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Weather people are wetting their pants!

CS8161CS8161 Member Posts: 13,596 ✭✭✭
edited October 2012 in General Discussion
Wow, every channel has some knucklehead reporter standing out in the wind and rain bringing us second by second updates on the "Monster" storm! Sheperd Smith is having multiple climaxes regaling us with reports on wind speed, wave height and beach erosion! I am beside myself with anguish over this weather event, I don't think I will be able to sleep tonight! The only problem with this overhyped event is that all the video being shown appears to be not a big deal! Am I missing something? Has NY been washed out to sea? Is the Jersey shore gone? (We can only hope that the cast of "The Jersey Shore" have all been washed out into the bay like so many pieces of flotsam and jetsam).
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  • shootuadealshootuadeal Member Posts: 5,294 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Like someone mentioned in another thread, it is mostly to take everyone's attention away from the Libya news story that SHOULD be the top story right now.
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    Not to make light of it but,WE go out fishing in crap like that...
    The fish eat better,when it's a LITTLE ROUGH!!
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  • ltcdotyltcdoty Member Posts: 4,183 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think the important weather question is, Does Shepard Smith wear mascara..
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  • we_dig_itwe_dig_it Member Posts: 6,614 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by ltcdoty
    I think the important weather question is, Does Shepard Smith wear mascara..


    sure she does.....
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  • xstuntmanxstuntman Member Posts: 678 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Living in west Texas I can assure you we shoot in heavier crosswinds than that.

    [;)]
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  • Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 32,045 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'll never understand the need for weather people to stand in wind.....

    It has to be the SILLIEST thing you can watch a grown person do on the nightly news.

    There is no reason for it. You can't hear one word they are saying. They look like morons out there. I think the news people send the weather guys out there to look like boobs because they are the comedy relief for news casters. Kind of like the clowns at the circus.

    My favorite was this black lady here in Birmingham last winter. It had "snowed" but the snow was melting as it hit the ground. This woman found a patch of white fluff to stand in and "report the snow"....she held an umbrella and she was dressed for a blizzard. There were people walking their dog behind her....they were in shorts. It was GREAT!!!
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  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,522 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This was truely a non event. Little flooding and wind. Glad the maddness is over. Heck, we didnt even lose electric.
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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,124 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My attitude toward these weather related "catastrophies" is that none of those people gave a crap when I was flooded out in 93, droughted out last summer, or stuck under several feet of snow numerous times. If people choose to live in flood plains or on the coast, they accept that there may be times when it's not so nice.
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  • guntech59guntech59 Member Posts: 23,188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Mobuck
    My attitude toward these weather related "catastrophies" is that none of those people gave a crap when I was flooded out in 93, droughted out last summer, or stuck under several feet of snow numerous times. If people choose to live in flood plains or on the coast, they accept that there may be times when it's not so nice.


    I don't remember any FEMA folks being up here a few years ago when Oswego got 120" of snow over a seven day period.
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    well the govt supporting medi has to create an event so govt can swashbuckle up and SAVE everyone..trying to justify the gigantic waste of taxpayer money...how many po folk complaining cause temporary electric outage shuts their big screen tv off...every little hiccup in life is met by panic..looking at people now makes lewis and clark's trek to the Pacific look like an Olympian event of grit and determination that absolutely could not be recreated today under the same conditions....America seems like a hive mostly full of drones
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  • CS8161CS8161 Member Posts: 13,596 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by spasmcreek
    well the govt supporting medi has to create an event so govt can swashbuckle up and SAVE everyone..trying to justify the gigantic waste of taxpayer money...how many po folk complaining cause temporary electric outage shuts their big screen tv off...every little hiccup in life is met by panic..looking at people now makes lewis and clark's trek to the Pacific look like an Olympian event of grit and determination that absolutely could not be recreated today under the same conditions....America seems like a hive mostly full of drones


    well said!
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  • joker5656joker5656 Member Posts: 5,598 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Was watching Bloomburg News.... Had to turn it off because oh its flooding here or here. So and so business lost how much money or there in terrible distress. It's not that bad of a storm people. Have a family member in Manhattan and she is just laughing at the news. There trying to make a small storm into something big because New York doesn't get something like this often. If this had been further south we wouldn't be getting all the news that they have been reporting because those cities go through it so often...
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  • eastbankeastbank Member Posts: 4,052 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    my dog pisses harder than this storm has,the nitwits cleaned out all the milk,bread,flashlights and candles in the stores. i,ve hunted and fished in worse weather many times. to most here it was a non event. eastbank.
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  • CaptFunCaptFun Member Posts: 16,678 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Oakie
    This was truely a non event. Little flooding and wind. Glad the maddness is over. Heck, we didnt even lose electric.


    MrsFun's Aunt lives half a block off the water in Sayville, no flooding, house is fine. Land line is out but power is on.
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  • machine gun moranmachine gun moran Member Posts: 5,198
    edited November -1
    I like the interviews. They always pick the people with the best general information.

    "There wuz boat trailers flyin' through the air, and all I could think of was, 'thank God Nora Mae's got my crock pot!'
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