The Divine Secrets of a Southern Diva

Just so everyone knows, I have a degree in Radio/TV/Film. And I feel I’m rather intelligent. I know a lot of news people in Houston and I feel they are rather intelligent, too.

I also realize that reporting 24/7 on a hurricane is tedius and trying.

However.

How are you honestly going to tell us the most moronic shit? I mean, do you really think you need to do a 5 minute segment, repeatedly, on power outages because of this hurricane? Do you honestly think that people don’t realize that Centerpoint isn’t going to attempt to restore power until after the strom passes?

Or how about telling us that we *might* lose power? I feel like anyone wiht half a brain should know this.

315,000 customers without power so far.

Oh and they feel that they need to tell the people who don’t have power that it won’t come back and not to call.  Um. if they don’t have power- how are they gonna hear? They might hear on a radio, but with Ipods and computers I haven’t owned an actual radio in years.

Common sense people. Use it.

Although, they were doing some call in stuff earlier and the complete dumbassery people were calling in with was mindboggling.

How many people actually have to call in and ask if they should leave if they live in a mobile home? Not only did they answer that a bazillion times, why the fuck would you even have to ask? GET THE FUCK OUT.

All these dumbass people in Galveston who stayed? You’re morons. Seriously. Don’t cry when officials tell you to write your social security number on your forearm in black permanant marker so they can identify your body. The island flooded BEFORE the storm hit. Hello? Do you need God himself to come down and say “GET THE FUCK OUT”? Apparently so.

I just don’t see how any of these questions are honestly questions. You live on a island. You leave. You live on the coast. You leave. If you live inland then you hunker down, get some water, food, candles, batteries, food, booze and be prepared for anything. Tropical storm Allison wasn’t that long ago, people. We should all know how irratic and random weather can be and what to do to prepare for the worse.

We are under tornado watch now. *shock!* It’s a fuckin’ hurricane, people.

Mikey and I have booze, candy, water, tons of food, candles, a full tank of gas in the car and every phone and camera is charged.  We documented all of the expensive stuff in our house for insurance and If we need to leave after this over, we can. All our clothes are washed and we can be ready to go in 10 minutes.

Get a grip and use some common sense, people. And news folks, stop acting like we are all fuckin’ morons.

Hunkerin’ down like a motherfucker.
-Ali

PS, I’m drunk.

PPS, I love Mayor Bill White. He should run for president someday.