TORNADO WATCH!

Via the EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM those words just spent a good three minutes on every broadcast and cable channel on my screen. The warning will stay in effect until until 01:09:00 EST on 11/30. I guess the winds outside are pretty loud. If you're downtown tonight and you need to take shelter, check out the Lucky Strike in Chinatown. On "PTI" a few minutes ago, Mike Wilbon said he'd be there this evening.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that my Internet is down (I'm on another wireless network right now) and half my cable channels simply froze for about 15 minutes — before and after the EAS, but overtaken during. Photographic evidence forthcoming (of the stopped channels, not the EAS; I ran out of room on my memory card).

UPDATE — Uh oh... looks like they've refrozen. And every few minutes or so, the wind kicks up and my non-airtight doors make a noise like a foghorn.

SECOND UPDATE — So if I was like that guy in that one Nicholson Baker book that isn't about assassinating the president, and I decided to spend my time watching all of the cable channels I usually watch at once, it might look something like this:








P.S. Readers of my former blog may remember the hurricane-blogging I did from Crystal City when Isabel struck in 2003. Scroll down to Sept. 19, or Ctrl-F the restrained title of the last related post, "WHOOOOOSH!!!"

DAYS LATER UPDATE — So I should add, nothing really happened. I opened my door a crack, and the sound stopped. The winds kept up for awhile, but there was no twister, and I can't even find an single reference to it in the Washington Post. More importantly, my cable/broadband is back to normal.

But I'll carry the torch. Repeat after me: Remember, remember, the 30th of November...

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posted by WWB at 6:20 PM |