Weather channel is saying bad weather for the key southern states on election day

[bluestarone]

Could be a very long night, and very confused voting totals!! BE READY! Very nervous here, but really believe in the BLUE WAVE!!!

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Blue wave will meet cold front, it seems - just looked at our Raleigh weather for Tues

going to be warm (76) but day - Showers and a heavier t-storm; storms can bring flooding downpours, large hail and damaging winds - and evening night - A thunderstorm early, then a little rain; thunderstorms can be strong, perhaps severe...

Yikes.

[bluestarone]

3. Yea i worry about power outages and such!!

Plus i DO NOT trust these assholes at all!!

[BannonsLiver]

5. Weather won't be a deciding factor in this election

[Girard442]

2. If folks can't get to the polls in the reddest areas because of climate-change induced weather...

...that would be tragic.

[Funtatlaguy]

4. Let it only rain in the rural areas and not the cities.

[BannonsLiver]

6. So what?

These breathless, panicked weather posts always pop up at election time. The weather will not be a factor. It rarely is.

[DeminPennswoods]

7. Enthusiastic voters, which Dems are this cycle,

will make it to the polls. Less enthusiastic voters, which Rs are this cycle, won't.

[Roland99]

8. Atlanta area forecast is light drizzle, Houston light rain and 80

Austin clear and 74

Tallahassee partly cloudy and 79

Richmond, VA cloudy and 79


What am I missing?

[BannonsLiver]

9. Panic?

[Sedona]

10. Vote in the afternoon in Atlanta

Thunderstorms in the morning will give way to partly cloudy skies late. Potential for severe thunderstorms. High around 75F. Winds SW at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 80%.

https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/USGA0028:1:US

[mitch96]

11. Even a late season hurricane would not stop me from voting this tuesday...

It's tuesday, right?
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[Blue_true]

13. Yes it is Tuesday. Why didn't you simply in person early voted? nt

[mitch96]

14. Why do you ask? n/t

[Blue_true]

15. Because in person early voting go on for 11+ days in many states.

Maybe your state does not have early voting. Here is Florida, I prefer to get my vote in. I voted on the first day of in person early voting in my county. The weather was nice, better than what may happen on Election Day (Tuesday, Nov 6).

[mitch96]

17. good for you!! glad there are many ways to do it, yes?

[Blue_true]

12. This is exactly why people should use the many days of early voting.

To wait for an all or nothing one day to vote is beyond senseless when a person has options.

[dalton99a]

18. +1.

[Quixote1818]

16. This could be helpful because Republicans tend to vote more than Dems on Election day

Snip: “The ebb and flow of the election cycle generally is — and it’s not true in every single state but it is true in the national aggregate — Republicans tend to run up the score early with the absentee vote, Democrats come back strong with a pretty massive surge in in-person early voting, then on Election Day the vote tends to be closer to parity with a slight Republican lead,” said Tom Bonier, the chief executive of TargetSmart, a data analytics firm that has collected early voting figures. “Republicans tend to have to play catch up on Election Day.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/us/politics/early-voting-midterms.html

[elocs]

19. People in countries who get the right to vote for the first time will walk for miles,

even risking their lives or safety just to be able to cast their ballots oftentimes with not much choice of candidates.
Here in the U.S. there are too many people for whom any reason is enough to choose skipping voting like they'll melt if they go out in the rain. Pretty sad.

It's too bad about the weather because we had some absolutely gorgeous days for the last week of October here in Wisconsin.
But if the weather won't stop you from doing lots of superficial and unimportant things it should stop you from casting your vote to help your nation.