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Does SW Florida count as Atlantic? While it was in the Atlantic nossy Send a noteboard - 12/09/2017 05:03:50 PM

If it was the most powerful storm in Atlantic history, why on Earth would I not want to know that? There was no way to know precisely which path it would take, so no real way to guess what strength it would keep or not.


View original postdescribing 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.


View original postRatings love all this "perfect storm" shit.

Which is why I watch precisely zero 24/7 news. I understand your point - I'm as jaded as it gets re: sensational angles and ratings. But I'm also not remotely content to be told anything other than the facts as they occur, even if the track, power, etc can all change.

We'll presumably have to agree to disagree.

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Hurricanes are dumb nossy - 11/09/2017 10:07:01 AM 920 Views
Were they on the coast? random thoughts - 11/09/2017 01:35:53 PM 659 Views
No, luckily nossy - 11/09/2017 05:14:34 PM 641 Views
My aunt wanted to stay in her single wide random thoughts - 11/09/2017 07:35:50 PM 603 Views
I'm not sure I even want one with a roof? nossy - 12/09/2017 03:33:57 PM 627 Views
You mean by not giving in to mass hysteria? Tom - 11/09/2017 10:30:55 PM 649 Views
Agreed damookster - 11/09/2017 11:18:30 PM 629 Views
The storm surge was partly down to luck. Hindsight is always 20-20 *NM* nossy - 12/09/2017 03:32:10 PM 352 Views
*NM* damookster - 12/09/2017 03:52:27 PM 316 Views
<3 *NM* nossy - 12/09/2017 04:24:18 PM 325 Views
or the predictions were unnecessarily overstated - because news loves sensationalism *NM* damookster - 12/09/2017 03:52:27 PM 318 Views
... I'm having trouble taking you seriously. nossy - 12/09/2017 04:04:19 PM 646 Views
the boy who cried wolf? damookster - 12/09/2017 04:25:07 PM 684 Views
I'm sorry, perhaps we've been reading different things. nossy - 12/09/2017 04:33:21 PM 636 Views
I'm referring to the preponderance of articles damookster - 12/09/2017 04:46:45 PM 655 Views
Does SW Florida count as Atlantic? While it was in the Atlantic nossy - 12/09/2017 05:03:50 PM 678 Views
It is going to be ok doesn't keep eyeballs on the tv random thoughts - 12/09/2017 05:58:21 PM 649 Views
Yeah, I don't think this is a particularly strong point in your favor. Ghavrel - 12/09/2017 09:35:12 PM 660 Views
NOAA or professional meteorologists, no. Every major news source, yes. *NM* damookster - 13/09/2017 03:16:14 PM 314 Views
Whatever happened to a good old fashioned Hurricane party? *NM* random thoughts - 12/09/2017 01:02:41 PM 287 Views
I can see why you would think that nossy - 12/09/2017 01:54:14 PM 692 Views
<3 Sareitha Sedai - 12/09/2017 02:09:14 PM 682 Views
Thanks nossy - 12/09/2017 02:17:20 PM 688 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 727 Views
That's likely the main problem. I'm not there to be mother hen. *NM* nossy - 12/09/2017 02:34:16 PM 347 Views
That's quite an allergy. AgentApple - 12/09/2017 07:44:55 PM 679 Views
It gives me the red mist nossy - 12/09/2017 08:19:04 PM 688 Views
Oy. Sareitha Sedai - 13/09/2017 02:28:28 PM 675 Views
In your case then, it wasn't hysteria Tom - 13/09/2017 10:32:43 PM 651 Views
Yes hurricanes are dumb Roland00 - 14/09/2017 12:44:29 AM 581 Views
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