Past few years don’t watch hardly any TV. Just to see what the buzz was about overnight watched ten minutes of TWC, and regretted it. What a waste. Same for the other channel samples surfed through.
Overwrought emotional effect mongering and teasers. Constant. Very low density info.
I like this thread, much higher info density. Also Wunderground.
Perhaps this blog will help to settle the squabble? The storm surge, according to this meteorologist, is the problem with Irene.
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/article.html
So I’ll insinuate myself into this conversation if you’ll indulge.
For I too think this is an over-the-top hype but...a)I got some thoughts on that and b)the hype doesn’t offend; it makes me smile more than anything.
First, you gotta love Bloomberg. Here’s a guy trying desperately to avoid being...two words...RAY NAGIN! Further, NEW YORK! Come on...NEW YORK! Remember New Orleans, the disaster that was? So here we got, of all towns, New York, facing what will likely be a really bad thunderstorm, come on. Bloomberg’s a quasi-Republican of sorts, though us wise ones on FreeRepublic know better. But oncit he was a Repub and if a hurricane plows into NY and we got big fat lazy people sitting on roofs, the Media’s gonna howl about how often Republicans handle this stuff for their criticism of New Orleans.
Further, I think our Delaware leaders have been a bit boobaloob about this and we are directly on the path here by the ocean in Delmarva. We got a Democrat Governor evacuating all people who live within 3/4 a mile from any kind of water.
I think that’s just the dumbest thing. Why 3/4 a mile? Why not a full mile? Why not a 1/2 mile for that matter? Then he says that DEMA “suggests” that all residents living in manufactured homes leave.
Others on this thread have told me that other Governors are also “suggesting” that residents in mobile homes should leave but I have not heard NJ Christie say any such thing. GET OFF THE DAMN BEACH he says.
I think for the government to be “suggesting” anything is kind of dumb. Either make it mandatory or shut mouth. Refer to FEMA web sites for anything not mandatory, I suggest.
But hey, it’s not the stuff of much angst for me. But if you don’t think the Media and all the Governors aren’t playing to the sad history of Hurricane Katrina than you’re naive.
Yes, it’s a hurricane and hurricane’s are dangerous.
I think the concept of becoming another Louisiana has got the Governors more spooked, and the media more excited, than Hurricane Irene any day of the week.