Do people out West get sick of East Coast hype?

DCmetroraleigh · #1 Postby **DCmetroraleigh** » Fri Dec 05, 2003 2:12 pm

I wonder if people who live West of the Mississippi get jealous or sick of how much hype and attention our weather gets in contrast to theirs?

Josephine96 · #2 Postby **Josephine96** » Fri Dec 05, 2003 2:13 pm

LOL Nothing really bad ever goes on out west

Stormchaser16 · #3 Postby **Stormchaser16** » Fri Dec 05, 2003 3:00 pm

That is such an ignorant statement its unbeleivable.

StormCrazyIowan · #4 Postby **StormCrazyIowan** » Fri Dec 05, 2003 3:00 pm

Ummm, short answer:

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!! :lol:

I want to be in the limelight every once in a while!! ROFL, even though I am about 3 BLOCKS west of the Mississippi....

#5 Postby **wx247** » Fri Dec 05, 2003 3:02 pm

Josephine96 wrote:LOL Nothing really bad ever goes on out west

I beg to differ, but I don't mind the coverage.

nystate · #6 Postby **nystate** » Fri Dec 05, 2003 3:09 pm

Well I am not west of the Mississippi, but I get sick of it sometimes, like when a lake effect snowstorm dumps 2+ feet of snow on my area, but the media is covering a 6 inch snowfall in NYC...

weatherlover427 · #7 Postby **weatherlover427** » Fri Dec 05, 2003 3:20 pm

I sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo agree it's not even funny. I live in SW California and all the time on TWC it's "The Northeast this" or "NYC that" or "Atlanta this" or "Boston that" that it is really getting on my nerves. I wrote them a letter about it once but they never changed anything. We could be getting a 3 inch flooding rain here and they would still pay more attention to the Northeast and NYC area than they would out here in the poor old measly West. We sure as heck get weather - wind, snow, cold, heat,blizzard conditions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, dense fog, - in fact we get just about everything the East gets except for the hurricanes and tropical stuff. (except for the remnants, which we do get here in the southwest on occasion during the monsoon season) I could go on for days about this because I have been waiting for eons for a thread like this, but I'll stop before I go too far...

DCmetroraleigh · #8 Postby **DCmetroraleigh** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 12:32 am

It has a lot to do with the fact that major media is concentrated in the big East Coast cities. For example, if the Sniper shootings had happened in Denver, I doubt it would have gotten the 24/7 international coverage it received. Even minor stories in the East Coast cities end up getting national coverage.

ColdFront77 · #9 Postby **ColdFront77** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 12:55 am

Joshua21Young wrote:I sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo agree it's not even funny. I live in SW California and all the time on TWC it's "The Northeast this" or "NYC that" or "Atlanta this" or "Boston that" that it is really getting on my nerves. I wrote them a letter about it once but they never changed anything.

The Weather Channel needs more than one or a handful of people asking for any sort of change.

This goes with anything. The majority rules.

That's right DCmetroraleigh. As I and others have said before the population being what it is in the northeast gets more attention. There are more people living from Washington, D.C. to Boston, Massachusetts.

This topic should probably be in the Off Topic forum.

weatherlover427 · #10 Postby **weatherlover427** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 12:57 am

True; but do you realize how many big cities the West has? Let me give you a summary (which is by no means complete):

(Me from another website on pretty much the same subject)

Let me see here...

Major Cities in the NE:

NYC

Boston

Hartford

Albany

Buffalo

Nashua

Portland

Dover

Philadelphia

Pittsburgh

Scranton

Erie

Manhattan

Mount Vernon

Harrisburg

Allentown

Reading

Rochester

Syracuse

Worcester

Burlington

Trenton

Baltimore

Washington, DC

Jersey City

New Haven

Providence

Springfield

Williamsport

York

Newark

Major Cities NOT IN the NE (i.e. SE, W, and Midwest):

Los Angeles

San Diego

Sacramento

San Francisco

Seattle

Portland

Salt Lake City

Denver

Tucson

Yuma

Phoenix

El Paso

Dallas

Fort Worth

Houston

Galveston

San Antonio

Minneapolis

St. Paul

Orlando

Miami

Key West

West Palm Beach

Jacksonville

Tallahassee

Atlanta

Birmingham

Mobile

New Orleans

Baton Rouge

Shreveport

Nashville

Raleigh

Ladson

Little Rock

Chicago

Indianapolis

Cincinnati

Cleveland

Virginia Beach

Augusta

Macon

Milwaukee

Detroit

Des Moines

Memphis

Topeka

Oklahoma City

Amarillo

Lafayette

Charleston

Charlotte

Knoxville

Chattanooga

Las Vegas

Colorado Springs

Boise

Kansas City, MO

Kansas City, KS

St. Louis

Wichita

St. Petersburg

Daytona Beach

Columbia

Oakland

San Jose

Reno

Madison

Lansing

Grand Rapids

Dayton

Honolulu

Hilo

Oahu

Fairbanks

Barrow

Anchorage

Juneau

Need I say more? There are obviously way more major non-Northeastern cities than there are Northeastern cities.

ColdFront77 · #11 Postby **ColdFront77** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 1:00 am

The population of the northeast quadrant of the country is quite a bit higher than it is in the southeast, midwest, south-central, northwest and southwest.

David · #12 Postby **David** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 1:01 am

StormCrazyIowan wrote:Ummm, short answer:

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!

I want to be in the limelight every once in a while!! ROFL, even though I am about 3 BLOCKS west of the Mississippi....

Agrees with above.

weatherlover427 · #13 Postby **weatherlover427** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 1:04 am

*Points to above quote*

Not if you combine the cities in the way I mentioned above I think.

LehighValleyForcaster · #14 Postby **LehighValleyForcaster** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 7:18 am

When I was living in California and was hearing all about the bad weather out on the East Coast...............................

I was ALWAYS glad I was where I was............................warm and nice............

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh............the way I like it/

Also.................if I wanted snow, I could always go to the mountains and get it and then returning to the beach to soak up some sun and enjoy the warmth and the ocean. ( only took me about 30 or so minutes to get where the snow was)

Something the East Coast can not do.......................they always had to deal with the COLD weather and BAD weather.

azsnowman · #15 Postby **azsnowman** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 7:38 am

Naaaa, besides, I like my *peace and quite*.....too much attention would only bring MORE people here!!!

Dennis

aep · #16 Postby **aep** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 10:35 am

It seems like most people on weather boards are from the east coast. Is it that people out west aren't as interested in weather as the people on the east coast?
Anyways, I live in Winnipeg, Canada with a population of close to 700,000 but I don't expect any attention here cause I know that lots of people on wx boards don't know where Winnipeg is or just don't care. Oh well, what can you do...I enjoy weather and that what keeps me coming back to these boards even if all I hear about is mostly east coast weather.

ColdFront77 · #17 Postby **ColdFront77** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 4:33 pm

LehighValleyForcaster wrote:When I was living in California and was hearing all about the bad weather out on the East Coast...............................

I was ALWAYS glad I was where I was............................warm and nice............

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh............the way I like it/

Also.................if I wanted snow, I could always go to the mountains and get it and then returning to the beach to soak up some sun and enjoy the warmth and the ocean. ( only took me about 30 or so minutes to get where the snow was)

Something the East Coast can not do.......................they always had to deal with the COLD weather and BAD weather.

That isn't the case for those that can readily go even 30 miles without transportation and/or being allowed to.

ohiostorm · #18 Postby **ohiostorm** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 6:43 pm

Even with the sniper shootings in Columbus Ohio, there wasnt no 24/7 coverage.

ColdFront77 · #19 Postby **ColdFront77** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 7:30 pm

ohiostorm wrote:Even with the sniper shootings in Columbus Ohio, there wasnt no 24/7 coverage.

This story has gotten more attention that it could have, considering.

Joshua21Young wrote:*Points to above quote*

Not if you combine the cities in the way I mentioned above I think.

Washington, D.C. to Boston, Massachusetts is obviously much smaller in land area than the rest of the United States; thus the density of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic is going to get more attention and rightly so.

aep wrote:Anyways, I live in Winnipeg, Canada with a population of close to 700,000 but I don't expect any attention here cause I know that lots of people on wx boards don't know where Winnipeg is or just don't care.

Along with Meteorology, I am interesting in Geography, mainly U.S. Geography, but southern Canada as well... so I know where Winnipeg, Canada is located.

hudsonvalleywx · #20 Postby **hudsonvalleywx** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 7:23 pm

sorry to bust your bubble but about 50% of the cities that you named that are not in the northeast don't even total up to the amount of people that live in nyc and the immediate subrubs alone.

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