The News Media loves to scare all those it comes in contact with. I am not ready to label this as the Essence of Evil but I do wish they would ease up a bit.
One of the best examples of their unending desire to make us worry is Hurricane Season. More often than not their scare predictions turn out to be not as bad as predicted.
I am not saying I wish I lived where this latest Storm of the Century has passed but our weathermen were talking about this one as the Storm of the Century when it was a Category 4 (and predicted to be a Category 5) and still calling it the Storm of the Century when it was down to a Category 1.
Weathermen love to make us worry. They can’t help themselves but this one made me go over the edge...
Ø I heard a Talking Reporting Head say on TV that, even though the winds of Florence were down to only 100 mph, this was twice as high as recent hurricanes.
Ø I shouted at her but she did not hear me, “Half of a hundred is 50 mph! 50 mph Is Not A Hurricane! Hurricanes don’t become Hurricanes until they reach 75 mph!” (I shout at TVs a lot.)
This posting is getting near the Bottom Line so I better tell you the Bottom Line I referred to in the Subject of this Blog Posting...
The Mother of All Things to Worry About
This is the first time they have used this new worry and you can bet it won’t be the last because it scared the people in Nebraska...
This Hurricane Was Expected To Dump 10 Trillion Gallons Of Water On The Good Ole USofA!
They can’t know how many Trillion Gallons it will dump! (As I have been known to do in past blogs, I feel obligated to point out that 10 Trillion is 10 Thousand Billion.)
When I heard this 10 Trillion Gallons Prediction I shouted at the TV, “You can’t know that!” but I still worried about this new worry they saddled me with.
I have to admit they got to me. They succeeded in increasing my Worry Factor and weathermen all over the east coast of the Good Ole USofA fell asleep that night with a smile on their collective faces.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
Lagniappe:
I’ve been asked about where I got the 10 Trillion Gallons of Rain Figure I used in this posting. Could that possible mean there are those who think I made this figure up. Oh ye of little faith...
Ø He bets 10 trillion:
http://fortune.com/2018/09/13/hurricane-florence-rain-totals-10-million-gallons/
The storm could dump as much as 10 trillion gallons of rain on North Carolina alone, according to meteorologist Ryan Maue of weathermodels.com. That’s higher than the maximum capacity of Lake Mead, the reservoir that serves water to Arizona, California, and Nevada. (To visualize that, the lake is currently only filled to 38% of its capacity.)
Maue’s prediction is based off of the seven-day rainfall summary from the National Weather Service, factoring in the average and maximum rainfall estimates.
He further notes that the initial estimates from Harvey were much lower than the actual totals. (Harvey ultimately dropped 33 trillion gallons of rain on Southeast Texas and Louisiana.)
Ø He raises himself to 18 trillion: https://www.lmtonline.com/news/science/article/Truly-deep-Florence-to-dump-18-trillion-gallons-13229992.php
Meteorologist Ryan Maue of weathermodels.com calculates that Hurricane Florence is forecast to dump about 18 trillion gallons of rain over a week over the North Carolina, South Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky and Maryland. It doesn't include rain after it dissipates and its remnants circle back to the northeast.
That much rain is 2.4 trillion cubic feet (68 billion cubic meters). It's enough to cover Manhattan with nearly 3,800 feet (1.1 kilometers) of water, more than twice as high as the island's tallest building, One World Trade Center.
Florence's 18 trillion gallons is as much water as there is in the entire Chesapeake Bay. It's also enough to cover the entire state of Texas with nearly 4 inches (10 centimeters) of water.
