Don't believe the (Isabel) hype

[HarryKeogh]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34281-2003Sep19.html

quoted from article:
As the storm of hype continues, bear two other things in mind. First, Isabel is a Category 2 event. Sixty-five worse storms -- Categories 3, 4, and 5 -- have made landfall in the United States in the past century, according to NOAA . The media is so disaster-hype-prone at the moment -- partly because disaster predictions keep the ever-larger demographic of senior citizens glued to the tube -- that Isabel will be spoken of as some kind of weather event without precedent. It's been worse 65 times in the last century.

end quote

i think the newstations like to stick the anchors out there just so those logo umbrellas get put to use.

[UnrepentantSinner]

Tell that to the 13 dead.

You New Yorkers are so flippant. If the storm hit Manhattan and knocked out power I'm sure you guys would be looting and killing each other. Just look at what happened in 1977 and you didn't even have a Category 2 bearing down on you.

[HarryKeogh]

Originally posted by UnrepentantSinner
If the storm hit Manhattan and knocked out power I'm sure you guys would be looting and killing each other. Just look at what happened in 1977 and you didn't even have a Category 2 bearing down on you.

in all fairness it was very humid that day

[UnrepentantSinner]

Originally posted by HarryKeogh
in all fairness it was very humid that day

:) In all fairness I'd excuse Paducha(sic) Kentucky going crazy during a blackout.

The blackout of 2003 was a prime example of the lessons learned by the nation after 9/11. I wonder if anyone besides those in NYC or DC would have applied them. Clearly they did from Charleston to Toronto, but still...

[sol4590]

The major news media has proven once again that it's goal is not to inform people, but to scare/excite them....I guess it makes for better rating. This is an event that cartainly warrants being covered, and there were a great deal of people affected. Major "news" might be taken more seriously if it were done with the intention of being information instead of a way of getting people hyped about the inevitable.

[Occasional Chemist]

Originally posted by UnrepentantSinner
Tell that to the 13 dead.


16.

CNN Story (http://www.cnn.com/2003/WEATHER/09/19/isabel/index.html)

Hurricanes, at least, ARE serious business, be they category 1 or category 5. With a hurricane bearing down on you, you'd d*mn well better take precautions. If the hurricane doesn't get you, the spawned tornados from a hurricane just might - and that's not counting the storm surge if you're at the coast.

In short, when mother nature knocks, you listen. :)

(Says he whose house was reroofed by Hugo some years back...)