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 As soon as they finished hyping Irene for a solid week, some of our national media friends flipped into suggesting that perhaps the storm had been "over-hyped".
Charles Apples at the American Copy Editors Society site neatly demolishes that view with a collection of visuals, including the downtown Brattleboro pic (taken by the Reformer's Chris Bertleson) that ran on page one of the Burlington Free Press. Apple: "Here are two young ladies in Brattleboro, Vt., watching hype swallow their entire town."
Well, "entire town" is in fact a little overblown, but his point is right on.
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Miss Mean Irene Headed Straight for Brattleboro?
Thursday, August 25 2011 @ 01:19 PM GMT+4
Contributed by: Mr. Buddy Love
Looking at the latest tracker info, it looks like Hurricane
Irene could cause major flooding and damage to trees in
town. There might be power outages as well. Whatever
you do, stay away from flooded roads. And get yourself
down to Brown & Roberts for batteries and flashlights if
you don't already have them. This storm looks pretty bad!
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This was my first post of alarm about what i saw headed
for Brattleboro. Being the bearer of bad news has its price.
www.ibrattleboro.com/article.php/20110825131929813