I wanna stay home......

[poltr1]

Once again, the weather is turning yucky. Freezing rain is in the forecast, and I'm choosing to stay home tonight. I'm in my sweats and wool socks, which is what I sleep in in the wintertime. I have the Weather Channel on. I don't get CBC, so I can't watch Hockey Night In Canada. :(

Does the Weather Channel give Mike Seidel hazardous duty pay when they send him out across the country to cover storms?

Comments

[tollermom]

You must be next in line for our weather. When I started out to go shopping, about 4 p.m., it had just started sleeting. By the time I got to Kohl's, had no luck, and left, the streets were starting to get nasty. Now it's snowing... big thick wet sticky flakes. Whee.

[zorya-thinks.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I think Mike Seidel gets his kicks out of covering the big storms. Last year he was at ground zero for so many hurricanes that Tom and I joked that they were looking for him. :-)

He missed landfall for Kartina but not by much. Gulfport Ms (where he was located) got a serious thumping. My mother grew up there and was shocked when she saw the after storm pictures. Whole streets of homes were gone.

Some people are just plain crazy

[owlsforodin.livejournal.com]

The Weather Channel has some real crazies working for them. Jim Cantore takes the prize for putting in harm's way the most. And I don't think Stephanie Abrams is any saner on that topic. It was Mike Seidel, though, who was stranded here in Dayton two years ago when that 16" drop on us.

Re: Some people are just plain crazy

[zorya-thinks.livejournal.com]

After I posted my comment I realized I was thinking of Jim Cantore. But Mike Seidel also tends to rush in to weather conditions that would cause angels to pause. :-)

Re: Some people are just plain crazy

[poltr1]

Yes, it was Jim Cantore who was in New Orleans or southern Missisippi when Katrina hit. He had swimming goggles on which made him look pretty Devo.

[amazon-42.livejournal.com]

I think you're right. I think that some weather people just are not happy unless they're next to flying ice, debris, cars, etc. It's their version of shooting in Fallujah.

This is as opposed to the Junior Weathercasters, who get the bottom rung job of standing next to freeways to show the folks at home what snow looks like. You know, in case they don't have windows at home.