Friday, April 13, 2007

Forecast Calls for Confusion

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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