Thursday, September 23, 2010

Not to belittle or down play areas of the island that have been hit hard by hurricane Igor, but I found some of the reporting and other coverage a little bizzaro.

On Here & Now: Lee Pitts was reporting live from one of the towns hit hard. The host asked Lee what was the scene like where he was. I’m paraphrasing here, Lee says “it is total devastation, I was just talking to a house owner up the street, his shed moved, the deck dropped, his lawn mover is covered in mud and the BBQ tipped over”.

Fortunately for Lee following video and other coverage of road and bridge wash outs, basements flooded revealed the true devastation he mentioned.

The prize for the most absurd rant goes to the Prince of absurd rants Bill Rowe on VOCM Talk back.

A caller was on the line talking about the state of the roads in one of the National Parks in the Province. The caller’s town was cut off with no indication when any work would be undertaken to alleviate the situation.

This sent Bill off and a rant attaching the Federal Government for having responsibility of roads in national parks.

The feds do not do roads very well Bill said, they should hand over the roads in the parks to the Province who know how to do roads very well.

Will someone tell Bill that the majority of the devastation to roads, bridges, flooded towns and washed away homes comes under the purview of the Province.

5 comments:

WJM said...

There was an even better Bill Rowe moment when he went frothing about the "incompetence" of the federal government, over people calling Terra Nova park HQ for road information, and getting a recording.

The phone lines to the park HQ were severed by the storm.

Somehow that's a sign of federal incompetence.

The War With Ottawa, indeed.

Paradise Driver said...

Brian, was it really a hurricane when it reached that far north? I was under the impression that it was only a sub-tropical depression.

Brian said...

I think once Igor reached our area it was not even classed as a ‘sub-tropical storm’, none the less we have high winds and no rain, it seems to be stuck just south and west of Greenland at the moment.

The official [Canadian]term used was ‘sub tropical-storm’ when Igor caused the devastation on Eastern Newfoundland.

Table Mountains said...

You can call it a hurricane or not but for thousands on the east coast it was hell on earth.

WJM said...

"Post-tropical storm" then "post-tropical depression" then humble low-pressure system.