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Hell yeah brother. They should relocate those international ports and oil industry 1000 miles in land if they were smart.
Not sure about that, but living in an area that is already 8-9 feet below sea level and sinking more each year is a choice.
Being without power right now is nothing compared to what could have happened to NO. There will always be more hurricanes whipping through.
And considering that the news media blows every hurricane into an apocalyptical event, it's no wonder people don't move out of the way when they hear of one coming.
So no one should live in the following states, got it!
ME
NH
MA
NY
PA
MD
DE
VA
NC
SC
GA
FL
AL
MS
LA
TX
Exactly. And if you were born and raise there and your family has lived there for 10 generations, and you don’t know anyone else in any other state and don’t have money to start over in another state or you have had a business there for 40 years, you’re just stupid.
Not sure about that, but living in an area that is already 8-9 feet below sea level and sinking more each year is a choice.
Being without power right now is nothing compared to what could have happened to NO. There will always be more hurricanes whipping through.
And considering that the news media blows every hurricane into an apocalyptical event, it's no wonder people don't move out of the way when they hear of one coming.
It’s not the news media for God sake’s. It comes from the Weather services and from the people who run the states. Evacuation orders do not come from the media.
When I lived down the shore in New Jersey for 18 years, there were multiple multiple storms before Sandy that they told us we might possibly have to leave for. By the time it gets a day or two away, the threat is no longer there. If we evacuated every single time they said this could end up being a big hit on the New Jersey coast, we would’ve been moving in and out half a dozen times during hurricane season. It’s not because of the media, it’s because at the time that they’re making these announcements they don’t know where the track is going to go and at that time it looks like it’s heading toward your state. What do you think the media should do, tell people to ignore the weather forecasters and then their own state officials and just stay put because it’s probably not gonna be any big deal? And you wouldn’t be complaining about that?
Looks like the beefed up levees are doing their job so that's good. I'd imagine they did a better job of securing barges that could rupture the levees and evacuating etc. after the hard lessons of Katrina.
Anyone even know who those guys are, let alone that they work for some some kind of major media company? I didn’t see any news vans or anything. How do we know they’re not just two guys making a “hey media makes fake weather reports” videos? It’s just two guys with identical jackets talking to each other what does that prove? How do we know they don’t just have their own YouTube channel that they do weather reports on? Not everything is “the media”
Actually I stand corrected. And googling it, apparently the weather channel has quite a history of doing this. I guess when your only source of big ratings is a big storm, that’s what you’re going to do. That’s a shame.
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