Hurricane Fay with the iphone, but no power

[Rodimus Prime]

It may have been overhyped but in these cases, I'll take over vs. under. Especially since it's been a few years since anything major has hit. Getting the word out and getting people alerted across the state was a good fire drill, if anything.

I say over hyped is worse than under hyped.

Case and point is when Rita hit a few years ago. They ordered the evacuations of the south Houston area which was an understandable mess that they underestamated how bad traffic was going to be. I do not blame them they had a system in place that on paper looked like a great working system. Just when it was tested it showed its problems. They learned from that and did somethings to adjust for it like turning all inbound lanes of the majors freeways to out bound, putting fuel trucks along the road. Requiring all gas stations to remain about X% fuel during hurrican season.

But the overhyped part of it is going to make gettting people to leave when the big one hits just going to make them not want to do it and not believe it.

Trust me this is so badly overhype it not worth believe anything any more. Anything LESS THAN a cat 3 hurricane is just a big thunderstorm and bring MINOR flooding. It is not anything major. It is not worth anything more than a small blip on the news for tracking info.

 

[furcalchick]

here are some photos of fey from tuesday. btw, the water has receded from this location since it was taken.

 

[syclonefx]

Fay stuck around for 2 long. It wasn't bad in Daytona, we got the winds and the rain. It didn't flood and not much damage here. But having the iPhone was nice durning the power outages.

 

[SDLSteve]

I'm glad my iphone is impervious to hurricane fay power outages.