exaggeration.
OTOH, Andrew went from a tropical storm to a cat 4 in less than a day before it slammed Eleuthera, Cat Cay, and us here in Miami, so I'm not particularly blase about these things either.
If you live on the coast in So FL or the Gulf coast you're going to be hit once in awhile. Even the east coast, esp. in NC. It's just a part of life.
Ok.