Typical of government and their henchmen to hype a hurricane all out of reality.

The officious officials could access the Internet just like I can and they could see the REAL wind strength of Irene at all time yet, THEY CONSTANTLY exaggerated it by two categories.

Irene was a category 2 when it struck and wiped out Lovely Bay. There was a nice large eye about 25 miles in diameter that went right over the bay. Soon thereafter, they eye closed and it never opened again, zip, zero, nada. Yet the officious officials CHOSE to frighten hapless citizens by over-rating this category one hurricane which is all it amounted by the time it got to Eleuthera. It was a cat one only with no visible eye when it passed over Abaco Island. Wind velocity instrument dropped into the top of the storm around that time showed upper level winds to be in the 120 mph range with sustain winds at ground level to be 85mph max. Big ****ing deal.

And, they kept hyping it - saying it would likely turn into a cat 3 by the time it made landfall in North Carolina. WRONG!!! It got weaker. It was barely a cat 1 when it made landfall. There was no eye and the core was lopsided and ragged due it dry air sucked in from the west entrained. The outflow was visible thinner and less even than when over the Abacos.

LIARS to frighten people as fearful people are easier to herd like so many cattle and that's what the government deems is it's function these days. To act as the brain to the brain-dead masses. Sad.


Wilbur Hubbard