Posted on 06/24/2019 4:08:50 PM PDT by hanamizu
If CBS gets the little things wrong, what about the big things?
Watching the CBS Evening News tonight. They had a short clip of weather and included "flooding caused by rainstorms in Cape Girardeau, MO". They then showed a short clip of flooded highway 146 in East Cape Girardeau, IL. So they got the city and the state wrong. And the highway has been closed for three or four days not because of a rainstorm but because of groundwater seepage caused by the Mississippi River being above flood state for more than a month. So by my count they were 0 for 3 on the story.
bttt
It was a victim of the great compromise.
Perhaps they are having trouble with the concept of accurate reporting due to excesses of the Russian influence in the last election.
On the serious side, in the 93 floods where the river was up for such a long time, we had sand boil problems and alligatoring pavement from hydrostatic pressure near levees in KC.
I ended up re-paving a whole distribution warehouse for Toys R Us as they let trucks run on their pavement during the height of the problem.
East Cape had an increase of 3” of seep water today too.
Flyover country. They assume the illiterate hillbillies won’t fact check them.
When was in the area last week, the local news reported flooding n East Cape Girardeau, IL on highway Illinois 3. 146 connects Illinois to Missouri.
When was in the area last week, the local news reported flooding n East Cape Girardeau, IL on highway Illinois 3. 146 connects Illinois to Missouri.
I must have seen a different clip. The reporter stated that the “storm system caused flash flooding in Missouri Monday morning; water pumps in one part of the state could not work fast enough” and the video showed water covering the street in front of the flood gate at N. Water Street and Themis Street in Cape Girardeau.
It’s always interesting to see them mess up something you know something about. I caught this one on a Chicago station. A few years back, a United Methodist minister was tried by a church court for coming out as a lesbian. She was suspended from her church during the trial. She was acqitted, and returned to work. The station reported, “a United Methodist reverend said Mass for the first time in nearly a year.” I wrote to the editor that Methodist “ministers” don’t “say Mass” and he wrote back, admitting to sloppy research. As you say, I now always wonder how much sloppiness is involved in other reporting.
Yes, a heavy rain can overwhelm the pumps that clear the streets next to the river when it’s at flood stage. All that water has got to go somewhere and it sure won’t go into the river when the river is ‘uphill’ from it. I know there was a brief flood downtown maybe 10 days or so ago. There may well have been flooding yesterday, but I haven’t heard of it.
In any case CBS didn’t show that, but rather the much more serious and long-term flooding on the IL side of the river.
Fake, but accurate.
The video I saw didn’t show anything from the Illinois side; it showed the flood gate at Themis and N. Water.
Floods in flyover country no longer matter.
Was it CBS news tonight?
I’ve looked at the local newspaper website (Southeast Missourian) and the local TV station (KFVS) and neither have a story about flooding downtown yesterday. As I said there was flooding at Themis and Water streets earlier—on May 30. Local coverage:
https://www.kfvs12.com/2019/05/30/why-did-downtown-cape-girardeau-flood/
In fact, I think it went over 100 days above flood stage (at Cape G.?) a couple days ago...?
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