OK, tell us your beef with the coverage of this storm. It’s a Cat 3, could reach Cat 4 at landfall. Tell the residents of Rockport, TX how a Cat 4 landfall is hype. Please. I want you to make your case. BTW, my parents lived in Rockport for a decade before moving inland to not have to worry about hurricanes. So tell them they were idiots to make that move.
It is not just this storm. My beef is that the media overhype the weather, aided by the nanny state that is telling people what to do. And what do we then see? Media out in the same storms faking it. We see the police running roughshod over the citizenry. Treat people like idiots, they act like idiots and become dependent upon the government to tell them what to do, when, and how. Worst example is Puerto Rico where people then sat around, even now by some accounts, waiting for government. Please need to be responsible for themselves. If they live in a substandard shack, if they live on the water, if they don’t have basic supplies, sure, leave, go to a shelter. But don’t pull the holier than thou BS with the rest of the citizens where can think and act for themselves.
Latest report had the sustained wind at 155 (category 4)with gusts to 170, thus a few mph short of a category 5. I haven’t seen any TV shots around Panama City where the eye was strongest. We shall see just how bad it is in a few hours as the central news feeds are finally able to be sent out.