Monday, January 15, 2007

The "Everything's OK Alarm"

We had an ice storm here in Oklahoma this weekend. It was way worse south and east of me, we only got about 2 inches of sleet and just a glazing of ice.

Yes, I realize it is bad to the people directly affected by the ice, we had a major ice storm here in 2002. We were out of power about 2 weeks and my parents for almost 3 weeks. It sucked. Big time. BIG TIME.

But for crying out loud! The television station had reporters outside practically 24/7 covering ICE STORM 2007

Yes, Mike, the sleet is really coming down out here. It really is painful when it hits you in the eye. Yes it's about 10 degrees with a windchill of 1. Not much traffic out today. Stay home if you don't need to be out. That's it for now, back to you Mike.

Repeat every 5 minutes or so around the clock. How about keeping your reporters in and off the streets like you are advising the rest of us to do Mike? How bout it? Do we really need to know the video stores and liquor stores are busy today? And the grocery stores are low on bread, really?

I think last I heard about 90,000 people were out of power in the south east part of the state. Hopefully they can get it back on soon. It's cold! 19 degrees (F) with a wind chill of 5 degrees (F) here today!

2 comments:

Kirsten said...

Warm wishes to Oklahoma!

Robin said...

See, doesn't that make Hawaii sound great?!?