Weather always makes the mainstream news. It's 95 degrees in New York City. That means breaking news on CNN complete with stock video footage of black kids (they're always black because white kids are busy playing Nintendo Wii) running through open fire hydrants to ward off the sweltering heat.
If the upper midwest ever gets any attention on a national scale, it's because of ten-foot snow drifts in North Dakota and I-94 is closed at Fargo. Then people automatically assume that Minneapolis is completely uninhabitable throughout the rest of the year and we wear parkas in June. Well here's some breaking news for CNN -- we don't. Hell, we get almost naked here in June -- complete with my lime green speedo which I'm sporting right damn now.
If Florida makes news, though, it's because a hurricane is a-comin'. That's exactly why Florida is in the news today. The weakly named Tropical Storm Fay (think of the possible alternate names) is rolling through the Florida Keys and is predicted to make landfall where people live near Tampa. You can bet that the national news (including CNN) is running an endless loop of stories with a live reporter wearing a rain jacket being pelted by sideways rain because this is indeed the first time a tropical storm has even hit Florida. But people eat this crap up.
There's also the obligatory "storm preparation" video/news clip. People are always buying plywood to board up their windows but I wonder where the plywood from last year's big storm went. Did these folks save the receipt and take the plywood back to Home Depot? Wouldn't that be classified as used?
Whatever the reasoning, people in Florida should be used to an impending Tropical Storm such as Fay.
Don't worry, MinnPics is a shelter from the stupidity of the world because it contains awesome photos from around Minnesota and is certified 100% olympic camel toe free.
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Well said. I thought the exact same thing when I saw the CNN running header. Didn't need to tune in...know they will show footage as if it's the first.
Sitting here in Japan, where there are usually 10 or so typhoons each year (with a couple of them usually hitting Miyazaki, where I live), I always wonder one thing: what do they build their houses out of in Florida? Mud and straw? Cardboard? Styrofoam?
And yeah, why is everyone always "shocked" at the devastation? Maybe they should start tattooing clues on their bodies (like that guy in Memento) or something...
The weather has been wild, unpredictable and scary everywhere these days - but not as wild and scary as the visual of you in your lime green speedo!
Exactly. It rains in GA all the effing time, and it is never news on CNN. And CNN is based in Atlanta!!!
My Brain is simply SPINNING with other F- titled hurricanes..
"Watch out! fays comin! did you make the oatmeal yet!!! shes tired!!!"
When I lived in FL, sitting in my closet with a wind-up radio by the light of of an emergency candle, I often constructed lists in my head of what they really ought to name the storms:
Attila
Boudicea
Cthulhu
Deirdre Hall
etc.
Ppppfttt......whatever dude.
You got any pics of your igloo??
I've never seen a real one!
No kidding! MadTV had a great skit "Windstorm 97 "...hilarious.
Here in Sacramento, they always send some low level reporter up to the mountains to stand in the snow to report that is in fact snowing...ridiculous.
Sometimes we make the weather for Spring flooding too.
I was watching the Weather Channel while at the gym and they are having a hey day with Hurricane Fay. It's hilarious, the ocean waves are barely two feet.
Honestly, it had top winds of 75 mph, around here we call that a thunderstorm. I've seen bigger waves on Prior Lake.
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