Y2K Survivor

You know what's worse than spending all day thinking of a blog post that conjurers up nostalgic memories of innocent days of youthful perverted sex fantasies, only to fail to garner even one freakin response in the comments section?  To turn on the TV on Thursday night, the ONLY night where TV shows worth watching stack up during the week... only to see all regularly scheduled programming has been preempted because there is a thunderstorm 100 miles away and the weather could get bad.

 

Yeah Frank Mitchell of KTUL in Tulsa decided the best way to deal with potential bad weather that had not even occurred yet was to take over all TV programming on MY night after the writer's strike when the last few shows of a shitty short season are left to air... including LOST... and then talk about the weather!

 

Look, ok so the weather did get bad and there were tornados here in tornado alley.  Big freakin deal!  Like I said, it's called tornado freakin alley!  We know about storms, we grow up hearing how to react in a tornado, we invest millions of dollars in storm cellars and safe rooms.  We know every time a cloud rolls by in a strong wind we may need to seek cover, and after a few years you pick up on a few subtle context clues.  Such as, if you step out on your front porch and notice your neighbor's mobile home is either suddenly missing or worse... headed right at you... it's time to take shelter!

 

I have never seen flying cows or tractors like in that movie with Helen Hunt, But I have seen swaths ripped out of tree lines, all the grass sucked out of pastures and of course all of Oklahoma City in ruins here about a decade ago.  And you know in that BAD BAD storm where the entire metro area seemed laid to waste very few lives were lost because Okies know bad weather!  But Frank Freakin Mitchell on ABC, the network of Lost and Grey's Anatomy and...  well that's about it... canceled ALL shows to talk about weather that won't even water my lawn.

 

All the other networks....  scrolled a news ticker at the bottom of the screen and saved their panic inducing horror mongering for during the commercial time.  Who do you think really cared more for their viewers?