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Hurricane Melissa

TornadoFan said:
Wow, whoever wrote this editorial needs to be sacked. And I mean like now. "Overhyped?" If they've seen the pictures of the damage from Jamaica, they wouldn't be singing this tune.
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This is unfathomably stupid. Imagine telling people who just went through the absolute worst of this storm to their face that it was "overhyped." Such an insensitive and idiotic thing to say. How is this even on Twitter? Not only is there objective scientific evidence to display the power of this storm, there's also extreme instances of damage and many people have died and/or are missing as of right now. But now that this damaging piece of garbage is on news, people are going to read the headline and run with it - not only do I feel bad for the people of Jamaica, I also feel bad for the meteorologists who are routinely told by the uninformed about how unnecessary this type of job is because the storms are apparently embellished. Yeah, sure - if these people are willing to say extremely dumb stuff like this, I'd like to see how they do in the eyewall of a category 5 tropical cyclone.

This strikes a chord in particular with me because I am used to people not caring unless something happens to them, so it's always embellished if it doesn't. It drives me up a wall.
 
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TornadoFan said:
Wow, whoever wrote this editorial needs to be sacked. And I mean like now. "Overhyped?" If they've seen the pictures of the damage from Jamaica, they wouldn't be singing this tune.
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How in the hell can they say this when there are images of entire communities wiped off the map!? Black River is a prime example of this, and I fear we may see worse.

Whoever wrote this needs to either look at the damage or be fired. Just because Kingston wasn't wiped away doesn't mean it was overhyped. Hell it overperformed expectations by a massive margin and basically the ENTIRE western half of the island is destroyed to a degree we haven't seen for years.
 
TornadoFan said:
Wow, whoever wrote this editorial needs to be sacked. And I mean like now. "Overhyped?" If they've seen the pictures of the damage from Jamaica, they wouldn't be singing this tune.
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Yeah, LOL. Average dumb, uneducated and completely ignorant perspective. In no way was this "overhyped", the damage in Jamaica and loss of life is absolutely catastrophic. This was a incredibly impactful and destructive storm, i don't know how you can call it "overhyped"

Many people did a brilliant job analysing Melissa and showing how truly upper echelon it could get, the impacts it could hold etc. Communities have been split apart, families have been changed forever so JUST QUESTION yourself, please. On how sensible this whole blabbagraph seems to even put out on a social platform like Twitter/X. That platform has bad takes, but even then, this is a low one.

It's always as typical in weather. There will always be some side that felt it underperformed, or some poor job in any aspect of the storm took place.

It reminds me of a certain user on here that always used to call large geographical outbreaks a thing of the past, and every single high end event they would pick at for not meeting his absurdly high criteria. Even though lurking, that irritated me a bit. Not that I'm surprised takes like this exist, but the confidence to actually think you're saying something justified. People can have their own opinions but there is times when there's just one side to the picture and Melissa is a example. It was devastating, and anyone who says below, i really wouldn't listen to.
 
WeathermanLeprechaun said:
Yeah, LOL. Average dumb, uneducated and completely ignorant perspective. In no way was this "overhyped", the damage in Jamaica and loss of life is absolutely catastrophic. This was a incredibly impactful and destructive storm, i don't know how you can call it "overhyped"

Many people did a brilliant job analysing Melissa and showing how truly upper echelon it could get, the impacts it could hold etc. Communities have been split apart, families have been changed forever so JUST QUESTION yourself, please. On how sensible this whole blabbagraph seems to even put out on a social platform like Twitter/X. That platform has bad takes, but even then, this is a low one.

It's always as typical in weather. There will always be some side that felt it underperformed, or some poor job in any aspect of the storm took place.

It reminds me of a certain user on here that always used to call large geographical outbreaks a thing of the past, and every single high end event they would pick at for not meeting his absurdly high criteria. Even though lurking, that irritated me a bit. Not that I'm surprised takes like this exist, but the confidence to actually think you're saying something justified. People can have their own opinions but there is times when there's just one side to the picture and Melissa is a example. It was devastating, and anyone who says below, i really wouldn't listen to.
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It gets even worse. These are some quotes from the article.

"Perhaps, even out of adversities, some positives could be drawn. With Jamaica being the main news in every corner of the world, we should be motivated to show our resilience and resolve to build back stronger, as the slogan goes. Indeed, we have to make this more than a political slogan as the world watches.

The response of the world to the disaster and the willingness to come to our aid, which is critical, demonstrate that Jamaica enjoys a level of goodwill that we can use to attract more visitors to our shores, once we can be opened for business again.

This is a challenge for all of us that must be led by the Ministry of Tourism which, thankfully, has an energetic minister in Mr Edmund Bartlett, supported by his very capable team at the Jamaica Tourist Board."

"Some of the most dramatic reports spoke of an “unsurvivable hurricane”; “no country has ever experienced such a horrific storm”; “Most Jamaicans live in shacks”; “Jamaica is going to be slammed by a monster Category 5 hurricane”; “Jamaicans can expect catastrophic damage”; and “this is a life-threatening storm”.

We are aware that some networks, if not all, never take their eye off the need for greater ratings, and those who dispatch reporters overseas expect to recoup their expenses. At times it seemed that the competition for viewership was over the top."

Not only do they generalize foreign media, they focus on tourism. It hasn't even been a week after landfall and these absolute buffoons are portraying tourism costs as a main problem. Disgusting. That and I can't find a single news article using the worst examples they had given, because the last 3 were absolutely correct!
 
Ozonelayer said:
It gets even worse. These are some quotes from the article.

"Perhaps, even out of adversities, some positives could be drawn. With Jamaica being the main news in every corner of the world, we should be motivated to show our resilience and resolve to build back stronger, as the slogan goes. Indeed, we have to make this more than a political slogan as the world watches.

The response of the world to the disaster and the willingness to come to our aid, which is critical, demonstrate that Jamaica enjoys a level of goodwill that we can use to attract more visitors to our shores, once we can be opened for business again.

This is a challenge for all of us that must be led by the Ministry of Tourism which, thankfully, has an energetic minister in Mr Edmund Bartlett, supported by his very capable team at the Jamaica Tourist Board."

"Some of the most dramatic reports spoke of an “unsurvivable hurricane”; “no country has ever experienced such a horrific storm”; “Most Jamaicans live in shacks”; “Jamaica is going to be slammed by a monster Category 5 hurricane”; “Jamaicans can expect catastrophic damage”; and “this is a life-threatening storm”.

We are aware that some networks, if not all, never take their eye off the need for greater ratings, and those who dispatch reporters overseas expect to recoup their expenses. At times it seemed that the competition for viewership was over the top."

Not only do they generalize foreign media, they focus on tourism. It hasn't even been a week after landfall and these absolute buffoons are portraying tourism costs as a main problem. Disgusting. That and I can't find a single news article using the worst examples they had given, because the last 3 were absolutely correct!
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Yeah, this is just plain out stupid. I wouldn't even listen or give any credence to this article whatever. Where did people call this unsurvivable? Significant loss of life was noted by the NHC, nobody ever said everyone was gonna die im the hurricane?

Overhypers do exist, and some probably said "no country has ever experienced such a horrific storm". The problem of the article is it singles out a small group and makes it out to be EVERYONE including mainstream media when it isn't true. The only hypers were weather weenies high on adrenaline fuel and thankfully I didn't see any of those posts during Melissa's approach!

Western Jamaica DID GET slammed by a C5. A very historic one at that. How is that false? The storm was monstrous and i don't like using words like that to personalise the hurricane but Melissa really was a system to just wow at and be worried at for the human impact. Catastrophic damage WAS DONE, and it verified! Once again, how is that wrong. You want every palm tree and mansion/house in the community leveled in order to define catastrophic? That's too high of a standard. Was a life threatening storm as well, and unfortunately killed over 20 people. I'd say that unfortunately verified too. This just seems to be a case of them trying to hide up that their standards wasn't met for the event and are now casting it on possibly nonexistent hypecasting. There likely were people doing it, but i genuinely seen no attention given to it.
 
Im beginning to see more and more reports on twitter from people in Jamaica that fatalities are being found in surplus, no surprise either.

Everyone at first was saying the death toll was surprisingly low at 4 the day following the storm, which is why it’s important to never celebrate too early.

Can only hope the final tally isn’t something dreadful, although any sort of death toll is something that just never should happen.
 
In the last few days my respect for the people and government of Jamaica has risen dramatically.

I have seen a nation united in helping each other, looking out for each other, and trying to organize order from chaos.

The cynic is me would have expected a "poor" and by all accounts, very underdeveloped country like Jamaica to descend into chaos. But all accounts are showing the opposite is true.

Salute to the island country of Jamaica and its people. You've shown us what you're really about in this disaster.
 
lake.effect said:
In the last few days my respect for the people and government of Jamaica has risen dramatically.

I have seen a nation united in helping each other, looking out for each other, and trying to organize order from chaos.

The cynic is me would have expected a "poor" and by all accounts, very underdeveloped country like Jamaica to descend into chaos. But all accounts are showing the opposite is true.

Salute to the island country of Jamaica and its people. You've shown us what you're really about in this disaster.
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Honestly, not really sure “poor” and “underdeveloped” are appropriate terms here. Jamaica is an island nation, not a whole continent with countless resources.

And yet, the construction there trumps the vast majority of US construction. For what they have, they’re plenty developed as a country, and will surely bounce back even better.

The fact that a lot of people thought that Jamaica would spiral into chaos after Melissa based off the mere conception that they’re “third world” doesn’t sit right with me.

I can definitely understand there frustration with foreigners.
 
jiharris0220 said:
Honestly, not really sure “poor” and “underdeveloped” are appropriate terms here. Jamaica is an island nation, not a whole continent with countless resources.

And yet, the construction there trumps the vast majority of US construction. For what they have, they’re plenty developed as a country, and will surely bounce back even better.

The fact that a lot of people thought that Jamaica would spiral into chaos after Melissa based off the mere conception that they’re “third world” doesn’t sit right with me.

I can definitely understand there frustration with foreigners.
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It’s is undoubtably a poor and underdeveloped country by most standards though.
 
lake.effect said:
It’s is undoubtably a poor and underdeveloped country by most standards though.
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Except this is completely, objectively wrong, Im not sure what standards are being applied here.

Just because a countries GDP isn’t in the 100s of billions doesn’t mean it’s underdeveloped.

The world bank classifies Jamaica as an upper-middle income economy, again, the concrete grand structures and mansions located there are evidence of that.

The United Nations actually have Jamaica as high on the human development index. So Im really not sure what makes you think Jamaica is “poor” and “underdeveloped”.
 
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