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Yeah, I don't think this is a particularly strong point in your favor. Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 12/09/2017 09:35:12 PM

The models for Irma were uncertain. We knew it would turn north, but we didn't know when. It was't sensationalism to say that, or to plan for the worst. If the high pressure area keeping Irma to the south had let up a day earlier, Miami could have gotten hit by a category 5. If the area had let up about 6 hours earlier, Irma would have avoided Cuba, and Tampa could have been hit by a category 3 or 4.

Florida was lucky. That doesn't mean NOAA or any of the other professional meteorologists were being sensationalist.

"We feel safe when we read what we recognise, what does not challenge our way of thinking.... a steady acceptance of pre-arranged patterns leads to the inability to question what we are told."
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Hurricanes are dumb nossy - 11/09/2017 10:07:01 AM 917 Views
Were they on the coast? random thoughts - 11/09/2017 01:35:53 PM 658 Views
No, luckily nossy - 11/09/2017 05:14:34 PM 638 Views
My aunt wanted to stay in her single wide random thoughts - 11/09/2017 07:35:50 PM 602 Views
I'm not sure I even want one with a roof? nossy - 12/09/2017 03:33:57 PM 623 Views
You mean by not giving in to mass hysteria? Tom - 11/09/2017 10:30:55 PM 646 Views
Agreed damookster - 11/09/2017 11:18:30 PM 627 Views
The storm surge was partly down to luck. Hindsight is always 20-20 *NM* nossy - 12/09/2017 03:32:10 PM 350 Views
*NM* damookster - 12/09/2017 03:52:27 PM 315 Views
<3 *NM* nossy - 12/09/2017 04:24:18 PM 323 Views
or the predictions were unnecessarily overstated - because news loves sensationalism *NM* damookster - 12/09/2017 03:52:27 PM 317 Views
... I'm having trouble taking you seriously. nossy - 12/09/2017 04:04:19 PM 643 Views
the boy who cried wolf? damookster - 12/09/2017 04:25:07 PM 682 Views
I'm sorry, perhaps we've been reading different things. nossy - 12/09/2017 04:33:21 PM 634 Views
I'm referring to the preponderance of articles damookster - 12/09/2017 04:46:45 PM 653 Views
Does SW Florida count as Atlantic? While it was in the Atlantic nossy - 12/09/2017 05:03:50 PM 676 Views
It is going to be ok doesn't keep eyeballs on the tv random thoughts - 12/09/2017 05:58:21 PM 647 Views
Yeah, I don't think this is a particularly strong point in your favor. Ghavrel - 12/09/2017 09:35:12 PM 659 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 285 Views
I can see why you would think that nossy - 12/09/2017 01:54:14 PM 690 Views
<3 Sareitha Sedai - 12/09/2017 02:09:14 PM 681 Views
Thanks nossy - 12/09/2017 02:17:20 PM 687 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 725 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 686 Views
Oy. Sareitha Sedai - 13/09/2017 02:28:28 PM 673 Views
In your case then, it wasn't hysteria Tom - 13/09/2017 10:32:43 PM 648 Views
Yes hurricanes are dumb Roland00 - 14/09/2017 12:44:29 AM 580 Views
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