Re: My Hope
Posted by
ssherripat on 8/29/2011, 1:58 am
I saw plenty of interviews of people who had stayed in place who said they wished they had evacuated. They were surprised at the water that had inundated their neighborhoods because "we were safe in Hurricane Floyd." As much as TWC, the NHC, and local mets try to educate that every storm is different, people seem to filter that information with their own experience. I'll bet those who got scared will evacuate next time...but there will be plenty of others who do not.
When the media emphasizes the wrong things or spends too much time in showing places that got off lightly, they make the situation even worse. As the storm moved up the coast, 80% of the coverage was about NYC and we were flipping through the channels trying to get news on Virginia, and then Maryland, and New Jersey. We got very frustrated when so much of the coverage was on talking heads in NY. Even today. there was not nearly enough coverage about the OBX, the Eastern Shore, and the horrible flooding in NJ and upstate NY. It reminds me of the Katrina coverage when 95% of the coverage was about NO -- and we played heck trying to find information on MS and AL.
And I don't know about you, but I am sick to death of watching some idiot standing in raging seawater in gusting gale force winds trying to talk to you through a breaking up connection. How can people take government warnings seriously when members of the media take such idiotic chances doing exactly what emergency management people tell you NOT to do? |
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