A couple of weeks ago, our local weather man commandeered the broadcast for three or four hours. There were tornados on the ground—just none where we are. We missed the 2nd to last episode of Big Bang Theory and my wife was perturbed with him and the station.
Then last week we had another weather “action day”. They said, “don’t call us, you can watch shows on cbs.com. It would have been nice if they had done that the week before, but I guess they got a lot of complaints. That said, the weather radars were showing where the tornados were and they were alerting people in the paths. Missing a show I want to see or maybe people dying, what to do, what to do?
Broadcast television is simply not a source for me. Not since 1997. We have EBS on our smart phones and that’s good enough. We were also careful to not live in an area where tornadoes are a problem. Flooding can be an issue, which is why we built on high ground, so it is irrelevant to us.