Friday, March 21, 2008

for once it's worse somewhere else

Top story -- actually, only story:  we're getting a huge snowstorm, but Toledo's getting even more!  Supposed to have "bursts of heavy snow from time to time" until 2 a.m., then light snow till 7 a.m.  There's already about 6 inches of snow on the ground, another 2-4 due before it's all over.

Cheryl Chodun (back in the white knit hat) out by the highway (I-275 in Canton) in blizzard conditions -- fogged camera lens, halos around headlights -- reporting on spunout cars, interviewing a young driver who went into a ditch -- nobody hurt.  Tow truck driver:  "We'll be out all night" -- a bonanza for them -- no ploughs, of course (see earlier entries, below). 

Peggy Agar live on a bridge over M10 in Southfield, where absolutely nothing is happening -- "you can see there is snow down there, but we have also seen salt trucks out on the highway" -- Oakland Co. putting out salt/sand mix b/c they're low on salt.

Traffic tracker camera -- "roads appear to be wet and slushy" -- please drivers, "take it easy" (right).

Then on to the mayor scandal -- 2 top city officials (one Kwame's cousin) could face contempt charges for not cooperating with the investigation.  Monday is a big day, Wayne Co. prosecutor Kym Worthy (who has a kind of Veronica-Lake hair thing going, and a coy demeanor to match -- weird for a prosecutor) is announcing at a press conference Monday morning whether/what charges she will bring against the mayor.   Together, these stories took about 1 minute total.  Nobody interviewed for either one -- maybe the city shut down for Good Friday? 

Live pix of main street in Ferndale, a few cars going by in the blizzard.  The Death Report -- a young construction worker, and the lady in Florida who was hit in the head by a stingray (she was from Michigan).  Back to Peggy & Cheryl again, still out in the snow.  Pix from earlier today of the same storm hitting Minnesota and Chicago before it got here.  Big truck crash in MN -- no injuries.

Elsewhere in the midwest, it's flooding -- sandbags in Indiana, stranded cows in Missouri -- a house in Arkansas floating down a river, crashing into a bridge.  At least they don't have to pay their mortgage anymore!

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