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Old 09-24-2024, 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive View Post
Well, there is forecasting, and then there is the worst kind of panic-peddling.

I’m visiting in Minnesota currently and went online last night (aol) to check my emails. On the sign-in page was this HUGE blob of red covering all of Florida, extending up into Georgia and covering near shore water in both the Atlantic and the Gulf. It took a bit of reading to discover that this humongous blob of red indicated merely a POSSIBILITY, and that the projected storm hadn’t even achieved tropical storm status yet!

“Blatant” doesn’t even begin to describe such shoddy journalistic practice.
Yea. It would be much better if they waited until the storm was much closer to you so that you would not have enough time to try to protect yourself and property.