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Yesterday was a relatively slow news day. The big story was the weather. There were storms with flooding and lightning strikes cover the better part of Eastern South Florida.
After the obligatory shots of cars driving through flooded roads that show some idiot in a Hummer flying through the water throwing up a wake the drowns anyone driving a normal car. (I added a period instead of the comma that belongs because this was turning into a really long sentence) The news came to their big exclusive story. Lightning had hit a tree next to house and the lightning jumped from the tree into a utility room and had fried the washer, dryer, and water heater starting a small fire in the house. No one was home at the time and the fire department was able to contain the fire to the one essentially outdoor room with no damage to the rest of the house.
I add all this detail in case you aren't familiar with Florida and South Florida in particular. We are the lightning strike capitol of the world. There may be areas with more lightning strikes but our board of tourism trademarked it so these areas if they exist can go screw themselves.
Sorry back to the story.
The point of that aside is that houses getting hit by lightning stories are more common than Cuban corner cafes. In fact when there are not enough corners for the cafes they open in the middle of the street and name themselves the corner cafe.
I know the story...
The reason that this story made the news as an exclusive is that two parrots were sitting in the tree when it got hit. Perhaps it would be a better story if they had lived and could tell their tale. "Polly got cracked in the ass by lightning" They didn't. They died. The news crew was there to film the birds being picked up and stuffed in a trash bag.
The parrots were feral. We have a lot of them here. They escape or are released and find that the living is easy. So two wild parrots were fried in the tree so it became a big story.
The news crew couldn't stop there. The parrots were dead and there was no parrot family to interview. So they asked the woman whose house got hit and caught on fire destroying three major appliances what she thought about the parrots getting killed. The woman, who looked to be in her 30's, was visibly taken aback by the question. You could see it in her face which was saying, “My house was hit by lightning, it caught on fire causing thousands of dollars worth of damage, I am lucky the whole thing didn't burn to the ground leaving me and my family homeless and you are asking me about a pair of wild birds I have never seen before in my life?”
She took a second and said something about being sad for the birds but happy no people were injured or killed.
So would anyone like to buy a parrot or two? They make a lovely pair.
