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The final results of Hurricane Earl, a lot of media hype and some winds in a few places, but a whole lot of nothing.

YmoBeThere wrote:The final results of Hurricane Earl, a lot of media hype and some winds in a few places, but a whole lot of nothing.

Sounds like an evaluation of most media treatment of any event.

In the media's defense, if not for that front that came through and pushed Earl back out to sea, we probably would have seen a more dramatic impact.

The Maritimes got hit. Not as badly as they expected as I think it had been downgraded to a Tropical Storm by the time it hit there (although one newspaper said the difference in wind speed between that and a hurricane was only eight miles per hour or something like that) but Nova Scotia still got hit. As far as I know, a lot of people there are still without power after the storm.


ETA: The story linked below still calls it a hurricane so maybe it wasn't downgraded when it made landfall (winds of 130kmh). This story is from yesterday so I am not sure how many of the people there are still without power as I haven't seen anything about it today.


http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/arti ... arl-s-wake

YmoBeThere wrote:The final results of Hurricane Earl, a lot of media hype and some winds in a few places, but a whole lot of nothing.

Well, we always knew that Earl(Jam) was full of hot air. ;)

All blow, no go.

DukeUsul wrote:In the media's defense, if not for that front that came through and pushed Earl back out to sea, we probably would have seen a more dramatic impact.

Exactly; remember that it was a Cat 4 storm on Thursday morning. It was just a lucky confluence of events that caused it be mostly nothing.