Slow News Day

This is photograph of the Blizzard of 1978. I remember this because school was closed all week long. People couldn't find their cars. It was way above your head... it was awesome!

This is news. THIS is snow. Lately in the New York City Area we have been getting snow. There have been countless hours dedicated to talking about it on the news, emergency reports interrupting scheduled programming, people running to pick up milk and bread before it hits. But you see, it's not SNOW. It's snow.

My cousin who currently lives in Calgary, where snow is no joke, a regular expected occurrence and probably not the main topic of every conversation, made a comment the other day about how the New York news spent multiple hours covering the snow event. Well, at first it was "The blizzard of the century", than later it became "The blizzard of the year" which was right before it was downgraded to "snow storm" and then even further to "snow event." Here is the news from this past week where New York City got 2 inches of snow, most of which turned to slush almost immediately.

NETWORK NEWS OUT OF NYC:

Reporter: "Well, as you see here, I'm standing out in snow folks! See...look!"

(Camera pans to ground. Yes, there is some snow, like a a bit...maybe it just looks moist.)

Reporter: "Travel is hectic around her, people are being extra careful...wearing boots and hats!"

(They stop someone wearing BOTH a hat and boots and hold up the microphone to them.)

Reporter: "What do you think of this! SNOW!"

Person: "Yes. today I saw it was going to snow, so I wore boots. Oh, and my hat too."

Reporter: (laughs hard at obviously hysterical comment by person) "Oh, me too. A hat AND boots...ha,ha.ha.!"

Reporter: "Lets talk to some of the plow guys, they've been working all night...wait..what...sorry I'm getting information from the studio. What's that? Oh, an hour now. Okay." "So, what is your name sir?"

Plow Man: "Joe"

Reporter: "What do you think of all this weather Joe?!"

Joe: "Yup."

Reporter: "You heard that here first! It's snowing! Just look up at how it's coming down!"

(Camera pans up...light flakes flutter down, the stars are shining through the flakes)

Reporter: "Well, it was coming down before. I have this yardstick here to measure the snow."

(She sticks ruler into snow. It falls over due to there being nothing to really hold it up)

Reporter: "Well there you go guys. Winter weather in the Big Apple! Maybe there will be no school tomorrow, what do you think kids?"

Kids: (looking at reporter and saying "YAY!", then looking back at Mom who rolls her eyes and shakes her head no).

NETWORK NEWS SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDWEST LAST WEEK

Reporter: "So, it looks like we've had some weather, with a chance of a bit more by the morning...what would that be, Rob back at the studio?"

Rob at the Studio: "Only 3 feet".

Reporter: "3 feet by tomorrow morning...not too bad since it's only on top of the last 4 feet from last night". So on to more timely news....there's a lost cat named Fluffy in the Easton Park Area. If you find her please call 1-800-555-1222. And now for the sports..."

Well, that's enough of my rambling about snow. I think I'll turn on the news to catch the 3 hour Tiger Woods Apology Special. I think it's being close captioned for the hearing impaired which is always good, but you can also follow it on Twitter.

I think there also may have been a domestic terrorism incident with a plane crashing into the IRS building in Texas, Alexander Haig died, An American won Male figure skating for the first time in decades and I think that Haiti may still be in some need of assistance...but I'm not sure. I think there's still a war in Iraq and Afghanistan too. I'll have to check and get back to you on it.