Strange world we live in. Saturday afternoon in Ohio, a little before one, watching the weather channel.
Earthquake in Chile, apparently not as bad as the one in Haiti, but an 8.8,that seems bad, but the death count is low. The Tsunami is scheduled for Hawaii around 4, so don't want to miss that.
Watching some coverage of the blizzard in the Eastern part of the US. We are hopefull, here in Ohio of setting a new snowfall record for February.
Wow, the 8.8 is one of the 5 highest ever in recorded history. Are we living in a great time, or what.
OK, 11:05, Hawaiian time is now the time for the Tsunami.
People in Haiti are complaining that many of the TV crews are leaving for Chili and Hawaii.
Rumor has it that the networks are scrapping the bottom of the barrel to come up with crews to send out, with the Olympics, Haiti, blizzard, they are thin on personnel to send out for disasters.
One NBC exec was quoted as saying, "I wish these damn disasters could be scheduled a little better, why couldn't we have an earthquare and a Tsunami in Iraq or Iran or Afganistan, we've already got crews there. I just gave a graveyard shift janitor a camera and made him a camerman to go out with a weatherman to cover Chili. When I mentioned Chili, he thought he was going to Mexico. "
The weather channel just announed that March is going to be colder than usual, and people in Hawaii are moving inland.
And, In Canada, Wiinter Olypics, it is now raining and foggy. I remember I was in Reno when they had the '60 Olympics out there, same problem, Warm, no snow. A reporter interviewed one of the officials, asking him about the gigantic parking lot of ice, made over the Truckee River. "What will happen if this warm weather and rain continues?"
"Well, we will get to see about 5000 cars floating down the Truckee Riiver."
And if all of this is not bad enough, we have politicians in Washington. And they think an 8.8 can do damage.
