LogFAQs > #968303249

If you're in the path of a hurricane and need to stay up on getting info, NEVER watch the national news. Always stick with your local news. I'm in the path of Ian myself, and I've pretty much sworn off all but my preferred local station until (one way or another) it finally passes.

Its the national news' job to hype, first and foremost; hell, I watched either the CBS or NBC Nightly News once during the ramp-up to Irma, and it had some jackass meteorologist running from one side of the weather screen to the other, ranting about how Irma was going to 'rip like a buzzsaw' up the entire Florida West Coast. Nobody who's being threatened by a hurricane needs to deal with that extra amount of stress. The national news is for people who don't have to deal with hurricanes, and can look at the situation with a far more detached sense of spectacle.

The local news on the other hand has a vested interest in keeping hype down as much as possible, and getting the info as correct as possible; they have a vested interest in doing so because, obviously, they live here too.