re: Why was ALL of the Media in Tampa Bay pre Hurricane?

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All I am saying is that the media was wrong. Just like the media is purposely wrong about a LOT of shite and for the assholes giving me shite about asking a legit question

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Yes at least you admit you made a clear implication that they were intentionally wrong

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How in the frick was the entire state of Florida (including the panhandle was in the cone of uncertainty 48 hours before the storm hit and then all of a sudden it hits SOUTHWEST Florida??? Explain that to me Mr. Hurricane Professionals

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This is relatively normal. As I posted earlier Galveston had a mandatory evacuation 48 hours before Laura hit 135 miles east

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admit you made a clear implication that they were intentionally wrong

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He seems to be walking that back after everyone laughed at him for such blatant stupidity

I think you need to take a break from politics. It can make everyone angry at times

No one is disputing they have it wrong

It's your stupid implication that there was some deliberate misinformation to make Ron look bad is what people take issue with

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Jacksonville —> Tampa —> Southwest Florida - yea, I would say they got it wrong

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No one denied that they got it wrong

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which once again proves my point

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Your point that they intentionally got it wrong? No that is nowhere near being proven.

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Was the media and the national hurricane center the reason there were a lot more deaths then usual??

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Have there been? If so very sad. I’d attribute it to a few things.

First a difficult to track storm and second complacency of those on the Florida coast
Maybe I’m missing some but it seems to me that the majority of the recent “big ones” have been all towards Texas Louisiana Katrina Ike Rita Laura ida Harvey. Last big one to contiguous Florida was Michael on 2017 but that was it going back to 2004. Maybe they’ve been relatively lucky and “rode it out like the last few” rather than having their wake up call and GTFO when there’s something brewing close.

If anyone did what you actually said and evacuated from Tampa to fort myers than that would be the perfect example. I guarantee that no one in lake Charles is evacuating to somewhere else in coastal Louisiana if a storm was forecast to hit there next week

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Your point that they intentionally got it wrong? No that is nowhere near being proven.

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And COVID, Masks and Boosters were Right? Did the Government and Media Intentionally get it right by closing everything down, forcing booster shots, making people wear masks, etc?

I am not saying that they purposely got this forcast wrong but I am saying that there was a shite load of mis information that they knowingly got WRONG.

Now, they are blaming this terrible storm and all the mishaps on Ron DeSantes because they hate the man from going off THEIR shitty and wrong predictions.

It's the "Perfect" Storm for them to blame, blame, blame because they HATE, HATE, HATE the man

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Nope - My OP is stating that the Media and Hurricane Center got it WRONG which is the reason there are more deaths then normal and it so happens to be in the middle of an election year where THEY hate the Governor of the State where the Hurricane is hitting.

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WTF is wrong with you people

The NHC doesn't make it up, they look at models that are run by computers and try to coherently pick whichever ones have been more reliable or draw inferences based on consensus, etc.

The Euro had this into Tampa like 10 days ago, then GFS and Euro bounced around for days before settling into the west coast of FL, where it ultimately hit within the cone they'd had out for 5 days. There was much discussion about Tampa vs. south and there was never any insinuation you should evacuate to somewhere else in the trajectory.

FFS people

SIAP but-

If the storm track was heading perpendicular to the shore like what Katrina did, and the eyewall landfall was a hundred miles off from the forecast 24 hours earlier, that would be slightly embarrassing.

But when the storm is coming in parallel to a shoreline, it only has to veer 20 miles off course to make a 100 mile difference in landfall.

Even if landfall was in Tampa, Ft Myers would still be fricked, same as Ft Myers is the landfall but Naples was still fricked.

Also, you are glowing.

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the idiocy in the OP…you do realize that this storm approached at an angle nearly parallel to the west coast of Florida, where small deviations in approach heading led to huge distances on the FL gulf coast, unlike the perpendicular approaches you typically see in La/Texas/Mississippi…geometry people

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He's an absolute fricking idiot....or trolling...which makes it all the same.


It's quite literally called the "Cone of Uncertainty" when they're predicting a hurricane track. Why the frick do you think it's called that?

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I'm not saying it is a conspiracy theory frick head. I am just asking a simple legit question. 100 miles is a long distance to be off considering every fricking hurricane before this one was pretty much on point with predictions.

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Go research the average margin of error in hurricane forecasts at 48/72/96 hours, then get back to us.
Sometimes there are things that influence these storms which even the best forecast models don't pick up on till the last minute.
See the one that sat just off the coast of Mobile/Pensacola a couple of years ago. (Sally I think?)
My sister in Pensacola was trapped in her house for about 18 hours and didn't know if she was going to make it.
She based her decision not to evacuate on the forecast the night before the water rose and trapped her in the house before daybreak. What was supposed to be 1-2 feet of surge turned into 5-6 feet in her zone.