Shelby county has a wonderful tornado alert system, with sirens that cover the whole county. The only problem is, whenever theres a tornado warning anywhere in the county, they ALL go off. So, the actual inclement weather could be at the far end of the county from where I happen to be at the time, and to paraphrase a line from the movie Armegeddon, it's a big ass county. Also, in stark contrast to the years that go by without a tornado warning in the east side of the state, Memphis is in Tennessee's version of tornado alley, with at least 4 alarms in the last 5 days. As a result, I've gotten not just blase, but downright dismissive of the alarms. Not that I don't check the radar, but since I've started this post, we've had 2 different warnings...one for the northern county, and one for the extreme southeast part of the county. Here in the middle, it's just been a bit of wind and a lot of rain. I only wish that we could get a bit more specific in the areas of the county where the alarms are going off...but that would entail that the county's emergency management team be fully staffed and competent.
While on this subject, I'm gonna again harp on the local broadcasters. Granted, when the weather service puts out the tornado warnings, they have to report them. And given how freakin' big the viewing area is here (flat, remember?) a warning 3 - 4 counties away justifies breaking into regularly scheduled programming to spread the word. But do they have to sound like their covering the end of the world?
And, for something completely different...
One of my co-workers turned in his 2 week notice yesterday. Anyone know of a good IT support tech looking for work?
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