WTOP saves the day (again)

[amw]

So a friend calls me around 8 to say we got Saddam. Check the web, Fox has broken the story, ahead of Drudge. A few minutes later it's everywhere else. Turn on the TV, nothing. Leave the TV on flicking channels, nothing. No update, nothing. Then a news update comes on, not even a mention. Finally we get the press conference live. And then

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[anonymous]

This is very interesting... WTOP saved your day because of their readily available web stream, and their consistent "real news." Halfway across the world, WTOP saved my day because it just snowed here, and I needed to hear if I-66 had been plowed yet (I live just outside of Washington DC). Not to start sounding like a commercial for them, but they do indeed rock.

Got your e-mail, will formulate a replay as soon as I scan a picture of something you would be interested in.

Catch ya later
Pete (of synth-modding fame) ;)

[amw]

Haha what a trip! Yeah WTOP became my number one news source last year. I even linked to them from my homepage for a while :-) It's quite fun to listen to traffic and weather "on the eights" for a city i've never visited. Sounded like it was pretty crazy this weekend, with all the cancellations and stuff! But mmm, snow is kinda fun when you hardly ever see it. When i was in California in 2002 we went up to the redwoods one day and there was a tiny little bit of snow to play around in which made me happy. Last time i was in a real snowfall was probably.. 8 years ago!

[anonymous]

Winter weather is fun, as long as the only thing you're doing with it is watching it or playing in it. Once you have to shovel the stuff off your driveway or scrape a layer of ice off the windshield, it's not so fun. And, Washingtonians are notorious for going crazy when it snows. We don't know how to handle it at all, despite the fact that we get 4 or 5 good storms every winter. Every time, without fail, people hear the weather forecast and head straight to the grocery store to buy bread, milk, and toilet paper. As if it was going to be the end of the world. Weenies, all of 'em!

Pete

[amw]

Wow, must've been ten times worse with Y2K... Imagine that - planes are gonna come falling out of the sky, trucks crashing into each other... AND IT'S SNOWING TOO! ARGH! Better stockpile the toilet paper, you know it'll be like gold when the armageddon comes!