No disrespect...i bet you’re a great person but those of us who have lived through big storms....Camille in my case...thought this one was overblown to begin with
Overblown is in the eye of the beholder. Camille was only as bad as where you were when it hit, and it was bad. This one was no Camille but it is going up the entire eastern seaboard with the dirty side. Camille didn’t cover such a large area with storm surge. A hurricane hitting the Gulf coast west to east like this would cause enormous damage even at cat 1
the evidence is in...the media blew this event way way way out of proportion..I am reading now that the precautionary measures are costing cities and states exponentially more than the storm damage....
this ranks up there with OJ’s Bronco ride...the unmerited fixation and hype..and to see liberal and conservative media make it all about “them-them-them” for days was a bit much for us down here who get ignored (me Nashville flood last year for example)
and those of us down here who know about storms could see this was the case fairly early on...a mild storm moving into colder water and grazing or entering landmass...none of which builds monsters
You guys have worse winter gales than this was...far worse.
That was my point and I’m sticking to it.
It is not about my hurricane is worse than your’s. It was about what I said..the media..given where the storm was headed (where they live...Beltway and NYC types) decided to maximize exposure and politicians from Bloomberg and Christie all the way up to Obama decided to join in the hysteria. I believe that is a logical observation of the treatment of this storm and I am quite happy you guys did not have a cataclysmic event. Given your demographics, loss of life would have been high and the civil unrest..again...given your urban demographics would have dwarfed Katrina.
I wonder were Joe Bastardi is today?
btw...the media has overblown storm intensity here too...but not to this degree and with less political go along and eating up the news cycle 24/7 for 5 days out