"Into this house we're born. Into this world we're thrown."
So I's watching the cable last night when I noticed this graphic in the corner of the screen. The whichever-network news team was sending out an alert of potential tornadic activity.
Woah....tornadoes? Or Woah....tornados? I decided to pay attention to said graphic, so that I might learn just how close the wind storms were to me and mine.
Here's the rub. No county or city names were listed. Rather the graphic was of what I assumed to be the network's coverage area. Each of the little counties in said area had it's borders drawn, and those counties in which the storms were most likely to be an issue were designated with a color seperate from the rest of the viewing area.
Okay, here, really, is the rub. I don't know what shape my county is. I don't know the extent of whichever network's coverage, so finding my county's place therein was also not an option.
Holy Fucking Shit! How many of you out there really have any idea what shape your county is? Now if they had thrown the whole state up there in the graphic, I'd have had an easier time finding out just how much danger I was, or was not, in. That, however, just wasn't the case.
Now clearly since I'm blogging to you today everything came out aces, but this was really disconcerting to me for a period of time last night. Cause it's not like these warnings go away. That graphic was up through two episodes of Law and Order.
Slow news day today....just wanted to blog you all hello.
JeffRey
Woah....tornadoes? Or Woah....tornados? I decided to pay attention to said graphic, so that I might learn just how close the wind storms were to me and mine.
Here's the rub. No county or city names were listed. Rather the graphic was of what I assumed to be the network's coverage area. Each of the little counties in said area had it's borders drawn, and those counties in which the storms were most likely to be an issue were designated with a color seperate from the rest of the viewing area.
Okay, here, really, is the rub. I don't know what shape my county is. I don't know the extent of whichever network's coverage, so finding my county's place therein was also not an option.
Holy Fucking Shit! How many of you out there really have any idea what shape your county is? Now if they had thrown the whole state up there in the graphic, I'd have had an easier time finding out just how much danger I was, or was not, in. That, however, just wasn't the case.
Now clearly since I'm blogging to you today everything came out aces, but this was really disconcerting to me for a period of time last night. Cause it's not like these warnings go away. That graphic was up through two episodes of Law and Order.
Slow news day today....just wanted to blog you all hello.
JeffRey
posted by The Crazy Leftist at 5:29 PM
1 Comments:
You know, you're totally right. Gone are the days when the names of the counties would scroll across the bottom of the screen. Now it's just the geographical grid that pops up on the screen, and if you don't know your county border you can't be sure if you have yellow, orange or house-destroying red weather in store.
Though, I've often found that in Missouri you're safe from tornadoes if the name of your county does not correspond with the last name of one of our first eight presidents. It always seems like Madison County and Monroe County are getting the shit knocked out of them by twisters.
-Andrew
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