Posted on 09/07/2019 8:26:24 AM PDT by RummyChick
Workers in the National Weather Service are 'shocked, stunned and irate' at their bosses in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for backing Trump up and claiming that he was right to say Hurricane Dorian was headed for Alabama.
In a string of baffling developments now known as 'Sharpiegate', the row centers on the president's September 1 tweet that the brutal storm was likely to hit Alabama 'harder' than expected. The NWS Birmingham office quickly issued a tweet to insist the state was not in the storm's path.
Trump then defended his statement and insist it was based on early information that had been given to him by scientists. At an Oval Office press conference on September 4, he held up an August 29 map of the storm's path to prove his point.
That map showed the storm's path as heading towards northern Florida and parts of Georgia. The original one, which had been issued by the NOAA, did not show Alabama being but but the one Trump held up had the state circled in black sharpie.
Reporters picked up on the difference and called the 'doctoring' of the map 'Sharpiegate'.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Are you being stupid by accident, or deliberately?
The tweet I posted was from 9:51 AM on the 1st.
“National Weather Service workers are ‘disgusted’ at their NOAA bosses for ‘throwing them under the..”
meanwhile, the Dems want to abolish meat, plastic, coal, natural gas, petroleum, nuclear power, coal power, natural gas power, 3rd world babies, private gun ownership, building new buildings, all vehicles with internal combustion engines, private medical insurance, U.S. borders, and give all 7.5 billion people in the world free medical care if they can manage to find their way into the U.S.
I wonder which of the two above matters are more important?
Have they lost their minds?. Why are they so freaked over this?
The image at post 46 is not from the 30th and the NWS was out of line by making a fuss over this from the beginning. They set the tone to support the ridicule when it was not that serious. A simple we have an update was all that was necessary.
In related news, Trump was also heard to use the word “who” in a speeeh when the proper pronoun would have been “whom”.
This, of course, is definitely an IMPEACHABLE offense! As are Trump’s frequent uses of split infinitives!
ALL the early models had Dorien crossing Florida and into the Gulf...with tracks for Alabama and/or the western panhandle of Florida...when it slowed down, the High that was keeping it from turning North started to weaken...the rest is history.
If I recall there have been many storms over the years that have crossed Florida or made landfall by Georgia and S.C. and continued west before turning northeast.
Why do you have such a Woody over thi
Yeah they need to be reassigned to Port barrow alaska
Well then I recommend they quit in protest. And don't let the door hit you on the way out.
They did zero wrong. Trump got bad intel from a four star-tweets bad info on Sunday after Alabama EOC is in stand down mode and a local NWS office simply corrects them-and now some NOAA official corrects them to cover for the president (probably on his orders or someone from his staff) instead of just saying - hey-we got bad info-sorry.
Thats not right. Democrat or Republican. Trump or Obama. Its not right. If you cant own the little things-how can I trust you to own the big ones. I deal in facts. Apparently-must people-even on the right deal with emotions and just support their guy. Their no different than democrats. It doesnt matter what they do. Theyre never wrong. Ever. The second you criticize them youre public enemy #1. Sorry. Im not of the body.
Sorry man but I figured out after one year as a contractor don’t butt heads with the political appointees. HollyB is right they set the tone to ridicule. Civil servants ridicule the President at their peril
Hi.
Another nothing burger.
I wish I could sell nothing burgers.
5.56mm
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