The news media and weather channels make the best of all these storms to get viewers. Remembering one time on the weather channel a reporter was holding a pole standing at a forty five degree angle showing how hard the wind was blowing and a man walked behind him completely upright.
I agree that the constant coverage, file footage, human interest stories, and breathless reporting do become tedious. Just tell me the facts. I was watching the news this evening and I noticed that many of the multi-million dollar oceanfront homes being shown still have furniture on the decks, were not boarded up, etc... I thought that was strange and sort of eerie that people just seem to walk away and let the insurance company deal with the damage. Don't get me wrong I feel for the people involved but it seems that the media is only looking for ratings and clicks.
@Ken Anderson ...I feel ypur pain...aside from Florence the other news worthy item is the shooting by a cop here...that shot a guy inside his own home.Use your mute button Ken...that is what I do
Those rich folks probably have Federal Flood Insurance and the government will end up replacing their losses, so they don't care what they lose as they will get new stuff when everything passes.
We just had a tornado go over my house. It didn't touch down but it showed clearly on the radar. Looking at the map, it showed that it went directly over my house. Now I know the meaning of stark terror. My heart is still beating 100 miles per hour. It dissipated shortly after. So I also know the feeling of sheer relief.
I'm glad you are okay, @Shirley Martin! I remember the terror that tornadoes can generate, and I don't miss it at all. I think the hurricane will stay south of you, though, right?
I have a niece and nephew and his family who live in Florence's path and they evacuated. Another nephew is in the Service and is stationed there right now too. My husband's boss has some of his children and their families living int Florence's path too. So over here we are all interested in news about this hurricane and whether our family members will all be okay and not lose their belongings, etc. The main problem I see with Florence is that it is going to cause a lot of flooding because of the storm surge and also because it is moving very slowly dumping inches of rain along with the water coming in from the surges. This is what happened when my daughter's home flooded in 2016 and I wouldn't wish this nightmare on anyone else. Yes, the News does overdo things now days...but for those of us who have family and friends that will be affected by Florence....we want to know what's happening and when it's happening. Most of all we want to know that family and friends will all be okay and hopefully their homes, etc. will be too.
Sounds like you are really getting hit hard, with the hurricane and now tornadoes, too, @Shirley Martin ! I am glad that it didn’t touch down and that you are okay. There is no way to really prepare for a tornado because they just hit without much warning, unlike the hurricanes, where at least you know well in advance that they are coming.
There is always weather.com and countless other sources of information that those who are interested could turn to, without depriving the rest of us of news that is relevant to us. Frankly, if I had family in the area of a hurricane, I would be monitoring local news sources, anyhow.
Watch it to the end, and pay particular attention to the kids who walk by. Fake weather. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10217212605168596 Here's a longer clip of the same phony weatherman. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10216347165019242 During Hurricane Gilbert, a reporter in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas was caught using a large fan to make conditions look worse than they were while he was giving his report.
Well, Yvonne, there are warning sirens that go off in cities and towns when a tornado is approaching and, since most everyone today has a some type of cell phone, there is a warning message and sound that goes off on a cell phone of a approaching tornado. Nighttime tornado's are the worst, because they aren't seen, but, as already mentioned about warning sirens and/or cell phone warnings. Daytime tornado's are easy to see, unless they are "rain wrapped", which means heavy rain is coming down and hiding them. Either tornados or hurricanes are bad, but there are places that tornados don't form, like in mountains or foothills. Tornados love flat lands.
Since I live where there are often tornado warnings, and sometimes tornadoes, I do know all about the warning sirens. The point that I was making is that with a hurricane, you know DAYS ahead of time that it is coming. With the tornado warnings, they will go off anytime there is a possibility of a tornado, and sometimes, we don’t even get any rain or thunder when we are having the warnings. Until a tornado is actually coming down by your house, you may not know whether the warning means there is actually a tornado there or not. Even if a tornado does touch down, you might only have minutes to get into a shelter, so there is no option to evacuate, like you have with a storm that you know is coming. The one that hit our house a few years ago had also taken out some of the sirens in the area, so even though there were multiple tornadoes that day, we didn’t have sirens. Also, we do not live in a flat area, and there are all kinds of hills around here, and throughout the whole state, and we still get tornadoes; so they do not only happen on the flatlands like in “Wizard of OZ”, @Cody Fousnaugh .