10 minute rant

FIRE STORM 2007!!!

Don't you just love how we're only on day 3 or 4 into this current disaster and the news coverage is already gone over the edge with their dramatizations. Flipping on the evening news won't give you very much information about which the fires are burning in what neighborhoods or where to evacuate or how to find resources. Instead what they do is throw families in front of the remains of their home, which they've just seen for the first time 5 minutes ago, and proceed to ask them questions like, "So how does it feel to have nothing left?" These poor people - in the midst of personal devastation that they couldn't possibly have had one moment to process - get to spend the next several minutes trying to hold it together for the cameras, but inevitably succumb to tears due to the reporter's incessant questions about how they feel about all this. Well I think it's pretty obvious, their friggin' house just burned down!

It just seems too soon, too raw, too ambulance chasing. The fires aren't even out! There will be time for dramatic reenactments and lessons on fire tornadoes and Katrina disaster relief comparisons later. Right now, let's please focus on keeping people safe and perfecting our rain dances.