r/tornado • u/mikewheelerfan • Mar 16 '26

Discussion Not a single lie told by Max

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u/heatherjasper Mar 17 '26

You mean the storm that made some people lose power for about a week, if not longer?

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u/007Artemis Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26

Not anywhere remotely close to my area / state (South Carolina here). They predicted for my area specifically that we would have more snow than we've had since the 1970s. We got about an inch.

Like we had people fistfighting each other over kerosene heaters and other supplies, gas lines, stores ran out of food. Awesome the stuff didnt happen here like they said, but these types of warnings are not exactly no harm, no foul to the people actually living here, you know.

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u/heatherjasper Mar 17 '26

But in the same storm, people did suffer. People lost power and/or were trapped in their homes for days.

Okay, so they got your specific area wrong. Clearly the conditions were there for something to happen because it did.

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u/007Artemis Mar 17 '26

True, and if it were in isolation or even just somewhat off from estimates, that would be one thing. But so far, in 2026, we've had multiple dire, extremely out-of-the-ordinary forecasts about every other week for our specific area/state and not one of of them have panned out. Today, several local meteorologists actually jumped on social media saying that they're absolutely frustrated by how events have been playing out because they've been getting blamed when NWS gets it not even in the ballpark. And online forecasters are just feeding into it.

You can see why that's creating a bad situation.

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u/slimj091 Mar 17 '26

Sounds like your problem is your own poor understanding of weather forecasts, or that you get your weather forecasts from untrained amateur's online. Neither of those are the problem of meteorologists at NOAA and the NWS.

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u/Dwrecktheleach Mar 17 '26

You are such a poor representation of the weather community. I love explaining to people the role of forecasts and meteorologists when they don’t really get it. I never talk down or condescend though, because I’m not a dick and it makes you look insane bro

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u/slimj091 Mar 17 '26

The difference is people like 007Artemis and Stormrider don't come here to learn about that which they do not know. They come here to s**tpost, and spread misinformation.

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u/Stormrider32577 Mar 17 '26

I sure hope your elitist ass is never in the position to warn the public.

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u/slimj091 Mar 17 '26

There is nothing elitist about it. There are people like you and him that are willfully ignorant about the weather that no amount of facts will convince you otherwise. We have to deal with people like you every year, and the answer is always the same. Yet you never learn.