Thanks for all of the emails of concern. I’m fantastic. My canine is ok. By no means misplaced energy and nothing broken. All the newscasters go to the worst potential spots they’ll discover and simply keep there displaying the exact same backdrop on a regular basis. The issue with such sensational broadcasting is that the overwhelming majority of individuals not belief the media so after they play up a storm, so many individuals not belief the forecasting and don’t evacuate.
This was Anderson Cooper standing in waist deep water whereas the digital camera crew was on excessive floor. That is commonplace. I see the identical reporter standing in the identical spot on FOX with boats piled up. They by no means strikes from probably the most dramatic spots so that you by no means see the entire area. It’s not about reporting information. It is usually about drama.
The folks in South-West Florida have been exhausting hit. By Tampa, the wind blew the water out of the bay, when it got here again, it was simply regular. No 10 ft wall of speeding water.
I actually want all of the information channels returned to reporting the information as a substitute of you’ll die in 3 hours so flip in so we are able to let you know the minute you’ll die so you may make your final telephone name.
It has gotten to the purpose that you simply simply have no idea what to imagine any extra. That’s inflicting folks to lose their lives as a result of they maybe actually ought to have evacuated, however didn’t as a result of the final time the information dramatized the occasion then nothing occurred.
I suffered no flooding, no energy outage. From about Tampa northward on the West Coast, we have been typically untouched. My cousin moved down right here from New York, and he too was completely fantastic and by no means misplaced energy.
The place Ian made landfall, that’s the place they folks have been exhausting hit. Inland, low mendacity ranges have been flooded due to the heavy rain. It will be good if ALL the information channels understand that they’ve a duty to report a balanced view, not fastened on one spot that’s the worst potential place to dramatize the information to get viewers. That’s what is costing lives – crying wolf as they are saying. Simply report the reality. They’re costing lives with this dramatization. The final one CNN reported there can be an enormous 10 to fifteen wave, that amounted to 1.5 toes. So that you cease listening after some time.
