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There may be broken traffic lights or power outages on Monday morning. Or any morning for that matter. .
Agree. On any given day people are without power. There are lights that don't work, there are water main breaks. I get that the decision was made based on NWS predictions. However as I've noted the WRAL meteorologists never had us having TS force winds. Not in their forecast and not in their graphics. Decisions should be made on some common sense basis. Also in this case the winds and rain were not forecast to start till yesterday afternoon and so we should have had an early release.
People need to be mad at the irresponsible media. They PROFIT off of hyping things like this up, but nobody says "the media should be grateful that their office isn't on the outer banks". There is a way to responsibly report the news, and what they did this week wasn't responsible. Same goes for the NWS. It was comical watching anchors last night act like they were having a panic attack over 35 mph winds.
All WCPSS can do is watch and listen to the same news that you and I get. If I heard there was a tropical storm warning, I absolutely would cancel school.
There was one point yesterday when the storm was finally hitting NC, and cnn.com had the top story being the Bahamas, which it should have been. NC was a non-story at that point. Yet the local stations were on their 19th hour of continuous coverage.
Couldn't rep you, but all valid points.
Media consolidation has led to a "If you ain't first, yer last" approach. Actual reporting of the news died in the early 80s. Entertainment has filled its purpose.
Not really a statement on the the worthiness of being riled up or not*....but
I was flipping through the news last night and saw a report on the jackass who drove their Jeep Cherokee onto Myrtle Beach and got it stuck in the water and how it has created a whole slew of viral memes.
The reporter on the news said something to the effect of "Its funny, this image will now become the lasting image of this Hurricane"
Ummmmmm what? You kidding me?
The lasting image of this Hurricane, which all but erased a couple of islands off the map and impacted how many lives in a country (one with far fewer resources to get back to normal) isn't the image of the storm, but some douchnozzel getting his SUV stuck in the waves is?
Tone deaf doesn't even begin to describe it.
*I personally find WCPSS's actions laughable in the last couple of days, but I can see how they are in a damned if they do, damned if they don't situation. Given we live in the land of Ambulance chasing Lawyers, the liability just isn't worth it.
Agree 100%...
To clarify; again I'm not saying that those upset with WCPSS/NWS/The Media over the cluster^%*# that is the recent school closings aren't justified in being upset....just putting things in perspective. It is still a beautiful day today which I guess can be seen as adding insult to injury; but is giving me reason to head out to Umstead here in a minute!
The Jeep dude should learn a lesson and pay the price for his idiocy but instead he gets 15 minutes of fame if not more.... when thousands of people have lost their homes and livelihood.
People need to be mad at the irresponsible media. They PROFIT off of hyping things like this up, but nobody says "the media should be grateful that their office isn't on the outer banks". There is a way to responsibly report the news, and what they did this week wasn't responsible. Same goes for the NWS. It was comical watching anchors last night act like they were having a panic attack over 35 mph winds.
All WCPSS can do is watch and listen to the same news that you and I get. If I heard there was a tropical storm warning, I absolutely would cancel school.
There was one point yesterday when the storm was finally hitting NC, and cnn.com had the top story being the Bahamas, which it should have been. NC was a non-story at that point. Yet the local stations were on their 19th hour of continuous coverage.
They are profiting by you watching.
No watchy, no profity.
I stopped watching the news a long time ago. I figure if it's important I'll hear about it lol.
Media consolidation has led to a "If you ain't first, yer last" approach. Actual reporting of the news died in the early 80s. Entertainment has filled its purpose.
+1 for managing to work in a Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby reference into a local hurricane thread!!
+1 for managing to work in a Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby reference into a local hurricane thread!!
Easily one of the most underrated and quotable Will Ferrell movies. And set in and mostly filmed in NC!
" I'ma come at you like a spider monkey" and ...."I'm gonna scissor-kick you to the back of the heeaaad!" have become a go-to hollow threats of mine (generally made in jest)
I should have retorted to implication that I don't think WCPSS folks have a right to be upset with "Don't you put that evil on me Ricky Bobby!"
I stopped watching the news a long time ago. I figure if it's important I'll hear about it lol.
I do watch some, but usually because the NWS and media have hyped it to the point where I think I should be aware. Silly me trusting the people who bring us news.
There weren't any days I recall school being canceled when I grew up (northeast US). Winters were brutal, lots of snow & so cold. School buses ran with their chains on all winter long and it seemed winter lasted 5 months of the year.
Funny, I lived in the midwest until I was a junior in high school. There were many times that school was cancelled, blizzards, subzero temps were the two main reasons. We did go when there was a crapload of snow on the roads, but school was cancelled, don't fool yourself.
Yeah I grew up in the northeast and there were plenty of snow days. I had a little radio that I'd put under my pillow to listen to the school closings in the morning.
The difference is, they waited til morning and made the call based on actual conditions. They didn't call it a day before just in case. I understand it's a double edged sword since these days there are often two working parents, which makes last minute calls more difficult.
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