my special task
The TV weathercasters have been predicting the possibility of snow here in Portland for the last few days. The town got hit last year with what FOX 12 coined, The Winter Blast (something other stations are now using this year) which pretty much shut down the city for a week.
So, this year everyone wanted to be ready for the next Winter Blast - and today all the stations went live for most of the day with continuous coverage of what I'm calling Winter Blast Light (or possibly Diet Winter Blast). And, while the weather was kinda lackluster (no snow), people did drive themselves into ditches or slam into telephone poles all morning.
Since I'm on my way out-of-town, and traded to be NOT be on-call this weekend, I wasn't asked to participate in all the winter coverage.
But, I did land a special last-minute assignment: picking up the anchors and driving them to work. Basically, Patrick (the news director) called me and said, "I'm appointing you with this task, Frodo Baggins. For if you cannot do it...the fate of Middle Earth is lost." Well, I'm paraphrasing, but it was something important like that.
To be fair: Wayne and Shauna did have a tremendous amount of dangerous ice on several streets leading up to their houses, and I have 4WD studded-tire machine that is handy for such occasions, so it was a good idea for them not to drive.
My entire adventure only took about an hour, but I feel that I made a difference when I look at that TV today (from inside my warm house) and see the
And then I wonder....
...How are they gonna get home?
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Have you heard anything back on your new job yet? From the looks of your website and photography work for it, I can tell you this- If I was a hot chick with an exotic tan and veluptuous curves posing under a waterfall somewhere in the virgin isles, and I also was in the need of a telejournalism photo-guru, you would definately be one of the top on my list.
-Eriq
OHHH... I see how it is. Robot picks up the lens meat... but his good buddy, the PRODUCER, didn't get an offer for a ride in the road gripping, ice killing, 4x4 monster news rig machine? Geez... thanks!! Well, I'll have you know my new little Scion xA got my pathetic PRODUCER ass, along with a frightened little production assistant, from the opposite end of Portland, all the way to the station with absolutely no problems. Of course, I did take out 5 wandering pedestrians along the way. But it's their fault for heeding our warnings to not go outside. That's all I have to say.
I prefer to call this season's winter blast "W2."
OK, good job on sliding outta WB2 LLR, or as I like to call it, 'Winter Blow'
I'm still working on the domain name and 'such' but please add me to your links:
http://potownrecords.blogspot.com/
PS- Hey Hass - who's the 'production ass'? Or does he not wanna kiss and tell?
you're moving closer to me old buddy old pal, so that's not all bad.
it's mostly bad. but not all bad.
where can i get more gore by the way? gimme.
also: http://9secondfilibuster.blogspot.com/
Damn! i need to get my links list up-and-going! all my pals got websites now...
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