This is from an AP release 2 hours ago; compare the top half (lead) with the second part - having any trouble separating the speculation from the stark reality here?
“Sep 13 2008 7:56AM
Associated Press
Ike’s grinds on...911 calls...Train collision death toll
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) Hurricane Ike is making its way through southeast Texas after making landfall in Galveston with 110 mile-per-hour winds this morning. Nearly 3 million people are without power. Galveston Fire Chief Mike Varela says the storm “was a 10” compared to hurricanes in the past.
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) A spokesman for Houston’s mayor says 911 operators have received about 1,250 calls in 24 hours as Hurricane Ike made landfall as a Category 2 storm early today. Several fires are burning untended across the city. Shards of glass are falling from skyscrapers that were hit by Ike’s ferocious winds.
LOS ANGELES (AP) The death toll is now up to 17 as emergency crews found more victims in the mangled wreckage of a commuter train that collided head-on with a freight train in California. A medical director says 135 people have been taken to hospitals and about 85 of them are in serious or critical condition.”
Not saying the train wreck isn’t bad, but this is impacting far more people regardless of whether anybody dies.
Fortunately, the storm doesn’t seem to have been as bad as predicted, BUT...
We don’t really know yet, and may not for several days, what casualties there might have been.
We DO know there is significant property damage, and there may yet be loss of life.
It seems to me that those who are interested in the hurricane are posting here, those who are interested in the train wreck are posting on that thread, and some are posting in both places.
Maybe if you are more interested in the train wreck, you’d be happier on that thread? And if you think the media overhyped the storm, perhaps you could just discuss that?