Re: Media Overhype On Weather/events!!!
Originally posted by manny321
Also once Hurricane Isabel from 2003 was going to hit Carolina it weakened and the Media said the storm will hit Toronto at tropical storm strength. When it came, not Even a tree broke!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm not sure if you knew this, but 50 years (I believe) ago when Hurricane Hazel hit the North Carolina coast at Category 4 strength, a lot more people ended up dying in Toronto a few days later from the tropical storm than in the entire state of North Carolina from the Hurricane.
I remember the mayor of Toronto called in the Army. Why, who cares it took additional days to clean. Its an embarrassment but it won't happen now.
i think the big problem with the blizzard of 1999 was the city of Toronto joined some other town to create a bigger toronto and this caused many management problems. I doubt Khrama dog if it snowed that much again they will call in the army. That was so embarrassing!
I think you answered your own question as to why they called in the army. I don't think it was embarrassing, it was a smart thing to do, probably the only smart thing Mayor Lastman ever did. Toronto is an economic hub of the country, and if it's shut down for days at a time the whole country suffers. The aditional manpower and machinery was needed to get rid of all that snow, and they did a great job. It's not a soldiers sole job to kill, they serve their country anyway they can, and they did a great job.
Yea it is stupid.I hate it when that happens.Lucky my family does not do that.But I know alot of neighbors does it.It is just snow people little white stuff get a life for goodies stake
What the heck are you talking about? And Blizzards are pretty serious stuff. Not to mention it's "for goodness' sake" not "for goodies stake"
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Jackie M's post is too vague to know whether or not she's talking about a blizzard or not, to begin with.
Someone earlier in this thread said they love it when a big storm's on the news. That's true. I do not watch any snowstorm footage, but I will definately devote some time for Hurricanes since I live in one of the Hurricane Alleys. I've learned about 100 times more about hurricanes than I ever did since I moved here. Though they do get blown out of proportion a bit, they are very interesting phenomenons.
Originally posted by Jackie Malfoy
Yea it is stupid.I hate it when that happens.Lucky my family does not do that.But I know alot of neighbors does it.It is just snow people little white stuff get a life for goodies stake! 😠 bewareofsnow
"if it wasnt for my horse, i would have never spent that year in college"
Toronto is an economic hub of the country, and if it's shut down for days at a time the whole country suffers
Toronto is the only city people know outside Canada.
Yes i know hurricane Hazel. There were many news stories about the 50th anniversary. Many died and it reminds us that even in Canada we can get hit by hurricanes.
However a good point is when hurricane Juan hit nova Scotia at cat 2 strength. The weather channel said this was serious!! Were not joking a strong hurricanes will hit Canada. It was quite serious as Canada has not seen a hurricane of cat 2 and higher since god nows when! MAny died and many were left unprepared. We have a false sense here that in Canada we can't get hit by hurricanes or even volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis. Actually we got hit by all of those expect a volcano however during the mount st Helen explosion in 1980, Vancouver and Victoria were hit by ash.