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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 874 Views
Were they on the coast? random thoughts - 11/09/2017 01:35:53 PM 619 Views
No, luckily nossy - 11/09/2017 05:14:34 PM 594 Views
My aunt wanted to stay in her single wide random thoughts - 11/09/2017 07:35:50 PM 566 Views
I'm not sure I even want one with a roof? nossy - 12/09/2017 03:33:57 PM 590 Views
You mean by not giving in to mass hysteria? Tom - 11/09/2017 10:30:55 PM 606 Views
Agreed damookster - 11/09/2017 11:18:30 PM 589 Views
The storm surge was partly down to luck. Hindsight is always 20-20 *NM* nossy - 12/09/2017 03:32:10 PM 323 Views
*NM* damookster - 12/09/2017 03:52:27 PM 296 Views
<3 *NM* nossy - 12/09/2017 04:24:18 PM 301 Views
or the predictions were unnecessarily overstated - because news loves sensationalism *NM* damookster - 12/09/2017 03:52:27 PM 298 Views
... I'm having trouble taking you seriously. nossy - 12/09/2017 04:04:19 PM 610 Views
the boy who cried wolf? damookster - 12/09/2017 04:25:07 PM 645 Views
I'm sorry, perhaps we've been reading different things. nossy - 12/09/2017 04:33:21 PM 596 Views
I'm referring to the preponderance of articles damookster - 12/09/2017 04:46:45 PM 617 Views
Does SW Florida count as Atlantic? While it was in the Atlantic nossy - 12/09/2017 05:03:50 PM 641 Views
It is going to be ok doesn't keep eyeballs on the tv random thoughts - 12/09/2017 05:58:21 PM 609 Views
Yeah, I don't think this is a particularly strong point in your favor. Ghavrel - 12/09/2017 09:35:12 PM 624 Views
NOAA or professional meteorologists, no. Every major news source, yes. *NM* damookster - 13/09/2017 03:16:14 PM 291 Views
Whatever happened to a good old fashioned Hurricane party? *NM* random thoughts - 12/09/2017 01:02:41 PM 266 Views
I can see why you would think that nossy - 12/09/2017 01:54:14 PM 657 Views
<3 Sareitha Sedai - 12/09/2017 02:09:14 PM 637 Views
Thanks nossy - 12/09/2017 02:17:20 PM 639 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 688 Views
That's likely the main problem. I'm not there to be mother hen. *NM* nossy - 12/09/2017 02:34:16 PM 329 Views
That's quite an allergy. AgentApple - 12/09/2017 07:44:55 PM 637 Views
It gives me the red mist nossy - 12/09/2017 08:19:04 PM 644 Views
Oy. Sareitha Sedai - 13/09/2017 02:28:28 PM 624 Views
In your case then, it wasn't hysteria Tom - 13/09/2017 10:32:43 PM 608 Views
Yes hurricanes are dumb Roland00 - 14/09/2017 12:44:29 AM 544 Views
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