THE WEATHER CHANNEL
The Weather Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television channel, owned by a consortium made up of The Blackstone Group, Bain Capital, and NBCUniversal. Its headquarters are located in Atlanta, Georgia. Launched on May 2, 1982, the channel broadcasts weather forecasts and weather-related news and analysis, along with documentaries and entertainment programming related to weather. As of January 2016, The Weather Channel is received by 88 million households in America. (More from Wikipedia)
A few days later, we were at the historic Gulf Hills Hotel, where we could use the bathroom and get the local newspaper (the Sun Herald published every single day through the catastrophe) and escape the heat a little. I was in the lobby and wandered up to the front desk and asked the woman there: "I don’t suppose you have a room available by any chance, do you?" When she said, "Yes, we do actually", I just about collapsed on the floor. I knew that many people had ridden out the storm at the hotel, so I had no hope at all of finding anywhere to stay. As it turned out, Jim Cantore from the Weather Channel had just checked out that morning, so we got his room. I never get tired of telling that story!
(August 2015)
