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Originally Posted by nightfighter
I lay this one on the media. They could have picked it up, and they still could. But it is not in their agenda.... And then there is the question of semantics; derecho....crickets. I had to look it up. Wasn't sure if it was the name that the storm had been given, as done with tropical depressions and hurricanes. Tornado, hurricane, tsunami, you are going to get the media attention. Derecho... apparently not so much. I just watched some videos during lunch and that looks as bad as any storm coverage I have seen
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It started getting a lot more coverage towards the end of last week. I don't think a lot of the media understood how bad things really are. Still no power for my father.
Now they've upped the wind estimate to 140 mph
