The "...We Have To Leave The Building... Round II" Story

It was an ordinary day.  That is if you consider July 4th and our daughter's birthday an ordinary day.  Carol and I had just finished our lunch and were sitting in front of our TV when Lancaster's Channel 8 Weather girl, who was in the midst of giving her weather report, stopped mid-sentence, looked off to the side of the camera and that's when we heard an alarm go off in the TV studio.  She tried to continue her report when an announcement came over the loud speaker..."Fire has been detected in the building...evacuate immediately...."   She looked at the camera and said..."we have to leave the building..." as the screen went black.  That was followed by 10 minutes of online commercials until Days of Our Lives came on the screen at 1:00 PM.   I looked at my wife and said, "What happened?"  She replied with "well we know snow didn't collapse the roof like it did a couple of years ago"  We kept Channel 8 on our screen, but all we saw was commercial after commercial for the remainder of the half-hour news broadcast.  After about 12 minutes of advertisements, we changed to another channel thinking maybe another channel might have some news on about what had happened to Lancaster's Channel 8.  It was on Tuesday, February 18 of 2014 that the same thing happened at Channel 8 studios.  Seems that the roof of the station fell in!  The snow that had accumulated on the flat roof of the station on Columbia Ave. in the West End of Lancaster City forced evacuation of the building at about 3:30 PM.  Channel 8 had no ability to air their news so the screen remained black.  The news team of Kim Lemon, Ron Martin, Janelle Stelson and meteorologist Joe Calhoun tried to do a live newscast from the parking lot located along Columbia in Lancaster.  By now I had grabbed my laptop and was watching the event on their website.  Hey...that's much like I'm trying to do right right now.  I just finished trying to pull up other local stations, but with no success.  I guess Carol and I will have to wait until Lancaster's Channel 8 begins live broadcasts once again.  Perhaps sometime in the near future I will be able to write another story telling why our local TV station has lost contact with its viewers.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.