I have to disagree with your assessment; Ike was the news last night, nothing else had a chance, right up until landfall it meandered along as a Cat 2 with 105mph winds until just before the first surge approached and then shot up to 110mph which suddenly took it from a weak 2 to a strong 2; the wreck got 30-60 seconds, Ike got almost nonstop dire predictions and, as I speak the hype goes on.
Right now they are reporting on T.V. that they have mounted the biggest search-and-rescue mission in history to find survivors among the estimated 20,000 who refused to leave under the evacuation order; are they looking for breathing bodies or cold ones?
Nobody has been reported missing at this time that I have been able to determine.
We’ve got to stop the hype.
Ike deserved the dire predictions. It was a bad storm and people needed to get out of its way. If they hadn’t the death toll would certainly be higher than it is so far.
The fact that it didn’t hit as hard as expected is a blessing and due to the huge number of people praying for others safety.
Good point about nobody missing yet; that could change though.
Have they talked much about the train wreck? They seemed to be taking it pretty seriously last night to me, breaking in quite a bit to bring more info about it.
But, that is my perspective I guess...have not studied it objectively.
Here we go again. Just because you don't use search engines and exercise standard research of the literature methods doesn't mean it isn't so.
As in every catastrophe, priority #1 is search and rescue. In this case, there were thousands of 911 calls during the storm. Many were due to rising water where people sheltered in, rather than evacuate. In one case, there were 45-50 people in a building. Others were ones and twos calling 911 for rescue. There were multiple dwelling fires.
After search and rescue has been exhausted, then recovery of the deceased is the priority.
Search and rescue/recovery efforts will take days to complete due to flooding and the vast expanse of area to cover.
Why do you insist everything is hype, when someone who uses the handle "Old Professor" doesn't use due diligence with research?