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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 876 Views
Were they on the coast? random thoughts - 11/09/2017 01:35:53 PM 621 Views
No, luckily nossy - 11/09/2017 05:14:34 PM 596 Views
My aunt wanted to stay in her single wide random thoughts - 11/09/2017 07:35:50 PM 567 Views
I'm not sure I even want one with a roof? nossy - 12/09/2017 03:33:57 PM 593 Views
You mean by not giving in to mass hysteria? Tom - 11/09/2017 10:30:55 PM 608 Views
Agreed damookster - 11/09/2017 11:18:30 PM 591 Views
The storm surge was partly down to luck. Hindsight is always 20-20 *NM* nossy - 12/09/2017 03:32:10 PM 325 Views
*NM* damookster - 12/09/2017 03:52:27 PM 298 Views
<3 *NM* nossy - 12/09/2017 04:24:18 PM 303 Views
or the predictions were unnecessarily overstated - because news loves sensationalism *NM* damookster - 12/09/2017 03:52:27 PM 299 Views
... I'm having trouble taking you seriously. nossy - 12/09/2017 04:04:19 PM 611 Views
the boy who cried wolf? damookster - 12/09/2017 04:25:07 PM 647 Views
I'm sorry, perhaps we've been reading different things. nossy - 12/09/2017 04:33:21 PM 597 Views
I'm referring to the preponderance of articles damookster - 12/09/2017 04:46:45 PM 618 Views
Does SW Florida count as Atlantic? While it was in the Atlantic nossy - 12/09/2017 05:03:50 PM 642 Views
It is going to be ok doesn't keep eyeballs on the tv random thoughts - 12/09/2017 05:58:21 PM 610 Views
Yeah, I don't think this is a particularly strong point in your favor. Ghavrel - 12/09/2017 09:35:12 PM 625 Views
NOAA or professional meteorologists, no. Every major news source, yes. *NM* damookster - 13/09/2017 03:16:14 PM 293 Views
Whatever happened to a good old fashioned Hurricane party? *NM* random thoughts - 12/09/2017 01:02:41 PM 268 Views
I can see why you would think that nossy - 12/09/2017 01:54:14 PM 659 Views
<3 Sareitha Sedai - 12/09/2017 02:09:14 PM 639 Views
Thanks nossy - 12/09/2017 02:17:20 PM 641 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 689 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 638 Views
It gives me the red mist nossy - 12/09/2017 08:19:04 PM 645 Views
Oy. Sareitha Sedai - 13/09/2017 02:28:28 PM 625 Views
In your case then, it wasn't hysteria Tom - 13/09/2017 10:32:43 PM 610 Views
Yes hurricanes are dumb Roland00 - 14/09/2017 12:44:29 AM 547 Views
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