Seeing all the CNN personalities (not even. Meteorologists—like freaking Anderson Cooper) standing in the hurricane last night just annoyed the hell out of me. They spent the whole day yesterday telling people to get out, it’s not worth your life, etc. Then you have these knuckleheads agreeing to just be standing out there, exposed and flexing the whole idiotic man vs. nature thing.
@LnzyHou yeah they might but I would bet not so much the poor camera person.
I'm imagining a new Youtube channel where they track and report the movement of the storm chasers to predict when something is going to happen. They could even plot them on a map.
One day when the weather channels were talking about the kind of storms that could be arriving in a certain state, I noticed that the storm chasers were nowhere near the area so I had a feeling it wasn't going to be all that severe.
This is one area where we don't have enough data going backward to establish a good 100 year level. There are some who say there's still time to leave when there are less than 3.5 storm chasers per square mile but you should get to shelter at 5.7. Does it really scale that way? I don't know.
Good news this morning as the storm chaser index has eased significantly .
@MotherDucker Happens with every Storm. And no matter how many of them are washed out to sea or sucked up into the sky there are always plenty more eager to take their places.
@MotherDucker I agree, It seems so stupid to have news folks putting themselves in mortal danger to cover WEATHER. Even in severe weather, it's not worth your life! We can all appreciate its severity without seeing Anderson Cooper standing in it and getting hit by debris.
Was Martha Radditz out there wearing her helmet? That's when you know $#!t is getting serious.
@MotherDucker That has always annoyed me.
@MotherDucker We have long moved past the days of some shots captured by equally intrepid photographers for newspapers the next day.
Apart from the dedicated weather channel, most stations would not have enough met people on staff to cover the various points, so they mount a standard outside broadcast team --- and though it might not look like it to you, believe me, a broadcast production team covering any type of dangerous event has scoped out the venue to determine the safest points.
I’m sorry, was CNN not even remotely concerned that their main dude might get impaled by a signpost, eaten by a gator, or swept away in flood waters?