Irma and "Terror"vision overload.

[armenius]

My thoughts and prayers go out to those who recently experienced Harvey and Irma.It is important to inform of the dangers and warnings to those in low lying areas, but it seems to me they go too far and cause unnecessary panic. As my wife was glued to the screen watching Fox I prayed "Shep" would just shut up for a while.Same for the local stations. My wife is still a wreck, and all we had were a few rotten twigs and small sticks to make a mess.
I have long felt that one is in greater danger on the highway fleeing than staying put UNLESS YOU ARE IN A FLOOD ZONE. I Googled it and it appears my feelings were correct.
Some of these people should be charged for fomenting "Terror-vision

 

[onebadvet]

Here some, of the back of house and front, and neighborhood!

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

My thoughts and prayers go out to those who recently experienced Harvey and Irma.It is important to inform of the dangers and warnings to those in low lying areas, but it seems to me they go too far and cause unnecessary panic. As my wife was glued to the screen watching Fox I prayed "Shep" would just shut up for a while.Same for the local stations. My wife is still a wreck, and all we had were a few rotten twigs and small sticks to make a mess.
I have long felt that one is in greater danger on the highway fleeing than staying put UNLESS YOU ARE IN A FLOOD ZONE. I Googled it and it appears my feelings were correct.
Some of these people should be charged for fomenting "Terror-vision

x2!.......We live on a hill.....If water got to us, all yaw'll would already be "swimmin" anyway......We lost pwr for about 12 hrs......I just plugged everything into the generator and we went on "livin"....Very glad it disapated and came apart......Hurricanes can be very dangerous........

 

[LVSteve]

My thoughts and prayers go out to those who recently experienced Harvey and Irma.It is important to inform of the dangers and warnings to those in low lying areas, but it seems to me they go too far and cause unnecessary panic. As my wife was glued to the screen watching Fox I prayed "Shep" would just shut up for a while.Same for the local stations. My wife is still a wreck, and all we had were a few rotten twigs and small sticks to make a mess.
I have long felt that one is in greater danger on the highway fleeing than staying put UNLESS YOU ARE IN A FLOOD ZONE. I Googled it and it appears my feelings were correct.
Some of these people should be charged for fomenting "Terror-vision

Two words: off switch.

 

[gman51]

Well all I can say is Houston leaders really blew this storm off as nothing to really be concerned about. If they had called for an evacuation then perhaps many people would have been better off today.
For pete's sake Houston was on the dirty side of Harvey which meant heavy rains. 50" of rain later and people have had their lives shattered or lost. Yeah they were afraid the reservoir was going to overflow so they open the darn thing then really flooding home that had made it without flooding before that stupid action.

It's going to be a very long time before Houston flood victims get anywhere near back to normal. It wouldn't surprise me if crime explodes in Houston over this mishandling of Harvey. People can't get their drugs and needs met they could go crazy. Nowhere to call home and no car to go who knows where to start over.

You better believe I was watching Irma because if it turned into the Gulf and headed towards Houston then that could have been the final nail in the coffin.

I was watching a news reporter asking a flood victim that lost everything what she needed. I thought that had to be the dumbest question she could ever ask. She needed everything just to have some comfort at least.

 

[rwsmith]

I feel for the people...

I feel for the people that were victims of this storm in one way or another. I've had it bad....but not THAT bad. I am filled up to the gills about hearing this on the TV constantly and when I open a news webpage. Personal stories I don't mind but constantly showing devastation and telling us how bad it is is getting old quick..

I especially feel for the people in the Keys with so many homes completely wiped out. We visited there this last summer and I'm glad we got to see the 'old' Key West. I think that the effects of this are going to be at least 10 years of phony contractors, inferior materials and a lot of headache. I had a serious case of PTSD that took about that long to get over

 

[wingriderz]

A few limbs down son law came by yesterday with saw.My well pump house (wooden ) got picked up and blown up. I spent a good part of day rebuliding it . Other than that golden. Yes at over 50 years in sunshine state media drives it every time. And for Florida if you notice it usally comes in late summer and usally there is no other major news going on

 

[pharmer]

We are OK for the most part, some water intrusion from an unknown source. Went out in 100 mph wind to dig a trench to drain the water built up against the east side of the house. Saturday's headline read "Doomsday Looms for Florida!" Thanks for the comfort. Joe

 

[Arik]

My thoughts and prayers go out to those who recently experienced Harvey and Irma.It is important to inform of the dangers and warnings to those in low lying areas, but it seems to me they go too far and cause unnecessary panic. As my wife was glued to the screen watching Fox I prayed "Shep" would just shut up for a while.Same for the local stations. My wife is still a wreck, and all we had were a few rotten twigs and small sticks to make a mess.
I have long felt that one is in greater danger on the highway fleeing than staying put UNLESS YOU ARE IN A FLOOD ZONE. I Googled it and it appears my feelings were correct.
Some of these people should be charged for fomenting "Terror-vision

Too far? Unnecessary? So you can tell exactly how bad a storm will be?

The storm slowed to a cat 2 when it hit main land FL but did you know that ahead of time? What if it didn't? What of no one made a big deal and just said hay there's a storm coming. Then when a cat 4 or 5 hit everyone would be crying that no one warned them of how bad it would be.

Oh and also you can ignore the TV if you want. No one is making you watch it/ listen to it or read about it

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[hoc9sw]

Not so much wrong coverage as too many stations trying to fill time slots, as I see it.

And the folks who built in the reservoir flood plains should be checking the fine print. If they were not told, I'd be visiting a lawyer. If they were told, well ....

 

[Capt Steve]

Are they kidding?

I had no problem with the extensive coverage... it was big news and that is what they do, cover the news. The "expert" forecasters will always err on the side of worst case scenario, better that they be wrong.

My one complaint is the way the media picks a word or phrase and then beats you to death with it... How many thousand times did you hear the term "eyewall?" arrrrg!

 

[rwsmith]

Yeah..

We are OK for the most part, some water intrusion from an unknown source. Went out in 100 mph wind to dig a trench to drain the water built up against the east side of the house. Saturday's headline read "Doomsday Looms for Florida!" Thanks for the comfort. Joe

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

 

[LVSteve]

I had no problem with the extensive coverage...

I did. NBC decided to show Irma coverage when I was supposed to be watching World Rallycross. Wonder if that would have happened had Irma had struck on a football day.

 

[dougb1946]

You don't really know where the flood zone will be until the water shows up.

 

[amazingflapjack]

broadcast stress...

The whole gas shortage was the result of sensationalism projected by the weather channel .Who really knows the damage that was done. Deplorable.

 

[muddocktor]

I'm another who is in the boat of "Overblown sensationalist coverage". The weather folks back 20-30 years ago would put up the forecast for the storm in a calm, non-sensationalist manner and not the doom and gloom panic attack ridden way a lot of today's coverage is presented. You got the same information, but without all the hand wringing and panic attack coverage. I've lived all my life down here in either South Louisiana or coastal Texas and it is just a fact of life that you will at some time get slapped up side the head by a hurricane. At least with a hurricane, you have the option to flee from it if it is heading to your area and is bad enough to worry about. It's not like a tornado, which if you are lucky you have just minutes of warning. Or earthquakes, which give no warning at all. I really don't need some hand wringing weather person telling me what to think whether a storm is bad enough to flee from; that is what God gave me a brain for.

My first bad hurricane was Carla when I was 5 and I actually remember Mom and Dad making us sleep in the hall in the center of the house the night it came in. We were living in Orange, TX at the time.

 

[Jst1mr]

Some pretty tough folks, not intimidated by an itty bitty storm. "Went out in a 100mph wind to dig a trench...." - well, I guess you won't physically blow away, but blowing debris could kill you as dead as a bullet. Also, the wife drove into water flowing across a road, deep enough to heavily damage the car, and was lucky to not become one of the hundreds of folks sitting on the roof of a flooded car, awaiting someone to put themselves in peril to rescue them. It seems to be some sort of challenge for folks in these areas. BTW, it matters very little how high your air intake is when the flowing water easily pushes your vehicle away.

Storm forecasting is an imprecise science. Tornadoes are some of the worst, often developing in the dark hours and striking with little warning. Flash floods can develop in minutes in some areas of the West. Hurricanes often come with days of warnings, though the track certainly changes. Yet people complain when there is not enough warning, and they complain when there is too much warning. Perhaps a greater use of common sense, in place of waiting for a polite knock on the door by rescuers, would be in order. Sure, you can hunker down and ignore the "idiots" on the air making sensational claims...just make sure to wear your good clothes for the cameras when you're getting peeled off your roof by a helicopter and find yourself the star of that local newscast.

Severe weather is no joke. It pays to use whatever tools are available to be aware of conditions, be prepared for the types of risks endemic to your area, and to make common-sense decisions based on experience and knowledge. Nobody says you can't take a risk - it is your right to take whatever risk you want - just try not to be the first person waiting for help on your roof with no medicine and no water, cursing the "authorities" for putting you there.

 

[bill2000]

Naturally the two hurricanes were tragedies and big news stories. The big stories are amplified today as a result of the 24hr news cycle. Everything gets over-sensationalized because there is so much time to fill and so much soap to sell.

That said, prayers for the poor souls who have had to endure so much loss.

 

[armenius]

I have exerienced many Hurricanes in my 83 years.My first at about age 5 ,staying on front beach at Edisto Island. There was no electricity to loose in those days. My mother woke us up and said it looks bad with whitecaps as far as you could see. A quick breakfast and we packed and left. By then garbage cans were rolling and a few shingles were in the air. In the 10 miles leaving the island we had to go around 3 trees blocking the road. We never were given any warning! Two days later we returned and the only thing left was the key we carried. We couldn't identify the now nonexistent lot.
Since that time we have had many storms and was in the eye of Gracie and terrible Hugo.I respect the hurricanes and have avoided beaches and low lying areas where storm surge and flooding are possible.
Again panic fleeing on the highways carries some risk, and there is an article on Google explaining why no mandatory evacuation of all of Houston.