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Best Rita Coverage !

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Willis25, Sep 23, 2005.

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Who has the best Rita coverage

  1. Ch 2

    61 vote(s)
    44.2%
  2. Ch 11

    26 vote(s)
    18.8%
  3. Ch 13 - (if only b/c they didn't pre-empt Lost)

    17 vote(s)
    12.3%
  4. Ch 26 -

    6 vote(s)
    4.3%
  5. CNN, Fox, MSNBC, etc. - I need fear inducing music with my news

    28 vote(s)
    20.3%
  1. RocketMan Tex

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    All I could get from 12:30 AM until 7:30 PM on Saturday was KTRH, so I will vote for KTRH! :D
     
  2. A-Train

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    What about The Weather Channel? That Jennifer Lopez is a Category 5 all the way...
     
  3. Willis25

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    :confused:
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    :confused: :confused: :eek:
     
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    [​IMG]

    Here's a better pic of her...She looks a LOT hotter on TV...
     
  5. Austin70

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    Stephanie Abrams, Weather Channel on Galveston Beach, that was the best coverage.
     
  6. SwoLy-D

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    Hey! I saw this clip. They moved the camera down, and RADAR was showing HIS OWN RADAR tracker. WHOA, nelly! :D
     
  7. JumpMan

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    Never watched the news before Rita, and now I'm going back to my ban on local and national news forever. They're an absolute joke.

    740 AM? During my 30 hour trip to Huntsville and back I listened to that crap station, I always had a feeling that they were lying their asses off, that motivated me to go back more than anything else. Everyone on that station sounded like they were only telling half the truth or flat out lies, even the mayor of Houston made me doubt their intentions.

    They gave everyone false hopes about the contra flow on 45 and the gas trucks, not that it was happening, but that it made any kind of difference. Once I was there on Thursday afternoon I remember them saying that the people who were just leaving Houston just have to get there and the traffic lessens. BS! What they didn't say is that they were still at least half a days drive away from it and once they were there they were still going to be in a horrible place. The gas trucks? All they gave you was enough to get to the next town to fill up, problem was the next town didn't have any gas!

    Another thing that bothered me about them is that when the storm was moving more towards Beaumont and other places they were still encouraging people to keep moving and to avoid returning. It got to a point where they stopped giving the factual numbers on the storm, wind speeds and category, and focused on the possibility that it would "wobble" back to Galveston and strengthen back to a 4 or 5.

    Once I decided to go back I tried to convince family and friends that were stuck in traffic to go back with me and that the storm was headed away from us and that it was not that bad anymore. All they would say was that the radio says we should keep going and that it can get stronger and move back towards Houston any minute now.

    The media sucks. Period.
     
  8. Supermac34

    Supermac34 President, Von Wafer Fan Club

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    To be fair, he was the Director of the National Hurricane Center before coming to Houston.
     
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    I thought the blonde weather lady on Fox 26 did pretty good. She was always very prepared.

    Most of the others got on my everlasting nerve.
     
  10. MadMax

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    yeah, but everyone here knows more about it than he does, apparently.
     
  11. apostolic3

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    I'm with you on 740. When I was trying to talk my wife into coming back (she finally did after 9 hours), 740 was contradicting everything Ch.2 was saying. When the winds were decreasing, apparently 740 was still saying they were 180 mph. I nearly blew my stack.

    I won't lump all the media in with 740, but 740's sensationalism was the worst and I'm not even considering their traffic reports.
     

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