Huh?
It snowed. No big deal. It is winter after all so you'd expect to get snow.
I live in Maryland and in Maryland one flake causes a panic. More than one and that's all anyone can talk about. The local news obsesses on it. We see scenes of salt trucks filling their beds, people running about grocery stores like maniacs as if we would never be able to leave our homes again, and always, some Home Depot that is out of snowblowers, shovels, salt and the like.
And then it snows and the reporters are standing outside telling you that it is really 'coming down'. Uh huh. As opposed to what? Going up? Sideways? Diagonally? Snow comes down. You think they would have learned that in reporter school. But no. It's really coming down. Coming down in this area is when you can still see spaces between the flakes and as fast as it hits the roads it melts.
The big snows we've had, at least those I can remember, weren't predicted to be as bad as it ended up being. I suspect someone, somewhere knew it was going to be bad but didn't tell the new stations for fear that the reporters heads would actually explode with their semi-supressed excitement.
Can you see them. Ms Shiney Whiteteeth, teeth ground together to keep them from chattering, lips folded back or, perhaps, frozen in that position, standing waist deep in snow. "yes Folks," she grinds out between those clenched teeth. "It's snowing, we're up to 3 feet of snow and it is still coming...."
BAM! There goes her head, hat spinning into orbit and they have to go about to train a new reporter. Hopefully one that has the sense to wear a hat and button his or her coat.
Despite the fact that the snow dominated the news there was another bit that set me to puzzling, hence the 'Huh' in this title.
A truck overturned on some highway in West Virginia spilling its cargo of cartons of Dum Dum Pops all over the highway. MMMM Dum Dums. Ever wonder how they get to the question mark flavor? I'm quessing it's just the gunk in the bottom of the kettles that are mixed together and you get whatever the heck it is.
But I'm wandering.
Ok. Highway in West Virgina. Dum dum cartons all over the place that need to be gathered and repacked and
wait
A HAZMAT TEAM!!
An honest to god Hazmat team BECAUSE OF THE DANGEROUS CHEMICALS THAT WERE BEING SHIPPED WITH THE DUM DUM POPS!
HOly crap.
That's it for me. If I were ever to ead a dum dum after this, I would be the dum dum. And probably glowing in the dark.
I have Antiques Roadshow on and got sidetracked by the bread cubes from some moon shot that sell for $25,000 a bag. Some people have been sucking on those dum dum pops for too long.
I live in Maryland and in Maryland one flake causes a panic. More than one and that's all anyone can talk about. The local news obsesses on it. We see scenes of salt trucks filling their beds, people running about grocery stores like maniacs as if we would never be able to leave our homes again, and always, some Home Depot that is out of snowblowers, shovels, salt and the like.
And then it snows and the reporters are standing outside telling you that it is really 'coming down'. Uh huh. As opposed to what? Going up? Sideways? Diagonally? Snow comes down. You think they would have learned that in reporter school. But no. It's really coming down. Coming down in this area is when you can still see spaces between the flakes and as fast as it hits the roads it melts.
The big snows we've had, at least those I can remember, weren't predicted to be as bad as it ended up being. I suspect someone, somewhere knew it was going to be bad but didn't tell the new stations for fear that the reporters heads would actually explode with their semi-supressed excitement.
Can you see them. Ms Shiney Whiteteeth, teeth ground together to keep them from chattering, lips folded back or, perhaps, frozen in that position, standing waist deep in snow. "yes Folks," she grinds out between those clenched teeth. "It's snowing, we're up to 3 feet of snow and it is still coming...."
BAM! There goes her head, hat spinning into orbit and they have to go about to train a new reporter. Hopefully one that has the sense to wear a hat and button his or her coat.
Despite the fact that the snow dominated the news there was another bit that set me to puzzling, hence the 'Huh' in this title.
A truck overturned on some highway in West Virginia spilling its cargo of cartons of Dum Dum Pops all over the highway. MMMM Dum Dums. Ever wonder how they get to the question mark flavor? I'm quessing it's just the gunk in the bottom of the kettles that are mixed together and you get whatever the heck it is.
But I'm wandering.
Ok. Highway in West Virgina. Dum dum cartons all over the place that need to be gathered and repacked and
wait
A HAZMAT TEAM!!
An honest to god Hazmat team BECAUSE OF THE DANGEROUS CHEMICALS THAT WERE BEING SHIPPED WITH THE DUM DUM POPS!
HOly crap.
That's it for me. If I were ever to ead a dum dum after this, I would be the dum dum. And probably glowing in the dark.
I have Antiques Roadshow on and got sidetracked by the bread cubes from some moon shot that sell for $25,000 a bag. Some people have been sucking on those dum dum pops for too long.
posted by ---me--- at Monday, February 13, 2006
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