January 13, 2005
Weather Weirdness
OK, so I woke up this morning, January 13, stepped out on the back stoop to let Roodi out and it was 61 degrees. Yeah, 61 at 6AM in January. WEIRD!!
Right now, 15 hours later or so, there's about an inch of snow on the ground. The temp has been plummeting all day long. Current temperature, 30, tonight's low, 17. From 61 - 17 in one day. INSANE!!
PLUS all the snow we had on the ground (10" or so) is gone. Where did it go? Well, into the rivers of course! All those rivers are flooding...the snow melt along with the rain is too much for the rivers to handle. Lots of the little towns along the Portage river are sandbagging and pumping and it's just a mess! Pemberville, Woodville, Elmore, etc... they're all swamps!
Now, as you could imagine, the local news is eating this UP!! There was even a SPECIAL newscast tonight at 7. The 6:00 news just wasn't enough to cover all the TERROR of this weather!! UGH... Granted, it's weird, but it's not worthy of wall-to-wall news coverage.
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It's not the wall-to-wall weather coverage that bothers me (well, at least when I'm NOT at work), it's the month of promos you're going to have to watch about how "we were the first news team to bring you news of the storm" and "the only team to be knee deep in water from this location 5 miles ENE of Pemberville" or "thanks to our SuperDopplerVision 5 weather forecast, we were able to predict exactly how screwed you were going to be better than anyone else that told you the exact same information"
Why am I in the news industry again?
# Posted by: tony at January 14, 2005 12:17 AM
Isn't it wonderful that the world is so calm and peaceful that the news folks have to look to the weather to try and scare up a story?
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! Love that warm and cozy feeling of world peace and calm and love and brotherhood amongst the nations.
Oops, another raindrop just fell over the West End, better get a camera crew ready!
# Posted by: Jo Anne at January 16, 2005 08:06 PM
Hey, you can post again!! Wonder what happened?
And TG, you're right. They're now in the praising-their-own-coverage phase of the flooding. So predictable....
# Posted by: g at January 17, 2005 06:50 AM
It's not the wall-to-wall weather coverage that bothers me (well, at least when I'm NOT at work), it's the month of promos you're going to have to watch about how "we were the first news team to bring you news of the storm" and "the only team to be knee deep in water from this location 5 miles ENE of Pemberville" or "thanks to our SuperDopplerVision 5 weather forecast, we were able to predict exactly how screwed you were going to be better than anyone else that told you the exact same information"
Why am I in the news industry again?
# Posted by: tony at January 14, 2005 12:17 AM