Thursday, July 10, 2003

Tornado warnings are ruining my show!

Yes, I realize they’re serious. Yes, I know people need to be warned. BUT…

The weather guy (Topper Shutt - it’s got to be a made up name) is not saying anything that couldn’t be said in a crawl on the screen while MY SHOW IS STILL RUNNING UNINTERRUPTED!!!

He could at least talk a little faster…

LATER: OK, I’m still a little irate, but all of the local affiliates have preempted regular programming so this is really serious. Although Topper’s talking about nothing really, while he plays with his SuperDoppler™ computer toys.

I tried calling the station to see if they plan to rerun TAR4 later. The line is busy, so I’m sure they’re being bombarded with calls from other irate viewers. I sent them an email requesting that they rerun the show. We’ll see…

LATERER: I just caught a scroll at the bottom of the screen, “The Amazing Race will air tonight at 1:37am.” What the??? 1:37? Where’d they get that time? Well, I’m happy now - and my VCR will be set, of course.

FRI AM: I’ll talk about the thunderstorms of last night in a new post. But I will say that I was worried that my power would go out and keep me from getting TAR taped, but I was very happy to wake up this morning to see that it had. And I watched it before coming to work. (Yes, I get up early enough to do that.)

Good episode...and I’m a happy gal.