OK, Florida Folks, get ready...HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!

[Miriam C.]

even with all of the "modern" forecasting equipment of today its still hard to predict where its gonna hit.
Who remembers the old maps that the TV guys used to use? Big magnetic boards with big letters like "L" and "H" that they used to stick on there?
They didnt have "super duper doppler 9 hundred thousand million" like they do now or many satellites from which to gather images.
How did they ever predict where the hurricane would hit back then?

They would send out the "Rocket Jocky's" who would fly in and ask it where it was going.

[Woody]

Weather forecasting technology has advanced to the point that even stupid people now have a chance to survive even down here. Every year there is some rocket scientist that decides during the height of the storm that it is a good idea to have a fight with his spouse and spend the night in his car. Usaully parked very carefully under a giant ficus or banyan tree. Yep you guessed it it falls on the car and kills the poor sap DOH. Or the ever present trailer park guy who states that he is not leaving (of course you never hear from him again DOH) They never seem to find him or his trailer for the follow up interview after the storm. Or even funnier the news crews out in the weather. Just how much do you have to massage your own ego to be on camera and get slapped by debris and blasted by rain and God knows what else. Yet have a make-up guy standing by so you look good doing it. I laugh my butt off watching TV retards trying not to blow away and dodge shards of metal and patio furniture and the ever so present palm frond whisking by at 100 mph. Yes the Gods have a rye sense of humor, yes they do

[surveytech]

love seeing Jim Cantore and the rest strapped to a tree. And there they are telling us its really windy and raining alot. DOH!

[asianflava]

love seeing Jim Cantore and the rest strapped to a tree. And there they are telling us its really windy and raining alot. DOH!

Meanwhile the cameraman is shielded by a building or the van. Hmmm. who is the dumb one here?

[cracker39]

Or, how about the ones that ham it up for effect. Last year, we were watching a weather reporter, apparently having a hard time just standing up against the ferocious wind, when just behind him, a technician walked past normally, having no problem at all with the wind. That guy must not have had any newsworthy wind at the moment and was trying to make it seem like he was in danger of being blown away. The tech blew his cover story.

[asianflava]

You mean the reporter who was dramatizing the floods in the NE. The flooding was so bad that she doing her report from a canoe. Then you see 2 guys walk by and the water is only ankle deep.

[cracker39]

Yeah, I started to mention that one too. I didn't see it, but my wife did and told me about it. It must have been hilarious.

[Joseph]

At this point it kinda looks like y'all have dodged the bullet...

Joseph

[surveytech]

We will get some wind for sure and a bunch of rain.

[Jiminsav]

we need some rain around here..let it pour.

[surveytech]

we need some rain around here..let it pour.

Yeah same here but dont really want it all in 8 hours.

[cracker39]

we need some rain around here..let it pour.

Yeah same here but dont really want it all in 8 hours.

Right on to that. I need it soaked into my lawn, not running down the street, where 95% of it will end up. At least it will run into the lakes around here, keeping their levels up. We have over 560 lakes in the county, with at least 50 of them inside the city limits of Winter Haven. That's one reason we have little fear of flooding...lots of lakes to hold the water runoff.

[mikeschn]

I found this interesting animation of how Hurricanes cause damage...

http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interacti ... TE=DEFAULT

Mike...