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Valley Protector [1494]
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A word about how outlets cover hurricanes and rainy days.
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Sep 26, 2024, 12:50 PM
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It's incumbent upon journalists to, wherever possible, share all sides of a story, because topics are often multi-faceted and nuanced.
This extends to the weather. Specifically, urban flooding.
The elephant in the room is: Can flooding be caused by historic, climate-change related deluges? Yes. But can it be the result of over-development? Also yes.
To simply set up next to a flooded crick or street and go live with the spectacle is to sensationalize the event.
When it rains a lot in the country, it frikkin' floods fields. This was true 100 years ago.
When it rains a lot in over-developoed areas like Asheville, it frikkin' floods cricks and rivers and roads because tile roofs and vast concrete parking lots don't absorb water, they shed water. And under-sized holding ponds don't always solve the problem. This is a newer phenomenon.
It's important for responsible journalists, producers and editors, to remember such things, and maybe even mention them from time to time.
Thank you for reading this far.
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Orange Beast [6374]
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Re: A word about how outlets cover hurricanes and rainy days.
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Sep 26, 2024, 2:09 PM
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I don't want this thread to turn into a political climate change debate one way or the other. I will add, when the country was more agrarian farms had proper storm cellars. Now we have way too many trailers in Tornado Alley. We've also allowed development in areas where flood waters could go without flooding homes and businesses. .
Offering prayers to all those affected.
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Valley Protector [1494]
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It's precisely *because of the politicalization of the topic
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Sep 26, 2024, 2:10 PM
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that I made the poast. Journalists should be held to a higher standard. I know I was when I was one. And I covered a lot of weather events.
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All-Pro [739]
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Re: It's precisely *because of the politicalization of the topic
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Sep 26, 2024, 2:41 PM
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But hasn't that always been the journalist standard? "If it bleeds, it leads". House fires and car wrecks go first.
They'd get a different reaction if they set-up next to a golf course community showing how the ponds at the golf course had overflowed.
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Valley Protector [1494]
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No that's what folks *think the standard is/was.
Sep 26, 2024, 4:27 PM
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Was never the standard in my newsrooms.
Mostly it's the result of having to produce wall-to-wall coverage of every storm that comes spinning up from the Gulf. Every puddle, every flooded river, every flooded street ... is a possible *calamity.
And it's a lousy way to do business. But it sells ads.
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Clemson Sports Icon [52002]
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standards
Sep 26, 2024, 4:33 PM
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News rooms and folks calling themselves experts at anything on the web must constantly produce material in order to get paid.
For example I am an expert at all things football, but having to post everyday as to my expertise would soon reveal me the idiot I am.
These days there are no "standards" in news, there never was.
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Clemson Sports Icon [58528]
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Re: A word about how outlets cover hurricanes and rainy days.
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Sep 26, 2024, 2:10 PM
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Speaking of rain, since this morning I've already had to go out twice and pump water out of my pool to the lowest point of the skimmer level. Where I live right outside of cootlumbia, it has rained a river...
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Valley Protector [1494]
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Pools. So much work.
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Sep 26, 2024, 2:11 PM
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Raining steady up here in Simpsonville but not particularly hard.
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Gridiron Giant [15251]
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Re: A word about how outlets cover hurricanes and rainy days.
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Sep 26, 2024, 2:11 PM
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Well said and the perfect city to use as an example. Way to much greed in Asheville and Buncombe County.
GO TIGERS!!!
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All-TigerNet [5709]
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Re: A word about how outlets cover hurricanes and rainy days.
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Sep 26, 2024, 2:56 PM
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When we moved to Houston back in the 1970's we were shocked at how often it flooded. Especially when it was at high tide, the bayous filled up and everything else is concrete for miles and miles and it holds water. I have pictures of my 2 sons in a boat in our street during one of the storms. It becomes a way of life down there.
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Valley Protector [1494]
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My cousins lived out in Missouri City.
Sep 26, 2024, 4:30 PM
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When it rained, it flooded. And when it flooded, mosquitoes grew into great pestilential clouds. Then the fogger trucks would roll down the streets. That was in the 70s.
Nothing new under the sun, except there are just a lot more houses/streets that shed alot more water than they used to.
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Clemson Sports Icon [52002]
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elephant in the room
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Sep 26, 2024, 3:37 PM
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Media loves a good storm and will pretend a little storm might be big -- to get clicks.
For some reason folks love to click on extreme weather possibilities, so media serves that up for us.
Politicians are quick to jump on the bandwagon to show us they care.
This storm today is kinda needed in the Upstate, or at least some rain.
I have gotten way less rain than predicted, but more than enough.
I know some will be flooded and some (maybe me) will be without power before this night is over.
It is the way of Nature.
It is also the way of man as we pave over ground and don't plan for rain run off.
Living out in the sticks, no chance of flooding at my place.
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Valley Protector [1494]
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My yard's benefitting greatly.
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Sep 26, 2024, 4:35 PM
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I can't afford nor would I pay for it if I could a fancy irrigation system. I depend on the Lord for a green/lush lawn.
I can't say I can disprove climate change in such a way that a climatologist would find credible.
I can only say that 40 years ago Dan Rather was airing stories about how a quarter of Florida -- including the Keys -- would be under water in few years because of Greenhouse gases making it so hot that it'd melt icebergs that would make the oceans overflow.
Well, I'm flying to Key West on Sunday and last I checked, it's still there. This leads me to conclude that science may itself be under the authority of another power.
BTW, I gave the "win" certificate in addition to the TU because you recently posted Charlie Rich's "Rollin' with the Flow" which is one of the great Countrypolitan songs of all time IMO. (I couldn't find the post later.)
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Clemson Sports Icon [52002]
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Re: My yard's benefitting greatly.
Sep 26, 2024, 4:59 PM
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Irrigation for my yard is the Tugaloo River.
Lake Hartwell is down right now, this storm should raise it, but the outdated government plan is to draw it down in Fall and let it fill in Spring.
I don't have a lawn. To the dismay of my neighbors prefer a more natural look.
Climate change is not bunk,
It has been constantly changing for millions of years.
I always repay one who gives me a coin.
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