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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 877 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 568 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 609 Views
Agreed damookster - 11/09/2017 11:18:30 PM 592 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 612 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 598 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 611 Views
Yeah, I don't think this is a particularly strong point in your favor. Ghavrel - 12/09/2017 09:35:12 PM 626 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 640 Views
Thanks nossy - 12/09/2017 02:17:20 PM 643 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 690 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 639 Views
It gives me the red mist nossy - 12/09/2017 08:19:04 PM 646 Views
Oy. Sareitha Sedai - 13/09/2017 02:28:28 PM 627 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 548 Views
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