Rush Limbaugh\u2019s Hurricane Survival Guide: Stop Buying Water and Don\u2019t Listen to the News.<\/a>” Neither of those two things did I say. I never got close to saying either, and no reasonable, sane person ever would.<\/p>\nSo what did I say that has these people so discombobulated and upset? And I\u2019m telling you, it all revolves around their politics. And I continually poke holes in their balloon about this and they just can\u2019t handle it and they go livid. All I do is identify what they\u2019re doing. They are the ones exaggerating. They are the ones using this destructive event, which is going to affect millions of people horribly, they are the ones using it to advance a political agenda, not me. And all I\u2019m doing is pointing that out.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019m simply explaining to people how it works. Everything has been politicized in this country, and when the left is behind that politicization, you have corruption. There\u2019s corruption everywhere in our politics, and it is epitomized during national disasters and emergencies because the left is always working on moving their agenda forward, climate change, radical environmentalism, and so the occasion of this hurricane is an exciting thing for them!<\/p>\n
And simply to say that, just that, causes them to lose their grounding and their common sense. And when they lash out, they lie, and they say, as Al Roker did, that what I\u2019m suggesting is near criminal! What I\u2019m telling people is near criminal! Here\u2019s a summary of what I said to anybody in the path of this hurricane: Take emotion out of the equation. I explained how severe weather events are opportunities for big ratings boosts in the media and explained how it happens.<\/p>\n
I explained how severe weather events impact retailers and how some retailers are smart enough to coordinate advertising with television stations. It happens! It doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s bad. It happens. It helps to explain things. And that\u2019s all I do.<\/p>\n
Severe weather events are opportunities to advance political agendas, and they are. You can\u2019t miss all of the talk from Harvey on about climate change and people trying to persuade people that it\u2019s behind all this, when it isn\u2019t. I explained there are several hurricane models. They all show numerous and differing possible tracks.<\/p>\n
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I said I\u2019m not a meteorologist. I said I don\u2019t come to you as an expert. I\u2019m simply telling you I\u2019ve lived in Florida 20 years, I\u2019ve developed my own system for analyzing the data and that I do and that I share it with you. Hurricane tracks can change quickly, unexpectedly. Hurricane Andrew, Category 5, went to Homestead, Florida. That was the last thing it was expected to do. There was no forecast that had it going to Homestead, Florida, and at the last minute it jogged west and went into Homestead, Florida. Took everybody surprise.<\/p>\n
And these things can happen because all kinds of different atmospheric conditions are in play here, and a change in any one of them can change a forecast track, not the fault of the forecasters. It\u2019s so complex, climate, atmospherics, meteorology, it\u2019s so complex it can\u2019t be predicted with certitude other than six to 12 hours out. It is not an exact science. And I said if you\u2019re panicked that you can\u2019t find bottled water. Turn on the tap.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t tell anybody not to drink water. I said there\u2019s a thing in your kitchen called a sink and above that is a thing called a faucet, and there\u2019s either one handle or two, one for hot, one for cold, or you turn the one handle in the right direction, bammo. Until the water gets shut off because of the hurricane you\u2019ve got water out the wazoo in your house. You could fill up the bathtub. You know what you could do? You could get Ziploc trash bags and partially fill them, like 75, 80% of the way, and put them in your freezer. Just load your freezer.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s any number of ways to come up with water if you can\u2019t find any bottles at a grocery store. That is all I said. But major American news outlets are out saying I told people not to drink water, you don\u2019t need to buy water, there\u2019s no dire emergency, there\u2019s no dire consequences, it\u2019s all being made up by forecasters because of global warming. I didn\u2019t say anything was made up.<\/p>\n
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Now back to this show on headline news by somebody called S. E. Cupp. She had a roundtable discussion, three or four guests, and all of the guests echoed exactly what you hear in the Drive-By Media. They\u2019re not curious, they\u2019re not thinking. There was one guest who actually admitted to going back and listening to tapes of the program. His name is T. Becket Adams, and he is a Washington Examiner commentary writer. That\u2019s a Washington newspaper. T. Becket Adams. So after all of these different guests have reamed me unknowingly, ignorantly, and incorrectly, T. Becket Adams said…<\/p>\n
ADAMS: I think a lot of this is actually an unfair characterization of what he said. I went back and listened I to the tapes to hear what he said.<\/p>\n
CUPP: Tell us!
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ADAMS: He didn\u2019t engage in conspiracy-mongering. He actually started the segment by saying the hurricane is serious and it\u2019s dire, and he prefaced everything in saying, “I\u2019m not a meteorologist.” What he was saying is, it wasn\u2019t a conspiracy theory so much as he was saying, his take was extremely cynical. He said these things happen, they can be dire, and there are people who want to exploit them to advance whatever agenda they have. He never told anyone this isn\u2019t real; it\u2019s fake, what Al Roker and them are suggesting that he\u2019s saying it\u2019s not serious. us. He never said it wasn\u2019t serious. His overarching point is that some people want to build this stuff up so they can advance an agenda.<\/p>\n
CUPP: Well, wuh?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, so that\u2019s T. Becket Adams, the one guy — the one guy — that\u2019s been on TV talking about this who admits he went back, listened to the show, read the transcripts, and properly understands it. So after that, the next guy is somebody named John Devor of the… He\u2019s a freelance journalist. After hearing that… After hearing that, here is what happened next on this show.<\/p>\n
DEVOR: Telling people what they want to hear is great business. That\u2019s what it is. Confirming fears, confirming biases —<\/p>\n
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DEVORE: — and having personalities like Rush who never have to take responsibility. Like if there\u2019s someone in Florida that listened to Limbaugh, said that this —<\/p>\n
WOMAN: A lot of people in Florida listen to Rush.<\/p>\n
DEVOR: They do. “This hurricane is hyped up; I\u2019m gonna stay here,” and God forbid something happened to them, Rush are never have to take responsibility for that. He doesn\u2019t have to!<\/p>\n
RUSH: He didn\u2019t even hear what T. Becket Adams said because he didn\u2019t care. He goes on this show with a bigoted, prejudiced, biased attitude of me based on years and years, probably, of disinformation and fake news about me. He totally… This is idiocy to have somebody explain, “Hey, I went back and listened. Let me tell you what he actually said,” and then for this guy to come out and continue to mischaracterize it and say that I am responsible for people not leaving the area? I never said stay here. I never said don\u2019t leave.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s up to you! I don\u2019t think you\u2019re my kids. I don\u2019t think I\u2019m your parent. I think all of you have the ability to make up your own minds on these things, and I don\u2019t presume to believe that you don\u2019t. I\u2019m not the one that treats my audience like children, incapable of getting out of bed every day. It\u2019s these people that do that. I have paramount respect for you. I have so much respect for you and I have no doubt of your intelligence — and that\u2019s why and how I deal with this and you every day on this program. It is they who treat people as incompetents, as incapable, and bordering on with contempt at times.<\/p>\n
Now, there\u2019s a bunch of more sound bites on this S.E. … (interruption) I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t… (sigh) Maybe, but the point is, they had a roundtable discussion here with people presented as experts and none of them had any idea what they were talking about! They were simply reacting to their own bias and prejudice about me. One guy said, “Hey, you know, that\u2019s not what he said. It\u2019s a big mischaracterization,” and it didn\u2019t stop what was happening anyway on this show. So it\u2019s an instructive teachable moment about how cable TV operates, about bias and prejudice in the news. But what it also does, folks: Why do they care so much? What is the big deal?<\/p>\n
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I\u2019m not even on TV. You know, if you\u2019re not on TV, you don\u2019t matter in American media, right? That\u2019s what they think. I\u2019m just a guy on the radio. Yet here we are in the midst of what the hell is Trump do winning people trying to figure out DACA, tax reform, immigration, and two hurricanes coming, and everybody stopping to react to what I say. And in doing so they have to lie about it and mischaracterize it. That tells me I\u2019m hitting close to home. Why have the…? Why would Al Joker come up with (impression), “For Rush Limbaugh to be telling people to ignore th-th-this is near criminal.”<\/p>\n
Al Joker doesn\u2019t even know what happened here. Probably yet hasn\u2019t taken the time to figure it out. But it must mean, folks, that my commentary on these people always hits close to home, because their reaction is typical of the left. Rather than debate or argue with what I said, just try to slime and smear me. That\u2019s how they do it, and they do it anybody credible that is in opposition to them. Don\u2019t engage in the arena of ideas, \u2019cause they can\u2019t destroy the credibility of whoever is saying things they don\u2019t want to hear.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re nothing more than adult versions of the snowflakes on college campus who use violence to shut down anybody who might inflate for penetrate their little cocoon of safety. Okay. So that\u2019s that. There\u2019s 10 total sound bites of me in the sound bite roster today, and not just about the hurricane. Guy on the radio.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you this, folks. In a sane world, the media would be thanking me for trying to avert panic. I mean, when local police departments are called to grocery stores to guard a delivery of bottled water which happened, I think, a couple days ago over in West Palm Beach. A bottled water shipment arrived, and the local police were called by the grocery store to guard the truck while staff\/employees unloaded it. There was a four case limit per family. Now, that\u2019s not necessary when everybody has water in their home.<\/p>\n
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Why do you think people are afraid to turn on tap water? It\u2019s an interesting question. ‘Cause there\u2019s a political answer to that, too, sadly. But in a sane world, people would be thanking me for trying to avert panic. My observation that you don\u2019t need to fight each other over bottled water should have been heralded as a moment of sanity and reason in a world of chaos. Most homes have faucets. You can get unlimited water. All you need is the bottles. Fill up your bathtub if you don\u2019t have bottles and then go get the bottles.<\/p>\n
As I say, get some large Ziploc bags and fill \u2019em like 75, 80 full to handle for the expansion happens when you freeze it and put \u2019em in the freezer and you\u2019ll have that until you lose power, if you\u2019re gonna stay. You\u2019ll have that until you lose power and your water will be fresh and cold when you need it. You could fill a freezer with it. There\u2019s no reason to panic over water. Not right now, not before the thing hits, which all I said. It is being reported I\u2019m telling people not to drink water, not to worry about it, nothing\u2019s happening; the hurricane\u2019s overblown.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t say anything of the sort. In fact, the environmentalist wackos should even be placed me. They hate plastic! Plastic bottles, they think, end up in landfill and they\u2019re… Well, they come from petroleum, you know, which they also hate. Here I\u2019m urging people not to use plastic. The environmentalist wackos should be applauding me, patting me on the back. They should be thanking me for my environmental concern.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I just checked my email, and I had, for me, a fascinating question. We\u2019re back to the hurricane here for just a moment. Bear with me. I have an email — actually, a couple of these, and more than a couple in the last 12 hours. There are people like me who do more than just look at the hurricane center website and watch TV. They try to find as many websites with data on these models as they can, and these people have seen things.<\/p>\n
And the one thing, if you know which models the hurricane center pays attention to — and that differs from storm to storm — some people write, “Rush, to me it looks like the models are moving further east out to the Atlantic Ocean, and yet the track is staying. Why aren\u2019t they moving it?” I\u2019ve had the staff asking me that question since yesterday. And here\u2019s the answer, folks, and without knowing it, I\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s what it is: Once they published a track that includes Miami, they can\u2019t change it. Not this close.<\/p>\n
Yesterday the official forecast included Miami and up to West Palm Beach and, you know, hugging the East Coast of Florida. Once they do that, they can\u2019t move it off land, unless the models just have this dramatic shift east, which would require the subtropical ridge, the southwestern edge of the subtropical ridge to move out of there. That\u2019s a high-pressure area over the Atlantic, which is what\u2019s keeping the hurricane from turning north now.<\/p>\n
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Now, that thing is gonna have to move out of there, and there isn\u2019t a single forecast that has it moving out of there. So once they have it hitting land, they\u2019re committed for the rest of the storm. Miami, south Florida, major, major population area. The governor is on TV telling people to evacuate. I mean, you would not believe the preparation going on down here. All of the cellular companies have volunteered to put up Wi-Fi hot spots all over the state in case they lose cell coverage. I mean, the National Guard is out, the military, EMS.<\/p>\n
You would not believe, it is a Herculean effort that Governor Rick Scott has put into place here. And for the hurricane center to move that track offshore right now, they would never do it, unless it\u2019s so obvious. And it\u2019s not gonna be. So the models might show you that it\u2019s tracking or might track a little further east and not make landfall in Florida, it\u2019s still gonna be close. Even if it doesn\u2019t make landfall in Florida, it\u2019s gonna be close. Do you know the eye of this storm is almost as wide as the state? It\u2019s mammoth, mammoth out there.<\/p>\n
Another thing that happens. Bear with me on this. I\u2019ve seen this. I think the hurricane center, for safety purposes, overforecasts for safety, get people expecting the worst, and if you don\u2019t get the worst, then it\u2019s good news. The worst thing that can happen is to underforecast. If they underforecast and say, “Don\u2019t worry, the winds are not gonna get above 90,” and they show up at 125, that doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n
So when they say “hurricane Category 4, maximum sustained winds 155 miles,” there is a place where that is happening, but it\u2019s not very large. It\u2019s not the whole hurricane. But all of this is done on purpose because — and once it\u2019s committed to, once you reach the three-day forecast range, which we\u2019re in now, 72 hours out, once you reach that, they\u2019re committed.<\/p>\n
So this track isn\u2019t gonna change appreciably. Unless, as I say, there\u2019s a massive atmospheric shift. And if that happens you\u2019ll see the hurricane start to move in ways not forecast anyway before the next forecast comes out. So just keep an eye on it. It\u2019s gonna affect Florida no matter where it goes. And the effects in Florida, depending on where, are gonna be damaging.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the same thing with the amount of rainfall, the storm surge, the wind speeds. What happens is the hurricane — this is how this works again — the hurricane center forecasts, and they always forecast the max, \u2019cause it\u2019s the safest thing to do in terms of preparation and alerting people. It\u2019s always a sigh of relief if they\u2019re wrong on the high side. If they forecast a Cat 4 and it hits as a Cat 2, that\u2019s a sigh of relief. If they forecast a Cat 2 and it hits as a Cat 4, that\u2019s anger, that\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n
The media, however, you throw them into this mix, now you have an entirely different universe to deal with. The media takes every extreme that is in a forecast such as this and runs with it as though it is gospel! And then they hype it and hype it and hype it. And then they tie it to climate change, and they tie it to whatever. And it\u2019s not the hurricane center doing that. That is the media. And that\u2019s how they play snowstorms, it\u2019s how they play tornadoes, anything, it\u2019s just the way the media works. So the reality is gonna be a midpoint between what the forecast is and the media hype. You watch. It\u2019ll be the case.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Susan in Cline, Texas. You\u2019re next. Great to have you. How are you doing?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m doing well, Rush. I just called to tell you that you\u2019re right about the water, the hurricane. You\u2019re right about everything, Rush. We just survived Harvey, and Ike before that. We lived here 30 years — and you know, if you\u2019re gonna corner the market on something, it needs to be peanut butter, jelly, and bread, \u2019cause you can, you know, make your own water as you say. I just pray that this thing takes a right, which they usually do, and I wish you would have told us where you think it\u2019s gonna hit. But I study it, too, and, you know, Harvey was different because it formed in the Gulf very quickly, and they were right on. We didn\u2019t lose power. You know, we\u2019re 200 miles from where it hit and we had 32 inches of rain. So I\u2019m kind of concerned that everybody\u2019s gonna get on the highway and that\u2019s where the water gets you.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, they are starting to enforce evacuations here, and they are also beginning to shut down access to the barrier islands at various points tomorrow. So they are gonna flood the zone with people who evacuate. I mean, the lines of cars coming out of Key West for the last couple days have been — and those are two-lane roads in many cases. Sometimes four.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And they need to evacuate. The problem and everybody kind of just our mayor who\u2019s not my mayor, we can\u2019t vote for him. We live outside. There\u2019s nor to go. You need to let the people that need to get out of the way, get out of the way. Texas is different than Florida, obviously, but —<\/p>\n
RUSH: The thing evacuating to further north in Florida may not be enough, if you are even evacuate here, because this storm… Even if it hugs the East Coast going up, the tropical storm force winds are gonna reach across to Tampa and St. Pete. If it cuts the state in half, it\u2019s gonna weaken as it goes up as opposed to half of it staying over water. But there\u2019s no real good scenario here. Did you say you wish I would tell you what I think\u2019s gonna happen?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, sir. (chuckles)<\/p>\n
RUSH: You realize if I do that… (laughing)<\/p>\n
CALLER: It\u2019s not gonna hurt your rating, Rush. You\u2019re always right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, no, it\u2019s not gonna affect my rating, but all it would take… Let\u2019s say that I tell you I think it\u2019s gonna do X, and it doesn\u2019t do X, you think the left could go find some actor to say, “I believe Rush Limbaugh! I stayed right here, \u2019cause Limbaugh said I had nothing to worry about, and now look! I\u2019ve lost my home, I\u2019ve lost my wife, I lost my Xbox! I don\u2019t have nothing, all because I listen to Rush Limbaugh.” You think they\u2019d have trouble finding someone? They could write a script, hire an act to go on TV and say that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay. All right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n
CALLER: I just told Mr. Snerdley, these are the order of people I trust: I trust the Lord God Almighty, my husband, Rush, and Trump.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, look, I appreciate that. People might be thinking, “Gee whiz,” but here\u2019s the first thing. I learned this from my dad way, way back in the early days of this show. I know that you believe me. I want you to. I\u2019m being honest with people here. I want to be believed. And I factor that into everything I say here. You know, I learned long ago not to say things just to get a reaction out of people. I learned long ago, don\u2019t say what you don\u2019t believe just to make people mad. I haven\u2019t done it, I don\u2019t do it, I\u2019m not constitutionally capable of doing it.<\/p>\n
Now, I do have thoughts on the hurricane, but, look, at this point, it would not serve any purpose to say so. I could write my comments down and put \u2019em in a lockbox and we\u2019d go back after the hurricane and open the lockbox and read to you what I said and see if it happened. But here\u2019s the thing: Right now, all that matters is that the hurricane center can\u2019t move the track no matter what the models do, because once the hurricane center published a mainland hit near Miami and up to West Palm Beach, they can\u2019t move that.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re committed to it. It\u2019s part of the way they warn. Even if they think that it\u2019s gonna turn and be offshore east, they can\u2019t move that track in advance of that happening, because they can\u2019t be sure. If they were to move that track offshore east, say tonight at five o\u2019clock, in two hours, and it moves and they\u2019re right, but then late Saturday night it makes a jog left back over land, they would be in deep doo-doo, because people believe them too. And they can\u2019t afford now that they\u2019ve invested and committed to a landfall in south Florida, they have to stick with that until the hurricane makes a move that is off that track. They can\u2019t make a move now because of the model.<\/p>\n
I mean, even if the models show it turning due east and making a beeline for grand Bahama, they\u2019re gonna have to wait \u2019til the actual hurricane makes that move before they can change their track. So if any of you in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, you know, if you\u2019re gonna make sure you\u2019re at every update, five p.m., 11 p.m., five a.m., 11 a.m., be advised in the next couple of updates or more, it isn\u2019t gonna change appreciably from what it is now, unless the hurricane itself makes an unexpected jog either left or right.<\/p>\n
There are models on either side of this track right now. There\u2019s a model that still takes this thing into northern Cuba, coming out about Havana and then straight up the middle of the state of Florida after impacting the Keys. That\u2019s the U.K. Met model. It\u2019s way out there on the west. There\u2019s a bunch of other models to the east. So their track is pretty much in the middle of all this, which, as I say, they\u2019re committed to it. So what I think it\u2019s gonna do would not serve any purpose to say at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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We knew of it. We didn\u2019t get mad at it when the news was reported about it, but I understand that those of you who do not have an emotional connection other than those of you who have family in these states that I mentioned, I know you might be tempted, “Come on, Rush, it\u2019s a hurricane. You can\u2019t stop it. Just deal with it and move on with the news. I don\u2019t know why Trump\u2019s selling out with the Democrats.” And we\u2019re gonna get to why is Trump selling out with the Democrats. If that\u2019s how you want to characterize it.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/avn0-lalo-300x200.gif\")
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Now, there\u2019s a quick way of dealing with this. There\u2019s a show, I guess a new show on Headline News that\u2019s hosted by someone named S. E. Cupp and the subject came up on this show on Headline News hosted by S. E. Cupp and guest after guest after guest repeated that Rush Limbaugh is putting people at risk. Rush Limbaugh is telling people to ignore the forecast. Rush Limbaugh is telling people to not drink water! Have you seen that one, Mr. Snerdley? They\u2019re out there saying that I\u2019m telling people don\u2019t worry if you can\u2019t find water. Just don\u2019t drink it.<\/p>\n