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Originally posted by HypnoAsp
I'm confused. This is just too surreal. I live in Riverside in Jacksonville. The eye wall has almost reached me. It has barely rained at all and we have had only a few gusts of wind. It is right on top of us. The people on the news are freaking out. The live footage of the reporters shows nothing at all happening, yet they are using verbaige to the contrary even though they are live and we are looking right at them. Not even as impessive as a regular thunder storm. NOTHING TO SEE HERE. Wth is going on? ~Hyp
Originally posted by nightstalker78
But really it doesn't surprise me since the storm didn't really look all that organized.I don't see what the big deal is anyway,it's a tropical storm,not a hurricane.It really isn't all that strange.
Originally posted by xstealth
Originally posted by nightstalker78
But really it doesn't surprise me since the storm didn't really look all that organized.I don't see what the big deal is anyway,it's a tropical storm,not a hurricane.It really isn't all that strange.
it strengthened considerably today very quickly, it started developing an inner wall as it hit land. We were maybe 1-2 hours away from it being a catagory 1. It was 992 millibars and very symmetrical.
The storm was as close as you can possibly get to a hurricane, without technically being one.edit on 28/5/12 by xstealth because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by defcon5
The following is my opinion as a member participating in this discussion.
The year we had the four in rapid succession there was a lot of discussion about this. The news over reported the first one, which did nothing, then under reported the next one, and so on. After the last one did significant damage down in Sarasota, I believe that the general consensus was it was better to over report them, and have people be prepared, rather then the alternative.As an ATS Staff Member, I will not moderate in threads such as this where I have participated as a member.