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Hurricane Gustav is the biggest headline

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TroyG

Right about now. Apparently, all eyes are this really big storm, as it reaches The Louisiana Gulf Coast. The GOP convention and The Annual Jerry Lewis Telethon have taken the back seat because It has been on everybody's mind since overnight as we speak. The City of New Orleans is Now very prepared unlike it was when Katrina hit The Big Easy 3 years ago. Mayor Nagin warned everybody to move away from the city, or you'll be arrested. Nagin won't tolerate any looters who steal stuff at closed stores. Even its own football team, The Saints have already seek refuge over at The New Lucas Stadium in Indianapolis. Quite frankly, this storm is now sweeping Louisiana at a fast pace.

On the other hand, The Republican Convention is Minnesota will go on as planned, but don't look for the outgoing president and vice-president to show up, because they got their hands full right now on Gustav. Also, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was supposed to show up, but he backfired at the last second. Expect a scaled-down show there because of Hurricane Gustav.

And finally, Houston was the city of last resort for Katrina Victims, and Mayor White was told The GRB and The Astrodome will NOT be The shelter of last resort. Most of these refugees are now calling Houston home, with no plans going back to NOLA. Also The Superdome and The Whitney Bank Arena (Home to the New Orleans Hornets of The NBA)won't be utilized as well . I hope things will go out smoothly planned this time around as New Orleanians will try to ride this storm.
 
If you have Directv, WDSU channel 6 from N.O. is available to all customers nationwide on channel 361 during the hurricane event.
 
Troy Goodwin said:
The Republican Convention in Minnesota will go on as planned, but don't look for the outgoing president and vice-president to show up, because they got their hands full right now with Gustav. Also, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was supposed to show up, but he backfired at the last second. Expect a scaled-down show there because of Hurricane Gustav.
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ansky212 said:
If you have Directv, WDSU channel 6 from N.O. is available to all customers nationwide on channel 361 during the hurricane event.
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Channel 363 has also been providing evacuation information,
such as where to catch public transportation and what to
take along.
 
Arnold backed out of going to the convention because he and the other folks in Sacramento haven't been able to agree on a state budget that is now two months late, it had nothing to do with the impending hurricane.
 
Is it just me, or is the national media a bit disappointed that Gustav isn't Katrina 2.0?
 
I hope that none of them were hoping for Katrina 2.0. Anyone who'd wish for such a thing is a sick twisted individual.
 
kyscott said:
Is it just me, or is the national media a bit disappointed that Gustav isn't Katrina 2.0?
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No the media has hyped up every single storm since Katrina.

Even hurricanes are dangerous storms but unlike tornados and earthquakes we almost always get adequate warnings.
 
I'm so pretty much well relieved for the citizens of New Orleans as the hurricane passed through. But they can't go home for least 36 more hours. On the other hand, two more storms are threatening to make waves towards The U.S. You now got Hannah & Ike and they're still out there in the Atlantic.
 
At the moment, Hannah looks like it's headed for roughly Savannah GA, give or take whatever course changes happen between now and the weekend. Ivan's probably another week out from wherever it makes landfall, and it's way too far out to predict where it's headed.
 
mimo said:
I hope that none of them were hoping for Katrina 2.0. Anyone who'd wish for such a thing is a sick twisted individual.
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Remember you are dealing with the mainstream news media? I worked around television news for 12 years, I guaran-damn-tee you that some of them were hoping for a disaster of the magnitude that Katrina had.

These are the same people that have the policy of "if it bleeds it leads".
 
ansky212 said:
If you have Directv, WDSU channel 6 from N.O. is available to all customers nationwide on channel 361 during the hurricane event.
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Yep. I have it on here in Connecticut. They've made mention of this on-air both visually and orally. They're also mentioning on-screen their 87.7 FM signal since you can pick up Channel 6 on any radio that can be tuned to 87.7 FM.
 
mimo said:
I hope that none of them were hoping for Katrina 2.0. Anyone who'd wish for such a thing is a sick twisted individual.
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They weren't, at least any national outlet that I witnessed.

For whatever vices you could cite for the media--when Gustav grew in size and intensity almost three years to the day Katrina made landfall, could you really blame them for not drawing numerous parallels?
 
I can blame then for drawing parallels that don't exist. Other than being hurricanes the storms weren't similar.

Today on WGN News Tom Skilling the weatherman says "we're gonna get remnents of Hurricane Gustov, we haven't had rain in over 30 days, we are looking at a possible torrent of rain with massive problems if drops a lot of rain."

Those were his exact words. This is garbage talking. Sorry nothing like TORRENTS or MASSIVE problems will happen. This is just talking a minor story into something to draw a rating.

And the problem I have is Chicago is a HUGE city, it's not like there aren't real stories to report
 
This is a late post, but KHOU Channel 11 in Houston carried WWL Channel 4's coverage on its second digital channel 11.2 during Gustav, good for the thousands if not hundreds of thousands of New Orleans residents either still in Houston after Katrina or having come to Houston to escape Gustav. What an excellent use of the second digital channel! I watched WWL's coverage instead of the crappy coverage on the cable news networks that were very much alarmist. I do want to say that KHOU covered the storm very well. The 10 o clock news as Gustav hit whipped through four comphensive on the scene reports from KHOU reporters in New Orleans, Beaumont (which was also under mandatory evacuation), Baytown (along Interstate 10 where construction problems plus evacuation traffic had traffic backed up for 10-15 miles) and Texas City in Galveston County highlighting the 200 buses from as far away as Florida that Galveston County has ready and waiting should the storm track have shifted requiring evacuations in Galveston County. We were lucky here in Houston to avoid Gustav.

During Katrina, Channel 49 KPXB in Houston, the Ion station (probably was Pax back then) preempted all of its programming for more than a week (if I remember correctly) to run coverage from one of the New Orleans stations (that ended up operating mostly out of a studio in Jackson, MS after the flooding).
 
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