For those of you who don’t live here, and maybe some who do, this may seem unfeeling. Too bad.
In LA, it gets really hot. Every year. Shit burns. Every year. EVERY YEAR. EVERY FUCKING YEAR.
In LA, “Fire” is the fifth fucking season, Ok?
And the sixth is “Mudslides”.
And they both occur in pretty much the same places. First it burns, then it mudslides.
WE KNOW.
Yes, it’s appropriate to tell us about it. Give us a few visuals. And certainly, if there is loss of life or anything close, that deserves to be reported.
BUT…
Shit burning or mud sliding is NOT worthy of pre-empting everything else, adding extra hours, and blathering endlessly, meaninglessly, and stupidly that Stuff is Burning or Mud is Sliding.
So can you PLEASE just get a fucking GRIP?
And while you’re at it: that business of stopping everything to lovingly linger over some asshole running from the cops? Sometimes for HOURS? Cut that shit out, too.
Having traveled extensively in my last job I can tell you that “storm watch” and preempting everything for a police chase is not just an LA thing.
I’ve seen it in Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco, the list goes on.
I can tell you I am right there with the OP.
Don’t forget the part where we have like a 2.5 earthquake and the same 30 seconds of video, showing spilled shampoo from bottles that fell off the shelf at Ralphs, plays for three hours on every station.
In Phoenix it is sort of hot all summer Nevertheless, the TV weather people babble on about it day after day after day. It gets pretty boring, as every day of the year is hot and sunny. If course, here is is only “warm” up until 115. Over that they admit it is “hot.”
All news media these days just looooove any disaster at all. They pray hurricanes will hit the East coast, that fires will devastate the West. So what else is new?
Yeah, it was 106 in parts of LA today. It sure felt that hot when I was walking the couple blocks to my bus stop - at 5:40 p.m.
That said, I agree with the OP. It happens every. single. f’ing. year. I wish the news programs stopped acting like it was a novelty. “OMG! It was over 100 degrees today! Just like last August!” :mad:
And yeah, Storm Watch [insert year]!!!111oneZOMG! had me rolling my eyes every year. I especially liked the one where it’s sprinkling in Malibu, and the KNBC woman is standing there saying, ‘This is the place where a nursery was washed away last year. As you can see, it’s not raining now. But last year a nursery was washed away!’
The amount of time devoted to the weather on news broadcasts is a fucking disgrace. Sometimes a full quarter of the bulletin can be taken up by the weather report, or teasers for the weather report, or quick live crosses to the weatherperson to preview the weather report.
The even do it here in San Diego.
For fucks sake, in San Diego they could record the weather report at the beginning of June and replay the same tape for the next three months: 78 and sunny. With maybe a backup clip that says 86 and sunny, in case there’s a sustained high pressure system.
Pssht, I used to live in LA and now I live in Minneapolis. So my weather reporting has gone from “It’s hot!” every summer to, “It’s hot and humid!” every summer, plus the “It’s fucking cold!” winter bonus.
So I went and took a few photos today to make this panorama shot of the fires. This was taken just a couple of miles from my apartment. Although I am a safe distance away, you can smell it / breathe it from here just fine.
I wanted to share because I know how much you love hearing about the fires, Stoid.
I saw your phot and remembered the view of the fires I have from work. you can see the Azusa fire and the La Canada/Flintridge fire from the top of the parking structure. You can also see the smoke from the latter fire from the cubicle next to mine, if you look through the right window. My coworker had to lean down a little to see, but I could see it with no problems because I’m so short.
I am listening to “Los Angeles is Burning” by Bad Religion as I type this.
For those of you in sane parts of the world, this QFT. There are chases that the local news insist on showing, mud slides that get people killed who never should have lived there, fires every year (yes, every year, literally, without miss or exaggeration), and almost every hard rainstorm is covered by StormWatch by some local news station because it builds ratings.
A couple months back, I get into the lift at Mom’s with one of her neighbors. She goes “my, it sure is windy today!”
…
Let’s see… yes, there is what we usually call “a bit of a breeze,” but only an outsider would call it “windy.” By the time locals call it windy, TV is giving warnings about “60mph winds in the Ebro Valley.” And she is local, so…
“You must have been on vacation! How was your vacation?”
Spanish weathermen didn’t use to report weather in “the Ebro valley,” only in its biggest town, Saragossa. Then someone discovered there are weather stations on top of mountains and in places with less than 1M inhabitants: for some time, weathermen would, every day, like clockwork, announce “strong winds from the Northwest in the Ebro Valley.” After a while they ended up realizing there’s no need to talk about winds in the Ebro Valley unless there’s no wind (happens about twice a year) or it comes from the South (in which case all of Spain suffers from “Siroccos from Africa,” so there is no need to single the Ebro Valley out).
Now they’re back to reporting “strong winds in the Ebro Valley” some 350 days a year. In every single national channel… (in further news, mountains are still higher than surrounding valley areas; the sea is still kind of wet; the Generalísimo is still very much deceased; prostitutes are still at risk of VDs; rich people have more money than poor people. We’ll be back after the ads).
I apparently have a role as your San Diego weather harrasser.
Anyway, were you in town yesterday? They’d have to pre-empt their standard broadcast because it was 104 at Montgomery Field yesterday and 91 at the airport. TOO DAMN HOT.
They must be pandering to people like my wife who watch the news only for the weather. In NJ where there was weather this makes sense, but in the Bay Area where we only have climate it is just a habit. How do you think the Weather Channel makes its money?
I love it here where the predicted high is supposed to go up two degrees over the next three days, and they call it a warming trend.
Nevertheless, the TV weather people babble on about it day after day after day. It gets pretty boring, as every day of the year is hot and sunny. If course, here is is only “warm” up until 115. Over that they admit it is “hot.”
