Hurricane aftermath

[Rick Webb]

I doubt that, there are now three cable networks, Weather channel, AccuWeather, & Fox Weather (not including local broadcasts). Evidently, there is big money in weather.

But how much of the programming is "weather"?

 

[WayneH]

I have two channels I use for the weather:

National Hurricane Center

www.nhc.noaa.gov

National Weather Service

forecast.weather.gov

I used to watch the weather channel but these days there is a 70% chance of a reality show.

 

[Don S/V ILLusion]

When they don't report and exaggerate, they are criticized for not giving advanced notification of severity to the folks in harm's way. "Damned if you do, damned if you don't." If you don't hype it up, people basically ignore the reports and wind up on roof tops or worse when storm surge inundates a given locale.

Reporting is one thing. Exaggerating is another, e.g., crying wolf too many times. During this storm, I received probably 15 separate emergency warnings within 2 hours on my cellphone. After the first few, the tendency is to ignore them. That’s the real problem as you can’t tell which are real and which aren’t. I think people are generally more intelligent than they seem to think and inducing panic isn’t necessary to get everyone’s attention.

 

[danm1]

[QUOTE="Don S/V ILLusion, post: 1828337, member: During this storm, I received probably 15 separate emergency warnings within 2 hours on my cellphone. After the first few, the tendency is to ignore them.
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Hmmm...so for two hours you were notified that you were literally in the middle of a hurricane. Were they wrong?
Not to be snarky but I suspect most of these alerts are automated and that in many instances, i.e, tornado reports, they can only tell you there is danger in a certain area, not the address. That's still better than no warning at all. How you react is your choice.

 

[Don S/V ILLusion]

Hmmm...so for two hours you were notified that you were literally in the middle of a hurricane. Were they wrong?
Not to be snarky but I suspect most of these alerts are automated and that in many instances, i.e, tornado reports, they can only tell you there is danger in a certain area, not the address. That's still better than no warning at all. How you react is your choice.

we were talking about tornado warning and not hurricane (warning which would have been a little ridiculous). Numerous, redundant repetitive tornado warnings tend to go ignored after about the first dozen and aren’t helpful particularly if/where one comes down to surface level.

 

[shemandr]

Don’s point was what I was trying to say in Post #12. The frequency of the alerts on multiple media became confusing. And yes I became enured to the alerts.

 

[dLj]

Don’s point was what I was trying to say in Post #12. The frequency of the alerts on multiple media became confusing. And yes I became enured to the alerts.

I quite agree. To such an extent I have turned off all these alerts on my phone because they have arrived to the level of extremely annoying and confusing. I'd been getting alerts that didn't even apply to where I am.

I watch weather through my Marine apps and make my own decisions. Kind of like when sailing....

dj