Yeah, it was a Cat 5 yesterday. Had it maintained that strength or even gone to top Cat 4, and had it track just a bit further to the west, it would be far worse for NO now. As it is, people listening to CNN that the worst is over might go outside to check on damage, just as a feeder band is moving in (like, right now). It'll ONLY be Cat 1 strength or so - but I guess I'm hyping the danger, even though Katrina killed 9 people in Florida when it was only a Cat 1.
Look, if all you're gonna do is whine about how this was covered, save it for tomorrow. This is still a deadly situation (most hurricane deaths nowadays are from inland flooding) - and we don't need an uninformed nimrod claiming that this is all hype.
Switched to Rush -- NY Times ignoring hurricane, after all its in the south (not blue states) and besides, they have a war to defeat. But saying what coverage was given in the MSM was predicting catastropic effects on people, oil, economy, etc.
"It's a very dangerous situation. I've been doing this for 15 years, and [I've] been Mr. Cantore's producer for many hurricanes, and I've never seen anything like this. This is probably the scariest situation we've ever been in -- just the sudden rise of water and how fast. They said we were good here for 27, 30 feet [of storm surge] -- they've never seen anything like it. They thought we were completely safe.
This has NOT been overhyped.
You are not hyping, many people are in danger right now.