Historical rhymes
And the beat goes on. I hear about things over the webs, the Drudge report, on PIGazzete, other locations. I’m not much for the social medias, but occasionally I pick up something on GAB.
The biggest thing I pick-up is that 9 outta 10 times, if the MSMs pick up on something, it is going to be blown way out of proportion. The most recent example was Hurricane Irma. Yeah, it made landfall but was about what the locals expected and did not have the ‘in your face’ like Harvey did. Sorry Houston, no one could have predicted that a storm thought it could move in and become a resident. Even so, alluv’ya had advance notice to clear the field and y’all failed. IMO ya get what ya earn, and y’all earned that one from not listenin’. Granted, Irma fizzled out quickly unlike Harvey, but there was so little after squawking from the MSMs, I got the impression it was more of a ‘shush, if we don’t say nuthin, people will forget how bad we swore it was gonna be.’ situation. And I see that often. Doom n gloom and then total silence when the doom fizzles.
It gets rather old with time, and I get to where I need a break from it all. Luckily, that break this month was kinda forced on me with my phone being outta sorts for three days. Outta the loop for three days and when I get back in, guess what, the world hasnt blown up/burned down/blown away/flooded like Noahs second coming. Big surprise, neh? The norks are still pounding on buttons they should leave alone, the economy is still shite, and my finger is still feeling broken, so nothing changed.
Well, one thing changed; I see that some of the MSMs are trying to put some distance between themselves and Antifags/BLM types. I think the realized what a basilisk they spawned with that mess. ‘S all good though, people I congregate with see it, discuss it, and are proudly showing solidarity about what their feelings are about it. It ain’t patriotism, nor bigotry: it is feeling they are sick of being pandered to and belittled for a fact they were born to, with no choice in the matter. People, of both colors in this area are sick of the lies and the twists that make up the information they are fed. The read it/see it, then look back from the mirror and do not see the same things it shows. They see good hard working people trying to make a life, raise the kids, and in most cases, just get by, then see people a long way away yell that they are racists and need destroyed and their history as well.
They don’t like it, not one wee bit.
And these are people who were raised shooting, and shooting well, because the cost of feeding the tools was high and a miss might mean a missed meal or three. They are not afraid of blood, they know the woods, they have lived with little and know how to get by on less, and they LIKE to fight. They get a kick out of it between friends and even more when there is a real reason behind it. (Its not just the Scots/Irish here either, Germen Jagers, some Russian and more than a few SI/Cherokee or other tribal mixes. Some are near full blood as well.) A good throw-down between friends may look bad to outsiders, but come monday mornin’; business as usual, gotta earn the dimes.
Some things never change. the attitude in these parts is one of ’em. people don’t like being lied to anywhere, but here, it becomes a shitload more personal. And it doesn’t matter if the liar is nextdoor, in New York, or in the Whitehouse. The term, “there’ll be a reckonin’ ” comes to mind, and the people of this area mean it. They won’t go out of their way yo deliver it, but they understand the meaning of “what can’t keep going, won’t “. They know full well that in the end, there is ALWAYS a judgement, this life or the next, and you can not escape that. (And they are a very judgmental group, even as they try to be accommodating. You can have the trust at the door, but blow it and you never regain it.)
anywhoos, I’m back up and the world continues its dizzy journey through the cosmos, and thats good enough for me right now.
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Just because Irma wasn’t the blockbuster media event . Does not lessen its impact.
We had six tornadoes touch down here in our county. For those in the path, it was certainly bad. Statewide there was much flooding in low lying areas.
Ask those in the Keys how bad it was…utterly devastating. A Cat three running up the west coast was no joke, by any means.
Over four million were without power for a week, and in Florida that is a very big deal. Literally millions will be out of a paycheck for some time.
No it was not as bad, as what could have been. Had it come ashore as a Cat 5.
However, in the twenty years I’ve lived in Florida. It was far and away the worst one statewide. The effects are still yet to be totalled up.
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September 17, 2017 at 4:54 am
I’m not trying to denigrate thw people of Florida or the Keys or the Virgin Isles. I am trying to point out the perfidy of the MSMs. When Irma did not make landfall as a cat 4-5,,and then apparently evaporated before really hitting anything beyond the peninsula, the MSMs went quiet about it. If one weren’t there or keeping tabs on people able to get word out, we up here heard NOTHING. And to add insult to your injury (and to show the ridiculously childish nature of Americans in general) there was a pretty major ball game just this week there while many in the area are still without power. The stadium had power enough for lighting, broadcast equipment and other peripheral stuff. Likely, it was via there own generator systems, but then again, why couldn’t that power been used to help others, not just provide entertainment to the masses.
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September 17, 2017 at 6:26 am
Okay I get your drift now. No doubt your correct about the media on a national level. The local news is nothing but the devastation from the whirly girl.
It is criminal that those resources went to a stupid game tho.
This state is very much one of have and have nots. Of course the haves are not as affected as those in the lower classes.
In my mind if you live in this state and don’t own a generator. Plus always have food preps, then you are a foolish person !
For us personally, the hurricane was nothing more than an inconvenient week of sweating without AC…without a generator, stored gas, food and means of cooking. It would have been a week of hell…
Though I must defend the media on the lead up to get people scared. They needed to be !
Can’t fault the weather forecasters either, they pretty much nailed the path it would take.
Still it is not an exact science, however so much better than fifty years ago.
Back then, a whole lot of people would have died.
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September 17, 2017 at 7:18 am
I completely agree about getting the word out in advance. I have been out n about without weather services and been surprised by local blowups before. In the Sierra Nevada’s one winter while in the Corps we had a blizzard blow in and the temp went from 60 sumpin to 10 with negative temps windchill in less than 4 hours.
Still, as you stated, if you live there and you don’t have some preps in place, dumb is your first and fool is your last name. Its a finger of land sticking out into one of the most violent sections of water known to man, and living there you had better have a certain amount of grit in your blood. Even the land itself is mean, just ask the natives that lived there before the Europeans pushed em out.
Yes, the weather service is doing much better, but they can only get so far when their voice is overshadowed by the mains, and that is not going away while the business model works in their favor.
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September 17, 2017 at 8:13 am
I thought I would point this out as well.
http://thesilicongraybeard.blogspot.com/2017/09/one-last-irma-post.html?m=1
SiGB lives there as well, and a lot of the info I used in my assessment came from him. As is, even he is confused by what he is seeing vs what was stated, and using their instruments to boot. Anyway, as I stated, up here, as Irma shredded, we heard next to nothing about it, and what was shown was damage from the tornados, IE indirectly related stuff. I don’t recall anything about flooding, but they sure did make a stink about those tower cranes in Miami.
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September 17, 2017 at 8:31 am