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• A WestCoast professional weatherman's perspective on Irene
  • WX
    • The west coast storms are in no way micro storms....
      • I guess another difference is predicability...
      • Wx and Tv
        • I'd pay good money for some sort of Tivo-style device that would only mute the word "impact"
  • I agree the coverage was pretty overblown...
    • Hinckley yard must be full
    • Overblown?
      • I agree with Steve that it's perspective that counts.
      • Ask the people in Vermont
        • on top of killington mt in vt...
      • I'm thinking it's the low ground and all the houses, etc. on it that makes the east coast vulnerable.
        • I think Irene did more damage soundside and inland than on the Outer Banks
      • Did you actually read my post?
        • Yes, I read your post, but...
          • We have two channels with the national news...
    • Television coverage of any event is driven by product and ratings
  • Saturday evening & Sunday was my concern
    • But up until the point that the system went from Cat 1 to TS...
      • Exactly!
      • C'mon guys - respond to what I write!
        • With regard to TWC and some of their sensationalization.
        • You're dreaming...
          • I clearly said I was not talking about NC
    • I don't know, Irene was still a bit more than "just a rain storm" when it made a second landfall here in NJ...
      • Well...Jon
        • Where are the building codes.
          • Think!!!
          • Developers own the Local Governements
            • Quit subsidizing flood insurance.
          • I wouldn't worry too much about your having to foot the bill for my neighborhood...
            • One of the more devastated areas in Vermont was on top of Killington Mountain.
              • Red X.....would really like to see that pic
                • That was an old one that won't go away Tom. Very bad situation in VT. Even know some that lost their lives.
        • West Coast vs. East Coast
          • Pacific Pacific
  • it's only a matter of time until we have hurricane names sponsored such as the "Lowe's Hurricane Irene"...
    • Are you sure
      • hey Jim, as I'm the one making this up, I decide the way it works and it doesn't work that way.
    • It's gotta be comin'!