Look I understand her passion and desire for people to take the weather warning seriously, but there is a find line between providing necessary information and having a breakdown on television.
If she were a flight attendant on a flight that hit severe turbulence she would be in the back of the plane screaming "We're all going to die!"
So helpful.
P.S. By the way I found this on the American Preppers Network Facebook page.
They of course think she is underselling the problem.
Like yelling fire in a movie theater
ReplyDeleteI think you are engaging in a bit of hyperbole, Gryphen. That wasn't a breakdown.
ReplyDeleteNo, she's more Debbie Downer drama queen. I don't even live on that side of the country and I want to jump off a cliff in fear and despair.
DeleteKTUU hiring? Palinesque.
ReplyDeleteIce storms are a nightmare and can leave communities without power for weeks. I have been through a few of them and hope I never have to again.
ReplyDeleteI live in Philly and a lot of places got hit hard, and, yes, some people came up with the brilliant idea to bring a charcoal grill into an attached garage to cook a few burgers on and ended up with mild carbon monoxide poisoning and got home to a house with every window open with fans getting the carbon monoxide out.
ReplyDeleteThere were two shelters, one holds 300, a few gyms with generators were offering free showers, food trucks were giving away meals, and a few stations took generators out so people could charge their phones and computers. 30 people showed up at the shelter.
President Obama issued a State of Emergency, and Governor Corbett (R) has been on every station acting like he had to pressure POTUS, when it's usually the Governors job to issue a state of emergency so the President can release the funds.
This weather reporter is suffering from information overload. Every channel has coverage of the worst things, over and over and over again. Apparently she came from that area and it all crashed down around her on air for all to see.
My power went out for a day and the roads in my area are clear, salted and easy for sane people to slowly navigate. I avoided the news all day because they make it sound like Armageddon.
We need to get together sometime! Not sure I realized you are in Philly!!
DeleteI find it interesting how "Tea Party" governors, like Corbett, are willing to have federal dollars when disasters, including ice storms, occur. In a week or so he'll be back grousing about the President and about how "evil" all of this "socialism" is. If the country put the needed money into infrastructure reform, including putting power lines underground, the problems like those encountered in every ice storm, would be greatly reduced. But such reforms take a lot of money and "Tea Party" types are not willing to pay the taxes and work with others.
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I understand her passion.
ReplyDeleteWeather can turn bad quickly. It is easy to be caught unprepared. Certified mountain guides have slipped on a stretch of ice and died because they believed crampons weren't needed.
Ignorance is not a sin. Just a pain in the ass. I have had to rescue people who weren't properly prepared on remote hiking trails several times.
Rescues make good stories, though. One of my favorites is of the woman who tried to summit Mont Blanc in espadrilles.
Look at the pix of Philadepelphia and surrounding areas -- it was dangerous and deadly. She was there to do a weather report, which is what she did.
DeletePhiladelphia is a city, not some remote rural trail. If you're terrified of ice, stay the heck home. Ice doesn't break down your front door and go hunting you down.
DeleteI'm not terrified of ice, 3:48, I climb on it.
DeleteI am wary of drivers who go too fast on slick roads and slide into other cars. I am wary of downed tree branches and live power lines.
Thank you, though. I was not aware Philadelphia was a city. Until you straightened me out, I thought it was trail on K2.
6:07, if you're too terrified of drivers to go out...STAY HOME. If you get confused between rural trails and big cities, perhaps someone does need to point it out to you.
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DeleteMade come over here for nothing.
How does it feel being punked?
LMAO off at 8:57!
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Wow, 12:53, aka 9:14, aka 6:07, if you're such a candy ass that some ice terrifies you, stay home. And have your mommy monitor your internet use; you seem rather deranged.
DeleteAt this point, ２：４４, you're bitch slapping yourself.
DeleteJe Je Je Je Je @ you.
Dunbass!
Geeze. I couldn't take her anymore. WTF is she on? Been through many power outages and ice/snow storms. Sure, it's important to tell people about the dangers of ice storms, but Hello? There's no power in that town. Who is going to be watching her except weather junkies? Otherwise, she's just a jumped-up drama queen.
ReplyDeleteYou exaggerate.
DeleteShe must have gone to the Sarah Palin School of Journalism.
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Who did she think was listening to all her survival tips? The ones without power weren't listening or watching. 100% are without power. She said it twice.
ReplyDeleteGood point.
DeleteMy sister, who lives in Philadelphia, was without power for about two minutes. Her part of the city was lucky. Trees that came down, and lots did, did not bring down any power lines.
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Oh Michigan, looks like you have YOUR hands full. Check out who's running for office. I swear, it just gets more and mroe insane with this crop of republicans.
ReplyDeleteRepublican Official Says Gays Should Be Purged From GOP, Blames Homosexuality On Satan
A new candidate for a Michigan seat on the Republican National Committee wants gays "purged" from the GOP and claims homosexuality is a "perversion" created by Satan himself.
Mary Helen Sears of Houghton County in the state's Upper Peninsula, elected vice chair of the Michigan Republican Party's 1st District last year, posted a rant in April on the Schoolcraft County GOP website -- preceded by a warning asking readers to "please use your discretion before taking any decisions based on the information in this blog."
In the post, Sears claimed that homosexuals prey on children, argued that "Satan uses homosexuality to attack the living space of the Holy Spirit" and advocated that Republicans "as a party should be purging this perversion and send them to a party with a much bigger tent."
Michigan's representatives on the Republican National Committee have lately stirred other controversy, mostly due to Dave Agema, a former state lawmaker who has regularly made anti-gay comments and has been condemned by fellow Republicans, including Gov. Rick Snyder.
Last month, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and Michigan Republican Party Chairman Bobby Schostak issued a joint statement asking Agema to step down from the RNC "for the good of the party." Instead, Agema's Michigan co-chair on the RNC, U.S. Senate candidate Terri Lynn Land (who had condemned Agema's anti-gay comments), resigned her seat, saying she wanted to focus on her campaign. Under party rules, the state GOP must pick a woman to take Land's place, according to the Detroit Free Press.
Enter Sears, who is running for Land's vacated RNC seat. She's, "if anything, to the right of RNC Committeeman Dave Agema on the political spectrum," wrote Macomb Daily columnist Chad Selweski.
Sears, in her post on the Schoolcraft County GOP website, wrote that Communist college professors were indoctrinating young people and claimed that Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory "gave rise to Hitler’s Third Reich, Mussolini’s Italy and Stalin’s Russia."
"If the GOP continues down this trend and stand for perversions and the daily social fad ... The GOP will be truly dead and Satan will have had his day," Sears wrote.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/07/mary-helen-sears-michigan-gop_n_4740426.html
I just wish that these crazies would just fade away.
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This is what passes for news reporting now. We get extended news coverage to watch some idjit standing outside in the rain or the snow and talking about how windy it is. They get wet, they get splashed, they fall down...they can't stand up in the wind. Basically, they suck at what they do. We really don't need to see them or hear them to get the weather.
ReplyDeleteDrama Queen. Also too, interjecting your opinion into the story is not considered reporting. And of course, her opinion was wrong. The good folks in PA are doing just fine from what I have read.
ReplyDeleteThe sky has not fallen Chicken Little.
Wow. I know her. Next door neighbor to her parents. She interviewed me years ago during a similar storm when I was grilling breakfast outside. She is right about a lot of things she said, but the emotion was overkill.
ReplyDeleteGeez...What in the hell is she on? All bouncing up and down agitated, snatching her hood off and on.
ReplyDeleteThis is an example of an inexperienced, or dopey and arrogant reporter, who thinks that the rest of the world needs her expertise. And who thinks the best way to convey the information is her own meager experience. Were there warnings from local organizations? A good reporter -- not one vamping for "Fox and Friends" -- would state the warnings from local authorities, and if the situation warranted add a personal message of stay safe, or a very recent anecdote. Clearly she only had a camera operator, and no one monitoring that anecdote ack-ack mouth.
ReplyDeleteI live next door to her parents. We have had some really awful ice storms over the years. Her drama llama stuff is not helpful, but some of her observations are correct. I have prepared by getting a generator, all sorts of lighting devices and whatnot. Lots of folks here are clueless. Again - she over emoted, but was accurate about some things. There are homes here without power since Tuesday.
DeleteAuntie Ruth, you sound like a sane person; you prepared for the storm. Instead of the nervous nelly who was terrified that the ice was going to break down his door and attack him, you are not a nut.
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