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Re: Take it from me, Floodmaster Magee
08/30/11 05:46 AM
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> On the flip side, I can't fathom why so many people get all "It was a pussy storm,
> the media sucks and over hyped" after events like this. Storm fizzled. Lots of people
> spared a horrible horrible trauma. Accept what happened, what could have happened,
> and move on.
I don't think it really fizzled, though. The predictions I saw from very early on were for the storm to hit NY and New England as a minimal Cat 1 or a strong tropical storm. Of course predictions can be wrong to a certain degree, but the chances of this storm coming in like the '38 hurricane or Hurricane Carol were pretty much nil.
The problem is that the media doesn't have as much of a story as they'd like, so they start puffing it up with wild speculation about what might have happened, and with breathless live remotes perched precariously on the end of a dock with waves crashing all around. I know it's a pipe dream, but I'd love for the news to report the facts and save the drama for the reality shows.
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The hurricane that wasn't
