PolitiFact - Most of Florida's Lee County wasn't in the cone three days before hurricane, but parts of it were

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Contrary to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' claim, Lee County's Cayo Costa appeared in the forecast cone on each advisory issued by the National Hurricane Center on Sept. 25 — three days before Hurricane Ian made landfall on the island.

"The true meaning of Hurricane," or Her-ricane, is the spirit of"the African woman who has been stolen."Focusing on the cone itself downplays the impacts of a storm as large as Ian. Still, in Ian's case, the cone was an accurate forecast of the storm's eventual trajectory, an expert said.

The first of the Sept. 25 National Hurricane Center advisories, issued at 2 a.m., showed sparsely populated Cayo Costa inside the cone graphic on its eastern edge. The hurricane's forecasted track shifted largely north of Lee County in an advisory at 11 a.m. However, Cayo Costa remained in the cone graphic.The track continued to shift and began to include the northern coasts of Cape Coral, Pine Island and Sanibel Island by the advisory issued at 5 p.m. Hurricane Ian moved further south by the 11 p.m. advisory and the cone extended to North Fort Myers.

 

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Hacks

The media has become a cancer . A complete hyper partisan , maniacally obsessed cancer. I hope politifact is exposed for what it is ,a bunch of desperate leftist scumbags.

Ummmm, can someone at Politifact explain WHY DeSantis would want to warn the area north of Fort Meyers (Tampa area)……If he knew/had info it was actually going to hit Fort Meyers? Totally ridiculous statement…do those people even consider their stupidity/deep seeded hate?

PolitiFake...🤣

For the record...

The entire state was in the cone.

: Keeping us laughing at them since 2007

Seriously, who fact checks this liberal propaganda “fact” check site.

Politifact = Where the Facts are determined by our Politics. It's right there in the name guys.

PolitiFact has long lost any credibility. You are a liberal organization whose only real purpose is to discredit any conservative by giving shoddy half-ass facts.

Are you deliberately trying to become a parody account? Because you're doing a great job.

Another PolitiFART Storm trying desperately to Fan katrinaTurds Ron DeSantis.

Liberal Crap Blog

The white cone outside the path of the hurricane was just a generalization had nothing due to the actual prediction of the hurricane path.... people in Lee County should have been evacuated.

Politifact: 'Thumb firmly on the left side of the scales since 2007.'

You demonstrate nicely that you are political activists with a press card....

TL;DR An uninhabited island that is a state park in Lee County was on the very edge of the projection, and this is the very best Dems can come up with in trying to make Ian a Katrina

You lie.

is utter garbage. Any site using them for 'facts' is garbage.

it is an empty beach -- 😂🤡

This is why no one trusts . TwitterSafety should suspend Politifact for falsehoods.

You mean Lee County's Cayo Costa that can only be reached by boat and has a few rental cabins and camp sites.

I think this needs to be corrected...

Fake news from politifact

You ain’t gonna like your “mainly false” wrong claims after Friday

I have been to Cayo Costa many times. Apparently you have not. No one lives there, dears.

Do you think we can't read a map Most democrats can't but independents and republicans can as we tend to live outside of a bubble, unlike you so its a useful skill

Politifact's fact check IS MOSTLY FALSE. VAST MAJORITY OF LEE COUNTY DID NOT APPEAR IN THE 'CONE' - ONLY A TINY SNIPPET OF A TINY ISLAND DID. POLITIFACT IS SO DISHONEST. TYPICAL OF DEM FASCISTS.

Liberal garbage

Is this a joke? From your own analysis, his rating should Mostly True. A remote barrier island barely squeezing into the cone should not mandate a mandatory evacuation from major population centers 23 miles further outside the cone. This is next level hackery from you guys.

I genuinely cannot tell the real accounts from the parody accounts . The left has become a parody of itself, and they do not realize it. It’s mind boggling.

A remote, barely inhabited barrier island was inside the cone? GovRonDeSantis' claim is Mostly True. PartisanHack

You are trash. Absolute trash.

Why do you guys legit fall over yourselves everyday in an effort to delegitimize yourselves? All anyone really does now is point, and laugh at you.

If almost all of Lee County (i.e. the entire mainland and all but one island) was not in the cone, then your rating should be 'mostly true.'

you're discredited hacks

Cayo Costa is an uninhabited barrier island...

PolitiLIES.

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 nice try

You are wrong it was 3% and uninhabited. You have been fact checked as mostly false.

Seriously. Give it a rest. Politifib!

🤪🤓🤡. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 y’all are pathetic lefties!!

Keep trying PolitiFuk. DeSantis will be Pres one day.

Who cares? You can’t predic the weather wtf does it matter?

Oh stop already, this smear isn't working.

Lol the forecast was “accurate “ cause it made it in a massive cone. An island

I'm not mad, I'm embarrassed for you.

Politifact lies about everything. Fact check: 100% true. In our research we have yet to find a single instance where politifact told the truth. 99% of their answers are democrat political talking points with no basis in fact.

You are nothing but liars.

Oh goodness And you wonder why people say fact checkers are hacks. 3 days out, WTF.

Do you know where Lee County is? Hire new propogandists, I mean fact checkers.

Politigarbage

Just when I thought disgusting “fact checkers” couldn’t stoop any lower…

FACT: Governor DeSantis will be re-elected in 35 days

Politifact- “Even though 100% of what I say is false, it’s the 0% that I want people to believe.”

Fact checkers have become the laughing stock of journalism.

What a bunch of hacks you guys are. Embarrassing.

Tallahassee and Pensacola were both in the forecast cones, should they have been evacuated as well? You’re a joke.

Did you read what you wrote? Because your mostly false rating doesn't fit.

I thought the concept of fact checkers used to be cool. Now I find you specifically to be in my comedy and entertainment section and I’ve enjoyed reading you for the lolz

To DeSatan's fans, fact is a dirty word.

Forecast was 250 miles off. This is huge failure in hurricane forecasting. Equivocal to forecasting a cat 1 in Gulfport Ms & then a cat 4 hits Lake Charles La.

'True, but Republican'

Enjoy the ratio 🤡

Sounds like mostly bullshit from a leftist rag...js

This should be the first blue check that elonmusk removes. Account should stay active because speech is free, but no verification of partisan hacks openly lying under the guise of checking facts.

So dishonest. No credibility what so ever and even less integrity

Do you think people don't see through your actions? You run the same play over and over again. You really need to find new material. It was anticipated the day there was even a possibility of a storm.

Fk you!

So full of shit

You suck at whatever this is supposed to be

Elon's gonna get you!

Politifact, lol

This is embarrassing. You bend over backwards to explain why a Dem lie is mostly true, and then pedantically claim Republican comments are mostly false on the most irrelevant grounds

So your rating should be MOSTLY TRUE

This is horse shite. And you know it.

I mean anyone who looks at a map and the cone can clearly see that DeSantis is effectively correct.

Give it a rest, Propaganda Machine. The adults have real work to do.

Stages of the Smear: 1) Fake fact checkers: 'Lie' 2) Dems take that lie an repeat it - social media\\media shows. 3) The lie becomes imbedded, into consciousness of millions of people. Over time (even years) people will still bring it up as though it was irrefutable truth.

Cayo Costa is uninhabited. Nice try though. 🤦‍♀️

ratio incoming

It's sad that politifact is no longer considered unbiased source. Just another place to poti-Cize information. SAD

Hey buddy, that’s an island where nobody lives. Is partisanship so important that you sacrifice your ethics? Look in a mirror and try not to self justify but to explore what you have become.

What a bunch of hacks

Politifact changed its name to POLITILEFT

He’s doing an amazing job. 90% of the state has their power back on, there were 42,000 line men all ready before it hit. Everyone on the coast was warned if storm surge. Nice try to discredit him

We know you DNC hacks hate DeSantis, but to disinform at this level is amazing

Idiots

You are the worst, but you won't succeed. DeSantis will win.

Never forget: the truth is the opposite of what PolitiFact says it is. PolitiFact is clear propaganda.

Everyone is on to you. You have no credibility. Hacks

Not really, we had a Tropical Storm watch, then warning. No one even considered hurricane for our area

Report for misinformation. overwhelmthealgorithm

I had a teacher that graded like this once. I don't mean that they were strict— they just had clear favorites and disfavorites, and it showed in their grading. Nobody liked them.

Is this the parody account

don’t be that guy. Seriously

You are the enemy of the people

So you picked the one meteorologist that said it could hit that island. You picked one island and said it was an untrue statement. Everyone knows you are a joke and just a left wing mouthpiece

At this point, y’all are just trolls. No way around it.

Oh Stop 🤪

What else does PolitiLie have to say?

How is politifact even still a thing

Spin away. Liars.

This is a perfect example of why people no longer trust the “media”. 🤷🏼‍♀️

POLITIFACT IS FAKE NEWS

Are you attempting to see how much more pathetic you possibly could get?

How many people live on Cayo Costa?

Now you’re going to make me defend DeSantid…this fake news nonsense—Cayo Costa is virtually uninhabited state refuge barrier island. The worst hit part of Lee County was not in cone in 72 hr advisories, & there was no Hurricane Warning for Ft Myers

An island with 19 homes…….. if you had any credibility left you would’ve flushed it on this one

If you want democrats to win can’t y’all come with ideas. Y’all a legit 24/7 bully machine.

This is fucking pathetic.

Put a forecast cone on this ratio, Politifact

A state park island with no inhabitants? THAT is your gotcha? Politijoke is more like it.

This is a hack and shill site.

Politifact is a joke.

100% of Lee County does not live there ... mostly rubbish

You are a disgrace.

This has already been thoroughly debunked. How can a new organization fact check and get it so wrong? Pathetic.

Trying to make RDS the scapegoat and leave the door open for turncoat Charlie

STFU 🤡🤡🤡🤡

Stop it. An inhabitated island. Please

Lol the State park that was in the cone is uninhabited

Factually a LIE! What a pathetic attempt at “jounalism” 🥴

Not quite. Strange, I used to kinda trust, Politifact.

Yeah we should have probably evacuated the whole state 🙄

Do you people ever stop politicizing everything? Your reputation is in tatters. Facts be damned.

It's an uninhabited island. A national park. Fact Check: FALSE. Four Pinocchios.

This is so weak

You guys have negative credibility. Nobody should look to you for anything factual at all.

It’s virtually uninhabited.

It’s mostly true. Your bias makes it impossible for you to be an impartial “fact checker”.

If you want to know the truth about almost anything, it's typically the exact opposite of whatever claims.

So what you’re saying is the Biden Administration’s NHC and NOAA provided grossly inaccurate hurricane prediction models 72 hours out…got it.

Lee county evac zone A was under evac orders by monday, zone B by tuesday AM. That did give people a chance to leave within 24 hours. Even going a few miles inland from the beach.

And

How is it mostly false when most of the county was not in the cone, as he stated? Not completely true but more true than not.

Bullllllllllshit

“Contrary to Politifact, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis never mentioned Lee County's Cayo Costa”

No person lives on that island

Hahahahha ha no one lives there douche

What a joke. Cayo Costa is an uninhabited island.

How many people live on Cayo Costa

You mean that one tiny island? Lmao. Just another reminder Politifact aren’t “fact checkers.” They’re regime propagandists.

From the PolitiFact genre ''Mostly True' therefore 'Mostly False.''

The all-hands-on-deck to destroy a rising star has officially started.

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