Why Is It Always "Could Be The Worst Storm In 30 Years"?

[Polishprince]

They're doing it again. Fox is reporting that this storm could be the worst storm in 30 years.

Wasn't the last one supposed to be the worst storm?

I don't watch news that much lately because it's getting to the point where you can't believe a damn thing they say anymore.

Hurricane Dorian will be 'very big' storm, Trump says, as Floridians prepare for potential Category 4

Fox, and every other network really loves to hype the weather.

Personally, I find the hysterical coverage to be amusing like Shep Smith's coverage from a few years ago on a different storm.

 

[mudwhistle]

It's a silly thing to criticize. I'd much rather they hype up a storm and be safe than downplay it and get fucked.

Faux News is good?

What does Fox have to do with it? It's the biggest story on every news site in the country.

I think it's a story...but not the biggest one.
The media decides what stories are the biggest.
When it comes to a storm they don't have to check sources. They just report what happens and compare it to what happened in the past.
I feel sorry for those people that have to stand in the weather and risk injury while reporting the whipping wind and rain.

 

[JustAnotherNut]

It's a silly thing to criticize. I'd much rather they hype up a storm and be safe than downplay it and get fucked.

You do have a good point there...……..but they could do the same (report the destructiveness and the need for safety precautions) in a more civilized manner without all the BS

 

[beagle9]

They're doing it again. Fox is reporting that this storm could be the worst storm in 30 years.

Wasn't the last one supposed to be the worst storm?

I don't watch news that much lately because it's getting to the point where you can't believe a damn thing they say anymore.

Hurricane Dorian will be 'very big' storm, Trump says, as Floridians prepare for potential Category 4

It's the conditions these storms are traveling in that tells the meterologist that there is a high potential for danger if these conditions remain the same through out the track.

It's always best to see these killers as to what they are "UNPREDICTABLE KILLERS", that can destroy anything in their path, and worst of all they can destroy lives without mercy. All one has to do is go back in history when there weren't any warning system's like we have today, and see the loss of life to know that a little inconvenience is better than being stupid in an age that tells us exactly where these things are heading, and exactly how to prepare ourselves for them.

Are you feeling alright lately, because this doesn't seem to be your thinking on such matters ? Not a fan of Fox lately eh ?

 

[aaronleland]

It's a silly thing to criticize. I'd much rather they hype up a storm and be safe than downplay it and get fucked.

You do have a good point there...……..but they could do the same (report the destructiveness and the need for safety precautions) in a more civilized manner without all the BS

If you want civilized reporting watch your local station. 24 hour news has been about nothing but entertainment since their inception. Fox and CNN have always been two peas in a pod.

 

[mudwhistle]

They're doing it again. Fox is reporting that this storm could be the worst storm in 30 years.

Wasn't the last one supposed to be the worst storm?

I don't watch news that much lately because it's getting to the point where you can't believe a damn thing they say anymore.

Hurricane Dorian will be 'very big' storm, Trump says, as Floridians prepare for potential Category 4

It's the conditions these storms are traveling in that tells the meterologist that there is a high potential for danger if these conditions remain the same through out the track.

It's always best to see these killers as to what they are "UNPREDICTABLE KILLERS", that can destroy anything in their path, and worst of all they can destroy lives without mercy. All one has to do is go back in history when there weren't any warning system's like we have today, and see the loss of life to know that a little inconvenience is better than being stupid in an age that tells us exactly where these things are heading, and exactly how to prepare ourselves for them.

Are you feeling alright lately, because this doesn't seem to be your thinking on such matters ? Not a fan of Fox lately eh ?

Fox trades journalists with CNN and NBC....and much of their reporting has been anti-Trump.....so I don't trust them at all. After all.....they're based in New York and owned by UK nationals. Every news source is part of the same global conglomerate.

 

[mudwhistle]

It's a silly thing to criticize. I'd much rather they hype up a storm and be safe than downplay it and get fucked.

You do have a good point there...……..but they could do the same (report the destructiveness and the need for safety precautions) in a more civilized manner without all the BS

If you want civilized reporting watch your local station. 24 hour news has been about nothing but entertainment since their inception. Fox and CNN have always been two peas in a pod.

I can't handle local news. It's horrendous.
Murder and mayhem everywhere around us.
**** that.

 

[beautress]

They're doing it again. Fox is reporting that this storm could be the worst storm in 30 years.

Wasn't the last one supposed to be the worst storm?

I don't watch news that much lately because it's getting to the point where you can't believe a damn thing they say anymore.

Hurricane Dorian will be 'very big' storm, Trump says, as Floridians prepare for potential Category 4

In Florida: Hurricane Andrew
In Louisiana: Hurricane Katrina
In Texas: Hurricane Ike et al

The year before we moved to Texas (2009), this picture was made of Hurricane Ike. I recollect seeing one image of the storm completely covering the map of Texas, from El Paso to Beaumont, and from Brownsville to above the northernmost border of Texas, which was north of Amarillo. As it went North, the cloud cover for some reason seemed a lot denser, and you couldn't even see the Texas Border, so the channel I was watching (or the NOAA) used a map of Texas, that was totally covered with the spiral cloud cover, which just looked like a huge snowball it was so dense by then. You could still make out the eye, which was likely over an area somewhere between Waco and Corsicana, slightly east of center, so the hurricane took in a lot of property in all Texas neighboring states.

Hurricane Ike:

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Hurricanes effect the weather over a thousand miles away.
A storm in Hawaii can effect waves in Alaska.
Cloud cover can envelope several states.....but the real danger is wind, flooding, and tidal-surge on the beaches. Once a storm gets over land it loses most of it's strength.
I have seen the damage left behind from Hugo, which was a massive storm.
Tree branches were falling in my yard outside of Ft Bragg when the eye hit landfall 250 miles away.
I year later I went down to FL on I 95 and saw how the eye knocked over trees like toothpicks....but thank God it was a forest, not a city.

"Tree branches were falling in my yard when the eye hit landfall 250 miles away."
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Wow, you must live in God's country up there.

Edit: Oops. I just read your post, make that it used to be God's country... I'm putting all of our state on my prayer list now. I live in the heart of prison country with about 20 prisons within a 50-mile radius of my horseless horse farmstead, 7 are within 10 miles from here. Many of them did crimes so heinous even the angels weep.

I just watch my little wild flock of great white egrets in Freedom Lake out back, and am grateful God gave me this little piece of heaven to live in and shelter little deer families and bird and butterfly populations to assist their survival before the urban areas in Houston town arrive up here. I've seen at least 1 specie that doesn't exist in any of my ornithology encyclopedic books and 1 specie that nested here one summer that doesn't generally exist south of the arctic circle in summers. Black Guillemots, and they are a sight to see. They have an oblong white spot on their wings that makes their flock flights appear frenetic, when actually, they are quite graceful in their movements when waddling around on the side of Freedom Lake out back. They left, and a few returned the following year, but I haven't noticed them in 3 years, since I started leaving the shades down to save electricity bills after my better half passed away.

 

[edthecynic]

They're doing it again. Fox is reporting that this storm could be the worst storm in 30 years.

Wasn't the last one supposed to be the worst storm?

They are just parroting Tramp, as always.
"Hurricane Dorian looks like it will be hitting Florida late Sunday night. Be prepared and please follow State and Federal instructions, it will be a very big Hurricane, perhaps one of the biggest!"

 

[edthecynic]

The clown brigade needs hype with everything.

Yes YOU do, and the biggest hyper is none other than Donald Jackass Tramp, "it is one of the biggest and strongest (and really wide) that we have seen in decades."

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Media hype and constant updates with imbecile reporters standing outside in rain and wind. Yeah we get it... it's windy and raining

 

[Third Party]

They're doing it again. Fox is reporting that this storm could be the worst storm in 30 years.

Wasn't the last one supposed to be the worst storm?

I don't watch news that much lately because it's getting to the point where you can't believe a damn thing they say anymore.

Hurricane Dorian will be 'very big' storm, Trump says, as Floridians prepare for potential Category 4

Ratings.

I'd rather watch something else.

Now they're comparing it to Katrina....so I'm gonna watch something else.

Lions vs Browns on NFL Network

Lions vs Browns is a disaster of its own.

 

[Marion Morrison]

This one's looking pretty bad, I'm askeered.

 

[miketx]

They're doing it again. Fox is reporting that this storm could be the worst storm in 30 years.

Wasn't the last one supposed to be the worst storm?

I don't watch news that much lately because it's getting to the point where you can't believe a damn thing they say anymore.

Hurricane Dorian will be 'very big' storm, Trump says, as Floridians prepare for potential Category 4

The clown brigade needs hype with everything.

Next it will all be Trumps fault.

Bung stains already blaming him for it.

 

[Penelope]

They're doing it again. Fox is reporting that this storm could be the worst storm in 30 years.

Wasn't the last one supposed to be the worst storm?

I don't watch news that much lately because it's getting to the point where you can't believe a damn thing they say anymore.

Hurricane Dorian will be 'very big' storm, Trump says, as Floridians prepare for potential Category 4

Ratings.

I'd rather watch something else.

Now they're comparing it to Katrina....so I'm gonna watch something else.

Lions vs Browns on NFL Network

We watched it, I won't spoil it for you, but every storm is the "worst storm".

 

[beautress]

They're doing it again. Fox is reporting that this storm could be the worst storm in 30 years.

Wasn't the last one supposed to be the worst storm?

I don't watch news that much lately because it's getting to the point where you can't believe a damn thing they say anymore.

Hurricane Dorian will be 'very big' storm, Trump says, as Floridians prepare for potential Category 4

It's the conditions these storms are traveling in that tells the meterologist that there is a high potential for danger if these conditions remain the same through out the track.

It's always best to see these killers as to what they are "UNPREDICTABLE KILLERS", that can destroy anything in their path, and worst of all they can destroy lives without mercy. All one has to do is go back in history when there weren't any warning system's like we have today, and see the loss of life to know that a little inconvenience is better than being stupid in an age that tells us exactly where these things are heading, and exactly how to prepare ourselves for them.

Are you feeling alright lately, because this doesn't seem to be your thinking on such matters ? Not a fan of Fox lately eh ?

Fox trades journalists with CNN and NBC....and much of their reporting has been anti-Trump.....so I don't trust them at all. After all.....they're based in New York and owned by UK nationals. Every news source is part of the same global conglomerate.

It's pretty annoying to see the liars spew their communist manifesto crap and hatred for conservatives, all right. I don't always see them, but when I smell a big fat lie, I change channels immediately. The only other times I was unhappy with Fox is when they picked up on the "Gore won" bull malarky one time, and there was another time they did the same thing, but I cannot recall which election it was. Now, I just pick and choose old news on You Tube, because listening to garbage is not my idea of how I want to spend my life. Even so, I like to know what the socialists are saying because defending the nation from that sort of trashing the Constitution needs mature people to deal with it. Confronting lies is not wonderful, but it is a necessary evil of keeping the Bill of Rights in place, imho.

 

[rightwinger]

Looks like it will miss Florida

 

[miketx]

 

[Wyatt earp]

They're doing it again. Fox is reporting that this storm could be the worst storm in 30 years.

Wasn't the last one supposed to be the worst storm?

I don't watch news that much lately because it's getting to the point where you can't believe a damn thing they say anymore.

Hurricane Dorian will be 'very big' storm, Trump says, as Floridians prepare for potential Category 4

Ratings.

I'd rather watch something else.

Now they're comparing it to Katrina....so I'm gonna watch something else.

Lions vs Browns on NFL Network

Lions vs Browns is a disaster of its own.

LMFAOO

To ******* funny

 

[shockedcanadian]

Media hype and constant updates with imbecile reporters standing outside in rain and wind. Yeah we get it... it's windy and raining

You almost wonder about intent, if it's a well known Talking Head if they are trying to look "legit", if it's a nobody reporter, it screams, "see your job isn't so tough compared to mine is it?!"