The East Coast Needs To Get Over Itself

Earthquake hits Washington DC!  OH, MY, GOD!  Felt all the way from Carolina to New York!  Gargoyles and spires fell off the National Cathedral, the Washington Monument has a CRACK in it!  Oh the horror, the horror!

Get the FUCK over it!  If that little, "shaker" happened in Iowa, or Colorado, or Utah, or Nevada, or as it does almost every MONTH in someplace in California, would it be the lead story on the national news?  Not only no, but HELL no!

You have to be some kind of science denier on the level of a Republican Congressman, to NOT know that the earth is still in flux, and will occasionally do something to you, that you don't expect.

Faux News actually ran a trailer assuring that there would be no Tsunami after the earthquake, on Long Island.  "Uuuuh, Bevis?  How would there be a Tsunami if the earthquake was on LAND, and not under the ocean?"

Yep, anything that happens in the Eastern Time Zone is news.  Even when it's not.  Because that's where EVERYONE lives!  Well, not, EVERYONE, but MOST of the people who live in this country live in that time zone.  Even if they don't want to.

I have a friend who works in television news in Michigan.  And he has told me that most of the folks in THAT state HATE being in the Eastern Time Zone.  They feel they have more in common with Chicago, Minneapolis and Milwaukee than New York, Washington or Miami.

Lets face it, the national news this week is going to be all about the hurricane that is about to strike fear and terror into everyone living closer to the Atlantic Ocean than West Virginia.  I'm pretty sure St. Louis doesn't give a shit.

Nor does Salt Lake City.

But if we had a 5.8 shaker here, where a million people now live in Salt Lake County, would it lead the National News?  Not only no, but FUCK NO!

Would it be too much to ask that the major networks have TWO news operations?  One for back east, and one for out west?  I know it wouldn't be based in the Mountain Time Zone.  But it would COVER the Mountain Time Zone!

Hell, this time zone now has two Major League Baseball teams!  THAT'S NOT enough to get some attention?

There will never be a show advertised as, "On at eight o'clock MOUNTAIN TIME!" in the national media.  But for crying out loud!  Can't we get SOME respect!

Say what you want about, "The Mountain" (MTN) Network, and how much they sucked.  And they did.  But at least when they announced times?  It was MOUNTAIN time!

So, to all you folks who have to clean up the pictures that fell off the wall.  And your books that fell off the shelves?  You have my sympathy.  Now, go look up the earthquake in Wells, Nevada a couple of years ago.  And tell me how bad YOU had it compared to THOSE folks.

Then shut the fuck up!  You got nothing to complain about!

Can't wait for the next big California shaker, not that I want to see one.  But just to see how the Eastern Media covers it.

Get over yourselves, Eastern Time Zone people.  You are NOT the only people in the world.