The Weather Channel Who Cried Wolf

If you’re in the southeast, you’re well aware of Hurricane Helene approaching (at the time of this post) from the Gulf of Mexico. This is a little rant I’m about to go on: I’ve never EVER seen coverage for a tropical storm/hurricane like they’ve been dissecting this one. Do you remember the wall-to-wall coverage when it was just labeled with a number? I’ll admit, they were right that it would turn into a tropical depression then tropical storm and now a hurricane. But I’d suggest that the peak of annoyance happened this morning when storm guru Jim Cantore was on air in the panhandle of Florida. He was absolutely giddy when he said the storm surge could be record high. It wasn’t the possible damage discussed that ticked me off, it was his gleeful demeanor. I’m over it. Maybe this hurricane will be bad, maybe it won’t be. But the weather channel and most stations covering this storm have cried wolf one too many times. All they care about is ratings. They need us to be scared so we stay tuned in.

Just between you and me, part of me hopes this storm is as bad as they say, or else all of these weather people are dead to me from now until eternity.

With that said in complete facetiousness, I truly hope the storm is a lot less than it’s being predicted to be. I pray for all of us in the path. We’re helpless but we’ve done the best we can to prepare. Now we pray, knowing how weak and vulnerable we are to things out of our control, that God intervenes and miracles happen. That He receives glory, grateful praise in some way, somehow, from whatever happens.

-Out of the Wilderness