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To: GRRRRR

The overblown hype continues:

Memory lane from Katrina Threads:

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?

61 posted on 08/23/2005 8:58:59 PM by ClearBlueSky (


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.

63 posted on 08/23/2005 10:12:00 PM by dogbyte12


Is this the end of the world?

Another storm for the media to hype.

6 posted on 08/24/2005 9:32:39 AM by bluebeak



1,031 posted on 08/27/2011 11:23:30 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Raycpa

A little different imho. Katrina was a Cat 5 storm churning in the gulf for days and nowhere for the water to go but into the gulf. This storm hasn’t been above a Cat 2 since it came on the radar in the US. It also is not in a total bowl like the gulf. We also have an incompetent POTUS trying to make it all about himself now.


1,036 posted on 08/27/2011 11:37:24 AM PDT by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: Raycpa

Damned dismissive fools. As with all weather, no one really knows what is going to happen.

Also, I direct anyone to study Agnes if you want to poo-poo 60mph. Of course, that was horrific mostly because unlike most TS/hurricanes, it traveled overland and stalled rather than skirting the coast.


1,041 posted on 08/27/2011 11:44:51 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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