Dumb on two levels. No basements in Florida, and like most downcasters shows utter ignorance of the fact that water is the big killer in most hurricanes. And where would water end up first? The basement.
Dumb on two levels. No basements in Florida, and like most downcasters shows utter ignorance of the fact that water is the big killer in most hurricanes. And where would water end up first? The basement.
What I don’t understand is, some appear to be angry with people who are correctly noting that this hurricane has not been nearly as bad as was being predicted as recently as yesterday.
Rather than being relieved and grateful as most normal human beings would be, to have avoided being in harm’s way with relatively minimal damage as hurricanes go, it seems that some overly weather-involved people have a need for this to continue to be a horrible, historic storm, despite increasing evidence to the contrary.
I’ve spent some time on the boards at Weather Underground, etc. and have noticed this phenomenon with snow storms in particular, over-reporting threats, reporting excessive snow accumulations, jumping on the wildest, outlier in the models. I guess they got some sort of thrill out of it, but I can’t say I really understand their motivation.
I understand the motivation, however, of the news media. Hyping the storm increases their viewership.