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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
It's like the boy who cried wolf. If we amp everyone up and stim-inject every single storm just to make it as sensational-sounding as possible (to sell more advertising) then sooner or later people just tune it out. That's the danger.
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Agreed. The hype is over the top in most situations.
In this case the storm was significant and newsworthy. I would rather be given a load of hype and make a decision about whether to ignore it or not than be surprised like we were in '78. Nobody around here was ready for that one. People died. I was on a search and rescue crew and found an old guy huddled in the only room of his rural house that wasn't packed with snow. His wood supply was about gone and he would have been dead in a few hours. A guy on another search and rescue crew broke his neck when the tried to drive his snow mobile over a buried fence and didn't make it. It's way better to over-prepare for nothing than to recover from a surprise. It's easy enough to turn the TV off and read a book if the hype bothers you (and yes, it does bother me.)