Heather can attest to my impatience with local broadcast news. Generally, I find the reporting light on substance, heavy on hyperbole and I enjoy mocking it endlessly. This is especially true when it comes to coverage of weather events. Here in El Paso, the slightest trace of rain is newsworthy given how sensitive the desert landscape is to flooding. Still, in my humble opinion, this does not excuse a news director from running a segment with a shot of a few drops of precipitation striking a shallow puddle accompanied by breathless commentary from the reporter speculating on what could happen next "if."
Over the last 48 hours, however, as Sun City has experienced some of its coldest days on record, including a low of one (ONE!) degree before the sun rose this morning, I've been willing to cut these ladies and gentlemen a bit of slack. Watching them deliver their live shots street side shuddering in these freezing temperatures has been painful. Once they confirmed that Meg would get to sleep in, we turned the channel and tracked the thermometer on our phones.
Hanging out with Meg this week has brought back memories of snow days past in Bartlett, TN. In 1988, eight inches blanketed the streets of our home in the Hillshire neighborhood. My sister and I were out of school for five days and made several trips to the video store for the likes of "Summer School" and "Dirty Dancing." While Meg, Heather and I have not spent hours camped in front of our Vizio, we will always have the rolling blackouts in our living room midst candlelight.
"Let's sing a song," Heather suggested, enthusiastically, during one 30 minute stretch of darkness last night.
"Let's not," Meg countered.
After a brief round of "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean," we carried on in a more post-modern manner: keeping our friends and family updated on Facebook and Twitter using our mobile devices. Late this afternoon, we learned that Meg will have one more day off. Let the memory making continue.
Once they confirmed that cheap runescape gold:http://www.playerassist.com/runescape/ would get to sleep in, we turned the channel and tracked the thermometer on our phones.
Posted by: Ting Wu | June 30, 2011 at 01:30 AM