Monday, August 18, 2008

Look At Those Lines Carefully

And you will understand why these storms drive us mad!
It doesn't appear, at this moment, that Fay is going to be a major threat, although someone is going to get some bad weather off her. And others already have.
I was talking to a friend who lives in Nebraska after Katrina hit and she couldn't understand, with all the warnings that we get before a hurricane, why everyone didn't evacuate.
I tried to explain about hurricane forecasting and how people get complacent and how so very few New Orleans residents had personal vehicles but I still don't think she got it.
And we're definitely not looking at a situation like that here. I hope.
But still, it's maddening and I check the tropical weather web sites obsessively and I feel certain I am not the only one.

7 comments:

  1. You are not the only one. Yeah, I'm not sure their forecasting helps us much. People end up running all over the state,running from them. And the anthropomorphizing (did I spell that even close to right?) of them doesn't help so that we end up feeling they have human qualities and are "after us." It wears me down. Today I went out to get supplies and instead came home saying, if I can't get by without electric and with only 3 bathtubs full of water, oh, well....I think the hype is primarily to increase viewing audience so I'm sticking to the NOAA site and checking it after their every-3-hour update.

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  2. It would be incredibly difficult for me not to check the weather web sites often in this scenario, as well.

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  3. The Weather Channel lost all credibility when Stephanie Abrams ran from a piece of aluminum siding blowing about 2mph in 2005.

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  4. You are definitely not the only one...trust me.

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  5. Plus, with New Orleans, folks came through the storm fine. It was the broken levees that did the big damage.

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  6. Yep. You're perfectly correct, DTG. Looks like we'll dodge Fay. Now to keep an eye on the coast off of Africa....
    Ha! I'm not quite that obsessive. Well, I might just check in on it occasionally.

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