DFW flooding (Dallas, Fort Worth, Irving: loan, buyers, compensation)

[Johnhw2]

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

While I don’t disagree with what you’re saying, this isn’t specific to this. Every event will be exaggerated. That’s how it is. This is no different from any other disaster that’s painted as “everyone being impacted”

My experience matches yours. Events covered broadly by new crews when I had first hand knowledge of the event are usually exaggerated and poorly explained if technical in nature. Their actions make sense as sales men for a station's product but that weakens their argument for f special rights as news people..

[rabbit33]

All I know is that in the few times in my life where there's been significant reporting of an event of which I've had personal knowledge, there have ALWAYS been major facts reported incorrectly (not interpretations but simple factual errors that could have been avoided by asking someone there).

And yes, one could make the argument that 7 million people got a little wet if they went outside during this weekend's big rain, but the number actually affected, even down to minor things like having to take a detour to avoid a flooded intersection, is probably fewer than 10,000.

Once again - and no one even attempts to argue this - flooding occurred in the same low lying areas, poorly drained underpasses, subdivisions built in creek bottoms, etc., that actual Dallasites have known for flooding for decades.

[TheOverdog]

ABC David Muir said nearly 7 Million were impacted. Not true.

No he didn't. He said "17 million would be impacted as the storm moves east" and the report covered the move of the storm from west (Utah) to points east.



So all you geniuses are arguing about something you made up (yet again) and then felt the need to get mad about.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4qeGzOGjIw

[rabbit33]

OK, so 17 million people would have gotten wet if they'd stepped outside during the big rain. That sounds about right.

But we usually consider "impacted" to refer to something a little more important than getting rained on.

If we talk about the whole area that had heavy rains this weekend, I'd bet fewer than 5000 people actually had water in their houses. I'd also bet that the number of those not located in places any Texan could immediately identify as flood-prone is vanishingly small.

[Sunbather]

Again, I do understand where you are coming from with the exaggeration media can put on these kind of events. Pretty much par for the course.

However, I still kind of cringe at the idea of 'who cares, the houses and businesses that flooded are all in areas that are flood-prone anyway'. People said the same thing about victims of Katrina. I think that is an un-needed epilogue to the commentary.

[Johnhw222]

I said I care about the people impacted but it was not any where near the Monday night 530pm David Muir broadcast lead story about DFW and millions impacted. The media is just being the media. We need to not just care and help those impacted but to learn lessons to avoid a repeat it at all possible as some have said it’s the same areas over and over impacted.

[hbdwihdh378y9]

Originally Posted by NP78

Partially true, but this was a relatively extreme event. Just because it wasn't uniform across the metro area doesn't mean it wasn't extreme in the areas impacted.

For the official measurements it was the highest 24 hour rainfall total in 90 years and 2nd highest ever (about 9").

But it's the same as what we got 4 years ago in September (8+ inches in 24 hours), but that time it came after an extremely rainy 7 or 8 weeks preceding it. So this is less of an event than something we got less than 4 years ago.

[ProTX]

Looks like damage estimates are 6 billion.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dal...tputType%3Damp

[SanJac]

Originally Posted by ProTX

Looks like damage estimates are 6 billion.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dal...tputType%3Damp

That amount is stunning isn’t it. The article you posted says Harvey caused $17B in damages but other sources say $125B. https://www.texastribune.org/2018/01...llion-damages/

That’s a huge discrepancy. I wonder why.

Incidentally today was the 5-year anniversary of Hurricane Harvey’s landfall.

[rabbit33]

I'd take that 6 billion with a block of salt.