[Ravensfort] OT: Too much weather TV

[Dan Smith Jr]

Here is the funniest thing I heard tonight, on CNN:

"You could drop an atomic bomb on this storm and it would do nothing....Oh, 
except make the storm radioactive."

Really.

Probably the 2nd funniest thing I've seen is the reporter holding the mic 
into the wind as if conducting an interview.  "Whooshshshs..."

-Alaric


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Subject: [Ravensfort] OT: Too much weather TV

> We're sitting here directly in the path of Ike, saturated from too much 
> weather coverage on the boob tube, waiting for the power to go out and 
> getting extremely punchy. Sean and I started doing weather reporting at 
> each other, that's how bad it is... This is what came out:
>
>
> Weather reporter on the beach somewhere on the Gulf Coast:
>
> This Al Wett reporting to you live here on Gulfside Beach . As you can see 
> behind me, even though Hurricane Spike has not made landfall yet, there 
> are massive waves pounding the seawall. We have measured wind gusts up to 
> 50 mph and I’m here to tell you that hurricanes are windy. Aren’t you glad 
> I’m reporting to you straight from the scene of this awe inspiring storm 
> because I can now tell you that hurricanes are also wet, since it is 
> currently raining. The National Weather Service has warned us that it will 
> continue to be windy and wet until the hurricane has gone away to flood 
> the Mississippi River Valley for the 16^th time this year. And now back to 
> you, John, at bigstorm.com.
>
> Thank you, Al, for that report. I’m sure we’ve all learned something we 
> didn’t know before from your on-the-scene coverage of Hurricane Spike. 
> Next up, our hurricane expert Dr. Sirrus will explain why hurricane surges 
> are not at all related to the Surge in Iraq.
>
> Sometime in the near future, during the next sunspot storm:
>
> This is Al Wett reporting to you live here on the Sun. As you can see 
> behind me, the surface of the Sun is very hot and turbulent. In just a few 
> moments we will show you some video of a solar flare in its formative 
> stages before its solar particles arrive on Earth to fry everyone’s radios 
> and cell phones. To give you an idea of just how awesome a sunspot storm 
> can be, the solar flare we filmed was over 100000 miles long. To put that 
> into perspective, that’s the same distance as three round trips from Los 
> Angeles and Sydney, Australia. Before we run the video, I do want to say 
> that it’s a good thing it’s night here, because if it were day, it would 
> be too bright to see…
>
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