The media is lying
The media make it sound like most of Florida was hit with 100 mph sustained winds which is a lie. Most “Hardest hit” areas around 45- 50 mph or near there.
The media want to make this a catastrophe to help Hillary especially in Florida which is the key state.
Drudge even said the media and the gov agencies exaggerated the threat of a category 4 hurricane hitting Florida It was nowhere near category 4 as what hit Florida were tropical storm winds and conditions
They lie all the time. Unfortunately, not everyone knows that - even FReepers here.
The government-media complex are paid, pathological liars to advance the agenda of the elite.
How long ago did the models NOT show this thing making a big loop out in the Atlantic (which even now is uncertain)?
The forecasting is just not THAT accurate, and any East Coast Floridian with a brain knows this was the equivalent to being grazed by a bullet from a shaky-hand shooter.
(Haiti, of course, was awful, and we also have yet to see how bad the flooding will be in the Carolinas. Over on the Storm2k site (a great resource) some posters in the Carolinas are complaining that local media basically gave an "all clear" yesterday, and now they (Carolinas' coast) are getting inundated. Prayers should be up!)
Back in 2009, our local media and NWS, IMO, underwarned our area (mid South) about the approaching ice storm. NWS' forecast was actually very close as to amounts of ice, and where, and in advising of "catastrophic" damage to trees and the power grid, impassable roads, etc. But sufficient warning / advice from NWS and the media on what that meant (up to 3 weeks without power in some places, in a cold spell (esp. the 1st week) in February...) was not given. That caused a lot of grief, and surely some preventable deaths.
Again IMO, Gov. Scott played it right, this time.