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Originally Posted by Inner Dirt

Kind of tells me that they don't believe all the "Storm of a lifetime" crap and all the doom and gloom they project to their audience. I am sick and tired of the way the media over hypes storms, making phony claims, "this one will be the biggest ever", blah,blah,blah. The media has no morals, they will do what it takes to get ratings and people to tune in. The frenzied panic they get some people whipped up in causes more havoc than the storms sometimes.
Of course the people close to the eye of the storm and coastal areas can get some bad damage, but the projections for the extended path of the storm never happen.



I find it aggravating as I live in an area where everyone panics. The local media fans the flames. I cannot remember which storm, last year I had been in and out of Richmond Va and all over the area buying supplies and running errands. Local media coverage would have you believe the whole town was severely flooded to the point it seemed it was a risk to travel there. I found no road closures and didn't even see any standing water in traffic lanes. The media must of found every single underpass with a plugged storm drain in the whole town and surrounding areas and projected like the whole town looked like that.

Everybody exaggerates about everything these days. We've become a country of wussies! Everything is a big thing.