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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepuke Georgia governor uses natural disaster press conference to take a stab at
the National Weather Service modeling of the storm that hit Atlanta.
The scum rethuglicons want to eliminate the NWS and while briefing his state on the situation in Georgia, Gov. Nathan Deal decided to use the opportunity to trash the government weather agency.
"In my opinion, the local meteorologists did a much better job at forecasting than the National Weather Service did," Deal said.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)Usually one would wait till the 25-35 minute mark with no replies before "wondering" ---
Just FYI
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)discussion going before I have to go.
Plus, I can't stand going to the effort of posting and then no one responds - I hate the 0-replies 0-recs double goose eggs.
blm
(113,043 posts).
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)It seems to me, the problem wasn't actually the snow but everyone letting everyone out at the same time. From what I've read, the businesses and schools all closed around the same time, thus pushing thousands of commuters together in weather that got icy. That sounds like poor time management to me, not weather.
KatyMan
(4,190 posts)the slightest possiblility of ice/snow in miniscule amounts? Shut the city down.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)a press conference to update the state on the efforts to mitigate the event to put forth a political agenda by the pukes who want to shut down the NWS and other .gov agencies.
He's a piece of shit for doing that and for using that excuse in an attempt to cover his own failure to act sooner so that a great many of those being released from work and school wouldn't have been out in the storm to begin with.
dsc
(52,155 posts)they didn't close businesses and schools until the snow actually came at about 130. He is full of shit since as pointed out the national weather service did tell us snow was coming, but if the weather service hadn't he would have a valid point.
themaguffin
(3,826 posts)Home.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)shraby
(21,946 posts)from???
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)wrong.
So what he is saying is that the local guys did a better job of forecasting. And what's strange to me about that is that if the local guys got it right, why didn't he make the call based on their forecast? Even if he was deferring to the NWS (which we all know he wasn't because right-dickheads hate the NWS and want to eliminate it as a BIG GOV boondoggle - pffft!), the NWS is where the local guys get their information to make their own forecasts. But it also shows that he chose to ignore the local guys by not calling for storm response based on their forecast.
Either way you cut this, that dumbass Deal is responsible for the failure. The buck stops there. But he won't let that stop him from pointing the finger at a fall-guy, in this case, our national weather service.
GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)He's not just an unethical, probably criminal slimeball, he's an idiot to boot.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)night before with whoever the latest crooked associate is greasing his palms while he should have been monitoring the situation and making the calls his office affords him.
He's a piece of shit that didn't do his job.