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Is this a defense of the media or a defense of how people "do the best they can with the information they have."?
If the former, no surprise there.
If the latter, MOM.
Hurricane Dorian
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Is this a defense of the media or a defense of how people "do the best they can with the information they have."?
If the former, no surprise there.
If the latter, MOM.
- Jun 10, 2014
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It's both. What do you expect them to do? Not relay the information the NHC is putting out? If you're upset with the sensationalizing of it, maybe just stick to following what weathermen are saying as opposed to any opinion-based programming. Either that or tell yourself it's not going to be as bad as they say every time one of these is on the way and take that chance with your life and property.
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You’re speaking in the ideal - not in human nature, the realistic. Stirring up mass panic a week in advance of something that history says most likely won’t happen numbs must folks to the danger. And if you don’t think its advertiser/click driven - don’t forget, this is when they are most popular throughout the year - I don’t know what to tell you.
- Jun 10, 2014
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Like I said, follow the people whose jobs are to monitor and project these storms. Stay away from opinion-based news sources (which is good advice in general).
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No problem at all. Just pointing you back to the previous point so you can take a gander.
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Weather personnel are generally the worst. Ever heard of this dude named Jim Cantore? He’s the eye of the media circus hurricane.
- Jun 10, 2014
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Tell you what. Next time a hurricane is headed your way, just ignore everyone and do your own thing. Hopefully you don't end up living on a concrete foundation with nothing around it.
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How about this - why don’t you keep believing all the mass hysteria instead of making your own assessment of things? Kind of like your ascertains earlier in this thread. And I’m sure I’m not the only one who noticed you whistled past by my post with relevant, scientific hurricane information. I’m guessing that was intentional as it doesn’t support your narrative.
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I did make my own assessment late last week. I went to the store, got some extra food just in case, and waited to see what the storm would do. Imagine that!
- Jun 10, 2014
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Remember what I said about paying attention to people who do weather for a living instead of watching opinion-based news?
- Mar 14, 2015
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Yeah and I agree with you 100%. Just felt like that video was relevant to over reacting to storms and also letting dumb asses report on storms.
- Jun 14, 2014
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Applying a worst-case scenario results in the best total protection.
Still, you can't tell me the commercially packaged stations don't have "playbooks to maximize viewership" at the ready. And they are raring to go, all out.... and they did that, because Dorian sounded enough bells and whistles.
Problem is just about nobody is experimenting or brainstorming with ways of intervention. Think outside the box. We've mastered the unmanned remote guidance systems. We can attack things from afar.
A Norwegian research firm has developed a way to lower the surface water temperature to below supporting a hurricane's cyclonic formation. They use bubble-curtain piping. Submerged 375 feet, polyurethane pipes' bubbles carrying deep cooler water to the surface to drop surface-water temp to 25 degrees centigrade, a drop of just 3 degrees from typical temps. No matter how expensive to master, each hurricane prevented will avoid around $280 billion damage per each storm, plus saving lives. Even partial success might keep hurricanes down to the cat-2 strength.??
The bubble-curtain works. Norway uses them to prevent their fjords from freezing over and clogging ship navigation. The deep waters there are much warmer than the wind-touched surface waters. Bubbles take the warmer water to warm the surface = no ice formation.
Still, you can't tell me the commercially packaged stations don't have "playbooks to maximize viewership" at the ready. And they are raring to go, all out.... and they did that, because Dorian sounded enough bells and whistles.
Problem is just about nobody is experimenting or brainstorming with ways of intervention. Think outside the box. We've mastered the unmanned remote guidance systems. We can attack things from afar.
A Norwegian research firm has developed a way to lower the surface water temperature to below supporting a hurricane's cyclonic formation. They use bubble-curtain piping. Submerged 375 feet, polyurethane pipes' bubbles carrying deep cooler water to the surface to drop surface-water temp to 25 degrees centigrade, a drop of just 3 degrees from typical temps. No matter how expensive to master, each hurricane prevented will avoid around $280 billion damage per each storm, plus saving lives. Even partial success might keep hurricanes down to the cat-2 strength.??
The bubble-curtain works. Norway uses them to prevent their fjords from freezing over and clogging ship navigation. The deep waters there are much warmer than the wind-touched surface waters. Bubbles take the warmer water to warm the surface = no ice formation.
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As the originator of this post, methinks it’s time to remove it as a featured post.
Florida was barely impacted. The end.
Name and town if you wish to opine.
Florida was barely impacted. The end.
Name and town if you wish to opine.
- Jun 11, 2014
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We don’t even get the weather channel on our TV. We have no idea where Jim Cantore is. What we do is follow local meteorologists and listen to what they say. They’ve been damn helpful the last few years and are far from sensationalist. But sure, let’s all be complete a$$holes and project. The joys of social media when everyone can sit behind a keyboard and have a dick measuring contest.
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I thought Gov. DeSantis stayed away from panic-hype and was pretty steady at the helm. I also didn’t think the media went too crazy.
But on my own....I probably took more precautions than I have in the past. Not sure why but I had a bad feeling about this one.
(1) put shutters up
(2) had generator at the ready
(3) gassed all the vehicles
(4)filled a 55 gal drum with fuel with another drum ready to go if needed.
(5) bought enough beer, water and food
And nothing happened. So I’ll use the drum to fill up my Jeep a few times and save the beer and food for next Gator Party. No money wasted. Lost some time clearing the land and putting up the shutters.
Good drill for next event.
But on my own....I probably took more precautions than I have in the past. Not sure why but I had a bad feeling about this one.
(1) put shutters up
(2) had generator at the ready
(3) gassed all the vehicles
(4)filled a 55 gal drum with fuel with another drum ready to go if needed.
(5) bought enough beer, water and food
And nothing happened. So I’ll use the drum to fill up my Jeep a few times and save the beer and food for next Gator Party. No money wasted. Lost some time clearing the land and putting up the shutters.
Good drill for next event.
