Response to Madelyn's Blog

It was very interesting to see how people downplay tragic natural phenomenons into a comedic manner. I found the tweet, “I’m coming bitches” so funny, because you can just imagine this force of nature having it’s phone out and tweeting that it’s about to mess up the southeast coast. The tweet you stated, “Rt for category 5, Fav for category 3”, was also very funny to me because it’s as if Hurricane Florence is letting the people decide which level of damage they want done to them, tempting us with a choice as if the outcome is in our hands. I looked back onto the Twitter page and another tweet I found funny was tweeted right before the actual hurricane hit which was, “It’s game time, talk shit get hit”. It’s is as if the hurricane is warning us that if we downplay the hurricane, then she will just hit harder. I also looked around Twitter and it’s common for hurricanes to have their own account, such as Hurricane Isaac, who has as their header, “coming soon.” This whole idea of personifies hurricanes is so amusing to even fathom because it’s such a crazy concept for hurricane to first off have a twitter account, and secondly be talking like they are about to have fun teaching through the towns. The whole idea of incongruity is defiantly at play here. This theory is seen throughout the whole concept of the account itself because of how absurd the entire idea is about a hurricane talking smack about being so overpowering, frightful, and damaging.