Tuesday - January 24, 2006

Stormy Weather

Take a look at the picture below. What you see is a huge twenty foot storm surge during Hurricane Katrina. Or is it? You know how rumors get started, don’t you? Someone tells somebody else something and they tell someone else and so on. With each telling the story gets altered and sometimes magnified. This picture has been circulating around the internet for months and has been rumored to have been taken at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi before that city was smashed by the hurricane. It has also been rumored to have been taken at a number of other places in Louisiana and Mississippi to demonstrate the devastation of Katrina.

I have received this picture from several people lately with varying stories of where it happened. This is one of the problems with the internet. In some cases, more misinformation is spread than information. With all the blogs out there nowadays, it is easy to see why so much is exaggerated and why so many people seem to be totally barking mad. And that’s just in the “civilized” countries. Imagine the trouble that is caused when uneducated, impressionable people like your typical Middle Eastern goober reads misinformation on the internet. Maybe the internet isn’t such a good thing after all if it causes Ahab The Arab to go blow himself up because of some Arab web site’s lies and distortions of the truth.

Always remember, the truth is where you find it but it may not always be 100% true. It may just seem to be true because you want it to be true. Keep that in mind as you surf the blogs today and every day. Or, as we say here in Missouri .... show me. As for this picture, it’s true but not quite what it seems. Go here for the full story. Credit Snopes for researching this one.

Posted by The Skipper     on 01/24/2006 at 05:44 AM   
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