I'm at my parent's house and all the relatives just left. So, it's just me and my mom and dad. Lots of good food and good fun. I took a couple pictures of my little cousins Luke and Josiah; they're both just adorable.
Last night, well technically this morning, Keva, Kramer, and I went fire chasing. Someone called the station around 1ish to tell us that there was a barn fire about 30 minutes from us. Since we didn't have anything better to do we went to see if we could get some video for the morning show. After 45 minutes to an hour of wild goose chasing we found it. There were still a lot of flames and tons of smoke. The barn was really just the four stone walls by the time we got there. It was quite the amazing thing. We ended up with a really good vo/sot that the competition won't have!
Stepping out of my work persona... it was really sad because this family lost all of their hogs, and their chickens. The mom also thinks that two kittens that she hand-raised died too.
It's very odd to go to or see something like that. The work side of me goes "Great video! Good story!", but the person in me feels the tragedy of it. It's very hard sometimes to remember the human side of it. I hardly ever go to cover things, I almost always stay in the station and just see the video that comes back. I think that makes it easier for me to forget that these things are happening to real people. It becomes "just video" to me.
Sorry, didn't mean to get so morose there!
Happy Thanksgiving to all, I'll probably be posting pictures of Thanksgiving (and some cool fire pics too) later today or tomorrow.