Storm Tracking Is Like Tech Blogging, Only Worse
I am closely monitoring Tropical Storm Fay down here in Florida, mainly because I am scheduled to fly out of Tampa on Wednesday to go to Seattle. I am hoping it doesn’t mess with me, but I am expecting it will - somehow.
But, in tracking the storm, there is some serious echo chamber. My God! All of the weather sites are saying the same thing, but all try to put slightly different twists on it. Some news sources are better than others. Reminds me of tech blogging.
What really gets you, though, is the sensationalist reporting. This storm is not going to be a catastrophe. Far from it, in fact. Sure, it’ll be annoying. But, to watch the news, all everybody is doing is worrying and expecting the end of Tampa civilization.
And it makes people stick to it like glue - watching, waiting, hoping. No doubt the intention.
It is very weird. If I were not traveling this week, I wouldn’t care about this thing. But, because I do have to watch in order to determine my travel schedule, I am subject to the sensationalism and I find myself beginning to worry more, get more confused about what will happen, etc.
I back off and realize this is the intention of these clowns.
Reminds me of a time I was driving across the Causeway between Tampa and Clearwater. There was a storm around us, but the weather wasn’t bad. On the side of the road, there was a news van. And, wading in the water, was a reporter and his cameraman. So, here we were, driving down the road completely normally, and whoever was watching this guy on TV would have been under the impression that the weather was serious because this clown was sitting in the water trying to look particularly wet for the camera.
So bottom line: yeah, there’s a storm coming. It’ll annoy us. It has a higher likelihood of annoying me because I have to travel. Aside from that, this is more of a media storm than it is a real storm.
I may end up leaving a day early. I’ll be monitoring flight schedules.
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Comments
The sickening thing is that most of the world’s population are so gullible that they believe the TV media word-for-word; like some kind of fundamentalist religious movement.
One day someone comes up with the theory of “global warming” and the press have a field-day with it. Whilst it’s true that there is some form of climactic change occurring, the truth is that we have no idea whether or not it’s a natural occurrence.
If I were a conspiracy theorist I’d say that the powers that be were trying to subdue the population by means of fear of the unknown.
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