Watching CNN's Perfect Coverage of Hurricane Dennis

Perfect coverage.

Amazed. Just really staying on top of latests trends and possibilities and flexibly thinking what the public wants. Live.

Not happy with TWC and their old fashion, fixed coverage on the hour or half hour of a fixed location. Unable to show an insert of other weather or the storm or a scroll. No one seems able to change there or grow or they are sent to work on the late night shift. Whatever they are doing to Kristen Dodd be it face lifts of make up that she wore in the 1980s.. please Stop It! It's scary to watch. Few OCMs seem to be able to make the break and be themselves. Most look like they are covering a gardern show with "lets switch now to.." Come on guys.. move with the times. A long time ago Charley someone was live on hurricane coverage.. LIVE.. not a few taped segments. You have Cantore out there.. USE HIM. Feel sorry for anyone working there these days. Must be like being in a bad, bad marriage and staying because you don't want to change your lifestyle economically. Some good, good people. Poor, poor coverage.

As for CNN today.. great and I am not it's biggest fan.

Lots of live reports, immediacy, good satellite imagery, radar.. hey Miami boy Rick Sanchez out in the field.. don't you love it.

Providing an early season live on air daytime warning of what a real hurricane making landfall is all about. And, down the road this season.. should help a lot of other people prepare.

People out watching. I've been there. How can you not watch?

I remember when Brian Norcross said people should go out and take a good look around because Miami Dade County won't look like this again for a long time. He was right. And, we did. My ex-husband and I went out, drove around Miami Beach that was boarded up tight for Andrew. Up and down Collins Avenue. We just felt we would never see half those buildings again. Kept picturing in my mind Miami Beach blown off the map like the battered, barrier islands in South Carolina afrer Hugo. Thought Miami Beach would look like Sullivan's Island; battered, bruised and blown to smithereens. I lived on Miami Beach. I loved it. Thought Andrew would come marching up Arthur Godfrey Drive ... who would have known he would make one wobble south and hit Homestead. Never in my wildest dreams or theirs.

So..will Dennis wobble? Watching.

Been to the beach before a storm. Felt the wind tug at you. Great coverage of that undertown going on as the storm surge pounds.. so true. Pulls out, pushes in. Nothing in nature is a straight line.

Cuba 1932.. Category 4 Storm caused a "tidal wave" that killed close to 3,000 people.

Hurricane Frederick must be in Neil Frank's mind as he worked hard after that storm to figure out what went wrong and how to prevent it from happening again.

July 10th.. early storm makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle.

Won't be the only storm making landfall this year.

Let us learn from our mistakes and see how to prepare because Emily is out there now as a wave being watched on NRL invest ... as soon as Dennis makes landfall and moves in the National Hurricane Center will give their full attention to the next storm waiting in the wings. And, the next storm after that.

Watch.

It's about all you can do today.. watch. Pray. Hope somehow the small eye of Dennis sandblasts an area that isn't so populated or filled with people who waited out the storm and thought it would go elsewhere.

Don't hate hurricanes. They transfer energy from the tropics to the poles. It is part of how our beautiful planet works. They provide tropical moisture up into farming regions and places that need rain. It's all about balance and air flow and energy being transfered. We are the ones that are in it's way .. not the other way around.

Watch. Learn. Pick your poison.

Some of us love storms, rain, snow.. others think how stupid to live in their path and live near the New Madrid Fault in the middle of the country. California.. earthquake country, landslide country, mudslides.. lived there.. know what a Santana wind feels like and know what it is to worry that your old boyfriend's house might have been blown away by a firestorm. Not a place on this planet you can go to hide. Somewhere, wherever you go.. mother nature will come stalking after you when you least expect it.

Admire it's fury, it's awesome power and be happy you aren't in the path of Dennis today.

Watch and learn.

Going off to watch Dennis on CNN.

Bobbi
back later if I can gather my many thoughts flying around fast

It is still raining off and on in Miami. We are still in the long, feeder band left by Dennis. Keep wanting to say Andrew. A little while ago I saw a bird flying around in the sky. Beginning to notice things like that again. A sign that the storm has moved on. Eerily quiet after the last few days of rain and wind.

Thank you Dennis for not destroying Key West.
What do you have against Penscola or is it just the luck of the draw.