There’s nothing to indicate that Tim made any direct comments about the plants, clothes line poles or anything else. Those pics are not even from his survey, and were clearly taken the morning after by someone named Bret Bowen.
In fact, the only things Tim commented about on his page pertain to the home’s anchor bolts and cellar, denuded trees, and tossed cars. There is zero mention of potted plants, clothes lines, or a lack of debarking. The “contextual discrepancies” appear to be extrapolations made by the Twitter user “300MPHEF5” based on those morning after photos. It’s not valid survey info from Tim, and a quick look at his Facebook page proves this.
My point is, if you want to do an objective critique of the survey’s reasoning that’s fine, but the problem is that you’re making massive leaps in judgement, that led you to making claims of more questionable reasoning from Tim Marshall, that he never actually made. Instead, the claims are actually from a random Twitter user looking at pictures. This is the type of misinformation telephone and conclusion-jumping that keeps me away from weather twitter, and it’s not exactly a delight to see this kind of thing on here. You’re more than welcome to participate in damage/EF scale discussion here, but to be taken seriously, you have to do your due diligence and not mis-attribute info, or post typical weather twitter rumor mill output here as valid survey info. You need to stick to reliable, directly verifiable information, or the quality of the discussion gets dragged down as misinformation gets spread.
