Quote Originally Posted by scottycameron View Post
Has anybody got a year on when we became complete pussies when it comes to weather? I'm guessing post katrina, which was what, 2003? Maybe it was before that a good many years but did that take everybody on the fence and turn them completely into pussies? I had this discussion a few times and nobody knows when people really got shit their pants scared over rain, etc.
I wouldn't phrase it like that. It's more that the media and other internet sources are ACTIVELY SCANNING the models for doomsday scenarios...whether it's a blizzard, tornado outbreak, hurricane, or flooding event. It started with Katrina in 2005 (not '03), increased with all the climate change talk for the rest of the decade, and really took off with the convergence of 2011 severe weather season plus Sandy in 2012 + SOCIAL MEDIA. Now, as the past couple of years have 'failed' to produce active hurricane and severe weather seasons (in the US-not the whole globe), the media/internet heroes are begging for something huge to strike the US so they can get views/page clicks/"verification" that 'global warming' is 'causing' all these massive weather disasters.

We have to find a balance between Americans being prepared for weather and Americans being scared of weather.