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Imagine that I'm watching their coverage of this storm and, how strange; the
storm hasn't made landfall and, as I find out later, my father's house has
already been leveled on the Northern tip of Pine Island as have most around
him. Imagine that! The storm hasn't made landfall according to the Weather
Channel and yet Sanibel, Boca Grande, Pine Island, Cabbage Key and numerous
other places have endured the wrath of this bitch from Africa, with quite
visible scars.

And the Weather Channel? They're showing recycled clips over and over of
idiots posing as meteorologists, dancing around in the wind and talking like
Patton about to invade North Africa. Hurricane Charley is a phantom storm
whose "on the spot" meteorologists (read = poorly trained actors) are well
insulated from by several miles of the ACTUAL storm.

But they did it with all the zest of FOX' coverage of the Democratic
National Convention. So does this mean that accurate weather information has
gone the way of the news media? Has it become a sensationalism circus? Am I
the only person outraged by this egregious display of outright
misinformation? I want weather coverage, not editorial!


(And what was with that clip of the guy in the foul-weather gear bearing up
against some supposed wind with a sloop laid up on the beach behind him?
Those "seas" in the background couldn't have beached a surfboard, to say
nothing of the fact that this boat was a-keel to the beach, so where did the
sloop come from? Perhaps the wind was a fan, for effect? It really wouldn't
surprise me.)


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Am I
the only person outraged by this egregious display of outright
misinformation?

No, I ain't outraged by that. I'm peeved that it didn't do a better job of
cleaning out that rathole called Florida. Now if the storm could've come
straight up thru the Keys, that would have been more entertaining!


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Obviously a creton like yourself wouldn't know a good neighborhood from a
bad one. The real shame of it is that allot of good people's lives and
houses were destroyed yet a dirt-bag like you is going to make stupid
remarks like the snippet below without ever having been there. What a pussy.


No, I ain't outraged by that. I'm peeved that it didn't do a better job

of
cleaning out that rathole called Florida. Now if the storm could've come
straight up thru the Keys, that would have been more entertaining!




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