09-23-2005, 10:38 PM
I accept your point though Jay. it's better to be safe. Better to get people out of the city than have them drown.
It was warranted to get people out of the city. No one could have known the storm would have died down. But it's died down. Why is it still getting top billing on the news?
As for, the "lesson learned". Are you kidding? What more could the press do to scare people about natural disasters aside from preemtively predicting which individual citizens were going to die.
Every hurricane or snowstorm, the entire newscast is about how bad it's going to be. How much destruction is going to occur. How everyone and their mother should go and buy buy buy. Buy water, buy batteries, buy canned foods, buy anything you can imagine. It's like whoever does a better job at frightening the public is doing the best job / getting the best ratings.
It was warranted to get people out of the city. No one could have known the storm would have died down. But it's died down. Why is it still getting top billing on the news?
As for, the "lesson learned". Are you kidding? What more could the press do to scare people about natural disasters aside from preemtively predicting which individual citizens were going to die.
Every hurricane or snowstorm, the entire newscast is about how bad it's going to be. How much destruction is going to occur. How everyone and their mother should go and buy buy buy. Buy water, buy batteries, buy canned foods, buy anything you can imagine. It's like whoever does a better job at frightening the public is doing the best job / getting the best ratings.