Hurricane Helene / Milton
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Does appear to have been a little bit of overhype/hyperbole , the dramatic weather presenters showing cgi of them stood under 15" of water, the if you stay you WILL die, write your names with marker on your limbs etcMaybe the storm surge was around 5"...
Maybe?Seriously all that talk of up to 15" just didn't happen. I was watching all the live footage last night and even then it didn't look as bad as what was expected.
Caporegime
Maybe the storm surge was around 5"...
Maybe?
That's normal. If this stuff was an exact science and they could determine exactly what was going to happen then it would be a lot easier to deal with.
It's much better to overestimate it and get as many people out as possible than to underestimate it and have people hang around thinking they'll be fine.
3-5ft of water is still enough for some people and animals to drown, so if millions had stayed behind there would have been quite a few more deaths.
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Talking of all of that, big shout out to that Max Velocity guy, never seen him before but watched hours of him last night and huge kudos to him for keeping levelheaded and grounded throughout, he stuck pretty much to the facts and realities of it, a lot of his predictions of when and wheres and to what degree, appeared to prove true as well. Certainly seems to know his stuff and doesnt get carried away.
Seems the tornado produced from this Hurricane before it come to land caused a lot more damage and some deaths.
Still there will be some flooding in parts of Florida and wind gusts from Hurricane have caused windows to blow out on office buildings etc and a stadium roof ripped away.
LT Dan is alive!
Soldato
Uk Storm 1987 was better than this one
Soldato
If the forecast is repeatedly over hyped, would this not cause a boy who cried wolf scenario when the big one hits?
Id rather be given their most accurate honest estimation, to enable me to make an; informed decision.
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They are damned if they do, damned if they don't
I'd still say they are better being cautious though. If it was 15 foot storm surges and people hadn't been told to evacuate you would end up with tens of thousands dead.
Remember there is an election next month as well so the Government can't afford to get things wrong.
I'd still say they are better being cautious though. If it was 15 foot storm surges and people hadn't been told to evacuate you would end up with tens of thousands dead.
Remember there is an election next month as well so the Government can't afford to get things wrong.
Man of Honour
Did we get any update on the house that was literally strapped down?
Caporegime
That is the most accurate and honest estimation; the informed decision is prepare for the worst. Preparing for 10ft surge and get 5ft you are safe. Prepare for 5ft and you get 6ft you are now flooded.
Thats like the basics or preparing for an emergency, you don’t prepare for “just enough” since these things are never like how you predict, if we know exactly to the mm how much rain or wind it’s going to be, we would know exactly which house and street can stay home.
Soldato
Some people should be nowhere near positions of responsibility with the old "over hyped", almost dissappointed attitude.
Soldato
reminds me of this 
He was making a rather big deal of a couple of feet of storm surge for quite awhile, but aside from that seemed to be pretty much just grounded reporting of the data.
This patch of hurricane activity seems to have been a bit iffy with both Milton and Kirk showing significant intensifying and/or re-intensifying then turning into something much more tame and another quite potent one looked like forming out of a similar area as Kirk/Leslie then just disappeared (not sure if data error or just noise from those).