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Watching Paint Dry
Let's check in on Channel 37, The Weather Channel.
- a commercial: consumercelluar.com
- a commercal: weedkillerhelpline; call us now!
- a commercial: Nissan
- commercial: -1800-811-3054; stairway elevator
- a commercial: The Weather Channel
- a commercial: Spectrum
- when will the ads end? they go on forever
- finally
- Dorian: category 2; winds at 105; off-shore; in other words, for the US, one big dud
- wow, finally: "state of emergency" -- video -- talking heads -- no storm video; dry and as calm as can be
- now we see some mild weather; folks out enjoying a walk along the beach
- video of catastrophic damage in Grand Bahama; one, repeat, one death in Grand Bahama in most severe hurricane in history in this region; but more deaths expected -- Prime Minister; where was the Queen?
- Freeport airport closed;
- "wind and rain lashing Florida's east coast" -- video either unavailable or not noteworthy; no video being shown
- I-95 traffic through Jacksonville, FL, looks unremarkable
- a commercial: BlueDiamond frying pans
- a commercial: Olay
- a commercial: Navage Nasal Spray
- a commercial: Walgreens
- a commercial: zip recruiter
- a commercial: FlexSeal
- a commercial: Entyvio
- a commercial: StateFarm
- Dorian: again, no wind, no rain video; interviewing NC residents; hurricane not there yet; blamed for two, repeat, two deaths in Florida; approximately 200,000 deaths per year in Florida every year
- and, so it goes
- watching paint dry; the biggest ever hurricane in this region
- Neil DeGrasse Tyson was correct
- The Weather Channel right now: 8 minutes of ads, 2 minutes of watching paint dry
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