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Framerguy (8/21/2008)I understand you meteorologists don't get a chance to use your severe storm "lingo" much throughout the year but let's get real about this storm. First of all, there has been little damage and very little power outage from this storm so far. There has been, to my knowledge, no direct deaths attributed to this storm on the continental US. So why are y'all stil using terms like "lambasted", "hammered", "slammed", and "inundated" to describe the progress of Fay??? Just now, the weather guy is talking about the "Fay impact" as it tracks across the Panhandle. What happened to "Hey, we are lucky so far to see Fay stay small and slow, it could have been another hurricane!"?? Or "Well, Fay has stalled out off the coast and is weakening so the chance of extreme damage is more minimal than ever as she moves back inland."
Man, there just HAS to be some positive news to contribute to this storm movement other than the negative disastrous terms that all the weather guys like to throw around! Last night on the Weather Channel, since Fay had absolutely nothing disastrous to contribute, the guys dug up old film footage of early hurricanes which were throwing the reporters around and sliding debris past them at dragster speed!! I mean, c'mon, we have seen this footage so many times already but I guess there is nothing valuable in positive reporting nowadays.
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Not sure if you were watching the Weather Channel tonight but Stephanie Abrahms was reporting from Flagler beach and was leaning way over into the wind and talking about how horrible the conditions were. Out of the right side of the screen, a nice middle age couple was walking down the beach holding hands, up to their knees in the surf. They walked and splashed in the surf behind her like nothing was wrong, all the while Stephanie (not knowing they were behind her) kept leaning over and dramatizing the situation. While nobody should treat these tropical events with malaise, TWC can and usually do go way overboard.