Naples city manager doesn’t buy into Chris Cuomo’s grim assessment.
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
I think The Keys, Miami and Broward got the worst of it
Compared to the nuclear destruction that was predicted Irma turned out to be much less.
Makes me wonder about people’s evac attitudes if there happens to be another high category storm in the next few years.
I think that better building codes are a big part of Florida’s lesser damage than expected.
The news effectively gets paid for ratings so is drama.
I watched storm hitting down there on snapchat map vids so had “normal” perspective.
Overblown, ratings-driven hype. It was much, much stronger in the Caribbean and it hit islands with very poor building standards. It arrived in Florida much weakened and the tv weather industry combined with the arse-covering, publicity-seeking politicians fueled hysteria.
It appears to have caused much less damage in Florida than Harvey caused in Texas, and even with Harvey, the percentage of people driven out of their homes compared to the population of metro Houston is super tiny, but to listen to the news, you would think half of Texas is uninhabitable.
“all in all, I think we’re going to be back to business very quickly”
That must have saddened Chris Cuomo to tears.
I came to Virginia from Naples, family there - they are all fine. Roofs intact. Water surge, yes, but nowhere near what was expected. One in old manufactured/modular home - it is fine.
Irma petered out soon after hitting land, back half of storm was nothing - southern half.
Mercy of God.
Lots of damage especially down South but they got a bit lucky with the track and lessening. Prayers for all affected by the hurricanes and a breath of relief that we didn’t get a follow-on to Katrina on the MS Gulf Coast.
So the power of the storm was greatly exaggerated by the press. I’m shocked! Shocked!
The storm was further east than expected so Southwest Florida got less of the dirty side of the storm.
The irony is, of all the cities in Florida, outside of the Keys, Jacksonville may get the worst of it.
I live in FL. I can tell you this storm was not overstated. It was dangerous, but thanks to God’s grace it didn’t follow the path they predicted. Had it moved 50 miles west, this would have been a disaster. Every county in the state experienced damage.
Florida homes, unlike Houston, are built to hurricane standards. People prepared. Unlike Houston, people evacuated.
There are at least 8M homes without power. This mayor is making his damage assessment in the dark. There will be massive flood damage in southern FL. Unless you live here, hold your judgement until the facts are revealed.
According to CNN the whole of Florida resembles Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the atomic bomb blasts. Florida has gotten smarter and imposed strict hurricane resistant building codes so that structural damage to large buildings can be expected to be minimal.
The city manager apparently thinks that the future for Naples is brighter if he contradicts CNN’s Fake News hyperbole.