PSA: severe weather forecasted for Monday 8/7

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A problem is that now everything now is THE WORST EVER. News media/Weather Channel hypes everything wall to wall, and if everything is the worst, than nothing is, and they won't be taken seriously.

This. Its crying wolf.

The storm had the potential to cause serious problems and people reacted with safety in mind and you can't wait to come in and criticize because you are so special you can see in to the future and now exactly what a storm is going to be like.

Go away azzhat.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not mad at the weather service for advising people to get home and use caution. I'm not mad that my kid's activities were cancelled either. Better safe than sorry.

But I can still complain that this storm stressed me out enormously and totally upended my life and then turned out to be truly nothing at all. Didn't even blow the deck chairs around a little, no downed wires in my neighborhood, nothing. I just hate that I spent all afternoon yesterday feeling so incredibly stressed trying to figure out camp pick up and re-arranging dinner plans and making sure the house was ready for a storm. I have a stress hangover this morning for no reason!

It did NOT upend your life, get a grip. A cancer diagnosis upends your life. A bad car accident. Not a weather alert for a storm that wasn’t as bad as it could’ve been.

Yes, pp should be embarrassed by how ridiculous she is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A problem is that now everything now is THE WORST EVER. News media/Weather Channel hypes everything wall to wall, and if everything is the worst, than nothing is, and they won't be taken seriously.

This. Its crying wolf.

This, exactly. I don’t take any of the weather alerts seriously because it is always like this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe OPM shut down the government at 3pm for that. Well, no I can believe it.

Ok, well, my neighbor had her house cut in half by a tree a week ago. I’m going to continue to take precautions when 70 mph winds come through.

Are you going into every single weather post to post this? Yes, we know about the house in Arlington that was cut in half last week. Give it a rest. This was nothing near that. Go find some more houses to take pictures of and submit to Arlnow. Oh wait, there aren't any.

This is the first time I’ve posted this and I live in Kensington.

I know exactly who this is and they will not stop talking about this house in Kensington. Trees fall in extreme storms and non extreme storms. We have a lot of trees in this area. Sometimes the ground gets very, very wet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A problem is that now everything now is THE WORST EVER. News media/Weather Channel hypes everything wall to wall, and if everything is the worst, than nothing is, and they won't be taken seriously.

This. Its crying wolf.

Right on cue, CWG with their “it’s not our fault, really” duck and cover:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/08/08/dc-area-storm-damage-power-outages/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A problem is that now everything now is THE WORST EVER. News media/Weather Channel hypes everything wall to wall, and if everything is the worst, than nothing is, and they won't be taken seriously.

This. Its crying wolf.

Right on cue, CWG with their “it’s not our fault, really” duck and cover:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/08/08/dc-area-storm-damage-power-outages/

You're insufferable. Mean go a few miles north and there entire streets of power lines down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A problem is that now everything now is THE WORST EVER. News media/Weather Channel hypes everything wall to wall, and if everything is the worst, than nothing is, and they won't be taken seriously.

This. Its crying wolf.

The storm had the potential to cause serious problems and people reacted with safety in mind and you can't wait to come in and criticize because you are so special you can see in to the future and now exactly what a storm is going to be like.

Go away azzhat.

+100. The entitlement is off the charts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A problem is that now everything now is THE WORST EVER. News media/Weather Channel hypes everything wall to wall, and if everything is the worst, than nothing is, and they won't be taken seriously.

This. Its crying wolf.

Right on cue, CWG with their “it’s not our fault, really” duck and cover:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/08/08/dc-area-storm-damage-power-outages/

It's not their fault, though, the National Weather Service issued a ton of alarming warnings. You want to argue that the local weather journalists should ignore official government forecasts that say the conditions are riper than usual for a tornado, go ahead, but I bet you'd be pretty upset in the future if a line of storms comes through that does spawn tornadoes and the Post decided they better not write about it in case the storms aren't as bad as they could have been.