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Jose heading towards NYC

Would imagine ATL is going to be even more in decline after all this rain they're getting. Gotta be some flooding concerns there.
 
Watching live shots from the Battery in Charleston and this storm surge is unreal even in SC. Tracking towards our apartment now...makes me glad we didn't stay and went to Charlotte.
 
DEACisGO said:
im shocked no one has yelled "fake news" at a CNN reporter yet
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That happened to a local traffic reporter friend of mine at a wreck site.
 
I think you have to point out worst case scenario, but the hype on this storm was ridiculous and ongoing for a week straight. The 24 hour news cycle caused a lot of panic. Even yesterday I'm watching and the hurricane had hit Naples and they're showing some webcam somewhere. I'm thinking if that webcam is still operational, then this hurricane is not a big deal. Florida gets hit by hurricanes a lot, and they usually soften up when they wipe out the islands first. That this was going to hit Florida as a Cat 5 was extremely unlikely, and I don't think I ever heard the news try to accentuate that. But more people move to there anyway, thus more panic and more noobs each hurricane season. Plus they haven't had a hurricane in a while. When I was a kid it seems like a big one was pummeling them every couple years. Gloria, Hugo, Andrew, etc... The oddity of this hurricane was, IMO, that it was so wide and covered most of the state by going south-north. The power of it was not an issue once it hit the islands. Thankfully, it did not stall out like Harvey either.
 
EatLeadCommie said:
I think you have to point out worst case scenario, but the hype on this storm was ridiculous and ongoing for a week straight. The 24 hour news cycle caused a lot of panic. Even yesterday I'm watching and the hurricane had hit Naples and they're showing some webcam somewhere. I'm thinking if that webcam is still operational, then this hurricane is not a big deal. Florida gets hit by hurricanes a lot, and they usually soften up when they wipe out the islands first. That this was going to hit Florida as a Cat 5 was extremely unlikely, and I don't think I ever heard the news try to accentuate that. But more people move to there anyway, thus more panic and more noobs each hurricane season. Plus they haven't had a hurricane in a while. When I was a kid it seems like a big one was pummeling them every couple years. Gloria, Hugo, Andrew, etc... The oddity of this hurricane was, IMO, that it was so wide and covered most of the state by going south-north. The power of it was not an issue once it hit the islands. Thankfully, it did not stall out like Harvey either.
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As I watch Charleston (an area hundreds of miles from where it actually hit) and my apartment get hit with this water and flooding, I have absolutely no problem with the way the news handled it, particularly for folks in Florida who wound up getting hit.

I'm sorry that people get so worked up over the fact that meteorologists need to hype these things up to get people to leave areas and make them aware of what's going on, but it is absolutely necessary to report on it in the manner that they do.
 
EatLeadCommie said:
I think you have to point out worst case scenario, but the hype on this storm was ridiculous and ongoing for a week straight. The 24 hour news cycle caused a lot of panic. Even yesterday I'm watching and the hurricane had hit Naples and they're showing some webcam somewhere. I'm thinking if that webcam is still operational, then this hurricane is not a big deal. Florida gets hit by hurricanes a lot, and they usually soften up when they wipe out the islands first. That this was going to hit Florida as a Cat 5 was extremely unlikely, and I don't think I ever heard the news try to accentuate that. But more people move to there anyway, thus more panic and more noobs each hurricane season. Plus they haven't had a hurricane in a while. When I was a kid it seems like a big one was pummeling them every couple years. Gloria, Hugo, Andrew, etc... The oddity of this hurricane was, IMO, that it was so wide and covered most of the state by going south-north. The power of it was not an issue once it hit the islands. Thankfully, it did not stall out like Harvey either.
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What if it did stall out like Harvey?
 
What seemed to make the winds less intense was the fact it went straight north at the last minute opposed to going NW and never making landfall until the Tampa area. It also reduced the storm surge on the west coast. On the flip side though, things looked worse in Miami and places like JAX.
 
All I know is that I've had my in-laws camped out in my house since Thursday for a bunch of bullshit. Their house didn't even lose power and they watched their security cameras online as it rained and some branches fell down in the backyard. Whoopdeedamndo. Luckily they seem to be wising up to the fact that they live in an area not suitable for full-time residence, and will hopefully move somewhere more sensible.
 
Deacsfan27 said:
As I watch Charleston (an area hundreds of miles from where it actually hit) and my apartment get hit with this water and flooding, I have absolutely no problem with the way the news handled it, particularly for folks in Florida who wound up getting hit.

I'm sorry that people get so worked up over the fact that meteorologists need to hype these things up to get people to leave areas and make them aware of what's going on, but it is absolutely necessary to report on it in the manner that they do.
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This. The weather folks need to report worst case scenarios.
 
Man I almost posted last week that 2&2 would come back after the storm and say "I don't know what the big deal was."

Saw a great tweet this morning that said "Of all the views, the one conservative view I will never understand is 'things don't happen.'"
 
Jacksonville and Charleston both look pretty bad from perusing the interwebz. Similarly, Miami's airport seems pretty jacked up.
 
2&2 Slider To Leyritz said:
All I know is that I've had my in-laws camped out in my house since Thursday for a bunch of bullshit. Their house didn't even lose power and they watched their security cameras online as it rained and some branches fell down in the backyard. Whoopdeedamndo. Luckily they seem to be wising up to the fact that they live in an area not suitable for full-time residence, and will hopefully move somewhere more sensible.
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So you are mad because your in-laws are at your house?

There are going to be thousands to hundreds of thousands of people who are displaced for quite some time because of this storm. I think it's extremely disingenuous for you to be upset because they "hype" the storm too much, but to each their own.

I evacuated Charleston on Thursday because of what I heard from everybody last week. Once again, it's nowhere near where Irma made landfall and we are getting absolutely crushed right now.
 
Irma affected all of FL and now is covering SC, GA, and AL. It was clearly worth the hype.
 
Does it affect things and does it suck when trees fall through roofs and low lying areas get flooded? Of course, but that is no different than any major weather occurrence. Is it life-or-death PACK UP AND LEAVE THE ENTIRE FUCKING STATE NOW OR DIE!!!!!1111!!! Not at all. The Virgin Islands and similar places should be the real focus here.
 
2&2 Slider To Leyritz said:
Does it affect things and does it suck when trees fall through roofs and low lying areas get flooded? Of course, but that is no different than any major weather occurrence. Is it life-or-death PACK UP AND LEAVE THE ENTIRE FUCKING STATE NOW OR DIE!!!!!1111!!! Not at all. The Virgin Islands and similar places should be the real focus here.
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I don't know how else to explain it other than, if nobody had evacuated from Florida then the death toll would be in the hundreds, if not thousands, instead of likely staying under 100.
 
Deacsfan27 said:
I don't know how else to explain it other than, if nobody had evacuated from Florida then the death toll would be in the hundreds, if not thousands, instead of likely staying under 100.
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what's life worth living without video games
 
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