MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Take it from me, Floodmaster Magee

NOAA was throwing balloons up at double the rate tracking this thing. You can only do so much to predict.

I'd prefer the media go nuts on the "be prepared for the worst" every time. I'd rather have the populous prepared for double the damage, and receive half. It doesn't matter if the winds never toppled 35 mph. Too many stupid people out there that just don't understand what 8-15 inches of water in a 24 hour span can do.

If I had my way, high schools would teach a common sense survival course. One of the lessons would have a fast flowing river simulator. Students would walk ankle to knee depth while attached to a safety rope, and get to feel how much force a tiny bit of water can exert. Maybe, just MAYBE we won't have all these dumb-asses driving through flooded roads, or saying things like "I'll sit this one out at home."

If I further had my way, anyone trapped in a hurricane by choice gets left behind. No rescue for you.

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.

> According to the NOAA weather station in New York Harbor... the fastest winds
> recorded there were 39 knots (44.8 miles per hour). That's a common blustery day
> where I live.
>
> Catagory 1 hurricanes are at least 74 miles per hour, this was just barely a
> "storm"... a knot or two slower and it would have been a "tropical depression". A
> "sad" rainfall.
>
> Today the news is saying it wasn't the hurricane they expected... so is this just
> another example of the news creating panic where no panic was due? But prior and
> during they made it seem like Katrina 2.0.
>
> Just throwing this out there for discussion.