Friday, October 14, 2016
Kudos to KXLY
This year has been thoroughly normal, and today we're having the normal default autumn 25G45 windstorm. Lots of people (including me!) are tending toward panic, remembering last year's uniquely NONnormal 50G70 windstorm. A serious disaster leaves deep tracks in the mind.
Spokane's paid media rarely bother to wake up for local problems, preferring to CHEER CHEER CHEER their Supreme And Holy Lordess And Savioress Hillary and SMASH SMASH SMASH those Xenophobe Buffoon Deplorables. When they do condescend to devote a few seconds to weather, it's an avant-garde tossed salad of Seattle stuff, Florida stuff, NYC stuff, Hawaii stuff, criminal Global Warming ratshit, and an occasional picospeck of Spokane stuff, with timelines running forward and backward and inside-out simultaneously.
Yesterday, just this one time, KXLY did a CLEAR AND COMPREHENSIBLE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD forecast, specifically and solely for UNCOOL SPOKANE, without even the slightest reference to those other COOOOOOOL places, laying out WHAT TO EXPECT and WHEN TO EXPECT IT, and CLEARLY defining how and why this normal windstorm is nothing like last year's disaster.
Kudos to KXLY, and special kudos to Leslie Lowe.
Labels: defensible spaces, Heimatkunde
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