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kpete

(71,963 posts) Sat Sep 12, 2020, 09:50 AM Sep 2020

We don't downplay the danger of a Hurricane to avoid a panic - We tell people so they can prepare

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We don't downplay the danger of a Hurricane to avoid a panic - We tell people so they can prepare (Original Post) kpete Sep 2020 OP

Yep... spanone Sep 2020 #1

Exactly. I've joked that the "Fox Weather Channel"... Buckeye_Democrat Sep 2020 #2

Cold As It Gets, Sir The Magistrate Sep 2020 #3

spanone

(135,792 posts)

1. Yep...

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sat Sep 12, 2020, 09:51 AM

Sep 2020

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,852 posts)

2. Exactly. I've joked that the "Fox Weather Channel"...

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sat Sep 12, 2020, 10:10 AM

Sep 2020

... if it existed, would regularly tell viewers that the "liberal meteorologists" were overblowing reports of potential disasters.

Especially if Republican politicians made similar proclamations.

The Magistrate

(95,243 posts)

3. Cold As It Gets, Sir

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sat Sep 12, 2020, 11:23 AM

Sep 2020

That is the best conceivable way to put it.

Kudos to the Lady!

"That's the stuff to give the Hun!"

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