Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
#46
|
||
|
||
The Week That Was......
The hype was exactly like the stock market hype that started the week.
|
|
#47
|
||
|
||
A question for all the people Who can't understand the hype, how accurate were the forecasts in your "back home"? Did your newscasters hype Sandy? Let's talk snow storms? Exaggerated? Ignored?
__________________
When all else fails, take a nap Carrie Sue Day Snelgrove |
#48
|
||
|
||
Quote:
I think the media tends to present the worst case scenario and then everyone hopes they are wrong. The media is all about ratings. IMHO Just ask the people who have been fired for not producing good enough ratings. My finance analysts told me the stock market downturn was somewhat induced by the media scare of the China situation and the people who control large volume of shares, and sell them off periodically, to scare the little investors. Was he right? Time will tell. Stay tuned...........
__________________
"It doesn't cost "nuttin", to be nice". MOM I just want to do the right thing! Uncle Joe, (my hero). |
#49
|
||
|
||
Quote:
They made the most they could out of any little thing. And yet none of them ever saw coming the worst two storms (a week apart) while we were there.
__________________
It's harder to hate close up. |
#50
|
||
|
||
Same thing in Minnesota. We're all gonna die of frostbite. In minutes. Two feet of snow turns into 2 inches.
My personal favorite was the tornado siren. My county decided we should be alerted when a storm approached. We started calling it the 'shut the windows' siren. |
#51
|
||
|
||
Erika is no more, thank goodness
__________________
. . .there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to enjoy themselves, and also that everyone should eat and drink, and find enjoyment in all his toil. . . Ecclesiasites 3:12 |
#52
|
||
|
||
My nephew is a meterologist who works for NOAA and I always tease him about the qualifiers his profession uses "partly sunny" 50% chance "possible".
However when you think about it don't we all hedge. Often you will hear the expression "within a medical certainty"meaning as close a call as we can make. "My guesstimate " "there is a high probablity" and the ubiquitous "maybe" |
#53
|
||
|
||
I think it's passed.
__________________
"What, me worry?"--Alfred E. Neuman |
Closed Thread |
|
|