I have never heard the Weather Channel and the local media report so much about what the President is doing. Again on TWC “Obama is paying close attention to this, potentially historic event he just signed an emergency declaration for RI.”
The weather is now political fodder, what needs to be looked at is how well the state governors handled their individual states, because the White House has very little to do with the response but the media need badly to paint Obama in a good light and they will use the misery of others to do their bidding.
That would be the NBC Obama Sycophant Weather Channel. Gotta keep Obama looking good for 2012. Geez, Big Sis gave a pep talk a little while ago.
Obama’s crew have declared emergency areas before the storm even left the Bahamas. They are doing everything humanly possible, propaganda-wise, to make him smell like a rose.
If Bush had done that in 2005, the media and the Left would have screamed bloody murder. Nauti-nurse and anyone who followed the Katrina live threads knows that it was Clinton’s former head of FEMA who advised Gov Blanco not to request Federal participation for one very bad extra day. And that was done specifically so that President Bush could not be seen to be “in charge.”
Like they painted Bush after Katrina when the LA governor and NOLA mayor wouldn't ask for declared emergency. The governor and mayor were called to ask for help and refused! So...
Bushes fault!
It’s disgusting, I refuse to watch TWC. I don’t need TWC to tell me anything about hurricanes...they hide from the worst area being hit, then stand on the beach where winds are 20MPH and pretend they are being blown over. I’ve lived in Florida all of my life and I sure as heck don’t care what Ohomo says or does. I watch the satellites, radar, water vapor and NOAA computer models. I don’t need those Obongo butt kissers telling me what I already know.
I remember a few years ago there was a big Cat 3 on a direct path to hit South Florida. Later that afternoon while it was near the northern coast of Puerto Rico I saw something happening to it by watching the satellites and taking screen shots.
NOAA mentioned no changes. I watched Bryan Norcross(the so called hero weatherman of Hurricane Andrew) and he saw it too, but said he would wait to hear from the NHC. They came on with him and said they weren’t sure, he might be right but at that time they didn’t want to say. I thought that was weird, he was obviously right. The storm had encountered strong westerly shear and dry air entrainment and it was blowing the top off of the hurricane. You could clearly see it on the satellite loops. Within hours it was torn apart from the shear. By the next morning it not only was not a hurricane, it was gone, barely detectable on the radar.
I often wondered how NOAA could not have seen that when I saw it and what a local meteroligist saw. NOAA is wrong a lot of the time and I think they are making a HUGE deal over this storm when it isn’t a big deal. Time will tell. I think surge will be an issue in some areas, winds not so much.
They keep saying all hurricanes have flooding rains, well that is not always the case. Sometimes hurricanes are surprisingly dry, others, not so much. The rain bands move so fast that sometimes you will get a lot, other times not much at all. Hurricane Georges was a very wet storm because South Florida was getting the E and NE quadrant of the storm and the feeder bands were coming over as the storm slowed down, nearly stalled and grew from a cat 1 to a cat 2.
Wilma did damage that was never really reported on the news. Once it hit & passed Miami all you heard or saw was news about Miami. TWC, all Miami. Not much mention of the fact that when all that water was pushed into Florida Bay, once Wilma moved ashore that water all rushed back and flooded the entire Gulf side of the Florida Keys all the way from around Islamorada to Key West and ran across US1 and flooded many on the ocean side as well. Devastating floods down there. There is a video called Wilma the Witch made by a local attorney. You never saw any of this on the news or TWC, they were too busy showing downed traffic lights and roof tiles in Miami. But maybe the Tourist Development Committee in the Florida Keys was more than happy to not have that plastered all over the news.
If you live in a hurricane area all of your life, you watch, worry when you need to worry and don’t stress over things that might never be. They went into panic mode on the South Florida news stations when Irene was way out there.... get’s more viewers. I don’t care what the spaghetti stings say when the darn storm is over the Lesser Antilles. I care what they are showing when it nears Haiti and Cuba because almost always the track changes, the cones move, and they don’t have a clue where it will end up when it is so far out there. It’s just an educated guess at best.