Almost Disappointed
About 30 minutes ago an MSNBC reporter in North Carolina said that while Hurricane Irene was definitely wet, turbulent and howling, it was causing less damage than initially feared, and that this may be a source of some relief in the northeast corridor. As I said yesterday, Hurricane Irene will deliver the expected “driving rain and howling winds and tree branches snapping off and downed power lines”, but it may turn out to be “a little bit like Carmageddon when all is said and done.” It’s only a Category 1, for God’s sake.
The media likes scaring people a bit more than explaining the realistic likelihoods, I’m afraid.
the fact that gocery stores are sold out of bread and bottled water is a sad comment on our society, and how ridiculous the media is when it comes to hyping up storm coverage.
Typical fear mongering as usual.
I couldn’t believe the scene at my corner CVS, and I live in the middle of the city – no danger zone. Lineup of at least 40 people, carts full of cheezits and other garbage, there was no water left, no milk, no anything. Don’t these sandal and sweatpants-wearing animals have any food in their fridges? I’m thinking to myself isn’t this storm going to last ONE DAY? I sometimes don’t move from my couch all weekend. What is the difference with this? How much water do you need to drink over the span of 12 HOURS? 2 bottles at the most? And the weather on Monday – sunny and 81.
Tell that to the families of those who lost their lives.
It’s certainly not quite as Roland Emmerich as anticipated, but the Saffir-Simpson scale (as someone who knows nothing about hurricanes outside of an Oceanography class) doesn’t sound like a particularly terrific indicator to me. Irene is still a very large “Category 1″.
“The media likes scaring people a bit more than explaining the realistic likelihoods, I’m afraid.”
Noooooooo. Really?
I mean, I’m sure MSNBC, FOX, CNN and the others’ ratings would be just as good if they were saying “eh, a little windy, but no big thing.”?
“Tell that to the families of those who lost their lives.”
Uhh. Tell what to the families of those who lost their lives?
And it’s Edward by a landslide for the most irrelevant comment!
This is the ONE scenario where the media/government ISN’T the main one to blame – the dumbshit citizenry is.
Yeah, its just going to be some wind and rain most likely; but GOD FORBID someone gets into a freak accident or one out of a hundred-thousand homes gets squashed by a tree. THEN everyone’s self-righteous “WHY DIDNT YOU WARN ME!!??” Gets turned on the weathermen, local agencies, etc. TV weather reporters especially are in a SHIT position on this stuff – even the best of them are ultimately guestimating, and their employment can end OVERNIGHT if enough angry jackholes bitch to the station because the weekend was slightly less sunny than they’d “promised.” If that was you, you’d err on the side of armageddon too.
“…carts full of cheezits and other garbage…”
Tell that to the families of those who lost their lives.
arispil, you don’t buy water to drink while riding out the storm. You buy it because the storm might knock out your water supply for a week or more.
Having gone through five hurricanes in South Florida, I’ve been without power and drinkable tap water for weeks at a time after the uglier ones.
Funny, night before last the Aero showed Dante’s MATINEE, set during the Cuban missile criss, with a scene of people in a supermarket beating each other up over the last box of shredded wheat or can of fruit. Nothing. Ever. Changes.
Also, three people have died today in Irene, including an 11-year-old boy. That’s probably what Edward was referring to.
All that said, I agree that media lives to hype these things up. Still, it could cause a lot of (monetary) damage in New York.
At least you know the hurricane is going to happen in NYC. What’s going to happen in LA when a huge earthquake happens? Can you imagine the chaos if it strikes in the middle of the day?
Wells: “It’s funny when people die.”
Let me try to explain this so the slower members of the class can grasp it:
Most of the heavily populous areas of the East cannot be evacuated in a few hours. Hurricanes are not predictable and more than a day out knowing what the category will be when it reaches these areas is like 50/50 at best. Hence, you can’t tell people 3 hours out they need to flee.
On top of things, you have a large group who will wait until it’s too late regardless and emergency services have to waste resources on these fucking morons.
It’s amazing the those bemoaning “media over-hype” seem to forget this is exactly what happened with Katrina, when the little, dying Category 1 storm changed in the middle of the night and became the Category 3 killer of 1800 people.
Ditto, IKE, a storm some people seem to have forgotten but which killed a fair number of people who decided to stick around and wait it out. It came in as a Cat 2 but had a storm surge more worthy of a Cat 4. Better to overestimate than under and find out later that people could have lived instead of drowning, etc. In spite of not being all that, I’m sure IRENE will nonetheless go down as one of the costlier hurricanes of our times.
One contemporary wrinkle on the “better safe than sorry” conundrum is that now the safe can, and do, complain about bad things not having happened to them on the internet. I’m torn between commenting on Jeff’s continuing, deepening moral degeneracy, and feeling guilty over my desire for something bad to happen to a total stranger. (Hi Rashad!) And, you know, these guys are from England, etc…
This only happened because I kept my promise and punched this storm in the balls. YOU’RE WELCOME, EAST COAST. SHOTS ON ME.
I know very well that water is bought in case the power goes out. In the middle of manhattan there won’t be a power outage for a week.
What The Criterion Guy said.
Hey… at the very least it’s only a few BILLION dollars worth of damage and a few lives lost — what’s the big fucking deal?! This whole hurricane thing is BOR-ING!!!
authorities as exaggerated, should properly inform the people
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