The banality of hurricane watching:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Tsk Tsk Tsking the National Hurricane Center when their 8 am advisory is late.

[jpak]

1. The latest European Model looks bad for FL, GA. SC and NC - and maybe NYC

It makes landfall just south the Palm Beach.

Runs up the middle of the FL Peninsula.

Goes back out to sea near JAX - and hugs the coastline from GA- NC

Last day in the forecast puts it just south of NYC.

[lark]

3. Hate that forecast, way too close for comfort.

The American model has it exiting FL around Tampa, which is also bad because of the huge # of people that live there, plus very elderly and inform family members live around Sarasota - which is very close to Tampa. Of course, Jax is pretty populous as well, but at least we have a history of storms jogging aside and missing us, one way or another.

I will be going to the grocery store to get water and batteries today, just in case.

[lark]

2. I just hate the way they overhype these.

Just tell the news and tell it as accurately as humanly possible. All the breathless oh woe is me is BS for a lot of it - save it for when it's real. Living in FL, even in the very lucky NE, we have to live with these things and need real information, not overplayed mania. Praying the path shifts so it doesn't go over the very popular Tampa area. I have some very elderly relatives who live just south of there and one of them lives in a trailer. I will be calling my aunt who can still hear and beg her to go stay with one of her grandchildren and to make sure Uncle Calvin, who can't hear, is ok.

Praying this storm takes a path that does the least destruction possible.

[empedocles]

4. Yes. Or at least have MSNBC not continuously duplicate the hurricane thing