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I'm referring to the preponderance of articles damookster Send a noteboard - 12/09/2017 04:46:45 PM

describing Irma as the most powerful Atlantic hurricane in all human history. The fact is that by the time it made landfall in southwest Florida it wasn't even the most powerful hurricane ever to strike the Gulf Coast.

Ratings love all this "perfect storm" shit.

Mook

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Hurricanes are dumb nossy - 11/09/2017 10:07:01 AM 853 Views
Were they on the coast? random thoughts - 11/09/2017 01:35:53 PM 599 Views
No, luckily nossy - 11/09/2017 05:14:34 PM 579 Views
My aunt wanted to stay in her single wide random thoughts - 11/09/2017 07:35:50 PM 545 Views
I'm not sure I even want one with a roof? nossy - 12/09/2017 03:33:57 PM 572 Views
You mean by not giving in to mass hysteria? Tom - 11/09/2017 10:30:55 PM 587 Views
Agreed damookster - 11/09/2017 11:18:30 PM 569 Views
The storm surge was partly down to luck. Hindsight is always 20-20 *NM* nossy - 12/09/2017 03:32:10 PM 316 Views
*NM* damookster - 12/09/2017 03:52:27 PM 286 Views
<3 *NM* nossy - 12/09/2017 04:24:18 PM 296 Views
or the predictions were unnecessarily overstated - because news loves sensationalism *NM* damookster - 12/09/2017 03:52:27 PM 291 Views
... I'm having trouble taking you seriously. nossy - 12/09/2017 04:04:19 PM 594 Views
the boy who cried wolf? damookster - 12/09/2017 04:25:07 PM 624 Views
I'm sorry, perhaps we've been reading different things. nossy - 12/09/2017 04:33:21 PM 582 Views
I'm referring to the preponderance of articles damookster - 12/09/2017 04:46:45 PM 597 Views
Does SW Florida count as Atlantic? While it was in the Atlantic nossy - 12/09/2017 05:03:50 PM 623 Views
It is going to be ok doesn't keep eyeballs on the tv random thoughts - 12/09/2017 05:58:21 PM 594 Views
Yeah, I don't think this is a particularly strong point in your favor. Ghavrel - 12/09/2017 09:35:12 PM 607 Views
NOAA or professional meteorologists, no. Every major news source, yes. *NM* damookster - 13/09/2017 03:16:14 PM 286 Views
Whatever happened to a good old fashioned Hurricane party? *NM* random thoughts - 12/09/2017 01:02:41 PM 259 Views
I can see why you would think that nossy - 12/09/2017 01:54:14 PM 639 Views
<3 Sareitha Sedai - 12/09/2017 02:09:14 PM 623 Views
Thanks nossy - 12/09/2017 02:17:20 PM 624 Views
I'm sure this was one of those times when it was hardest to be so far away! Sareitha Sedai - 12/09/2017 02:22:06 PM 672 Views
That's likely the main problem. I'm not there to be mother hen. *NM* nossy - 12/09/2017 02:34:16 PM 321 Views
That's quite an allergy. AgentApple - 12/09/2017 07:44:55 PM 614 Views
It gives me the red mist nossy - 12/09/2017 08:19:04 PM 628 Views
Oy. Sareitha Sedai - 13/09/2017 02:28:28 PM 604 Views
In your case then, it wasn't hysteria Tom - 13/09/2017 10:32:43 PM 590 Views
Yes hurricanes are dumb Roland00 - 14/09/2017 12:44:29 AM 526 Views
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