Hurricane Matthew

[NoBozo]

Originally Posted by Newbiesaukee

but MSNBC has nothing to do with the seriousness of the situation and it is easy to be dismissive when ensconced in NH.

MSNBC has Everything to do with the seriousness of the situation. They Reported Armageddon. ....now walking it back... NB

[ishoot308]

Originally Posted by NoBozo

MSNBC has Everything to do with the seriousness of the situation. They Reported Armageddon. ....now walking it back... NB

NB,

As of 5:00 PM today, hurricane Mathew has a sustained wind speed of 140 MPH which makes it a category 4 and extremely dangerous! This hurricane just killed 113 people in Haiti and is about to hit the Florida coast where it will be devastating! I have family there by the way.....

In this instance the media is providing accurate coverage which will hopefully save many lives. I only hope people in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina will heed the warnings of the media as well as their Governors and The President of the United States.

This is an extremely dangerous and monster of a storm that should not be taken lightly.

Edited to add: Correction! Death toll in Haiti is now 264....

Dan

[Merrymeeting]

Easy to say media over blew it after the fact. But I'd rather be driving back second guessing the media than being someone who was in New Orleans during Katrina.

Ask someone in Haiti if its overblown

[ursa minor]

Originally Posted by NoBozo

MSNBC has Everything to do with the seriousness of the situation. They Reported Armageddon. ....now walking it back... NB

While I can't completely disagree with the tendency of some media sources to overinflate weather events ("blizzard" coverage comes to mind), I think they have this one right. I wasn't around but I believe back in the "good old days" the great hurricane of 1938 arrived essentially without warning. Imagine if that were to happen today...

All things being equal, I think a little warning is justified and can save a lot of lives. There's a lot more people living near the coast than even 50 years ago and evacuations can take much longer as a result.

[NoBozo]

MSN: "Lyin Brian" is now reporting ...You Decide.... NB

[fatlazyless]

Hurricanes draw their power from warm, humid air found only over warm ocean waters like 80-degree ocean water.

[secondcurve]

Originally Posted by NoBozo

MSNBC has Everything to do with the seriousness of the situation. They Reported Armageddon. ....now walking it back... NB

NoBozo: You are way off the mark here. The implication of your comment is that the liberal media did the residents of Florida a disservice by over stating the facts and slanting its reporting. I would usually agree with you on this. However, not this time. If you listened to Florida's very Republican Governor Scott yesterday it appeared that the world as we know it was about to end in Florida. I think the media, public officials and facts were on the same page for this one. While it looks as if the impact of the storm might not be as severe as the worse-case-scenario the reporting/warnings were all appropriate. This storm is a beast.

[Paugus Bay Resident]

Relatively unscathed here in Palm Beach county. Was a long storm with 24 hours of tropical force / hurricane gust winds - still blowing probably though this afternoon. Power blips a few times and some palm fronds strewn about, but not much in terms of significant damage.

Space coast (and Jax) are taking a bigger hit.

It was a very close call. Defintiely dodged a bullet. Gov Scott was getting a bit dramatic but probably better to err on that side than taking it casually (it was a cat 4 bordering on 5 at times and pretty close to the coast). Surprised to see that even though we haven't had a significant storm in over 10 years, people took this one seriously and seemed to be prepared.

Home Depot and Publix made out pretty well

Didn't watch any national media (except Weather Channel) but local media did a great job.

[noreast]

My father use to live on Coco beach, he always took comfort in the fact that they hardly ever got hit. It's really incredible if you look where Orlando is and they also don't get battered very often. Don't know if it's true, but I've heard that Disney did a study and decided on that location due to this. I bet he's glad he wasn't on the beach for this one.

[Paugus Bay Resident]

Yeah, I would consider Orlando a "safe" zone (one we usually have on our list of possible evacuation spots) - although not as far inland as we sometimes vision.

Disney (most) actually closed yesterday and will stay closed today. The LSU / UF game in Gainesville was postponed as well.

[SAMIAM]

Miami and Palm Beach County pretty much escaped unscathed....Daytona is only reporting 80MPH winds, not the 140 that was predicted so it looks like it may not be as serious as expected.
Big problem will be the storm surge around Jacksonville.

[Kamper]

We have a driving south trip planned for this weekend. Mass media has never given me enough details so I use the NOAH weather pages to sample the route. I've been doing this the past few days and I must say NOAH has been a lot different from panic mongering network articles.

[depasseg]

Originally Posted by NoBozo

MSNBC has Everything to do with the seriousness of the situation. They Reported Armageddon. ....now walking it back... NB

I didn't know Shep Smith reported for MSNBC? :-)
He laid out a terrifying scenario to urge people living on or near Florida’s eastern coast to evacuate before the storm made landfall on Friday.

“This moves 20 miles to the west, and you and everyone you know are dead — all of you — because you can’t survive it,” he said. ”It’s not possible unless you’re very, very lucky. And your kids die, too.”
https://twitter.com/Deathbymartymar/...22375424004096
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b0b6a4303166c1