Well, the storm last night certainly didn’t amount to as much chaos as the news lead us to believe. I’m thankful for that, but not happy about the sleep I lost last night worrying about tornadoes in January. But something else that was upsetting was how difficult it was to find decent coverage of the storm on Insight basic cable.
For starters the only coverage I could find leading into the storm was on WFIE 14. This would be fine, except for the fact that their studio was struck by lightning, which caused their audio to cut out every few seconds. FOX wasn’t covering the severe weather, other than a ticker at the bottom of the screen. My preference, Wayne Hart, couldn’t be found until the storm actually hit and the sirens sounded.
Once I found Wayne Hart, it looked like his budget had been cut so much that he could barely be seen on the TV, the quality was just awful. Was it just me or did it look like a cardboard cut out standing in front of an 80′s console TV?
We need more choices in Evansville for severe weather coverage. The door is open, someone please stand up.
P.S. WFIE 14, please, oh please change your graphic and depiction of windshear, it looked like the map was covered in blood. Not the nicest way to communicate when people are freaked out over severe weather in Evansville.
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