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Originally posted by likwid
Not NOAA's fault that people aren't prepared for the weather to turn bad.
You'd think by now that people would know better than to take weather reports for granted. Its a given that they're not always right.
NOAA does its best to ***PREDICT*** what will happen and no they're NOT always right.
You think thats bad, you've never been caught in the Buzzards Bay afternoon hurricane with the wind blowing one way and the tide going another.
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Yes, I do think it is NOAA's fault if someone died or had a loss on Sat. They do not put a disclaimer out and people do DEPEND on that information with their lives. I personally didn't care if it was blowing 25 or 50, I would have made it home. But as an ex-long time commercial fisherman, as I think you are as well you should know that NOAA always over predicts this time of the year just in case, ex on weekends so the googan patrol will stay home if there is any chance of weather that would be threatening to small craft. When I got home and saw the weather system charts I could have predicted the weather would be a lot more than they predicted myself, and I'm just a dumb f’er. We were sitting right on the edge of that stalled low and with all the tax payer $$ invested in NOAA equipment there is no excuse for that f-up. I mean for christ sakes they were still predicting 10-15 a few hours into the gail, no excuse!!!
Just read that one guy did die in Barnstable Harbor, haven't heard anything else on the mayday I heard or other loses.
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Likwid, sounds like you want to talk war stories with your comment “You think thats bad”? Please tell me more about “being caught in the Buzzards Bay afternoon hurricane with the wind blowing one way and the tide going another.” Must be like coming in the North River in a following sea when it is blowing NE 25-30 on an outgoing tide huh in a twenty foot boat huh? Or maybe being on a 100 foot boat in 100 knot winds and fifty foot seas loaded down with 100 plus iced up crab traps with a minus 50 wind chill? Dude, I’ve seen a lot of weather, and one of the closest calls I’ve ever had was on Sat.
And no, “I’ve” never lost a boat--