What is it with news outlets and tropical storms this year? On the front page of CNN.com right now the headline article is:
New Orleans keeps wary eye on Gustav
Seriously? Then they go on to say:
Tropical Storm Gustav could hit New Orleans area by weekend -- or nowhere near
So they kind of contradict themselves in the same article. Its the same thing with Fay. I remember an article about it last week that in big letters said:
Deadly Storm: Fay could strengthen to a Hurricane 1 status before landfal
Ooooh it could strength to a Cat 1 storm, batten down the hatches! It was a monster thunderstorm. Whoopy do (no offense to those who were affected by it, just using it as a point) It's not as if it was a category 5 storm, it was a friggin' Tropical Storm. It didn't destroy Flordia, as some media outlets in inadvertently suggested. It was a nasty storm, yes, but not the mankind killer it was made out to be.
Pretty soon you'll see headlines like:
Cloudy skies could signal deadly hurricane on the horizon
Speakin of which the sun just went behind the clouds, I should go board up my windows!
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