CrazyC83 wrote:It makes me wonder: should derechos be named?
Probably not enough to implement. It does annoy me a little that the media just calls it "storms" and leaves it at that without mentioning how radical this one was.
Considering how dire the situation is in some areas like West Virgina, this thread should have like 50 pages for the catastrophic power outages and human toll. Its the top story in most national media and has been so for days now. There is now a food crisis in WV where many stores have no food left at all on their selves, scarce gas, limited water and communications, no power to 1/3 of the state, and 100ºF+ temperatures for days...that is a major disaster on a scale of a major hurricane. Some people according to CNN had no food for 2 days and the stores had to thrown out all the perishable foods...why not just plan for when those goods go bad and give away all the food to the Food Bank before it goes bad (as there was advance notice that the power will be out for a week)? That is pretty stupid IMO. The Food Bank there is now actually empty and trying to get national assistance and more food from drives!
Regardless, the death toll is about 26 and compounded with this new food crisis, this death toll is far from done rising. Very bad situation and CNN called it "Unimaginable". Looks like another multi-billion dollar disaster for economic impacts.
. I think I understand your point nonetheless.
