[vreihen16]

My attempt to watch the end of the Xfinity race from Pocono an hour ago may have been the last straw for cable TV at Chez Vreihen. There are several lines of thunderstorms in the area, and several were severe and triggered an EAS (Emergency Alert System) notification. By law, the cable company has to interrupt ALL channels for an EAS alert. At one point, the alerts were interrupting each other they were coming in so fast! Many of the alerted storms were to the east of us (already passed), or for three counties away. There was apparently an awesome pass in the tunnel turn (#2) after a tight green-white-checker restart in race overtime, but the only thing that I saw was the last half lap and a piece of the post-race interview between EAS alerts. Ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!