Massive Columbia Gas Emergency In & Around Andover, Mass

Looks like some someone put a marker on Google Maps, but it seems a bit off, unless it continued since I last checked.

Oh, there was a car they were showing in the helicopter footage earlier that looked like it was partially destroyed in some way.  Turns out an 18 year old was in it and the explosion from his house dropped the chimney on the car, killing him.

The weird point about the video about it is that it almost seems like they were reporting as the only house that was involved, while clearly by everything else, it was not.

Reminds me about how often lately news headlines in the evening about about something that happened earlier in the day are completely uninformative if you're just finding out about it at that moment.  Like it's a headline of the current point and not what the hell happened in the first place.

Also, I've seen that this has been the case elsewhere for perhaps quite a while now, but I noticed one the small moments when I've been around Boston with them how the local news seems to have been tuned for outrage.  The local news.  Opinion pieces shouting at the viewers.  And I'm afraid that maybe that's beginning to come to CT as well.  Connecticut hasn't been like that.  Even FOX, believe it or not (local that is).  FOX is still branded blue, but it looks like our local ABC, or local station has blatantly switched to red, now being owned by "Nexstar" since 2016 and looking just like what I saw from Boston.

CT local news on all stations has never been about outrage.  Sure, you can't get rid of bias really, but there were never any intentional opinion segments.  Ever. (in my lifetime anyways).

CT news being, what I'd call, not outrage, or remaining professional perhaps could've put me in a bubble on "this side", if the internet hadn't already been about sensationalism and outrage for a long time.  I watched as strong very blatantly unabashedly opinionated news headlines leaked over to nbcnews.com (national) from I'm guessing MSNBC which I've very rarely seen, but the very little I've seen from MSNBC videos lately has pissed me off. 

I mostly grew up on NBC local and national Nightly news, as my dad "had" to watch it every night and that's the one he watched.  The thing about our local stations, perhaps even FOX, but especially CBS, was that our local stations were very state focused.  CBS very much I think did the best at "local news" and little things happening around the state, including the positive.  They even had random local visits to restaurants, farms, fairs, events, and random shops all around the state every evening and every morning, just to do them, and they were always quite pleasant.  Hell, they have even been the media partner for a kids summer camp on a lake in the state since 1976.  (Coincidentally, in Andover, CT, but... yeah.)

But what I saw in Boston and what looks to be our local ABC station as well now, smells very much like the Sinclair Broadcast Group fiasco.  It is rather upsetting what our local news might become.