well now i’ve been watching the NBC nightly news with brian williams, who DID NOT MENTION anything about “winter storm nemo.” it’s just the “blizzard of 2013.” he had some reporters, who were actually reporters (or doctors of meteorology) from the weather channel. nobody said the word “nemo.” jim cantore from the weather channel, who was really really excited about the whole storm thing earlier, managed to go on and on about the potential of lots and lots of boston snow, never said nemo.
so clearly, the weather channel just made it up. they decided it would be much more exciting to name the storms, but nobody else is on board. and then, i watched the weather channel again and they’re talking about yet ANOTHER blizzard, which is supposed to hit minnesota, and they’ve called it “orko.” i can’t imagine why. plus they i believe they said, but surely i heard them wrong, that the blizzard orko is going to dump 3-4 INCHES of snow.
really? does that mean if it rains here, we can call it winter rain storm elmo?
plus, on the NBC news, they had this clip of a woman and her daughter in a grocery store and the woman was talking about how they’re going to stay home and make soup. but this is the SAME WOMAN in the SAME STORE from the weather channel much earlier today! it’s the same store where they had the riveting reporting about being TOTALLY SOLD OUT of artisan italian bread.
are there no other stores to report from? no other people in the stores who are articulate enough to interview? what are all the over 100 weather channel reporters doing, anyway?
hopefully they’re HUNKERED DOWN.
brian talked to some woman reporter who had gotten kicked out of laguardia airport after they closed it down. she wasn’t even wearing a hat, but she didn’t appear to be getting snowed on. one guy from the weather channel was almost being knocked over by the wind, plus snow was almost totally covering his glasses.
earlier today, somebody was reporting from times square, demonstrating the HUGE PUDDLE that one of of 10 people stepped in up to OVER THEIR ANKLES, and behind him there was a woman in a huge red coat, and she kept waving and waving at the camera. she went away, then came back talking on her cell phone, very excited and waving some more. highly entertaining.
i must feed my starving animals and then we’ll all HUNKER DOWN, in solidarity with the poor people in the northeast plus of course the people in dire danger there in minnesota.
ok then,
mrs. very dramatic hughes.