Monday, October 24, 2005

Hurricane Information

So where is the best place to information about Hurricane Wilma?

At work we get SitReps emails from the from Hillsborough County Emergency Management Office. They are very good. They tell me where the hurricane is at and how it will affect us. Plus there is a bit of humor involved, with quotes from Yogi Berra. However this great information is not available on their web site. Well sort of. Today I looked again again at their website and found the September 21 SitRep in pdf format. September 21!!!!!. Frankly their website is worthless. With the blogging software available there is no reason they can't have the SitReps posted as soon as the generate them.

One thing I found from the SitReps is a great website:Skeetobite Weather This website shows the spagetti models and a very good maps of the strike area.

Of course I go to the source and check the National Hurricane Center.

The best 2 TV/news websites are WFLA/TBO.COM/Tampa Tribune Hurricane Center site and WFTS - ABC Action News. A lot of info available and easy to find.

WTVT's is pretty shallow. A couple of good images in the home page but otherwise not much depth. This is not surprising as the whole website is shallow. If you missed something on their broadcasts forget about seeing on their website.

WTSP's took too long to load on my dial-up computer.

As far as TV stations are concerned I don't have cable so I am limited as to what I can watch. The best is WFLA. They were first with the VIPIR type system. They do far more with their images/radars/computer graphics than the other stations.

What do you think?

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