[WestCoastGal]

Am I the only one who notices there is hardly any coverage of this storm? Gustav and MO had 10 times more, what’s up with the news channels?

[NautiNurse]

I am guessing it is the 9-11 anniversary this morning.

[Clive]

WestCoastGal wrote: "Am I the only one who notices there is hardly any coverage of this storm? Gustav and MO had 10 times more, what’s up with the news channels?"

It's because the storm is heading for Texas instead of Louisiana.

[rodguy911]

Rick Perry Republican gov. will probably do a great job of organizing storm evac and post storm re-entry. Texas is not known a real liberal state with cradle to grave leanings like LA was,drive-bys really don't like conservative states. Guess who else comes from Texas.

[SomeCallMeTim]

Am I the only one who notices there is hardly any coverage of this storm? Gustav and MO had 10 times more, what’s up with the news channels?

yea... I've noticed that as well. Storm Fatigue, I suppose... and, now we have LIPSTICK to talk about. This dis-interest is one of the reasons I've had such a bad feeling about this storm for the past 5 days.

[penelopesire]

“Am I the only one who notices there is hardly any coverage of this storm? Gustav and MO had 10 times more, what’s up with the news channels?”

That is because the media was praying for New Orleans to be destroyed by Gustav in order to ‘help’ their candidate, Obama!

No further proof of media bias is needed now. (eye roll)

[af_vet_rr]

Am I the only one who notices there is hardly any coverage of this storm? Gustav and MO had 10 times more, what’s up with the news channels?

To be blunt, Corpus Christi was not exactly the kind of population center that Houston or NOLA is, and that doesn't make for a sexy story.

Now that it's headed towards Houston, all of the major networks are rushing to Galveston. TWC has setup shop in Galveston, etc.

Speaking of Galveston, there was some expert on one of the stations this morning (I think Fox, he was talking to some ditzy female and male anchors). They mentioned the storm surge from Camille and asked him if Galveston's seawall was topped by several feet of water in a surge, would it be as bad as New Orleans.

He got this flabbergasted look on his face as if he was talking to two of the biggest idiots in the world (which he nearly was).

He politely said it would be much worse than New Orleans, and the female tried to argue with him, talking about the levees being breached or topped, and he politely explained that the levees slowed down the flooding in New Orleans quite a bit, and that people had warning in a lot of the areas well in advance of the flooding.

He then explained that if Galveston's seawall was topped by several feet of water, there is no levee system to slow things down, nobody would have hours in advance to watch the water rise and get to higher ground, that it would go to hell in a hurry, because it's an island, surrounded by water everywhere you look.

They could not get it through their heads that Galveston is an island and that a surge topping the seawall by 5-10 feet would make Katrina look like nothing.

[af_vet_rr]

Am I the only one who notices there is hardly any coverage of this storm? Gustav and MO had 10 times more, what’s up with the news channels?

I would also add that all of the major news outlets are covering 9/11 ceremonies as well. About noon or so, you will probably see the full focus brought to bear on Houston/Galveston (and Fox, CNN, etc., will do their best to scare the hell out of people and scare people into evacuating that don't need to be evacuating).