It doesn't happen often but when it does it can be very frustrating. What I talking about? Bad weather in Arizona. For all of those of you who are not in Arizona and haven't heard, the West has gotten a handful of storms this past week. I know some of you don't have a clue because appearantly something happened in Haiti and CNN isn't sure anything else is happening. I mean Anderson Cooper can't be everywhere in his T-shirt pulling people from rubble. I am not sure if that should be considered news or a reality show about news-people looking to get ratings.
Enough about CNN and back to my original complaint. I don't think this would be a factor if our foul weather happened on any other night, since Thursday is the night with the best shows. If it would have happened on Tuesday, I wouldn't have known the difference since all I watch on Tuesday is Monday shows I didn't watch. (Thank you inventor of the DVR).
I am talking about the constant interruption of shows to explain to us the weather situation. How many times do they have to tell us there is a flood watch, high wind advisory and a tornado warning? You got the map of the state with all the counties in five different colors showing on the screen the whole time, then before every show, on top of every show the news people come on to tell us it is still really windy and raining really hard. Oooh, I didn't notice. If the sound of the trees outside and the pounding rain wasn't enough, I am glad you interrupted my television. Do they interrupt the commercials to bring me this information...nooo, maybe if I was paying them for television...oh wait, I am. But then I do pay a lot less than McDonalds and what ever other commercials they are showing.
Then on top of that, the National Weather Service has their thing come across the screen. Now that in itself isn't the problem because yes it would be nice to know that a tornado just took out my favorite fast food place but do they have to make the annoying beeping noise then read to me the words across the screen. Yes I can read and listen to my show at the same time. I was wondering who they were reading to because I figure blind people don't watch too much TV, I don't know maybe they do. Then I realized perhaps there are some less educated people who can't read that are at home watching TV on a Thursday night. Perhaps they should be at the community college instead of watching Community.
I know this probably seems like the ramblings of a spoiled American that values TV above the news and it is. But then again, is telling me that it is raining every 15 minutes really news? Now I understand covering the adverse weather because it caused a lot of problems. Flooding, mudslides and so forth. It closed roads, destroyed homes and even killed people. But you aren't going to see a telethon on every channel to help the survivors of Arizona, and that is fine. I am not trying to upstage the people in Haiti and I really wish them the best and that is all I am going to say about Haiti other than that I am glad the telethon was on Friday night when nothing else good is scheduled to be on and I also wonder how many of those kids Brad and Angelina are going to adopt. Speaking of Brad and Angelina, I wonder if there house had to be rezoned to a school or orphanage or something. I was thinking about moving to another country just to see if they would adopt me.
What I am trying to say is that maybe there is a better way to handle the disbursement of weather information to those sitting on the couch at home watching TV. Yes we need the information but we also need our entertainment. What we don't need is so many commercials about cars that no one in America can afford to buy because our tax money went to bail them out so that they can keep making cars we don't want because we can't pay for the gas that they guzzle so they keep making commercials hoping we will buy them.
I think that is enough ramblings for today.
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