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Title: Incredible Hurricane Coverage....
Post by: Fuktard on August 28, 2011, 12:18:14 PM

A week of round the clock coverage and we have literally tens of houses damaged.  Several inches of water in some streets.  Like a lot of rain and stuff.  Real high waves...jeezus look at the waves, some even whitecapping!  Lots of footage of the same lifeguard tower that floated more than a few feet from where it once was sitting.  Could take all afternoon for some homeowners to clean up the debris.  How will the east coast ever recover?!?  Hopefully we can get another week of coverage as the most important people on earth try to cope.

Title: Re: Incredible Hurricane Coverage....
Post by: jtksu on August 28, 2011, 01:37:00 PM

I was pretty pissed last night when I realized the typical Saturday night marathon of Lockup on MSNBC was replaced by coverage of the hurricane moving towards NYC.  Seriously, there was basically nothing to cover at that point (or even now, for that matter) so why would you spend the entire night talking about basically nothing?  :shakefist:

Title: Re: Incredible Hurricane Coverage....
Post by: Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) on August 28, 2011, 01:53:56 PM

Every summer thunderstorm in Kansas is as severe (or more severe) as the Hurricane approaching NYC. 

The media is the suck

Title: Re: Incredible Hurricane Coverage....
Post by: Dugout DickStone on August 28, 2011, 01:57:27 PM

We cancelled the live hourly look-ins with Dax.  I have to be honest, it was not a good investment of our funds.

Title: Re: Incredible Hurricane Coverage....
Post by: Fuktard on August 28, 2011, 02:24:53 PM

A tree fell down in Boston....CNN, Fox, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, CNBC, Spike, Fuse, OWN, A&E all in route to cover it.     :pbj:

Title: Re: Incredible Hurricane Coverage....
Post by: jtksu on August 28, 2011, 02:25:50 PM

Westar sent a bunch of crews out there earlier in the week.  Guess those guys can enjoy their 2 week vacation now.

Title: Re: Incredible Hurricane Coverage....
Post by: sonofdaxjones on August 28, 2011, 03:02:24 PM

It was way stronger and more dramatic down this way, and as hurricanes go it wasn't that dramatic.

But since the Weather Channel decided to turn things like this into "end of world" events a decade or so ago, every other network has just copied them.

For Hurricane Floyd back about 8 or 9 years ago all the networks brought down their evening news anchors because we were going to get wiped off the face of the earth, and granted had the storm stayed on the path it was heading and at the strength it was at over open water . . . then yes, we would have been wiped off the face of the earth, but they always change course and/or lose strength.

Thanks to Katrina hitting a city that sits below sea level, and run by idiots this kind of drama is here to stay.

Title: Re: Incredible Hurricane Coverage....
Post by: WillieWatanabe on August 28, 2011, 03:51:39 PM

hey now. my neighborhood doesn't have power! It's not over hyped!!!!!!