Monday: Power play
The big 3 for Monday:
1. JIMMIE JOHNSON TAKES FULL ADVANTAGE OF HIS MARTINSVILLE OPPORTUNITY, holding off Kyle Busch in the closing laps to win Sunday’s Sprint Cup race. Brad Keselowski puts in a fine effort to finish sixth but still loses the points lead to Johnson, who holds the top spot by two points. Meanwhile, the failure of a $40 part costs Denny Hamlin a strong run and any chance at a Cup title.
2. AFTER BEING THE MASTERS OF SURVIVAL IN THE FIRST TWO ROUNDS, the Giants leave no doubt in the World Series, sweeping the Tigers with a 4-3, 10-inning victory over the Tigers in 10 innings. Pablo Sandoval captures MVP honors of the Fall Classic. Always a bittersweet day for baseball fans when a champion is crowned and the season ends. The countdown to Opening Day begins.
3. THE ACC’S COASTAL DIVISION LIKELY COMES DOWN TO THURSDAY NIGHT, when the Hokies visit Miami on ESPN. The Hokies are winless on the road this year but still have opened as 2-point favorites. Meanwhile, Logan Thomas says he still plans to return for his senior season, echoing statements he made over the summer.
ALSO RECEIVING VOTES: Kansas State moves to second in the BCS standings, with Notre Dame third. Alabama remains the leader. Oregon is fourth…Steelers shut down Griffin, Redskins…Giants rally past Cowboys…Falcons remain undefeated with win over Philly…Indy, Detroit and Chicago all stage comebacks to win…Peyton Manning leads Denver past New Orleans on Sunday night…Tonight’s game is 49ers at Cardinals…The first night of the final table of the World Series of Poker is on ESPN2 at 8 tonight.
NAME THAT TUNE
She bent down and turned around and gave me a wink
She said “I’m gonna make it up right here in the sink”
It smelled like turpentine, it looked like Indian ink
I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink
October 29, 2012 - 9:01 AM
Trevor’s Big 3 -
1) Sportsmanship still exist in college football. See the support shown by Tennessee players and fans when Lattimore went down with a sickening injury to his knee.
2) The Jets has more problems than Rex Ryan’s foot. Punked at home by Miami Dolphins of all teams!
3) Matt Ryan is moving closer to being an elite quarterback.
I’ve got the lyrics, but I’ll leave them for someone else.
Logan Thomas hasn’t exactly echoed statements from the summer. His statements have changed of necessity, as any statement made in the middle of the season about leaning towards going pro would be career suicide. It’s fine to ask the question, but only the most naive, gullible small child would take it as a serious answer.
How pitiful is it that two teams like VT & Miami will play for the division title, considering their records? Oh, wait, it’s the ACC, where that frequently happens in football.
The SF Giants have won two of the three last World Series. So, like always, where will virtually all the media attention be in baseball next year? On the Yankees & BoSox.
All Access – ESPN on UK basketball was really good last night. More (rare) ESPN programming? Tonight: 30 For 30 – Ghosts of Ole Miss.
oops, 30 For 30 is on TUES night.
I can’t wait until LSU beats Alabama this weekend, then suddenly the SEC is on the outside looking in at two other teams this January…
Song is Love Potion No. 9…unsure of the artist
Easy one this morning: Love Potion #9 by the Searchers.
Love Potion #9
And the Hokies are desperate for a win. The coaches are feelin’ the love from the fans based on the reaction from Stiney the other day.
I think that Josh Morgan and the other Skins WRs should donate their game checks to charity. Peter King said 9 drops but I counted 10. That is NOT earning your money.
I had to look up who recorded it first. The Clovers. I remeber the Mindbenders version best.
Thanks for pulling something silly out of my childhood.
How about “Listen Mr. Custer” next. Or “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini”? “Chantilly Lace”? “Splish Plash”?
Oh baby thats what I like…..
Yeah, last night was rough to watch, but the Giants seemed a team destined for greatness this year with their NLDS and NLCS heroics. Combined with the impact of the long layoff, the Tigers never had a chance. Game 1 set the tone with the Giants roughing up Verlander and getting some lucky bounces along the way. Then 2 straight 2-0 shutouts, and I never really felt like the Tigers has a chance to win last night…even when they led 2-1 and tied it up at 3-3. Going forward, their starting rotation is solid as is, and for the most part, I like their relivers. They need a more reliable closer though…Valverde will not be a Tiger next year. But their problems, as I have said all year, are defense, speed, and hitting. They need more speed and better defense, and with it they need more offense. They can’t get the job done without better support before and after Cabrera and Fielder. Berry, Jackson, Young, Avila, Infante, Dirks…they’re all OK but too inconsistent. They need some upgrades in the offseason.
Lions at least scored a nice come-from-behind win over the Seahawks. But it still burns me that if their kick coverage was even halfway decent, they could be 5-2, instead of 3-4. But at least they’re not the Cowboys, Panthers, Eagles, Browns, or Chargers. I think all 5 of those teams have new coaches next year.
The game Thursday for VT is critical. A win and they’re in good position for the Coastal, because GT is putrid (and 3-5, 2-3…with games against Maryland, UNC, Duke, Georgia left…at least 1 or 2 losses there) and UVA is horrible (2-6, 0-4…with games against NC State, Miami, UNC, VT…they could lose all 4)). Duke, even though they’re 6-3, 3-2, will struggle to win another game (Clemson, at GT, Miami). UNC isn’t eligible, though they’re the best team in the Coastal and a good candidate to win out (GT, UVA, Maryland) to finish 9-3, 6-2…with 2 bad losses to WF and Duke. A win over Miami drops the Canes to 4-5, 3-3…but their final 3 games (2 in the league) are all very winnable (UVA, Duke, South Florida). So if VT can win and get to 3-2 in the league, a loss to FSU doesn’t cripple them, and closing with games at BC and hosting UVA…gives them a chance to finish 5-3 in the league, and likely the representative from the Coastal…only because everyone outside of UNC is about as bad, or worse, when compared to VT this year.
Sad thing is, looking at the ACC teams, there may only be 6 bowl-eligible programs in the league, and it’s possible 1 or 2 of them are 6-6…with another possibly 7-6. I expect that Clemson, FSU, and NC State are the only 3 strong bowl contenders in the league, with VT, Miami, and Duke the other likely bowl-eligible teams. Maryland could make it, but their road is awful tough (GT, at Clemson, FSU, at UNC).
I’m with Trevor on his #1 – it was very classy how the UT players were when Lattimore got hurt, and it was a sickening injury to watch. It wasn’t quite Joe Theisman classic, or Willis McGahee, but it was pretty close.
Also agree with his #3 – Matty Ice is coming into his own.
And to think, I was pissed off when I missed my fantasy draft and got ‘stuck’ with him (and Peyton Manning, no less), as about a 6th or 7th round pick. Talk about a bargain. Said FFB will be 7-1 after tonight, as well, with the 1 loss due to the unfortunate benching of Ahmad Bradshaw when he came back from injury and just blew up for a bazillion yards his first game back.
Baseball trivia – and, no, I don’t know the answer – but has a team swept, in the LCS, then been swept in the Series before? I’d be curious to know.
I remember Cincinnati spanking Oakland one year, during the Bash Brothers era, but don’t remember if Oakland swept before (because they were heavy favorites to throttle the Reds), and if Cincy swept them back.
Am totally shocked about this Thursday night line. Am trying to round up the deed to my house, titles to my cars, all of the convenience checks I can get on my credit cards, and sell a kidney and take the U and the 2.
crooked – this won’t be the first time 5-3 has played for the acc championship. Tech has already done it once. The acc (small letters, intentional) is just out of whack.
Zman, on the Deadskin drops, I’m pretty sure 10 is it, because either ESPN or NBC showed them, all of them, in the lowlights section of something on last night, SportsCenter or the half time highlights in the night game. They counted them down, showed them all – some were really, really bad, too!
OJ, I would love for the Panthers to have a new coach. Ron Rivera isn’t cutting it, and ever since he took over, the Panthers have blown more leads than Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction. From what I’ve heard about Rivera, he was the DC of the Chargers, and passed over many time for promotion to head coach. He is simply not a head coach material.
The Steelers had the worse uniform on yesterday. They looked like a 1920 chain gang prison convicts, but darned they didn’t dominate the Redskins in all phase of the game.
I am thinking VT goes 2-2 in November with proable losses to Miami and Florida State, and proable wins against Boston College and Virginia. It is also possible VT goes 3-1 with wins over Miami, Boston College, and Virginia. Florida State is too loaded to let VT beat them unless FSU beat themselves. I know historically, November is when VT goes on a tear in the acc, but I am not sold that they are good enough to do that this year.
The ACC is a mess. Beside the Atlantic having two strong teams in FSU and Clemson, the Coastal is as wacky as trying to fish in a hurricane with bobbing lure and worm on hook.
While you all have been having fun this past weekend I’ve been living on an island. OJ knows. My frustration this weekend is frenetic weathermen who are yelling the sky is falling and dominating the program time. This storm is unusual but they don’t get a chance for this much screen time so they milk it as much as they can. We’ve been through a lot worse but you wouldn’t know it watching the news. It’s over for us now but I think you all are in line for some snow from it. We’ll have sunshine and you’ll have wind and snow.
Love Potion No. 9 it is. It’s on a Halloween CD my kids love. Not sure what’s Halloweeny about Love Potion No. 9, but at least that explains the song’s inclusion here.
O.J. — Terps would be toast even without the tough sked. They lost their fourth QB for the year (the freshman this time) in the loss to BC over the weekend.
I, too, was surprised by the Vegas line on the Tech game, although the series has been pretty one-sided of late. Wonder if Frank is piping in chirping crickets during practice this week to prepare for the atmosphere down there.
Rick–I’ve always wondered, with you being a NASCAR fan (and others who are race fans can answer this too), what do you watch during the middle portions of the race? Your favorite drivers? The leaders? Position battles that develop mid-pack? Gotta admit that I tend to zone out for about 60 laps once they get strung out. If somebody of significance is about to get lapped, I perk up for the battle, but other than that my eyes have no idea what to watch.
Tom L. Glad nothing happened where you are. Disappointed you think thats all that matters in the universe and your TV enjoyment was disturbed. You might consider a broader view. Flood damage in the north is already serious and the storm is still 150 miles away.
There where no weathermen to warn Galveston 100 years ago. Lots of people died and the damage was tremendous. Is that really your preference?
If damage is less than you think is warranted due to the noise of the warning is that because people heeded the warning or because it was smoke? I might point out that resuce personnel are currently trying to save people who refused to believe. I also might point out that your power company (and many others) imported high voltage electricians over the weekend to prepare for outages.
Sorry you think it is a useless media storm. Guess you do live in isolation.
AMc…I always focus on the position battles mid-pack, looking for the most likely place for contact to occur. Also, after attending several races without one, I bought the FM radio headset a few years back and find it IMMENSELY helpful in keeping me informed during the race — it also helps me focus on the key battles, as MRN does a fantastic job of providing in-race commentary. Yesterday they reported Harvick’s pending engine failure more than 40 laps before it blew up, and it made that portion of the race much more interesting, particularly when he was running just ahead of the leaders…
I channel surf the whole race, check in during the race and then watch the last 50-60 laps. With cable there is always plenty of other sports to watch except during a hurricane. Then it’s weathermen/women standing knee deep in water. The most compelling thing I watched this weekend was my neighbor across the creek standing chest deep in the water moving his PWC dock.
Aaron, I forgot that, yeah…they’re toast.
I’d take Miami, just because while the Canes have a horrible defense, VT’s offense hasn’t exactly proven it can run circles around bad defense, and I expect Miami’s offense to be productive enough to require VT to score 27+ offensive points to win, and I don’t see that happening.
RP — Interesting. I’ve always thought the MRN guys do the best job of any sports radio team at covering their event. There’s so much to pick up on and somehow they do it. And the “passing of the baton” from the broadcasters in each turn is always seamless — the guy passing always raises his voice at the end of his segment to create that cliffhanger, and then the next guy comes in, starts so calm and smooth, rises, then passes. Fun listen.
Zman, you miss the point. We know what’s coming. We’ve survived them all. When you live in this area you are a fool to not know the concequences of living here. Tell us what’s coming , give us updates but we don’t need to be constantly bombarded by TV weather personalities trying to outdo each other.So much misinformation was reported on this storm it actually created problems. If you want to know what to expect talk to the watermen that have worked this water all their life. I don’t minimize the severity at all. Our house has had 3′ of water in it so we are aware. Been without power for 18 days, cable for 20 days. No heat for 5 months. We realize the dangers and sacrifices made by all, we just don’t need weathermen/women reminding us 24 hours a day. The last 2 days I would have liked a distraction, I knew where the hurricane was and what the water levels were. I’m sorry if I chastized your profession.
Aaron, great question, because I do tend to zone out, too, at times. In 500 laps, or 600 miles, it is pretty easy to lose focus. It is a marathon, not a sprint, and most many do not realize that.
I tend to focus on a few specific cars – 24, 48, 88 – and even though I go by Rick H. on here, I’m certainly not Rick Hendrick, but that is where my focus is, those drivers, and Denny Hamlin (and Elliot Sadler before his fall from the main circuit).
When I am live and in person, I usually have a scanner that I’ll follow a few of those, and when I’m at home, watching on DirecTV, it’ll be one of those, or multiple of them, on the HotPass coverage. It depends on who is featured.
It really depends on the situation – if somebody is running strong, obviously, you stick on them – and if you like to hear colorful language on the radio, you definitely stick with the 88, although his numerous appearances on HotPass have toned his language down a good bit, but he has always been a real neat person to listen to.
Rowdy Busch and Tony Stewart are good ones to listen to, and watch, too. They get a bit more animated than others. Gordon, Johnson, they are actually pretty boring to listen to, either on TV or scanner.
The key, to keep your attention, is to have something like that – a main couple of drivers to watch (on TV), or listen to (on radio).
In person, even when listening on the radio, I’ll also tend to watch guys that tend to be having some handling issues, because that is where the wreck is going to happen. Yesterday was a great example, Marcus Ambrose was the guy to watch.
Yesterday was a little different for me, though, I had a bit of an interest in AJ Allmendinger, just because of a chance to run into him a couple months ago – glad to see him back on the track, hope he gets a chance to keep going on. He’s like Mike Vick – good guy, screwed up, deserves a second chance.
Word out of Philly today is that Vick officially gets benched this week. Well that’s just great for my fantasy team. It’s bad enough that I keep screwing up my lineup. Now I have to go find a QB.
Teams with less than 9 total wins and/or 5-3 record (or worse) to make a conference championship game (ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, SEC, Pac-12 only). Overall and conference records (at kick-off) in parenthesis. Rankings at kick-off
ACC
2005: #22 Florida State (7-4, 5-3)
2008: #20 Boston College (9-3, 5-3), Virginia Tech (8-4, 5-3)
2009: Clemson (8-4, 6-2)
Big Ten
Hasn’t happened yet (only 1 game thus far)
Big 12
1996: Texas (7-4, 6-2)
2004: Colorado (7-4, 4-4)
2005: Colorado (7-4, 5-3)
2008: #17 Missouri (9-3, 5-3)
SEC
1993: #16 Alabama (8-2-1, 5-2-1)
1995: #23 Arkansas (8-3, 6-2)
1998: Mississippi State (8-3, 6-2)
2001: #21 LSU (8-3, 5-3)
2010: #18 South Carolina (9-3, 5-3)
Pac-12 (only 1 game thus far)
2011: UCLA (6-6, 5-4)
Conferences in 2012 that are likely to have a team finish 5-3 (6-3 for Pac-12) or worse in-conference and make the championship game for 2012 OR to have a team with less than 9 wins make the championship game for 2012:
Pac-12 South division
Big Ten Leaders division (Ohio State and Penn State ineligible)
ACC Coastal division
Andy I was on Bitter’s chat today and he said he couldn’t comment on coaching changes he would like to see in regards to Virginia Tech football but you might. Let’s hear it please. Name names! If the slate was wiped clean I think Derek Dooley would be a good head coach. If Foster was named HC I would take Bobby Petrino as OC.
oops I meant Aaron !
Coxster — You aren’t going to want to hear this, but I’m going to let the rest of this season play out before doing that. How the different units react from here, as well as how the team as a whole finishes the season, has to play into any kind of evaluation like that IMO. Obviously we have a lot of information now, but it’s incomplete. The story of 2012 is only two-thirds written.
There are plenty of places you can go right now where the pitchforks are out and everybody’s being anonymously fired. Not saying those opinions are wrong or have no merit, just that I don’t plan to operate the same way. Just for argument’s sake, let’s say Tech put up 50 points and trounced FSU, then won the ACC, then won the Orange Bowl against one-loss Notre Dame. We’d be having a much different discussion than we are know. Not gonna happen, but the fact that it’s possible is why you don’t see most coaches make changes during the season.
If you’re asking who I think is most likely to be on the hot seat in the eyes of the people who actually make those decisions, I’d say Newsome.
Coxster, no, and no on Bobby Petrino. While he may be an offensive mind, he could cause sharp division between Hokies fans, and that could affect donations to the athletic funds. I wouldn’t want him to be calling plays because of his sorrid affair and his track record of deceptions.
And Derek Dooley? The Derek Dooley at Tennessee? No.
Tom L. I stand my ground. YOU MISS THE POINT. Sorry you don’t like weather warnings and you seem to think this is a nothing but in some places in the US this storm may well be unlike they have ever seen.
Chris Christie, Governor of NJ says “Don’t be stupid. Get out.” A Coast Guard Admiral says it could be “Bad or a disaster”. The Governor of Conneticut says this will be something unike anything “any of us have seen in our lifetime”. Airlines have shut operations around the world because planes can’t land from Baltimore to Boston. 11 foot tidal rise along some parts of the northern coastline means towns might be washed away. The Delaware’s Atlantic beach towns are under water.
Yup. It’s a nothing. Overblown and over dramatzed and all those people know watermen to use as their own personal resources.
The French have a word for people like you; “nincompoop”
Coxster, I’m with Aaron, too much football to play to make a call, and nothing, absolutely NOTHING, will happen mid-season.
If, as Frank claims that ‘this could still be a special season,’ or something to that effect, and this team pulls off a 6 win finish, wins out, wins the ACC, and a BCS bowl game – you won’t even see the dust wiped off of the empty trophy case.
There will be NO CHANGE, memories will be short, and everybody greatful for another ACC title and BCS win. Sadly, it could happen – it shouldn’t, but it really could. All it takes is an upset in Charlotte, and a good draw in the bowl.
But, if Tech moderately falls apart, doesn’t make a bowl game, losing to Miami and either BC or UVA (assuming FSU beats them) – you might see a change, some change.
If Tech really falls apart and loses out, I think you’ll definitely see change, but it’ll be incremental.
I think Aaron has it arout right – Newsome is first on the block, but it’ll take a major catastrophe before it’ll be anybody else. In my opinion, the comeback against Duke prevented the major catastrophe that probably needed to happen to shake things up.
Frank Beamer rides a lot of history – 19 years of going bowling is a lot to undo, and there won’t be a lot of “un-doing” in one season, unless this thing ends up 4-8, with a really bad last 4 (and losing to this UVA team could just push things, a bit).
What people don’t factor in is this – 1992, despite being 2-8-1, wasn’t all that bad of a team. Could’ve been a team with an 7-4 record, maybe even 8-3, with some confidence. They lost some really close games.
He is potentially looking at a record similar to his first 2 seasons, when sanctions saddled the program. That is not good. Not when this could have been the best defense in a long time, and the best ‘true QB’ Tech has ever had.
Best case is shedding Newsome, and O’Cain retiring, but you won’t see anything more than that. That’s pretty much guaranteed.
Getting away from sports a moment, I have to agree with Tom L. After growing up in Virginia Beach and living with hurricanes, tropical storms, and strong nor’easters as a reality of life for about half my life, the current broadcasting is overkill. I think a lot of that comes with the fact that technologically, we’re more connected than ever, with an immediate ability for anyone to broadcast videos, pictures, or observations via Twitter, facebook, Youtube…you name it. The media are quick to take that and utilize it in their broadcasts, combined with having reporters stationed all around with their own reports. I personally don’t like it.
I long for the days of maybe even just a decade ago, where the local weather and TWC would cover the storm event appropriately, without too much flare, and get down to the facts and reality rather than sensationalizing things. That’s a big part of why we dropped cable, which only impacts my sports watching in any significant fashion…and even that, I’m finding I don’t miss as much as I thought I would…because too many sports events are broadcast with information overload or really bad announcing crews that I don’t think I’d like covering a JV high school game.
Thanks for the information, Donald…very good stuff. This year it seems pretty likely that the team coming out of the Coastal for the ACC will be at best 7-5, 5-3…and either Miami or VT. I think the best Duke manages is 7-5, 4-4…and that’s a stretch. Miami could finish the year 6-6 overall, so could Duke, with VT also limping in at 6-6 (in that scenario, it’s plausible that Miami could represent the division at 6-6, 5-3). It’s just a really bad year for the ACC.
And with the Panthers, I think Rivera was a bad hire. The GM was already fired, in part because of hiring Rivera. So how much longer will they let him lead that team? The hottest seat I’d have to say is Norv Turner with the Chargers. Score 6 points against the Browns, coming out of a bye week? Seriously? Granted, they’re only 1 game out of a playoff spot, but holy moly…getting whacked by Atlanta isn;t a terrible loss. Losing on the road at the Saints not too terrible either, except that NO was 0-4 at the time. But losing to Denver was a critical loss, and then just playing that bad against a really, really bad Browns team…I think he’s done. There is no greater underachiveing head coach in the NFL than Norv Turner.
And the Iggles need to bench Vick. He’s been flat awful with the turnovers. But to be honest, I’m going back to when I was still a student at VT…the year after the title run for the Hokies is when I enrolled as a transfer student. I got to watch several games with Vick as the QB and I thought he was too loose with the football, too mistake- and turnover-prone…that his flashes of brilliance with mad scrambles could almost, but not completey, make up for. I felt that they were better off without him (Grant Noel didn’t help that), and the Eagles will be too…same has proven true for the Falcons. His mistakes at the highest level cannot be offset with his athleticism, because at the pro-level (and indeed at the top-level of collegiate ball), the opposing athletes simply negate that speed and athleticism that he could display against lesser opponents. Now, he’s no longer an asset to a team, he’s a detriment. And Andy Reid’s decision to put him on contract will cost him his job with Philly. But, he won’t be out of a job long…he’s too good of a coach, who simply picked the wrong quarterback.
OJ, and Tom, couldn’t agree more about the sensationalism of bad news. I’ve been watching CNBC for the last 90 minutes (yeah, I don’t just watch ESPN), or so, watching Maria (the over Botox’d babe) Bartiroma trying to incite a market collapse, when the stock market opens – she’s all over “what is going to happen? how much are stocks going to fall?” when the market FINALLY opens. Come on, it’ll be like a long friggin’ weekend. Just like Thanksgiving weekend, a couple days off. Most of these on air media types need to be taken out and put to pasture.
I just feel sorry for those rookies that they send out into the the wind and surf to cover these events.
You Virginia Tidewater guys should just turn off the TV and crawl into your holes. One of the times that weather forcasting justifies the taxpayer investment in satellites and storm tracking and you are unhappy because the weather people are talking too much for your taste.
It didn’t bother you so it just can’t be a problem for someone else.
You can’t prove a negative so it’s hard to know how many people will live because they were harrangued or how much property damage avoided because people took the time to board up.
I dislike avoidable tragedy so I have to say that I can stand the pain to my ears.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane with the song. Great selection! Would’ve had that one easily if I had read the column soon enough.
I think VT will go to Miami pumped like they were against Clemson but I think the homefield once again will be the deciding factor. It will create pressure and turnovers against the Hokies. Miami 23 – VT 17
Coxster- I can promise you there will never ever be a head football coach at va tech named Dooley. That and taxes are a certainty. You must not remember the 80′s. Keep searching.
Petrino? Are you kidding? Isn’t there a more disgraced college football coach available? Jeez? Cheats on his wife, crashes his motorcycle with his mistress, lies about it…and she’s the girlfriend of another coach? Virginia Tech has one thing worth preserving at all costs and that’s the clean (relatively) program that Beamer has built and the respect he has earned. Also Petrino is likely to quit in the middle of a gain much less middle of the season.
The Eagles have one chance and that’s with Vick. Their problems far exceed Michael Vick who incidentally does not play defense. However, I agree the turnovers are awful, but it’s the fumbles not the interceptions that bother me. A lot of the interceptions were tips and the like.
Zman, know your subject before you pontificate. Nobody has said don’t warn them . The officials need to make their point, alert the public to changes, and run the banner across the bottom of the TV screen. Granted this storm is a first but it’s like the little boy that cried wolf; when the time comes, nobody takes heed. It’s obvious that if you need to be reminded 24 hours a daY, your level of comprehension is obviously lacking. A clue, if your ever down here and you see watermen moving their 40′ workboats up the river, bringing their crab pots in, taking up nets, etc. head for higher ground. The ones that are from the area don’t need constant reenforcement of regurgitated information. We know moon phase,storm speed, tide cycle, distance from coast, if there is a front and it’s location all play a part. If your new to a flood prone area, ask a resident what to expect. If you see all the local residents are moving their vehicles, RV’s, trailered boats, etc., to higher ground, move yours.Personally I empathize with those that have been and will be affected by this storm. I as well as anybody know what these people are about to endure. I see from the news that many in the NY, NJ area heeded the 24 hr.a day warnings by staying and getting trapped. Sensory overload I guess. But when 30% of the info concerns our area and 70% concerns those in other parts of the country, that 70% doesn’t help and is usless bable to us. I still think Zman is an frustrated, unappreciated meteorologist crying for recognition.