Another media flameout.
I heard one alphabet media last week already declaring it “the biggest storm every to hit the US East Coast.”
I heard it was going to be a Category 5 and the biggest storm to ever hit this far north and that it was Trump’s fault.
medias will always hype but the gov has a duty to get people to prepare, evacuate if necessary....
They need to read history
A Category 4 Hurricane Slammed the Carolinas in 1954—and Left a Surprising Legacy
Fortunately most vacationers had left by the time Hurricane Hazel struck, but multiple buildings near Myrtle Beach were destroyed or damaged.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed—and thus clamorous to be led to safety—by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”—H.L. Mencken
Even tonight it was being compared to the flooding and damage from Hurricane Harvey last year.
After Katrina, I’d rather them over-hype than go the other way, but as the forecasts showed it weakening on the way in started happening, most weather entities kept it real enough - others started exaggerating more so they could continue to blame Trump - some even said how his trade wars would significantly increase the cost...now they need to kiss his ring for calming the wind and waters way down from what could have been....;-)
Trump and his hurricane patrol have been working through the night to reduce this storm’s power. Good job, Mr. President. Keep up the good work.
I noticed on the lobby TV last night a truck driving through about 2 feet of water on a neighborhood street. I wondered if that was the only place it was flooding.
I’ve noticed that a lot of people think the press sensationalizes the news and that’s one reason we don’t believe them any more. Remember the reporter a decade or so ago in heavy rain gear fighting the strong wind, and some local in a Hawaiian shirt and shorts casually walks by in the background?
My favorite: We had a serious earthquake in Seattle a couple of decades ago and a single building in Pioneer square - a VERY old brick building - had some major damage with bricks falling on the street, crushing a couple of cars. On the national media you would see all these pictures serious damage to old buildings and destroyed cars and thing the city was severely impacted. Except they were all pictures and videos from different perspectives and time of day of that single building and the two or three cars.
It affected how I filter all “disaster” stories from the breathless MSM.