"Brian" wrote:

Dwight, your assessment won't stop FEMA from
delivering millions of dollars in emergency aid so
that people can get their carpets shampooed and
a new set of trash cans.


Especially after the news reporters spiced up the stories for the cameras.
Did you pay attention to some of the broadcasts? Some of those reporters
were acting like the world was coming to an end.

The one that had me laughing the most was the woman holding onto the huge
cement flower pot as she talked about being blown away if she didn't hold
on. While all this was going on, her thin nylon windbreaker was hardly
moving. I saw the same reporter later hanging onto a light pole, again with
her clothing hardly moving in the wind.

Another funny moment happened towards the beginning of the storm. The
reporter was talking about how the area looks "like a ghost town," just as a
bunch of teenagers passed behind him playing catch with a football.

And, now, the same reporters are out searching for that one damaged
building, that one fallen tree, that one flooded street, in a mostly
undamaged area, to put on the evening news like that is the typical
situation throughout the path of the storm. It would all be hilarious if it
wasn't for the bad impression it creates elsewhere (and the mostly
unnecessary disaster aid it garnishes).


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/