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omg are you serious? a possible hurricane is on the verge of forming?

everybody, run for the hills!!!!!!!

Apparently people on the local news and weather here in the Houston area are either not from here or they are suffering from morbid fascination because when any disturbance arises in the Atlantic, it is like the news media intensifies the situation and to the point where they have people running from Houston like roaches like when we were threatened by "Rita"... the news media shares a lot of the blame and responsibility for the deaths that came about in that flurry of traffic where people were on the highway simply running for their lives!!! It is almost like the media wants a tragedy to happen resulting from a storm so that they can have a story and possibly gain an award in some egotistical merit... like the stupid guys that stand in a dangerous storm and be blown down by the wind and rain just to prove his/her self worth...its all phony!!! One other thing, most of the news that these so-called Reporters broadcast is simply tittle-tattle and idle talk about aimless malarkey...It is mostly outrageous!!! All we need to know about the weather is if the following days will be rain or shine and when there is a hurricane out in the Atlantic...we don't need any information on it... if its in the Gulf you may want to tell us where it is headed and if it bypasses Houston, then we don't have to worry... just be thankful and that's the end of it!!! Obviously most of those people that ran from from "Rita" were not from Houston either... We have had threats of hurricanes and we have had a very minimal amount of hurricanes in this area over the past 50 years so why does the media go

missbettie: I lost my Pasadena apartment to Alicia. Many of my Deer Park neighbors and Houston friends flooded out in TS Alison. Rita was heading straight toward Galveston before it took a turn and tore up Beaumont/Port Arthur, on its way up into NW Louisiana (exactly where we fled to). I think anytime there is a storm in the Gulf, we have a right to know about it and the media has a duty to give us as much information as possible about it. The media didn't order the Rita evacuations. Ignorance of a storm or preparations is no longer an excuse with the advanced radar systems in place. Certainly any storm that is headed toward the Texas Gulf Coast is news worthy, if nothing else than to see where our tax dollars are going to be sent and to see where the people that will relocated here come from when they lose their homes. I'm not just interested in my city, I'm interested in my state.

And yes, I am a native of the Greater Houston Area. I have relatives in Corpus and I have often vacationed at S. Padre Island and Port Aransas. I fled from a Corpus visit during Allen. I'm interested in what this storm does, and what we can learn from the reaction to it.

To maintain your "me me me and what's important to me" attitude, you might avoid the news for the next few days, lest it melt your eyes or deter your attention from yourself. It kind of looks like you're the only one around here in a panic.