I’m getting a lot of these emails. Do note the end:

K-Lo,
Maybe it’s because we think we’re in the “flyover” states, but
people down here in Memphis, Tenn. are snickering at the “yankees” without
electricity. The talk in the hallways and elevators is, “Where were they
three weeks ago?”
Let me explain: about three weeks ago straight-line winds ripped
through the Mid-South. The winds were clocked at 100-plus miles per hour.
About 1.5 million people in Tennessee, Arkansas and North Mississippi went
without electricity for weeks. Some were without electricity for nearly
three weeks. Tree crews are still cutting up 100-year-old oak trees and
removing them from the middle of people’s living rooms.
All of this received little or no coverage in the national media.
Our Memphis AP reporter filed a half-dozen stories, but nobody in the
national media picked them up (for some strange reason Drudge ran a
follow-up story two weeks later…leave it to Drudge).
I’m not foolish enough to compare the plight of 30 million people
to a million people. But the national media only mentions Memphis in the
same sentence with “Elvis” and “barbecue,” and anything about the South is
tied to cotton fields and the Confederacy.
So…with that in mind…I don’t have much sympathy for your
situation, and I agree with the assessment that the national media is
reporting about what happened to “us,” not what happened to the citizens of
NY, Canada and the Midwest.
Still…I admit I was worried that the Corner would be delayed when
I got to work this morning (some Yankee inventions are worthwhile, I guess).
-BD