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goldensrbest — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 19:59:07 GMT

I wish chris ,would go inside.

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SeaMaiden — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:00:21 GMT

@goldensrbest wrote:
I wish chris ,would go inside.

@goldensrbest ITA! How stupid!

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qualitygal — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:06:59 GMT

Is this the news/weather people out in this storm? I don't watch CNN, so I'm just guessing, but I agree, why would you take a chance on debris hurting your people who report. We understand storms, winds, rain. Why take a chance on them being hurt or injured? I don't get that from any of the news people, including the weather channel.

@SeaMaiden, l just had to enlarge your avitar, and show it to my husband, since it made me laugh to see it.

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FrostyBabe1 — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:10:51 GMT

Ratings. It's all about ratings. Gotta have the biggest, baddest, most extensive coverage in order to keep people watching. They ALL acted like they were disappointed when the storm track moved west and took Miami out the mix for a direct hit.

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Cakers3 — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:11:28 GMT

I'm not watching CNN either.

Watching the Weather Channel and you can barely hear what some of them are saying.

One had to keep bending over to center his body gravity as the winds pummeled him.

I realize as meteorogists they must look at this with a different perspective but geeze Louise already.

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Lucky Charm — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:11:28 GMT

oh no! HE'S GONE!

Oh, wait, he's back.

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nomless — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:12:12 GMT

All the cable news networks have people outside in the wind and rain doing life reports.

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goldensrbest — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:15:31 GMT

I so like chis .

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Bri36 — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:16:50 GMT

They've been telling people for days to evacuate, don't risk your life, get out now - while they're standing there in the middle of it all.

Boggles my mind...

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tansy — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:18:00 GMT

I feel so sorry for their mothers:/

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dooBdoo — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 22:44:06 GMT

nomless wrote:
All the cable news networks have people outside in the wind and rain doing life reports.

Exactly, @nomless. They all do it, it's not exclusive one particular network. As far as ratings, I don't understand the need to scoff at that -- a network can't stay on the air without ratings.

The benefit I can think of, to the public, is that we can get a better perspective of the actual effect of the wind, etc. I think often we're so removed from actual events that the distance as a buffer can cause us to not comprehend the power, magnitude, and devestating conditions of a storm. Of course, the only way we really can know is to be there, ourselves, and I doubt many of us want to volunteer for that.

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Bri36 — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:21:37 GMT

Poor Naples and Marco Island.

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sueinsf — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:24:18 GMT

Networks report from war zones -- they are used to being in dangerous situations and know when to get out. If you've listened to their reporting they have said that they've moved locations to be in a safer spot, or they get out of an area when the camera goes to another reporter.

It's their job to report the news and they are also trying to report to people in the path of Irma so they have updated info as well.

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goldensrbest — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:25:08 GMT

In just a second,something can hit them.

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dooBdoo — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:27:13 GMT

sueinsf wrote:
Networks report from war zones -- they are used to being in dangerous situations and know when to get out. If you've listened to their reporting they have said that they've moved locations to be in a safer spot, or they get out of an area when the camera goes to another reporter.

It's their job to report the news and they are also trying to report to people in the path of Irma so they have updated info as well.

Great post, @sueinsf.

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Bri36 — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:28:12 GMT

They should at least have some sort of protection for their head. Roof tiles are flying off...

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SilleeMee — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:29:04 GMT

I had my sights set on being a meteorologist, studied it in college...the whole nine yards. What made me change my mind was what I was seeing on TV with those weather people in the storms.

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GSPgirl — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:30:28 GMT

I wish he would be fired. I have never liked him.

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Justice4all — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:32:37 GMT

I remember going out on the balcony of our hotel in Miami Beach during the calm of the eye of Katrina...when I went in and closed the door, the window blew out. I didn't know but the change in pressure caused it. All the French tourists fled and booked flights home. The hotel had absolutely no preparations, so we propped a mattress against the window. And it was only a catagory 1 before it intensified in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Lucky Charm — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:34:42 GMT

@goldensrbest wrote:
In just a second,something can hit them.

Needs repeating.