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Re: Michael
I dug into it a bit since reading/replying to your earlier post. It appears there are several caveats which are attached to the hyperbole. First on that list is Panhandle, but then they narrow it down by adding "Big Bend" area of Florida's panhandle.
So, yeah. What exactly are they meaning? Is it the biggest hurricane ever to hit Panama City? That's probably true. And, that is a big deal because a lot of people live there now. But, it does take away from the headline screaming, "Unprecedented!"
Hyperbole abounds, it is a bad hurricane on the Gulf Coast, it has happened in the past and will happen in the future.
The danger is in the media using phrases like "unprecedented", "historic", "never before in recorded history",
with every storm, because that is what makes people think the really bad one will not be bad enough to leave.
This will be a bad storm weather they hype it or not, what we need is for the media to be consistent about storm levels,
and not hype any tropical storm, like it was a real cat 4 or 5.
The Galveston City manager got a lot of people to leave by passing out sharpie pens with instructions,
that if you stay write your name, SSN and emergency contacts on you upper arm and upper leg,
one or the other were likely to remain attached well enough to identify your body!
I dug into it a bit since reading/replying to your earlier post. It appears there are several caveats which are attached to the hyperbole. First on that list is Panhandle, but then they narrow it down by adding "Big Bend" area of Florida's panhandle.
So, yeah. What exactly are they meaning? Is it the biggest hurricane ever to hit Panama City? That's probably true. And, that is a big deal because a lot of people live there now. But, it does take away from the headline screaming, "Unprecedented!"