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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 779 Views
Were they on the coast? random thoughts - 11/09/2017 01:35:53 PM 498 Views
No, luckily nossy - 11/09/2017 05:14:34 PM 513 Views
My aunt wanted to stay in her single wide random thoughts - 11/09/2017 07:35:50 PM 473 Views
I'm not sure I even want one with a roof? nossy - 12/09/2017 03:33:57 PM 495 Views
You mean by not giving in to mass hysteria? Tom - 11/09/2017 10:30:55 PM 509 Views
Agreed damookster - 11/09/2017 11:18:30 PM 494 Views
The storm surge was partly down to luck. Hindsight is always 20-20 *NM* nossy - 12/09/2017 03:32:10 PM 277 Views
*NM* damookster - 12/09/2017 03:52:27 PM 246 Views
<3 *NM* nossy - 12/09/2017 04:24:18 PM 259 Views
or the predictions were unnecessarily overstated - because news loves sensationalism *NM* damookster - 12/09/2017 03:52:27 PM 260 Views
... I'm having trouble taking you seriously. nossy - 12/09/2017 04:04:19 PM 532 Views
the boy who cried wolf? damookster - 12/09/2017 04:25:07 PM 537 Views
I'm sorry, perhaps we've been reading different things. nossy - 12/09/2017 04:33:21 PM 495 Views
I'm referring to the preponderance of articles damookster - 12/09/2017 04:46:45 PM 519 Views
Does SW Florida count as Atlantic? While it was in the Atlantic nossy - 12/09/2017 05:03:50 PM 530 Views
It is going to be ok doesn't keep eyeballs on the tv random thoughts - 12/09/2017 05:58:21 PM 507 Views
Yeah, I don't think this is a particularly strong point in your favor. Ghavrel - 12/09/2017 09:35:12 PM 534 Views
NOAA or professional meteorologists, no. Every major news source, yes. *NM* damookster - 13/09/2017 03:16:14 PM 256 Views
Whatever happened to a good old fashioned Hurricane party? *NM* random thoughts - 12/09/2017 01:02:41 PM 230 Views
I can see why you would think that nossy - 12/09/2017 01:54:14 PM 536 Views
<3 Sareitha Sedai - 12/09/2017 02:09:14 PM 545 Views
Thanks nossy - 12/09/2017 02:17:20 PM 553 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 591 Views
That's likely the main problem. I'm not there to be mother hen. *NM* nossy - 12/09/2017 02:34:16 PM 282 Views
That's quite an allergy. AgentApple - 12/09/2017 07:44:55 PM 532 Views
It gives me the red mist nossy - 12/09/2017 08:19:04 PM 565 Views
Oy. Sareitha Sedai - 13/09/2017 02:28:28 PM 518 Views
In your case then, it wasn't hysteria Tom - 13/09/2017 10:32:43 PM 508 Views
Yes hurricanes are dumb Roland00 - 14/09/2017 12:44:29 AM 452 Views
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