Some Things I Don’t Understand

September the 8th, in Texas, we had an abundance of rain, wind gusts and even some tornadoes touched down in the area, briefly.  All the local stations carried the story for a few hours.  I was watching one channel where a young woman was standing out in the wind and rain and trying to hold an umbrella in one hand and her microphone in the other, in order to tell us about the weather!

I don’t know if it is just me, or if there might be a large group of us who think this is a most ridiculous  thing to do.  Putting people in harms way or at least into a miserable situation, in order to fill us in on a weather situation. 

I remember one time, a reporter was standing in front of the White House, in below freezing conditions.  Her lips got so cold she could hardly speak.  Why?  I would not have cared if they had simply placed her before a picture of the White House.  In fact it would have been a lot less distracting.

Another thing that disturbs me is the fact that when we have a disaster like an earthquake or a  hurricane, there are hundreds of cameras and news people rushed to the scene.  They are evacuating the local citizens and here come a caravan of news people!  Does not make sense to me.

In the all over scheme of things, this is no really big thing, I suppose, but I just want to vent about it, because I can.  It is MY Blog, you know!