Went to work today, it has been raining all morning. More rain than yesterday for sure. At least I got to enjoy the day off yesterday.
News spends 48 hours covering a light mist, then closes up shop and the heavy rains come. Sounds about right.
Are you trying to say everyone was expecting Bill to show up big time but didn't....??? Hu? Dats messed up...
Media and social media are amplifying echo chambers of panic. Heaven help us if anything ever really happens. There's just no eyeballs glued to reasonable response.
In defense of the news if they don't make things seem like a big deal plenty of idiots are going to do idiotic things. If they make it seem bad enough then they will keep people home and away from making stupid decisions. I know that's not their main reasoning (obviously ratings), but i'd rather keep people home or people overstocking on water than people thinking it's no big deal and then something like Memorial Day happening.
The main problem with that dilemma is that businesses/schools/organizations actually make important decisions BASED in part on their coverage to be "accurate". They got it wrong over Memorial day... and this was in-part a sensational response to that error. They got it wrong again yesterday and now people aren't going to listen to them as much the next time (and if there is actual flooding today, they need to be on that... but they aren't because of the wire-to-wire coverage yesterday that was useless, expensive, and didn't accomplish anything). They're just an unreliable/inaccurate medium that needs more oversight as their recommendations do have eventual ramifications.
Apparently... except now theres more mediums and venues for the media to get their inaccurate sensationalism across to the masses (vs. just occasional tv break-ins/newspaper/radio from years past).
School districts are not basing their decisions on whether to close or not based on Frank freaking Billingsley. Come on.
Lol this. I never watch the local media. They are hype machines and their "futurecast" are all a bunch of bull**** regurgitation from the HRRR composite radar simulation you can watch yourself online. And by the way not all of those guys on TV actually have meteorology degrees. Some have PhD's and others have degrees in broadcast journalism and don't know **** about weather except for what they are told to read on a TV screen off to the right of the camera
