Hurricane Season 2008 Buried By the Miami Herald

No.. not talking about an obituary. Talking about an article about predictions for next year's Atlantic Hurricane Season.

There it was.. buried in the back, small article. No one is listening anymore.
Between the predictions being a bit off and the hurricane season of 2005 being a distant memory... priorities are such that during Art Basel Week in Miami.. no one wants to remind anyone visiting maybe that Miami is in Hurricane Country.

Oddly, but understandably, an article on someone having a link to a site where you could duplicate the parking permits on Miami Beach during Art Basel week when the city raises all its prices for the tourists and the locals are left in left field paying twice as much money and or trying to find a place to park which is a feat more impossible than the Dolphins making the playoffs....That Makes Page ONE!
There it was in the Miami Herald today, front page... Miami Beach Fake Parking Permits discovered. Don't worry the City of Miami Beach is working feverishly to re design them so that they will he harder to copy.

What the Herald doesn't explain is that Spellman works out of the old Bank Bldg on Lincoln and Washington and he along with others on Miami Beach are being raped by the consortium that owns the City Parking and Beach Towing conglomerate. Anyone working on Miami Beach this week that did not just throw in the towel or try walking across the causeway needs a reality check and it should not be allowed that the City Lots can raise prices on tourists on a random basis for which ever events they deem worthy. When stores on Lincoln Road or Duval Street in Key West try to do that with their Tee Shirts Stores the City cries foul and threatens them with breaking all sorts of consumer, business laws.. something about Price Gouging... but seems the City of Miami Beach can hike up the prices for their regular parking lot by double if not more when they want for big ticket events. Spellman makes his point if you ask me and the Herald knows a good story when they see one... Condi and Iran was buried back on 8A.

It's one thing for a City Lot to be full, but it's another thing that they can smell the tourists coming and raise their rates faster than a Gypsy trying to tell fortunes at a Carnival when they see a good mark..er customer passing by.

Why is okay for the City to cheat the taxpayers and raise their regular price?
I know.. Y is a crooked letter.. so is the towing racket on Miami Beach...........

http://www.miamiherald.com/416/story/336755.html

By the way... a good blog, the Herald linked to it .. more fun than the Herald article.
http://stuckonthepalmetto.blogspot.com/2007/12/park-miami-beach-ruh-roh.html


As for buried article on the 2008 Hurricane Season.. here is the link/story below.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/336509.html

Active '08 hurricane season in forecast
Posted on Sat, Dec. 08, 2007Digg del.icio.us AIM reprint print email
BY MARTIN MERZER
mmerzer@MiamiHerald.com
Unbowed by recent setbacks, a team of university forecasters Friday predicted that next year's hurricane season -- still nearly six months away -- would produce slightly above-average storm activity.

The team from Colorado State University, formed decades ago by scientist William Gray, is expecting 13 named storms that grow into seven hurricanes, including three intense hurricanes, with winds above 110 mph.

The long-term averages are 11 named storms, six hurricanes and two intense hurricanes. The season begins June 1 and ends Nov. 30.

For the last three years, the full-season forecasts issued by the CSU team and by a separate group of government forecasters have been well off the mark.

Some experts view the forecasts with considerable caution and they worry that the errors could undermine the credibility of the generally more accurate forecasts of actual hurricanes and tropical storms.

Nevertheless, some elements of the media devote considerable attention to the full-season forecasts.

On Friday, for instance, The Associated Press published a bulletin-like ''NewsAlert'' with the first word about the CSU forecast, followed by a story labeled as ``Urgent.''
Active '08 hurricane season in forecast
Posted on Sat, Dec. 08, 2007Digg del.icio.us AIM reprint print email
BY MARTIN MERZER
mmerzer@MiamiHerald.com
Unbowed by recent setbacks, a team of university forecasters Friday predicted that next year's hurricane season -- still nearly six months away -- would produce slightly above-average storm activity.

The team from Colorado State University, formed decades ago by scientist William Gray, is expecting 13 named storms that grow into seven hurricanes, including three intense hurricanes, with winds above 110 mph.

The long-term averages are 11 named storms, six hurricanes and two intense hurricanes. The season begins June 1 and ends Nov. 30.

For the last three years, the full-season forecasts issued by the CSU team and by a separate group of government forecasters have been well off the mark.

Some experts view the forecasts with considerable caution and they worry that the errors could undermine the credibility of the generally more accurate forecasts of actual hurricanes and tropical storms.

Nevertheless, some elements of the media devote considerable attention to the full-season forecasts.

On Friday, for instance, The Associated Press published a bulletin-like ''NewsAlert'' with the first word about the CSU forecast, followed by a story labeled as ``Urgent.''