Wind and Rain: Denying the Storm of Reality
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But when I came to man’s estate,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
‘Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate,
For the rain it raineth every day.-Shakespeare, Twelfth Night-
Chances are you’ve seen the video of the reporter bracing himself against a wind that doesn’t seem to be blowing on anyone else, but if you haven’t you can see it here, along with The Weather Channel’s explanation:
I was out in the midst of Hurricane Frances in 2004, trying to lasso a large piece of my pool cage that was trying to bash a hole in my roof. It was a cat 4, or perhaps already down to a 3, up where they measure wind strength, but I had no real trouble moving about. Twenty feet over my head, however, the winds were blowing aluminum girders around like pieces of straw.
Winds at ground level are tricky, a hedge or any structure can provide a lot of protection while ten feet away it’s scouring the ground like a leaf blower, but yes, it does look like some Oscar-worthy acting here. My point, however, is that there was, in fact, a hurricane and it did huge damage even if there was a bit of “enhanced” drama. People died, homes were destroyed. The Weather Channel didn’t make the whole thing up for political reasons.
Now If I were the typical Republican strategist I would suggest “fake news” and insist it was just another fine day in Trumpworld where his benevolence shone over the Carolina coast like the warm sun. That’s the technique. That’s what they do. You search for some minute discrepancy. You find some devilish detail and you deny a storm of reality as it blows you out to sea.
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I think they need not send reporters out into the storm to make their point. Florence will not turn out to be the storm of the century, and we thank the storms gods for that. It is definitely a huge storm that will try its best to drown everything it can. It will be costly and inconvenient as hell but enough with this sending people out into the middle of these things to show people how dangerous or bad it is. Just say that the wind is blowing X miles per hour and it raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock. Tell people to get the hell out of there if they want to live and let it go at that. Basically that’s what was happening with the Weather Channel. Trying to stir up more fear so more people would would leave ahead of the storm. I like several of you have been through any number of hurricanes and tornadoes and have learned that when they say the storm is coming and it is dangerous we are better off several hundred miles inland. Only fools want to have a beach party during a hurricane even if it is a category one. I don’t need some reporter standing in the middle of it to show me its bad, I will take their word for it. It is not going to make the storm any better or worse with them standing there.
I’m far far away, enjoying the sunny days – for the time being – which proves of course that there was no storm and the victorious Trump won the election despite 50 million votes from alien life forms and the sun shines out of his arse.
Hope all at MMA are ok! Looked pretty bad on Blighty news. Love n hugs x
Love the Shakespeare!
The Weather Channel’s “explanation” is just bullshit. That is all. Fake news rules 🙂