Originally Posted by Learnin

Well, since everyone seems to be jumping on Black, I'm going to come to his defense. The media wants disaster. I'm not talking about government agencies that provide warnings and information about approaching storm systems. I'm talking about the media which have news reporters standing out in a 80 mph wind all the while pleading with people to please stay indoors. The 24 hour/7 days per week news media needs disaster! It needs economic disaster, weather disaster, natural disaster or terrorist attack (or a presidential debate) in order to keep the ratings up. The media provokes unnecessary panic.

Some posters have mentioned 40 deaths due to this storm. This storm traveled up the most populous real estate in this country. Forty deaths? As someone mentioned, many of these are due to complete foolishness on the part of human beings. In almost every place I watched the media reporting from, there were people walking along the streets, along the beaches or cars traveling down the roads. These were doing the very same thing the media reporters were doing, trying to see some disaster.

The biggest threat, of this weak hurricane, was rain and falling trees. So what to do? If you live in a house that is surrounded by large trees, you might want to go some place else. If you live on the shore, at sea level, you might want to go somewhere above sea level which is not surrounded by large trees. If you live on a creek, you might want to go elsewhere. Common sense.

I live in tornado alley and I appreciate the early warning weather systems in place. But the media was chomping at the bit for a humdinger hurricane since it had been three years...