It seems like we are getting hurricanes every year or so now. I’ve lived here my whole life and in the last 10-15 years it’s been crazy.
Latest www.wptv.com
The problem now is that even tropical storms get 24/7 coverage, with the governor and state officials marching out (with their sign language staff of course) to tell people to be vigilante.
I’ll go out on a limb and predict that for the next 3 days, CNN will have reporters on the beaches with 24 hour non-stop coverage.
Absolutely.
I’m hoping that as usual, the hype is worse than the actual storm. This thing is, as of right now, just 50 miles north of me. I don’t want to have to put up shutters and lose power and all the other crap that comes with a storm.
The problem now is that even tropical storms get 24/7 coverage, with the governor and state officials marching out (with their sign language staff of course) to tell people to be vigilante.
I’ll go out on a limb and predict that for the next 3 days, CNN will have reporters on the beaches with 24 hour non-stop coverage.
I have a friend in Melbourne, FL and she made the comment, “we may be in trouble, Jim Cantore is in town.”
The problem now is that even tropical storms get 24/7 coverage, with the governor and state officials marching out (with their sign language staff of course) **to tell people to be vigilante. **
I’ll go out on a limb and predict that for the next 3 days, CNN will have reporters on the beaches with 24 hour non-stop coverage.
TheForge approves.
I’d agree with the news coverage aspect. Dorian (whose track, intensity, size, and timeline are still highly uncertain) was getting heavy news coverage when it was still east of the Lesser Antilles.
Historically speaking, we’re not facing anything out of the ordinary with respect to the number of storms making landfall:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/621238/number-of-hurricanes-that-made-landfall-in-the-us/
Two of the supermarkets in my area are already out of bottled water. In fairness, this storm will spend some time over warm water and could intensify significantly. Better to be safe than sorry.
My wife is at Publix in NE FLA now (8am, EDT) and says it’s nuts.
My wife is at Publix in NE FLA now (8am, EDT) and says it’s nuts.
I’m in Jacksonville at the moment so probably in the same area. I’m hypothesizing that since this area has grown so quickly and there are so many fresh transplants from out of state that the response has been disproportionate.
Part of it is that hurricanes can, and have, killed lots of people in recent memory. Part of it is that sensationalism sells in media.
Combine the two, and you wind up with weather newscasters faking leaning over in the wind and faking standing in waist deep water while a person walks by no problemo.
Toss in the predictable references to climate change and posturing, then cue the deniers.
Trump will gaffe over some rage about PR but gush about Florida Man.
Rinse, repeat.
Wife is in Jacksonville now, supposed to come home Saturday. She said the storm is supposed to pass through there Saturday night and her flight is in the morning, hoping that the airport doesn’t close early.
I’m not a climate change denier, but people act like we never had hurricanes until the year 2000.
It’s all sensationalism. What would be prudent is for media to be informative, and give fact-based guidance about the storm so that people can prepare. It’s already available if you go to NOAA and NHC. But that gets buried by the headline-seeking cable outlets. TWC is public enemy #1 when it comes to misleading hype.
The problem now is that even tropical storms get 24/7 coverage, with the governor and state officials marching out (with their sign language staff of course) to tell people to be vigilante.
I’ll go out on a limb and predict that for the next 3 days, CNN will have reporters on the beaches with 24 hour non-stop coverage.
How much do they play it down though? The official death toll for PR was 3000. Sandy caused huge damage. Katrina was well, Katrina and a lot of people didn’t bother leaving. Right now there is a hurricane that will hit a heavily populated coast in the next couple days. And you can’t prepare for a hurricane in an hour.
You aren’t obligated to watch CNN 24/7. Yeah, the guy getting blown around on the beach needs washed out to sea.
Our biggest issue is that the places hurricanes like to live are also the best places to go to the beach. So we keep building more and bigger cities there. If Dorian was hitting northwest North Dakota few would care. But we keep building up really low lying coasts and making the hurricanes worse for ourselves.
My wife did some grocery shopping Tuesday afternoon since we didn’t get to it over the weekend. Water was already completely sold out at Publix. I stopped for gas yesterday at 7 am and the pumps were already crazy.
I’m confident in saying that the storm is going to hit the east coast of Florida. Be safe everyone.
Combine the two, and you wind up with weather newscasters faking leaning over in the wind and faking standing in waist deep water while a person walks by no problemo.
I just moved to the Jacksonville area from the Houston area… so traded one hurricane magnet for another.
Right now it looks like landfall about three hours south of us but who knows. We are definitely in the probability cone but so is the entire east coast of Florida.
The turn is to the north after landfall so you might, as it stands right now, catch it on the way back up. This is really making me anxious.
I just got my roof replaced 2 weeks ago after Michael next year. I spent a lot of spring rebuilding a 24x92 pole barn and workshop. I will be majorly depressed if this thing causes damage in NW Florida. I’m in Billings MT for a hail storm, so I can’t do anything back home.
Sandy wasn’t a hurricane, right?
My brother lives in St Cloud, so inland a little bit. He jokingly said to me the other day that if I ever wanted to ride one out this might be my chance. Coincidently, I have a nice generator we’re going to take and give our niece in the Outer Banks in a couple of weeks, so I seriously thought about going down to my brother’s then after the storm rolls thru andd he doesn’t need the generator then dropping it off at the Outer Banks on my way home. Cincinnati has a HUUGE fireworks show this weekend (the BEST!) so I’m going to stay home.