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Originally Posted by tuccillo
Thanks for your kind thoughts. The numerical model guidance was all over the place in the days up to Irma making landfall, and even the day before was off by a considerable margin. The track up the middle of FL was a bit unexpected as the "final" guidance was up the west coast. However, this was not your "typical" hurricane and the forecasted path was within the "cone" or "envelope" of possible tracks. I thought the coverage on network TV was good and I spent pretty much the whole evening and early morning hours with the TV on. I am hoping everyone got through with no or little damage. I am happily surprised that we never lost power.
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I liked the local newscasts on Irma. Some of the major players on the news seemed a little disappointed at times that there was not more damage or that Irma did not make landfall as a Category 5. Just my take though. It is a ratings thing. The local broadcasts gave a lot more detail without all the drama of trying to attract viewers. We lived in Palm Harbor, FL fro 1996-2005 so we experienced the 2004-2005 season and my Dad was a catastrophe manager for a major insurance company around 1990-1994 so I heard a lot about the damages caused by hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, fires, etc. He handled Andrew among other storms.