Someone said, "*this the calm before the storm*". No it's not. If that were the case, every sunny beautiful day would mean pending doom. The calm before the storm happens within hours (less) not days and refers to eerie stillness that is unusual, so unusual that the stillness itself is noted, no birds, no insects, no wind. The stillness is a warning.

This is not a surprise.

My personal belief is the Met office was pressured into making more of the weather than was actually there.

Jeffrey Simmons was on guardian radio on Tuesday speaking English and he clearly said, the rain we experienced so far will be worse than what we expect from Milton. His tone was calming, there was nothing in it about pending doom. The news and radio hosts need to also stop this constant repeat of cat5 cat5, yes it *was* a cat5, but what do the models say we'll get when it comes as close to us as it ever will? That's what we need to focus on. And if that's cat5, then yes, panic if you like.

We do ourselves no favors making a mountain out of every approaching storm because "*you never know when it could turn*"! No matter how weak the storm is, no matter how far away from us it is, "*its better to raid the gas stations and food stores because it's better to be prepared*".

**This is not preparation. Preparation starts with assessing the situation and ends with an *appropriate* response *based on* the assessment**. What we do is like getting a fire blower followed by a ballistic bomb to kill one roach. Then we speak about traumatized people, yes they're traumatized, but I doubt any psychiatrist would recommend helping a person with PTSD by feeding into their fears.

**It's impossible, absolutely impossible to predict such torrential rain that all schools have to be closed and employees have to stay home and not have one raindrop fall. It's literally impossible. I could accept some rain but it didnt turn out as severe as expected, but none? Impossible. The Met Office was pressured into this.**

That said as the storm gets closer to us, there will be a greater impact, what will that look like? Some drizzle, some showers, more wind choppier seas or more clear skies because it's too far away? The models interpreted by the experts have to say.

Too many arrogant people at the top refusing to listen to expert advice... and this is everywhere on everything.

It was clearly a political dataless move, theres no other explanation. It's impossible to predict torrential rains and flooding and up to 5:40PM not one raindrop falls. You cant make that mistake looking at a radar.

In addition, the head weatherman at the Met clearly said yesterday, what we'd experienced so far for the week would be more rain than we'd experience from milton. As to the winds, 30mph winds are a common occurrence minus hurricanes

I said this morning, the most important piece of information is missing from the article, which direction was the driver travelling and which direction was the motorcyclist travelling?

If they were travelling in the same direction, the motorcyclist would be at fault, the driver could be cited for failing to signal but that's about it. Motorcyclists dont have a right to a third lane.

If they were travelling in different directions, then time of day is a factor. If at night, dd the motorcycle have lights? If it did, then the driver would be at fault since the motorcyclist would have right of way on his side of the street.

Too much info missing from the article

I remember one night travelling on single lane Prince charles and thinking *what a weird light heading my way*. As it came past me the light morphed into a speeding semi truck. The light looked weird because it was high, if I were travelling within my lines but even close to middle line, he would have hit me because he took up so much of the road.

He get a jacket too?

Lol. Where he get that jacket?

The difference between the Bahamas and most US cities is the presence of dams and rivers. Also prevalence of wood in construction. While extended rainfall could mean lots of standing water here, it could means tons of fast moving water rushing toward you over there. If Milton lands as a cat-3 as they expect, just like Helene their issue will be that fast moving water. *If* it stays on the projected path, like the Met said, we here would have had worse weather today.

Our information dissemination is terrible.

People are still claiming the weather today is "*the hurricane*". Meanwhile this diagram shows **Milton wont even hit Florida until Thursday**. Again, according to the diagram, all *Tuesday* it's somewhere down by Mexico, nowhere near us.

**The heavy rain we experienced on Tuesday afternoon is NOT Milton**

I could just see it. People boarded up in their houses on Wednesday waiting out "a hurricane" and coming out on Thursday when it still will only be 30mph then walking around *Thursday* talking about how bad the hurricane *was*

We stress unnecessarily.

The Tuesday rain event was a separate system, had nothing to do with a hurricane, and was well worth its own warning about heavy downpours, white out conditions and moderate flooding that never came.

The irony is, the Met Office said this morning, the weather from Milton should not be as bad as what we've experienced today.

Very sad news.

You see that too? The same one monitor they show everytime this topic comes up. Instead of millions spent on motorcycles and cars, this room should be expanded to a team of 50 persons theyd have the weight of 1000 cars.

Let's be pleasantly surprised when they come up with that idea too