[mikegi]

and don't forget the dopey windbreakers with the floppy hoods... gotta have the hood slappin em in the wind.

I was about to add to my post the issue of the "floppy hoods". I love it when the anchors in the studio tell the reporter in the field to "stay safe, don't stay out in the dangerous weather for our sake".

The hurricane coverage follows a script. While the storm is way offshore the wind damage is touted with a bunch of "it could", etc. dire warnings. Then, as the storm approaches the shore and peters out, the dire warnings shift to the weak tornados that hurricanes sometimes spawn. Once that phase passes without incident, they focus on storm surge. Finally, they conclude coverage with the infinite "we dodged a bullet" lines, etc.

[Howlin]

I understand exactly what you are saying about the coverage.

But the way I look at it, they are damned if they do and damned if they don't.

Suppose they hadn't said much about this storm and it just popped up out there?