Despite the competitiveness on the part of management, staffers from different stations and newspapers get along with each other (barring individual personality conflicts). Competition (even by managers) gets thrown out the window during disaster coverage because almost all journalists and broadcasters understand that…

Local news folks are essential because they know the area they’re covering. Good on them and kudos to this fantastic reporter.

Also in a weird twist, KHOU loaned a satellite truck to WWL in New Orleans so they could stay on the air during Katrina and it and WFAA both loaned choppers for aerial coverage.

Good job Tenga. (If it were Kinja-owned, the storm team would have used up their batteries on bad puns, memes and gifs.)

Incredible. That’s dedication.

I literally just previously clicked on this story from another link. Thank god Brandi & crew flagged down this sheriffs. Big shout out to all emergency responders in the wake of Harvey.

Nice to see a heartwarming story come from all of this. Kudos to that crew and the Sheriff’s deputies for both being in the right place at the right time!

I’ve always loved that generation of Lincoln Continental. I would get the hardtop.

My suggestions:

Yeah, and GM doesn’t want to invest their own money into CCS charging deployment, because, and I quote Pam Fletcher:

You just know that a Canadian penny found its way in there. They always do.

I say no, you’re not obligated to care for a previously well-kept car at the same level as the previous owner, especially in cases where the previous owner went to heroic lengths to care for it. I have a pretty high standard of care for my own vehicles, though, so I probably would anyway.

I guarantee you that if the cops had their lights and sirens on the guy in the Smart car wouldn’t have pulled out when he did.

I put over 445,000 miles on it

It’s in the article link.

If it’s such a safety concern, why not just reschedule the eclipse to happen at night when there won’t be as many people on the roads?

It should be noted that the officer in this case had:

Also, no one is making a turn and looking for/expecting a car rocketing up on their position from behind at over 100 MPH, especially on what appears to be a suburban road.

There’s a photography trope that says, “the best camera is the one you have with you.” The idea is that the best photographs aren’t always the ones that are sharpest, or have the most accurate color, or the most megapixels; but rather the best photographs capture a moment that moves you, and those moments pass…