Originally posted by Satcomer
Well, I wouldn't say lucky. I just make sure I'm prepared. Working in the satellite communications field I've been at work for 3 of the 4 storms I've been through.
On side note, I hope your going to be an HONEST journalist and try to stay objective and separate from the stories you cover. I'm tired of a journalist's political leanings creep into a story. I believe journalism is starting to be to much about opinion and not about fact. Also, the choice of the story your cover also IMHO comes of as bias.
After spending time outside of the U.S.A. (living three years abroad) made my eyes open about American media (plus European media). They both like to exaggerate or throw their respective spin on the facts. Truth is in the eye of the beholder. I just want my news reported as the actual fact of the story. No more, no less.
Having survived Andrew in Miami (my family still thinks we were nuts), Hugo and a couple of blows in Texas I can't remember the name of (one in Galveston, one in Brownsville in the 80s) along with major earthquakes in Mexico and Central America, I have to say that regular luck is enough. As Sat says, good boyscouts get through.
The real story is the nonsense on TV, Reporters standing on the boardwalk, holding on to telephone poles, trying to crank up the drama.
OMG 26 people have been died in the same space of time that the hurricane went through! GG! 3 million people without power. So how many deaths were directly storm related and how many just had there number come up anyway? - no that's not even the point.
All they want to do is sell soap. It is enough to make one sick.
It's hard to get riled up about 3 million without power for a week when the majority of the world's population have no power every day (neither electrical nor political). (of course that has my bias in it too.)
Anyway, Satcomer, glad you're safe and glad you've been able to spend time abroad, it does help put a lot of stuff in perspective.
Trip, if you're going to be a journalist I highly reccommend a stint as an intern in a local English language publication anywhere in the developing world.
