After the airports have reopened, how long will the media talk about Irene?

[RB TexLa]

[Bluebear]

1. Maybe until all the funerals are done

[Logical]

2. Nope. After Joplin had 150 die still 1/1000 of the coverage of the hurricane.

[frazzled]

3. You know, if you don't watch it, it's over now

I don't understand all these complaints.

Were people glued to their TVs all weekend? I was not in the path of the hurricane, but I have scores of family, friends, and colleagues who were, from South Carolina to Maine. I tuned in for a short bit Friday to get a sense of what was being predicted. I tuned in every four or five hours on Saturday for maybe 20-30 minutes to get updates. I watched a bit this morning to see what happened in NYC. At no time did I feel anything was being hyped. From the beginning I heard provisos and scientific explanations and at no point did I ever hear categorical doomsday scenarios. If I had, believe me, I would have watched more. As it was, I felt fairly confident from the reporting that while there might be some potentially bad surges and flooding, that most of my friends were probably going to be okay.

If this bothered you, it was because you had nothing better apparently to do and were obsessed with watching the coverage. Go read a book or stream a movie. The coverage was interesting if you only watched a bit, and it was necessary. Stop with the comparisons to other disasters. There was tons of coverage of Joplin--not beforehand, because it was a tornado is not predictable like a hurricane. But there were days worth after. Just stop.

[BeFree]

4. Why would anyone unrec this?

I know why, because the OP is just hype.