Hurricane Fay

Oh I have enjoyed watching the news people this morning. They are falling all over themselves trying to make Tropical Storm Fay into another world ending disaster. There were no pictures of torn up houses or boats to show, so no problem...we have footage of a 2004 hurricane that hit the same area. We'll just show that again! Of course there was the idiot that wanted to wind surf and got blown across the street and is in critical condition, and if you didn't see that you have had your tv turned off for a couple of days. The media is pulling out the stops to over report another non disaster.

Since no one had a high rise blown away, they just stand on the beach (without even an umbrella) and go on and on about how there could be flooding and tornadoes and this ISN'T over! Oh please.

Don't take this wrong, I'm not making light of hurricanes and the damage they cause. I rode out Hurricane Andrew and was down in New Orleans after Katrina. Hurricanes are horrible disaster when they hit, but dear old Fay is a tropical storm. And it's killing the media because we haven't been able to dress up in our spiffy weather gear and stand around in the rain and wind and talk to the public.

This is just another example of the media blowing things up for ratings. I just wake up in the mornings and want to know whats going on in the world. But this morning I get bombarded with Fay "slamming" the Florida coast and Bigfoot. Oh and there is the other non event of McCain having an edge over Obama in the church "cone of silence" flap. Or I guess I should say the media defined "flap". If the news agencies can't report on a controversy or disaster, they just create one. Nothing this morning on the U.S. channels about the attack in Afghanistan, just more election BS and the "perfect storm". Thank you BBC for being the last bastion of reporting. I do have to put up with soccer (football for the Brits) scores, but they do report news.

I hope all you Floridians are safe, the storm is a problem but not a disaster of the proportion the media is letting on. And man I wish the election was over. After 2 years of this bunk just get it over. And I can't wait to see the spin the media puts on it if the Chosen One (Obama) doesn't win and save us all from ourselves.