Hearing reports that large parts of Atlantic City are already underwater. The storm is still several hours away from making landfall, and the last I heard it was supposed to make landfall in … Atlantic City!
Imagine if those folks were getting hit be an actual monster, like Camille, Andrew, Ivan or Wilma.
I knew Maryland was going to be affected but looking at the map I just realized the track was right over my friend’s house. I thought it was on a more northern track. Yikes.
@icepick, that link might explain the lack of wall-to-wall coverage of flyover country’s drought. Nobody wants to hear about soil heaving its cracked, and painful lips like open wounds too dry to bleed. A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, and the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, and the dry stone no sound of water.
There’s no drama in a drought, PD. Not until the famine sets in, anyway, and even that isn’t all that dramatic. People starving to death makes for good images for a montage but not exciting live news coverage.
Now waves coming over the top of the sea wall? That makes for GREAT visuals! Especially if it sweeps Geraldo out to sea….
I’ll see your T. S. Eliot and raise you one Bob Nolan (as interpreted by Marty Robbins):
All day I’ve faced a barren waste
Without the taste of water, cool water
Old Dan and I with throats burned dry
And souls that cry for water
Cool, clear, water
First God sends a hurricane to wipe out New Orleans to punish the gays. Now he sends another one to wipe out the New Yorkers. Maybe God is a Republican? Maybe I had better vote for Romney. (On back up call tonight for all three of our facilities. Hope I dont have to drive very far in this.)
Hearing reports that large parts of Atlantic City are already underwater. The storm is still several hours away from making landfall, and the last I heard it was supposed to make landfall in … Atlantic City!
Imagine if those folks were getting hit be an actual monster, like Camille, Andrew, Ivan or Wilma.
Have you noticed that the national news media covers Hurricane Sandy like its everybody’s local news?
Once you have lived out there, PD, you realize that old saying about NYers believing the world ends at the Hudson has more validity than you think.
It’s called weather porn. News people love weather porn.
I knew Maryland was going to be affected but looking at the map I just realized the track was right over my friend’s house. I thought it was on a more northern track. Yikes.
@icepick, that link might explain the lack of wall-to-wall coverage of flyover country’s drought. Nobody wants to hear about soil heaving its cracked, and painful lips like open wounds too dry to bleed. A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, and the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, and the dry stone no sound of water.
There’s no drama in a drought, PD. Not until the famine sets in, anyway, and even that isn’t all that dramatic. People starving to death makes for good images for a montage but not exciting live news coverage.
Now waves coming over the top of the sea wall? That makes for GREAT visuals! Especially if it sweeps Geraldo out to sea….
I’ll see your T. S. Eliot and raise you one Bob Nolan (as interpreted by Marty Robbins):
All day I’ve faced a barren waste
Without the taste of water, cool water
Old Dan and I with throats burned dry
And souls that cry for water
Cool, clear, water
Cool Water – Marty Robbins
First God sends a hurricane to wipe out New Orleans to punish the gays. Now he sends another one to wipe out the New Yorkers. Maybe God is a Republican? Maybe I had better vote for Romney. (On back up call tonight for all three of our facilities. Hope I dont have to drive very far in this.)
Steve
I just sneaked on here into the office for a minute to see what’s going on.
They won’t let me have TV here or Internet. They say I’m “too exciteable.”
Hey, y’all. Oops, gotta go. They’re serving dinner.