News media reporting weirdness

I have been channel flipping for the last 12 hours. They are all obsessed with reporting Hurricane Florence. Fox, CNN, weather channel, local news. Liberal and conservative, it is all of them.

Let's get some perspective here. It is a big storm, but not that big. Certainly worth obsessive coverage on the local news, continuous coverage on the weather channel, and hourly updates on the national news. But, it is NOT worthy of continuous coverage across all national media outlets. It landed as a Cat 1. Coastal people just yawn at a Cat 1. The news people are showing pictures of a random roofing tile flying past, and a 15 foot wimpy tree that broke. Yawn. Yes, there is flooding in the low lying areas, and many people have been evacuated. That's why the national news should mention it.

So, the first question I ask is what is NOT on the news today? What is going on elsewhere that is not being reported? Are we being distracted from some major news event going down?

The Pope striking a deal with Russia? Supreme Court nomination? The observatories being closed worldwide? How about 70+ homes spontaneously blowing up in MA for an unknown reason?

>>3019855

Of course it is a big news event. My point is that this is not an event worthy of 100% news time on every outlet, excluding all other stories.

>>3020013

John Morrison Birch (May 28, 1918 – August 25, 1945) was an American Baptist minister, missionary, and United States Army Air Forces captain who was a U.S. military intelligence officer in China during World War II. Birch was killed in a confrontation with Chinese Communist soldiers a few days after the war ended. He was posthumously awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal.

The John Birch Society, an American anti-communist organization, was named in his honor by Robert H. W. Welch, Jr. in 1958. Welch considered Birch to be a martyr and the first casualty of the Cold War. Birch's parents joined the Society as honorary Life Members.

>>3020160

Verified. Fire story is gone. Hurricane stories are the headline. Plus a nice zoo story about an ugly baby animal.

>>3020265

>>3020265

My theory. Old houses with generally poor pipes and relief valves that were grandfathered into older building codes, or deteriorated with age. If people were home and using gas, the gas had some outlet to escape. The homes that were unoccupied (not at home and the stove was turned off) had no outlet for gas to escape. Gas pressure suddenly went very high for whole area. The homes that exploded were the unoccupied ones, explaining why there were so few injuries. The question remains.. why did the whole area gas pressure spike so high?