Will you read my comments and maybe discuss the questions that I raised? Everyone prefers to throw insults around rather than have a substantive discussion. I’ve had numerous private mail from FReepers that don’t want to put up with the BS I have received for asking about the giddy overhype, breathless reporting, government ordering citizens around, and so forth. Yes, there is damage, no one disputes that. But you also saw reporters faking it, you claims of 155+ winds, yet reports showed actuals around 120s. Storm surge? Where? My points were the disconnect between the hype and reality. You know, by some reports over 320,000 people out of 375,000 ORDERED by government IGNORED these orders. That is a BIG disconnect, refreshing maybe. Not everyone conditioned to be afraid of their own shadow, not everyone jumping when government tells them to. Sure, throw your BS and insults, but how about a substantive discussion on the points that I and others have raised?
Sorry, that is complete and utterly ignorant bullshit. And you are too stubborn to admit such in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
A National Guard team found 20 survivors in Mexico Beach overnight, and more crews are pushing into the area, with the fate of many residents unknown.
State officials said 285 people in Mexico Beach refused to leave ahead of the hurricane despite a mandatory evacuation order.
Mishelle McPherson and her ex-husband searched for the elderly mother of a friend. The woman lived in a small cinderblock house about 150 yards (137m) from the Gulf and thought she would be OK.
Her home was reduced to crumbled cinderblocks and pieces of floor tile.
“Aggy! Aggy!” McPherson yelled.
The only sound that came back was the echo from the half-demolished building and the pounding of the surf.
“Do you think her body would be here? Do you think it would have floated away?” she asked.
Tyndall AFB recorded a gust to 129 mph. After which the device was destroyed, before landfall. But knowing that means you bother reading the details without your rank confirmation bias.
"So, storm over for most folks, 1 death, some scattered damage."
"A Mexico Beach camera on Weather Channel accelerated to show the entire day showed the storm come and go, never put water over the road. Not sure where the storm surge was but not there, the supposed hardest hit location."
There is widespread catastrophic damage. Mexico Beach is devastated.
You wanted to hijack a thread about the hurricane to your agenda of 'over-hype of storms'. What you did was expose yourself.
Also, check on the map in post 906. There’s a good reason why we don’t see ground readings of 155 mph. Because the storm wiped out those ground stations. And the fact ground stations were wiped out up into SW Georgia, where the storm was considerably weaker, shows most garden-variety meteorlogical equipment is not designed to withstand Cat 4 wind levels. So your lack of evidence is no evidence to someone who thinks through the details.