Excessive for sure...they could have had the banner running at the top if they wanted people to be updated and "IF" anything significant changed then alert people at the change of the hour. We TIVO most of our favorite programming or things on cable we're interested in so it didn't matter too much. We watch very little on the network channels anymore. Also very little "news". The industry really has changed in the past 25 yrs or so....maybe a bit longer.
As for covering hurricanes...having lived for most of my life on the "frozen tundra"...think hurricanes are most frightening. Too unreliable and you can watch for days while it trudges on. At least most of the time with tornado weather, you have a bit of a warning and most places have basements to hunker down in. A false sense of security? Maybe! But sometimes miss that basement here---especially when the sky gets a weird color. Hurricanes...you just never can call it. We've lived through Matthew (or was it Michael?...it was on the Atlantic side), Irma and now Dorian. After Irma, I'm a bit skittish!! SOOOO thankful we dodged the bullet with Dorian. Certainly didn't seem to look like we would.
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