When I go on vacation, news breaks
Cory Bergman December 3rd, 2007
Whenever I travel to Maui for vacation, big news breaks. A few years ago, the tsunami hit. Then Katrina. Now there’s a state of emergency back at home in Seattle with potential record flooding. Does anyone else who works in news have this happen to you? We need a term for this.
By the way, NBC’s Brian Williams was slated to come visit us in Seattle today, but the weather in the Northeast postponed his trip. But maybe the Northwest weather will end up being the bigger story.
PS. It’s raining here in Maui, and the forecast is calling for one of the biggest storms of the season. Hence, I’m blogging.
7 Comments Add your own
1. Gorman | December 3rd, 2007 at 9:34 pm
In 5 years at my former station, I left the area on actual vacation for 12 days. On the eve of my first four-day vacation, an F3 tornado ripped through 2 towns on our market fringe, killing 8 people in one of them. And Katrina struck while my wife and I were away on our fifth anniversary.
2. Anonymous | December 3rd, 2007 at 11:28 pm
I think Jon Stewart had a name for when he went on a one- or two-week break and all hell broke loose…
3. steve | December 4th, 2007 at 7:35 am
The term is
LUCKY
4. tdc | December 4th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
sun has just broken out like a bad rash.
5. Rob | December 4th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
I’ve got one. Confessed serial killer Joseph Duncan decided last Friday to change his plea agreement and his plea change hearing was scheduled for yesterday.
At the time I was in Seattle to enjoy the flooding - of which there was quite a bit - and to catch Van Halen (Dave, not Sammy) in concert at the Coliseum (What kids these days call Key Arena).
On the other hand … the last two times I’ve traveled to Seattle for the weekend there was a major weather event during my visit.
Last December I was there for the windstorm and most of the time I was in town the power was out. I flew in this Saturday to Sea-Tac during the snowstorm which turned into a rainstorm which turned into flooding.
6. Jim | December 4th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
News absentia?
Vacatio-breaker?
7. tvrobert | December 5th, 2007 at 11:12 am
I had this happen to co-workers when I was in TV news.
I always called it “Proximal Dissonance.”
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