Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Kudos to MSNBC
Kudos to MSNBC for solid coverage of today's Oklahoma tornado. Special kudos to Melissa Rehberger, a former Okie, for breaking out of the idiotic alleged tornado syndrome that has infested TV news lately. Rehberger saw a tornado that was obviously on the ground, and she called it a tornado, not an alleged or possible tornado.
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Later: No kudos to CNN. Their weather reporter just said "There are no basements in Oklahoma. At all." This is phenomenally stupid. He may be thinking of a swampy place like Louisiana where the water table is so high that basements are impossible, but that's completely unrelated to Oklahoma. There are plenty of basements in every part of Oklahoma. As elsewhere, cheaply built tract houses generally lack basements, but that's not a geographical distinction. ¶ 2:10 PM
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Later: No kudos to CNN. Their weather reporter just said "There are no basements in Oklahoma. At all." This is phenomenally stupid. He may be thinking of a swampy place like Louisiana where the water table is so high that basements are impossible, but that's completely unrelated to Oklahoma. There are plenty of basements in every part of Oklahoma. As elsewhere, cheaply built tract houses generally lack basements, but that's not a geographical distinction. ¶ 2:10 PM
