Literally seconds after posting this item on the stupidity of The Weather Channel’s argument that their carriage-fee disagreement with DirectTV is really a public safety issue, The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore goes and proves my point with this tweet using a free map from the NOAA website, not a map from The Weather Channel:

And it looks like he just took a picture of his screen and posted it to Twitter. I created the same map, but with greater detail than Cantore (because, public safety and all):

Newsflash: your programming isn’t necessary for “public safety” if the information is available for free everywhere else.