The overblown hype continues. Fox saying that hurricane force winds are going to be hitting Long Island at 10pm tonight...
Looking at the Wunderground Map, with LIVE wind speed reporting shows nothing higher than 40-45mph winds at this time.
Winds at Ocean Sands, NC are 26mph...
The amount of rain remains a question still.
The overblown hype continues:
Memory lane from Katrina Threads:
What’s that, 75mph? We had thunderstorms with 60mph winds yesterday. I am so sick of everyone wetting their pants for weather that we’ve had how many hundreds of years of?
Andrew, Betsy, Camille, big suckers over 150mph- ok. But, honestly, getting into panic mode over every tropical thing with a name is sad.
Hard to believe we are descended from people who braved the elements in shacks- and survived. Now we sit in modern cities and get panic attacks over 75mph wind.
Good grief- why not just permanently force everyone from their homes within-say-100 miles of the Gulf Coast and be done with it?
61 posted on 08/23/2005 8:58:59 PM by ClearBlueSky (
63 posted on 08/23/2005 10:12:00 PM by dogbyte12
Another storm for the media to hype.
6 posted on 08/24/2005 9:32:39 AM by bluebeak
Posters at WeatherUnderground have noted that the live wind speeds shown there have a history of being significantly low.
Where are they getting this information? Pulling it out of their arses? I’m checking all the cities on WU and the weather stations in those areas, the wind is next to nothing. We have gusts as big as that in a bad thunderstorm or when a cold front passes in the winters. Sheesh.