An EPIC FAIL at sensationalism for this weather reporter

Lujo68

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just goes to show..... lol


[video=youtube;pY4gJoKwtAQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY4gJoKwtAQ&feature=player_embedded[/video]
 
Anything to keep our seniors glued to the weather reports :)

Actually in all fairness that was no worse than the shows all the Governors of the coastal states put on.

I guess politicians and reporters see the radar, computer forecasts, and overall weather reports very differently than they are :(
 
This is still quite a dangerous storm.

But yeah - some serious over reaction

The storm, however, is very consistent with the NOAA predictions. At least so ;)
I had to remove weather.com from my favorites.
 
comsnark said:
I had to remove weather.com from my favorites.
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This is funny. I had been looking at weather.com before the storm and noticed that the 5 and 10 day forcasts were for winds in the 20s and 30s with rain while the "Irene tracker" showed winds from the 60s to the 80s with even more rain. They hedged their bet both ways. The guys who did the 5 and 10 day forecasts were closer.

Too bad its not like the NFL. They could move the 2nd stringers to the starting rotation...
 
wow my apologies as I just noticed it... I posted this last night waiting for the storm feeling tired after making preparations for the event and did not realize all that happened in this video. Namely the guy dropping his shorts, so please by all means if a moderator would prefer to move this to a more appropriate section or even delete this thread. I understand of course and my apologies again to all.
 
Did you catch the "streaker" in the red shorts??? Live on the Weather Channel??? Epic FAIL!
 
Lujo68 said:
wow my apologies as I just noticed it... I posted this last night waiting for the storm feeling tired after making preparations for the event and did not realize all that happened in this video. Namely the guy dropping his shorts, so please by all means if a moderator would prefer to move this to a more appropriate section or even delete this thread. I understand of course and my apologies again to all.
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I thought that's why you posted it....funny.
 
That's fantastic.

Did anyone get the feeling the media wanted the storm to be worse?
I was getting the impression they were trying to talk it up more that they really knew it would be.
 
Angry Ranch Hand said:
That's fantastic.

Did anyone get the feeling the media wanted the storm to be worse?
I was getting the impression they were trying to talk it up more that they really knew it would be.
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Yeah there were some channels here trying to push it as a cat 2 hurricane while other stations were calling it a CAT 1 and then one station was honest and said it had weakened to a Tropical storm once it came up on land before hitting the five boroughs of NY but I guess in a way it left you in anticipation of what was coming. I am not far from the water and while some areas got hit harder then others the truth was this didn't feel any worse at least by me then a seriously heavy rain storm with very strong winds, all though I am grateful for that. I can only speak from where I live and not other locations of course but the way the news was saying Queens was getting pummeled wasn't all that true. Basically here it was more about flooding then anything else, no buildings destroyed by me, no fallen trees, no collapsed streets, just a lot of wet leaves on the ground on higher land and flooding in the lower parts.
 
Angry Ranch Hand said:
That's fantastic.

Did anyone get the feeling the media wanted the storm to be worse?
I was getting the impression they were trying to talk it up more that they really knew it would be.
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I agree.

The over-hype actually hampered my efforts in Prepping - and getting people to my place to get work done that would have been EXTREMELY difficult to do myself.

Fortunately, the NOAA reports did leave the strong possibility of the storm petering out just like it did as it hit shore. Once I read the report on Thursday that the storm failed to complete an eye-wall replacement cycle, I sensed that the "odds" were towards the lower end of the threat scale. The mass media (and the gooberment officials) were playing up the storm like there would literally be no tomorrow!

So. . .being indisposed at work, I ended up sending the admiral down instead with a friend. Hopefully, everything came through ok. I should get a report tonight or tomorrow from the neighbors. Real issue now will be flooding. . . .
 
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Well thankfully the weather reports were total sensationalism, and we did not see anything near what they continued to show that happened in the Bahamas.

Now lets be honest that even though the "great state of NJ" favorite governor Christie put on one hell of a show, but also did a good job of scaring the life out of everyone which in turn got them running a couple days in advance.

This sadly was needed just in case the storm did maintain or gain strength due to the fact that the nuclear/coastal evacuation route system in NJ is not able to handle the winter population of the coastline, and if all the locals and vacationers and summer residents all tried to leave at once a day before the storm it would have been a deadly version of the Keystone Cops.

So a big thanks for bullying everyone away from the coast just in case I actually had to get out, but the same shame on the govt. and media for over hyping this so much.

Yea a big shame on you for looking at the same radar reports, computer projections, and pressure numbers that everyone else did, and still acting like this was going to do anything but weaken more and more as it hit land and colder waters.

My family was starting to get tired of my comments during every report about how full of sheet they all were. I mean the pressure was rising, the winds slowing, and the storm was basically falling apart and all major news outlets were still carrying on about how bad it could be none the less. I mean once the winds were projected below 100mph and then later below 80mph and eventually below 70mph etc they still were warning about the same things as when it was a cat2.

Then when the storm had passed the Coastal region of NJ and all was pretty much intact except for sporadic power outages and flooding in the typical flood prone areas they still maintained the same scare tactics and faces of extreme worry, but instead were saying to still stay in your home or temp. shelter etc as even though the storm was not as intense as expected (some almost seemed disappointed) there was still a large threat to life and to stay tuned for further information.

I mean it was so obvious they were trying to scare everyone into watching their station through the entire storm it was sickening, and when combined with the over reaction from the govt that some have called a test of emergency systems and just how much they can get away with etc it had to be overwhelming to many.

So I am still on the fence if the over reaction was a good or bad thing, but I have to admit I do get a kick out of our governor when he gets into his "Soprano" character and lays down the law, even if it is little more than "christies law" lol.

Again thankfully things were not worse than they were, and now just to worry about family who are now threatened with flooding up north.
 
From my libertarian point of view, I kinda got upset when the NJ goobenor closed the South Bound Garden State parkway on Friday.
Closing the Southbound lanes to use them as contra-flow North bound lanes is one thing (even if the traffic load didn't warrent it), but to close them and reserve them for emergency vehicles only was total nonsense.

I'm not quite in full agreement that the actual storm result was obvious in advance. The storm was pretty powerful until it started to hit shore . . .and wasn't that only a bit over 36 hours before it rolled over NJ? That's not a lot of time to prepare if the storm would have been a strong one. Weather Underground showed lots of 20-40mph wind speeds. If those speeds had been a mere 40-60mph, I think the story would have been a lot different. Storm surge would have been worse. Wind damage would have been MUCH more major.

I do agree that it was pretty clear by Saturday night / Sunday morning that things were not going to be too bad. At that point, the media should have started ratcheting down the rhetoric. The media failure to point out what was going to be obvious in 8 hours to everyone only gives rise to people like this clown;

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/...-hurricane-coming-on-shore-with-33-mph-winds/
 
abc news weather reporter called the upcoming storm "The most significant weather event anyone on the east coast will ever experience in their lifetime" I laughed when i heard that.
 
If it bleeds it leads!

I had a TV news manager tell me they get lots grief if the understate a storm but little if they overstate. What business are they in? Not the accurate information business. They get paid to deliver eye balls to advertisers. I bet this opportunity was exploited to the fullest. MM
 
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