Posted on 09/06/2019 8:00:52 PM PDT by cba123
WASHINGTON — A federal agency reversed course Friday on the question of whether President Donald Trump tweeted stale information about Hurricane Dorian potentially hitting Alabama, upsetting meteorologists around the country.
On Sunday, Trump had warned that Alabama, along with the Carolinas and Georgia, was “most likely to be hit (much) harder than anticipated.”
The National Weather Service in Birmingham, Alabama, tweeted in response: “Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane #Dorian will be felt across Alabama. The system will remain too far east.”
But the president has been adamant throughout the week that he was correct, and the White House has deployed government resources and staff to back him.
The latest defense came out Friday evening, when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a statement from an unidentified spokesman stating that information provided by NOAA and the National Hurricane Center to the president had demonstrated that “tropical-storm-force winds from Hurricane Dorian could impact Alabama.” The advisories were dated from last Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019...
(Please let's all get really in a tizzy about this)
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So if they were judged by their own standards they would all loose their jobs and face criminal charges.
#LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder
President Trump was right.... again!
Hilarious video that he posted this afternoon directed at CNN - LoLoL
https://twitter.com/i/status/1170089069105340416
There are disaster relief teams staged and already working in the Mobile/Pensacola FL area... There was impact...
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#HurricaneDorian is projected to reach southern Alabama by the early part of the week. We are watching closely and #ready to act. Are you? pic.twitter.com/iMH0DnE4QO— AL National Guard (@AlabamaNG) August 30, 2019
Sean Hannity had these charts on his show a couple of days ago.
Don’t tell the morons at Yahoo. This is the 2nd-biggest scandal next to “Russian Collusion”.
Yes, these liberals are pathetic beyond belief.
I read the same Thing Trump said. Any errors were not his.
Unbelievable that the press won’t let this go. You would have thought that he had denied killing someone.
Trump was correct. I was following the potential computer tracts of the storm. One crossed Florida , briefly into the Gulf, to the panhandle, then to Ala. I was following because we have family in that potential impacted area. The press here is full of it - but that we already know.
From last week’s Dothan (Alabama) Eagle Newspaper:
Local officials monitoring Dorian as it approaches U.S.; calls to area hotels increase
Jeremy Wise
Aug 30, 2019 Updated Aug 30, 2019
Even though Friday’s forecasts indicated Hurricane Dorian may stay east of the Wiregrass, local emergency officials will continue to monitor the storm’s progress throughout the weekend.
Dothan-Houston County Emergency Management Agency Director Chris Judah said local officials initiated preparations on Thursday for the storm, a Category 3 hurricane as of early Friday afternoon.
While most tracks indicate Dorian will turn to the north and east before reaching the Gulf of Mexico, National Weather Service meteorologists have not ruled out that it will reach the Gulf of Mexico before the trajectory changes. If Dorian reaches the Gulf of Mexico before making the projected turn, it could affect the area much more significantly than the rain showers predicted for the Wiregrass in a few days.
“They told us Michael was nothing, and in 24 hours it was a Category 4 storm,” Judah said. “If it hits the Gulf, it will impact us more. Regardless, we’ll experience some rain and thunderstorms.”
For emergency personnel, initial preparations included coordinating response resources with the state EMA office, Gov. Kay Ivey’s office, the American Red Cross and other first-responder groups. Judah encouraged Wiregrass residents to analyze their emergency plans and stock up on needed materials like canned goods, water and batteries in case Dorian approaches.
Meanwhile potential evacuees from the Florida peninsula – in Dorian’s direct path – have placed several calls to local hotels and the Dothan Area Convention and Visitors Bureau (Visit Dothan), said Visit Dothan executive director Aaron McCreight. Several have booked rooms for Monday, and those reservations may carry into Tuesday and Wednesday.
Despite the Labor Day holiday weekend, McCreight said Visit Dothan staffers will continuously monitor hotel vacancies and update the public through their social media channels, the electronic sign outside of their offices and through emails to the media.
McCreight noted his organization also has a plan in place in case Dorian approaches the area while hotels are filled – a situation that developed during Hurricane Irma. Irma weakened to a tropical storm before reaching the area, lessening its impact.
Since evacuees have begun to travel through the area – and the large music festival Gulf Coast Jam this weekend in Panama City Beach, Florida – Houston County roadways will be packed, Judah said. He urged residents to exercise caution while driving, especially if heavy thunderstorms generate flooding or flash flooding conditions.
I have a copy in my local news paper printed on Wednesday which showed that at press time the south eastern most part of Alabama was in the cone of potential tropical force winds. I would like to ram that newspaper, which had a screen shot of the NHC map and cone, right down S. Smith’s fake fag throat.
Dorian did all sorts of “unlikely” things it was not forecast to do by “consensus” modeling: Surviving it’s first brawl with shear, totally stalling over the Northern Bahamas... All this is documented on Storm2k (if one cares to read through several thousand posts!) Definitely some of the spaghetti plots went through Alabama. Perhaps Pres. Trump should not have used the word “likely” to lump Alabama in with, say, the Carolinas. But, that’s rather nitpicky.
This whole story is just about the most retarded thing I’ve ever heard in politics. Seriously. Just pure garbage.
BTTT
Amazing!
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