I'm in Tyler, Texas this weekend with my mom. We are judging State
Bible Drill competition and having a wonderful time doing just that.
Though we did not plan on the inclement weather. A kind gentleman set
up a television in the grading room, and during one of my breaks, I
stopped to watch the weather forecast.
So the nice weather woman
interrupted the regular scheduled programming as planned, and she
promptly informed us of our impending doom (Wild Tangent: She was much
more precise than the Belton weatherman that likes to interrupt great
shows like Jeopardy and the Simpsons to tell us of the rain we never got
and finish up just as the commercials come back on...Jerk). As she was
waving her arms around trying to show us where the tornado was in
Dallas the screen started vibrating, her face aquired a quizzical look,
and she started clicking his little remote quite feverishly. That's
when it happened. The screen went black.
And not for just a second,
but for several. This only further frustrated the meteorologist, and
when the screen finally came back on (with a "Not Responding" window)
she merely clicked the box away, started the program back up, and when
the "Send Error Message"/"Don't Send Error Message" prompted her, she
declined the offer to send an error message. The program was obviously
hurt by this decision and again shut down. At this point, because of
technical difficulties, the station resumed normal programming.
Let
me take the time to say that this is the weather team I want when a
tornado and three intense storm cells are headed my way.
Finally,
when the regularly scheduled programming was interrupted again, a
different weatherMAN again informed us of our impending doom. As if
this wasn't enough, he flailed his arms as the woman before him had
done, showing us the storm cells, but he dropped the remote in the
process. This further agitated the computer, and again, they resumed
regularly scheduled programming. After that fiasco, they simply
resorted to the small picture in the top left corner and the National
Weather Service Announcements at the bottom of the screen.
I haven't laughed that hard in a long time...
And if you think I'm lying, I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.
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