Three Plus Hours of Weather....

There are few things in life that really and truly irk me beyond belief. My local CBS affiliate - WFMY in Greensboro - IRKED me beyond belief today. Since their radar showed possible funnel clouds, the went on the air with a three hour weather broadcast this afternoon....THREE FREAKIN HOURS of looking at their radar and hearing their reporters and weather people struggling to find a new way to repeat the same information over and over again. During this time, there were no reports of actual tornadoes touching the ground - which would be REAL and IMPORTANT NEWS - just these people rambling on and on about where this cloud and that cloud now were on radar and repeats of information about thunder storm and tornado watches - information I could read if it were scrolling across the bottom as my favorite CBS Soaps - As The World Turns and Guiding Light aired. Instead of the big love scene between Mike and Katie, finding out more about the mystery surrounding Carly's father and watching Olivia and Reva learn that Nate was really Alfred, I watched the radar for two hours. Frustrated soap fan that I am, I decided to e-mail the station and see if they were going to re-air the show overnight and received and answer of no. Ok, that didn't satisfy me - so I pulled out all the stops and used the information I had as Robert's fan club vice president and webmaster about stations around the country that had rebroadcasts scheduled overnight thanks to pre-emptions this morning resulting from the coverage of the bombings in London. It's sad to say that Greensboro doesn't think they can follow in the footsteps of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit and Boston. Apparently, the local CBS station doesn't see itself as big and important enough to lobby CBS with a request to rebroadcast the CBS shows due to the over done local weather break...Ok...I'll get off my soapbox now...and go e-mail someone somewhere else in this great country and see if I can get a tape of Mike and Katie sent to me.