CSotD: If this had been a real emergency, we’d have bugged out 10 minutes ago
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Not sure where Speed Bump's Dave Coverly lives, but one of the oddities of life in rural America is radio stations and cable services that serve wide, wide areas. That means you can be annoyed by repeated automated Weather Service alerts for places that are nowhere near you. They need an interactive "I know. Stop telling me this" button.
Incidentally, if you work at a radio station, you know when those system tests are coming up and you can kill the studio monitor so that only the listeners have to hear them. You also know when to flip the monitor back on. There aren't a lot of advantages to working at a radio station, but there's one.
Oh, and one more: If there's ever a real emergency, you can be on the highway and evacuated before the traffic jam begins.
(NOTE: That joke assumes human beings work at radio stations. This is barely true anymore and is very dependent on what market you're in. During the Ice Storm in 1998, the local radio station did a great job of keeping people up to date on the emergency, but a scant two years later, I was in the next market down when a hurricane really laced the place, knocking out power to some areas for three or four days, and there was not a word about it on the radio. They were on the air, but just delivering their satellite package of brain-dead radio goo. Interlaced, I suppose, with automated tests of the emergency broadcast system.)
(SECOND NOTE: Found out Dave Coverly lives in Ann Arbor, aka "The Amazing City With No Printed Newspaper." Funny place for a syndicated cartoonist, no? However, I prefer to concentrate on the demise of radio, thanks.)
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