Playing Hard
Posted in cali_lovin on 01/28/2008 08:41 am by QueenkvI’ve finished another action-pack week at work. My weekend morning shows were quite exciting with all the breaking news. On Saturday, our chopper got all that amazing flooding video. My boss kept calling back to our editors to make sure they were taping everything. Later, CNN and NBC picked up the video and used it for their weather coverage. On Sunday, our LA affiliate hooked me up with their satellite coordinates. So I ended up taking live chopper video of another flooding accident in Pasadena plus a bus hitting a donut shop near USC.
After work, we tried going to church. Then I saw a PT Cruiser run a red light and smash head-on with another car. I got out of the car to make sure the driver of the smashed car was OK. We missed church because I had to give a statement to police. Afterwards, I pondered the whole accident business. A few hours before, my crew was aggressively pursuing those crashes in Southern California. Now, I was more intimately involved in another one. It felt jarring to switch hats from being a journalist to a civilian witness.
OK — enough about work.
Here’s an example of playing hard, Mark riding the slopes. We went snowboarding at Soda Springs for the MLK Holiday. It’s just off I-80, on the way to Truckee. We needed to use chains by Gold Run. I helped Mark attach them to the tires.
