Irma Doesn't Look Good

[miktay]

To BNM and other Floridians: First off, glad you're safe! From YOUR perspective, do you think the media over hyped this storm, or was all the hype appropriate and needed?
This morning, it seems like the news folks are searching hard for some devastation to report.

 

[Meandering]

To BNM and other Floridians: First off, glad you're safe! From YOUR perspective, do you think the media over hyped this storm, or was all the hype appropriate and needed?
This morning, it seems like the news folks are searching hard for some devastation to report.

Global Warming needed a matyr, and they didn't get one.
They're still searching for one to hold up to blame you.

 

[Evincere]

To BNM and other Floridians: First off, glad you're safe! From YOUR perspective, do you think the media over hyped this storm, or was all the hype appropriate and needed?
This morning, it seems like the news folks are searching hard for some devastation to report.

Oh please! The pre event news reporting was pure unadulterated drama designed to illicit great fear. They put together aftermath news clips here - i.e woman and her dog being "rescued" from the raging waters. She was taken out of a home AFTER the storm passed, kneeling on a surf board, surrounded by smiling responders. When she got off the surf board the standing, non moving water was calf deep and in the background people could be seen wading around in the water. Mobile homes for sure took a hit everywhere which was also expected. However, aside from places live Vilano Beach where a few unfortunate houses collapsed because of ocean front locations (also expected) a few news stations were using the mobile home developments as representative of the massive wide spread devastation. And actually if truth be told, they are nothing but cardboard boxes half of which were probably in such states of disrepair and unfit to live in from the get go that it wouldn't take much to blow them down.

Tree damage also expected and caused most of the power outages. A few came down onto roofs but thus far the same 3 over and over again being shown. They have turned real news into reality TV shows.

In spite of what the governor said about reassuring people that gas would get through and be available - actually getting gas is one of the more serious effects of the storm. While it was monstrous in size this storm has been mostly a clean up of tree limbs, branches and river/ocean location flooding.

But if people keep building and rebuilding in these known flood areas it's going to be the same stories with every hurricane or storm that blows through.

 

[Tim The Enchanter]

TV is full of BS. What's new? Nada!

 

[Michael P Jacobs MAI]

You can't make this stuff up. What were they thinking?

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Those are the new shutters they're selling... seriously.

 

[Evincere]

News is that those who fled are now stranded because they cant get gas to get home.

 

[Michael P Jacobs MAI]

From YOUR perspective, do you think the media over hyped this storm...?.

NO, it was not hyped if you watched the NOAA probabilities rather than just the cone on TWC. We watched TWC for entertainment but I watched NOAA's probability chart and this was "our" hurricane until we got up on Friday morning (maybe Saturday?) to learn that it had moved west. In Weston, we had more than a 50% probability of getting hurricane force winds. That could have been anything from a CAT 1-5 but the storm looked like a center-state track would carry it over warm Everglades water suggesting strengthening. A CAT-2 strips all the leaves from the trees and does quite a bit of damage, but at CAT 4-5 kills people while stripping roofs from homes. I know it's the surge that does the real killing - we don't have that inland - but to think of my son and wife with a mattress and dark, swirling roof debris over them makes me sick.

I must say that I am ashamed that I didn't get my family out on Friday when it looked like the worst as about to hit. It seems obvious to me know that I cared more about my "stuff" and business than my family. There were other reasons we did not go - good reasons related to family - but I could have put my foot down and made it happen. That's hard to admit but I want others to know that it's important to look at the statistics, not just the cone.

What really knifed me was that nobody realized how I had let them down. On my last legs taking down shutters and cleaning up (we helped others too), My son said with an 8-year old baby-tooted gap smile, "Dad, I know you're tired so I can take two from now on..." These weren't his heaviest loads, either. He just kept helping with a great attitude... I can't tell you all how proud of him I am.

 

[Tom Woolford]

I don't think it was over-hyped. Just ask Naples or Ft Myers or the Keys. Central and North Florida got lucky it stayed over land and lost strength so quickly. Luck. Not poor forecasting. I have no reliable communications and am composing this with an iphone tethered to a laptop that runs at about 1% of normal. No working for me for a while. Sheriff still wants us off the streets as 60% of the county is still without power, including streetlights. Essential services and retail is slowly coming back. We got badly damaged, but not critically injured.

 

[Meandering]

Glad to hear from you two guys,

Now where's JGrant?

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[Evincere]

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NO, it was not hyped if you watched the NOAA probabilities rather than just the cone on TWC.

I must say that I am ashamed that I didn't get my family out on Friday when it looked like the worst as about to hit. It seems obvious to me know that I cared more about my "stuff" and business than my family. There were other reasons we did not go - good reasons related to family - but I could have put my foot down and made it happen. That's hard to admit but I want others to know that it's important to look at the statistics, not just the cone.

What really knifed me was that nobody realized how I had let them down. On my last legs taking down shutters and cleaning up (we helped others too), My son said with an 8-year old baby-tooted gap smile, "Dad, I know you're tired so I can take two from now on..." These weren't his heaviest loads, either. He just kept helping with a great attitude... I can't tell you all how proud of him I am.

There was no right or wrong decisions. NOAA over projected. You took a chance and fared well. Thank your Hurricane angels. and be done with it.

Those who fled went through hell leaving because they couldn't get gas, lodgings, food etc and trying to get back is going to be hell due to gas shortages and similar problems.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...orsen-drivers-return-florida-homes/653426001/