Sick of Sensationalized News/Weather

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swanicyouth said:
It was a show about someone addicted to eating tires. Really? She was actually picking the nubs off the tires and eating them on TV. People watch this nonsense??
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hahahaha
 
The Weather Channel has gotten so much worse since NBC picked them up.

They were pretty straight and gave the facts (as best they could), but now they put sensationalism over an attempt at accurate forecasting.
 
On the flip side, if NYC does get 30' everyone up sh*ts creek.

I agree shut it down, error on the side of caution.

I've been thru blizzards in NYC , was it 2010 when those 3 storms hit? I've been thru hurricane Andrew in Ft. Laud when Miami was wiped off the map, its better to be safe then sorry.
 
Most of you guys are weird. Remember last winter in the South? No travel bans, no states of emergency, and complete chaos for three inches of wet snow. Anybody who thinks local and state officials being proactive is dumb truly hasn't truly experienced a disaster.
 
SameGuy said:
Most of you guys are weird. Remember last winter in the South? No travel bans, no states of emergency, and complete chaos for three inches of wet snow. Anybody who thinks local and state officials being proactive is dumb truly hasn't truly experienced a disaster.
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The problem was that the Meteorologists FAILED to accurately predict what was going to happen. Officials acted on what the "experts" were saying prior to the bottom falling out. We have family and friends in Georgia and Bama. No one, including the weather folks, expected what the storm to do what it did in most of the areas down south.
Also, thru the power of technology, we were watching a live broadcast of a northern Alabama newscast. The weather guy was a "deer in the headlights."
 
SameGuy said:
Most of you guys are weird. Remember last winter in the South? No travel bans, no states of emergency, and complete chaos for three inches of wet snow. Anybody who thinks local and state officials being proactive is dumb truly hasn't truly experienced a disaster.
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My complaint is not the civil authorities taking actions to protect the populace. I'm perfectly happy with my child's school bus not sliding off the road. It's the media blowing the whole thing out of proportion and making a blizzard sound like the end of modern civilization.
 
SameGuy said:
Most of you guys are weird. Remember last winter in the South? No travel bans, no states of emergency, and complete chaos for three inches of wet snow. Anybody who thinks local and state officials being proactive is dumb truly hasn't truly experienced a disaster.
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I think there's a difference between proactive and overreacting. Taking an earlier point in the thread to an extreme, if it's a good idea to have everyone off the road in a storm because they drive like idiots and it's endangering people's lives, then why don't we ban driving all together? Think how many lives we'd save?
 
Credit to the guy from the NWS and for his apology. Also the gal on the one Philly news station who said they busted the forecast. The local station near me has been wrong and I mean wrong the last 4 storms. My point being is that when you are accurate or even close be humble in knowing you did your job. Instead these folks hurt themselves patting their own backs and downright gloating to the point of arrogance. When they are wrong they have all sorts of catchy plays on words but just can't say, "hey we messed up." I would have more compassion for them if they approached it like that.
 
I accept that position on it. I tuned to TWC last night expecting a report on the current conditions, whatever they were actually turning out to be. Stupid me for expecting BBC World News, all the bobbleheads were doing was talking about the already-wrong forecasts.

That said, 10 inches of snow in a city like New York is indeed a big deal. And New England is getting absolutely hammered today. Or is New England really that unimportant to people from The City?
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Yeah, I dunno how we ever did it back in the day when everybody had RWD cars, no traction control, no ABS, no stability control, tire technology in the stone age compared to today...but today, when half of drivers have AWD SUV's with lots of ground clearance (although back in the pre-aerodynamics days the typcial car had more ground clearance than today--not too many front spoilers/dams!), everything is a disaster. I guess there are more cars on the road today--I guess.

Funny, this got me thinking about the tires of yore and Burt Reynolds's Bandit Trans Am that was on here a couple months ago, and how in that day the tires on those cars were exactly the same Goodyear Custom Polysteel Radials as on my mom's station wagon except they were RWL instead of white walls--GM didn't start to put specific tires on the F-Body until they lost that lawsuit where the kid got killed going 120 mph in his TA with tires that were only rated for 112 and GM's defense of "the speed limit is 55!" didn't work.

Anyway today everybody has a truck with AWD and you can get Blizzaks or your pick of arctic circle-developed snow/ice tires to go with your electronic lifeguards, but it's still the end of the world if it snows...how did we go so far backwards in 35 years?
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I think our parents and us use to get by with just rwd in the fact that we had to do it and we used common sense driving. I see people with 4wd blowing by me at 55 mph when I am going 25 mph with 4wd due to icy snow covered roads. asking why we have gone backwards my answer would be patience and lack of it .I see it everyday people driving like crazy because they can not wait.
 
LOL I guess NYC really is the only place that matters... The predictions wound up being spot-on for CT, RI, MA and ME, but that doesn't count for much. 26 inches in Boston, so far... As if anyone cares.
 
I always find it funny that it never seems to just "snow" anymore. It's always a "snow storm" or "blizzard". Never just snow.
 
swanicyouth said:
I always find it funny that it never seems to just "snow" anymore. It's always a "snow storm" or "blizzard". Never just snow.
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Well, Lindsey Lohan needs to make some news then any approaching snow will take a backseat and the media can focus on her.

BTW...Here in western New Jersey we received about 3 3/4 inches. At one point they had predicted upwards of 24 inches. Friends in eastern New Jersey, the spots where they were suppose to get up to two feet plus, got 4 inches. So between eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and parts of N.Y., they were off...to say the least.
 
It is kind of like that in SoCal. A little bit of rain, if that, and the news shows "Storm Watch".
 
Not to ever discount the severity of the impact to the people so affected from this latest "N.E. snow event"...

•But isn't part-and-parcel of the belief system of:
"The Liberals/The Left"...the assumptions that:

-we can't take care of ourselves;
-the idea that we don't know what's best for us;
-that we have to be told when, or when not, to panic?

•Accordingly:
-Just one more example of corruption at another overly-politicized bureaucratic institution: The National Weather Service (under the auspices of The Department of Commerce).


Welcome to "The Nanny States of America"!


Bob
 
They were calling 6-10" in north west new jersey. We got 5". I don't think that's too bad.
 
dsg03gt said:
They were calling 6-10" in north west new jersey. We got 5". I don't think that's too bad.
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Hhhmmm, in my part of north west jersey see post 36, we suppose to get 6-16, then 10-18, then 14-22, then 16-24, and finally back to 10-18. Ended with 3 3/4".

Sorry but with all the technology and education it's not cutting it, especially when they get arrogant and belligerent about how "accurate" they are or were.
 
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