Posted on 08/27/2011 9:51:47 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
Actually that’s become my favorite phrase the last few days.
OMG .... We’re All Gonna Die!
Your forgot No. 3:
Distract People from noticing Obama’s a Jerk.
“Call it hype or media-driven, the FACT remains that only the truly stupid fail to take mother nature seriously”
And the even stupider take it too seriously.
We stayed at the Colonial Inn. (Just came to me)
“You no longer fuss when the forecasters get it wrong, and the storm loses strength, believe me.”
Maybe you wouldn’t, but what about me, who lives in the middle of the country? If hype is the price of eternal vigilence, or whatever, for you, it is nothing but a bother to me. Let your local stations freak out. The national media can wait till something actually happens.
I had to turn off ABC this morning, as the drama queen guy reporter stood in the blowing rain shreiking about nothing. The strongest winds are caused by the newsreaders hyperventilating.
I took Mrs p6 and two of our kids to the Outer Banks for a couple of weeks in 1985...the last real vacation I took, LOL! The place I had stayed at in 1960 was gone...someone said it was destroyed in a storm. That's why I was so surprised to find a place on Google that looks pretty much like what I remember but in the wrong place.
The entire OB have changed SO much even over the past couple of decades.
In 1985 mrs p6 and the family played miniature golf at a place right at the dunes across the street from Kitty Hawk Kites. The Kite store and it's tower is still there BUT the golf course is gone. Looks like it never existed. Mrs p6, her brother and our youngest son vacationed there a couple of years ago and even she says it is changed so much.
BTW do you or anyone else remember a kinda hokey restaurant called Gandalf's Place? LOTR theme...couple of hippies ran it...Wasn't bad but I can't imagine it lasting too long.
“Better to BE PREPARED and sustain little damage than it is to NOT BE PREPARED and have the worst happen.”
1) It is possible to prepare people without apocalyuptic foreboding. How about you hedge your bets just a little, and add in every hour or so an “Of course, we could be wrong.”
2) Preparedness is all well and good for those in the storm’s path, but what about the majority of us with whom it has nothing to do? I realize the MSM doesn’t want to miss out on the next Big Story, but if it’s not a big story all they did was waste our (the most of us who don’t live in the projected storm path) time. Their calculus is that it’s better to have egg on their faces than miss out on Katrina II, but I don’t give a hoot about their calculuses; I just want not to be bothered.
apocalyuptic = apocalyptic
BINGO!
Obama even left his vacation early and rushed back to DC to oversee the handling of the response!
The exact OPPOSITE of that EVIL G.W. Bush who let all those people die and NOLA be be destroyed by Chaney and Halliburton's weather machine!
OBAMA - THE BEST PRESIDENT EVAR!
/ sarcasm
I have to go barf and shower now.
All I can remember is a little place with some video games. We only stayed one night as we were on a coast drive vacation. The game was deathrace 2000 or something like that.
The beach was rough and the surf would pound you into a bunch of pebbles.
“I did not think that the people of New Orleans would botch the evacuation in front of Katrina as badly as they did”
Actually, we didn’t-
Please see the following thread #15
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2769716/posts
Good grief.
By media standards, no.
Four people have been killed so far. How many deaths are required for the storm to be considered serious?
If you have watched the Weather Channel at any time in the last week and a half, you would see the absolute WORST HYPE on this I have ever seen. It is nauseating. 24-hour wall-to-wall frantic handwringing, warning, desperation, and playing the same few video loops repeatedly, ad infinitum, ad nauseam...
That’s the problem they are scaring people to death.
Treat people like adults, give them the information and they will be much more calm and rational.
Such as: The storm COULD contain winds up to x. The storm COULD cause surge in these areas. Here’s what you can do to prepare. If you live in Zone x y z, you SHOULD evacuate.
I think it’s the overblown adjectives that get me “historic” “catastrophic” “devastating”. Oh they wish!
Here’s a tip from a Floridian—look at the satellite photos of the storm, if it doesn’t have a clearly defined eye and a good full circular pattern there’s a good chance it’s not going to be a monster. But it’s still good to be prepared because these things are notoriously tricky.
they need to send In Shepard Smith, he finds dead people everywhere
Thanks GG! She’s calmer today. When Irene made landfall in NC this morning as a Cat 1 she was relieved. They are all boarded up and hunkered down. A friend of theirs lives further inland in a bi-level, so if it gets worse they can take the 4 parrots (1 African Grey and 3 Conures) and bug out.
The have been remodeling the house for the past year, I hope nothing happens to it.
I’m glad everyone is okay. It is scary and the hype doesn’t help.
Let us know how it goes with the remodeling project. Construction usually doesn’t fare too well in these kind of storms but as long as they battened down as well as they could there shouldn’t be anything more than some downed tree limbs and miscellaneous debris to clear.
True, Wilma was butch
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