In a message dated 7/11/2005 7:25:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, w5zn@arrl.org writes:

You won't make national news, Frank. Down here, as you know, they only look for old guys with no teeth and fat women running around the yard in a tutu crying and trying to console themselves by eating a Twinkie because their house trailer got wrapped around a big oak tree in the yard.

Geez, Joel, what a cynic! However, you are not wrong. I have it on good authority from a CBS shooter (cameraman and news director) who is also K3HOT (I warned him against that callsign) that in hurricane reporting, they just look for the worst damage they can find, even if there isn't much, and just air that. Frank, Glad you are fine, OM! 73, Chris