August 14, 2004

Irresponsible.

Here's a little bit of hurricane news to chew on sent to me by fellow Floridian blogger Robyn that I missed catching.

John Winter said on
Channel 8 this morning that he and the National Weather Service had a phone
conference at 8 a.m. yesterday morning, starting to notice that Charley
might go ashore where it did instead, but they didn't report it because it
would have been (QUOTE) "irresponsible" by possibly making Tampa Bay
residents think they were in the clear if it didn't go ahead and make that
final turn. I can imagine the Punta Gorda, etc., residents are so happy NOT
to have had the extra 6-8 hours warning that they might be in MASSIVE
danger. Irresponsible my ass -- I think it's irresponsible they got about 2
hours warning in the end because the news station wanted the "4 million
people" story! Tampa Bay residents had already been ordered to be out by 6
a.m. -- two hours before that phone conference.

Nice huh?