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Location: The place where the road & the sky collide
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Originally Posted by tread102
this isn't a freaking joke. You have forecast models showing over 20 inches of rain falling, even if 10 inches fall, alot of people are going to lose their lives. It's folks like you, and the others making light of the thread that compounds the problem. Hopefully the forecasts busts, and I won't be the one saying see see. I know what the models are forcasting. Instead of being a jerk, educate yourself. Again it's folks like yourself why over 1500 died during Katrina.
You're taking this & yourself entirely too seriously, in my opinion. It seems pretty obvious to me that you probably have never lived where hurricane hits are likely. People who live in those places don't go into a tizzy while the forecasts still look like someone threw a handful of cooked spaghetti at a map of the coast. You can't live like that.
We're most likely going to have rain from the low front over us. They're dialing back the amounts. Is it possible for Joachim to hug the coast, throwing extra moisture into the mix? Yes. Is it likely to happen? No. The European model is usually more correct than the US models. The closer that Joachim stays to the European model the less likely we are to have a dire scenario.
My worst hurricane-related experience came when a piece of Floyd broke off & traveled up the Delaware River. Was it forecasted? No. Was it likely? No. Sh*t happens.
If you're terrified of the forecasts that's your business & your right. If other people aren't, it's their business & their right. Calling people names if they aren't terrified is silly. Invoking Katrina is ridiculous. Most of the deaths in New Orleans were because the busses didn't run to evacuate people without cars, who couldn't get out.
Coming from Miami, I am immune to these forecasts but I am prepared nonetheless for anything just in case. From ice storms to power outage etc.
I am in the camp that I hope and think it won't happen but I am ready for it if it does. As the poster above me posted, they already said it would be around 7 inches possibly on high end. I am on the top of a hill, I wonder how it will be with the water rushing down and hopefully around me...
We are almost out of Milk, I need for my cereal, and I need a loaf for next week's lunches. So I guess I will be one of the people buying at least milk and bread. I think we bought eggs last week so we should be good.
If you live really close to a creek or river you oughta keep a close eye on it and make sure you can get out, but nowhere in NC is below sea level and protected by levees like New Orleans is. There's no way we'd have that kind of issue. We can definitely have widespread flooding, though. If you weren't here for Floyd you might not know how Princeville, NC nearly got washed away.
We are almost out of Milk, I need for my cereal, and I need a loaf for next week's lunches. So I guess I will be one of the people buying at least milk and bread. I think we bought eggs last week so we should be good.
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Originally Posted by tread102
Instead of being a jerk, educate yourself. Again it's folks like yourself why over 1500 died during Katrina.
You're taking this & yourself entirely too seriously, in my opinion. It seems pretty obvious to me that you probably have never lived where hurricane hits are likely. People who live in those places don't go into a tizzy while the forecasts still look like someone threw a handful of cooked spaghetti at a map of the coast. You can't live like that.
Couldn't agree more! Having grown up on the Jersey shore, we used to hang out at the beach and on the jetties during the smaller hurricanes and then get right back to work on the boardwalk the next day! It's funny how people freak out about the weather around here.
In fact, I think I saw Brad Panovich studying plans for building an ark and then grouping animals into pairs this afternoon! He's really one of the worst when it comes to forecasting "doom and gloom" conditions and then nothing like it happens.
Location: The place where the road & the sky collide
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Originally Posted by Stripes17
Couldn't agree more! Having grown up on the Jersey shore, we used to hang out at the beach and on the jetties during the smaller hurricanes and then get right back to work on the boardwalk the next day! It's funny how people freak out about the weather around here.
In fact, I think I saw Brad Panovich studying plans for building an ark and then grouping animals into pairs this afternoon! He's really one of the worst when it comes to forecasting "doom and gloom" conditions and then nothing like it happens.
Really. . . I remember watching the trees bend almost to the point of breaking, 50 miles from AC when Gloria went through Atlantic City. Nobody was freaking out. It was no fun when that piece of Floyd came up the Delaware, but, again, no one freaked out. It doesn't fix anything or change anything.
Being forewarned of weather is all well & good but it will do what it will do & going off on people doesn't help or change anything.
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He's really one of the worst when it comes to forecasting "doom and gloom" conditions and then nothing like it happens. 
