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re: Weather forecasting is out of control!
Posted on 3/16/25 at 11:02 am to Stevo
Posted on 3/16/25 at 11:02 am to Stevo
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32 deaths spread out over the SE
those numbers aren't far off from the number killed everyday in the SE from car accidents.
And moreso considering anyone that has a fatal accident in a storm area is attributed to the storm.
This post was edited on 3/16/25 at 11:03 am
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Posted on 3/16/25 at 11:09 am to aubiecat
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You should probably get rid of your health, life, home, and car insurance because you seem to be okay with not preparing for the worst.
That’s some Covid level fear-mongering right there. “Cancel your health insurance if you don’t want to get vaxxed”
So there’s no middle ground? The entire state has to shut down as if a Cat 5 is coming in? Restaurants and small businesses have to close. Employees don’t get paid. Kids having to eat dinner in fear while wearing bike helmets like it’s the duck and cover days.
There’s got to be a better way. We aren’t saying that we need to dismantle the tornado sirens.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 11:14 am to FairhopeTider
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So there’s no middle ground? The entire state has to shut down as if a Cat 5 is coming in? Restaurants and small businesses have to close. Employees don’t get paid. Kids having to eat dinner in fear while wearing bike helmets like it’s the duck and cover days.
Also is the untold adverse health effects and loss of enjoyment that comes with the stress of making a huge deal out of an event that will almost certainly not affect you.....like covid
Very difficult to impossible to calculate that but unnecessary stress and worry is something most people ignore for some reason.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 11:22 am to Stevo
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making everyone aware of the potential storm threats.
That’s not what’s happening. They are sensationalizing every front now. They called this one historic, possibly generational. Was it really any worse than one we see every single year? Or did the tornados just happen to hit people this time?
Posted on 3/16/25 at 11:25 am to FairhopeTider
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We aren’t saying that we need to dismantle the tornado sirens.
Exact opposite actually. Tell people hey there’s a front moving through. Some areas could be bad, but for the most part just going to be some wind and rain. If you hear a tornado siren or a tornado, take cover.
Continue living your lives
Posted on 3/16/25 at 11:33 am to Turnblad85
Friend,
The comparison between Covid and extreme weather events is unfair. Covid killed more Americans in one year than all weather events combined in American history, by many times. Covid killed more Americans in the last month than all weather related events in the last year. The ten year average number of deaths in America due to tornadoes is less than 50. Hurricanes? Less than 20. Rip currents on average kill more Americans each year in the last decade than tornados and hurricanes combined.
People devour fear and gore today, and they are many willing to provide the consumers with plenty of drama. Take precautions, but do not let fear command your lives.
Yours,
TulaneLSU
The comparison between Covid and extreme weather events is unfair. Covid killed more Americans in one year than all weather events combined in American history, by many times. Covid killed more Americans in the last month than all weather related events in the last year. The ten year average number of deaths in America due to tornadoes is less than 50. Hurricanes? Less than 20. Rip currents on average kill more Americans each year in the last decade than tornados and hurricanes combined.
People devour fear and gore today, and they are many willing to provide the consumers with plenty of drama. Take precautions, but do not let fear command your lives.
Yours,
TulaneLSU
Posted on 3/16/25 at 11:42 am to TulaneLSU
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TulaneLSU
Upon reflection, you are correct, as usual. I will leave my original post as punishment for making that irrational comparison.
Always good a have a friend I can trust to show me the error of my ways.
Yours,
Blad
Posted on 3/16/25 at 11:42 am to FairhopeTider
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Then people like Spann can stop with the whole “Any day can be your April 27th if a tornado hits your house” line. That doesn’t promote caution. It promotes hysteria
Only if you let it. Again how you let the information affect you is a YOU thing, not the information.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 11:51 am to im4LSU
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Again how you let the information affect you is a YOU thing, not the information.
Tell me again how it doesn’t affect me when schools and businesses close out of an abundance of caution?
Posted on 3/16/25 at 11:58 am to TDFreak
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This needs to be emphasized. A dozen-plus people died up there and there were no alerts for them.
You're either a liar, ill-informed, or full of shite. Either way, you shouldn't chime in if you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. I'm not throwing in with this debate again, it is old and tired, but I won't just watch bullshite being spewed.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 12:06 pm to LegendInMyMind
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I won't just watch bullshite being spewed.
go back to your safespace
Posted on 3/16/25 at 12:11 pm to doubleb
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I don’t know just what the pre storm graphics indicated for those unfortunate folks, but if the graphics were accurate they should have shown worse weather for those areas than shown for Laf., BR and NO.
They had a graphic well in advance that showed the biggest impact would be in Mississippi and Alabama and why. They were spot on with their information.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 12:13 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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Tell me again how it doesn’t affect me when schools and businesses close out of an abundance of caution?
Exactly
Posted on 3/16/25 at 12:16 pm to ShinerHorns
Yall will politicize anything.
They were off by a bit, but if Terrytown happened during the St. Patrick's parade, that would have been a disaster.
And all you folks who are dumb enough to think everything D (and vice versa) is wrong and everything R is correct will never understand the randomness of weather.
They were off by a bit, but if Terrytown happened during the St. Patrick's parade, that would have been a disaster.
And all you folks who are dumb enough to think everything D (and vice versa) is wrong and everything R is correct will never understand the randomness of weather.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 12:21 pm to Clark14
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They had a graphic well in advance that showed the biggest impact would be in Mississippi and Alabama and why. They were spot on with their information.
Look, reality doesn't matter with most of these people. They just make up whatever fits the view they need to keep raging.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 12:42 pm to BottomlandBrew
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Want to tell the 26 people that have died (so far) that it was overhyped? Just because something didn't happen to you, doesn't mean nothing happened.
So, 26 people had all this hype and warning and still perished. Just like they would have in 1925
Judging from the Covid thread, you believe in the hysteria and shutdown of everything “even if it saves just one life”
This post was edited on 3/16/25 at 12:44 pm
Posted on 3/16/25 at 12:45 pm to FairhopeTider
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And like clockwork Spann is doing the “Good morning to everyone but this guy” thing this morning where he goes engagement fishing by doxxing people who call him out. He does it literally after every storm.
Kinda hard to dox someone if their name is blurred. Would you have been happier if a tornado had hit your house? I was thankful all I got was some rain.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 12:55 pm to WRhodesTider
Jesus H Christ with this hyperbole.
Spann actually used to do it with names and private messages but he (rightfully) got called out for basically doxxing people. There’s zero need to do it anyway outside of fishing for engagement….which is the goal. It accomplishes nothing except trying to silence anyone that dare questions him.
Spann actually used to do it with names and private messages but he (rightfully) got called out for basically doxxing people. There’s zero need to do it anyway outside of fishing for engagement….which is the goal. It accomplishes nothing except trying to silence anyone that dare questions him.
This post was edited on 3/16/25 at 12:57 pm
Posted on 3/16/25 at 3:09 pm to Clark14
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They had a graphic well in advance that showed the biggest impact would be in Mississippi and Alabama and why. They were spot on with their information.
They had BR in a level 4, NO s 3.
They missed the forecast here. That’s all I’m saying. It was not an historic event as they predicted.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 3:21 pm to Oilfieldbiology
quote:I lost count of how many times I read the date April 27, 2011 mentioned when describing this system in the two threads.
They called this one historic, possibly generational. Was it really any worse than one we see every single year?
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