Tropical Storm Alberto Coverage

Yeah, I watch the Weather Channel. Hey, there's a local forecast every ten minutes. It's not like in the local news, when they might mention it once or twice in an hour and of course, those two times they went over it, you were on the phone and then doing laundry. So, then there's the weather channel on at :08, :18, :28, :38, :48, and :58 past every hour. I always miss out on the local news, so yeah, I check in on the Weather Channel for the good ol' local forecast.

Now, I do remember last year, especially during Hurricane Katrina, all the station talked about was the hurricane: Before-hand, during, and after the storm. With Katrina being one of the most devastating hurricanes in history, this was very understandable.

But, just recently, Tropical Storm Alberto rolled through Florida and up the Atlantic Coast and again, it was nothing but Alberto on the Weather Channel. I don't believe it ever reached hurricane status and yet, they were treating the storm like another Katrina. Just a couple days ago, after the storm hit land, it was showing a radar at the bottom of the screen along with updates on the wind gusts. The wind gusts I saw were at 18 and 24 miles per hour. Today in Omaha, we had wind gusts of 40 miles per hour, but no, there was no radar and no updates regarding our conditions in the left hand corner of the screen. 18-24 mile per hour winds? That's nothing. We get that regularly.

My only question is, is it going to be like this all summer long? Whether it develops into a storm like Katrina or is nothing more than a little rain, will there be coverage on it morning, noon, and night? What, did the governments (on all levels) talk to the Weather Channel, telling them to update the American public as much as possible, since it was obvious they couldn't do an adequate job of that?