We are in the midst of some severe and interesting weather. Rotation being spotted even. Power going in and out.
The closest television station to where the lair is dug in is WLFI in Lafayette. Have to tell you, the weather there during emergencies sucks. What’s more, I just called and pretty well told them that in a message. The talking head they have spends 20 minutes endlessly droning about getting to your safe place, what to do, multiple slides with the same message, and—next to no real information and data. They have a radar, but do they spend time zooming in, tracking, using the neat features that tell you what is happening where and when it will hit locations downrange? About one minute in 20 if you are lucky. To be honest, while the cable is on, I switch to an Indianapolis station and get more real data and radar information in 30 seconds than I do in 30 minutes at WLFI.
Since my lair was in the area of some of the worst, and apparently some rotation was spotted near me, I expected that they would be concentrating on that, doing closeups of the radar, and giving useful and needed info. Nope. I finally got tired of it and called, and upon getting an answering machine, I let them have it—though I didn’t lapse into soldier speak or Marine speak that I recall. Damned if it wasn’t tempting though.
When severe weather strikes, these guys are useless—live or on the web—and I miss the real weathermen and real weather coverage that I got in Huntsville.
Feh.
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