Good night's sleep??

Did you get one last night? I didn't! At one point, I thought my house had been hit and it was about to topple down on me! In the 7 years I've lived here, I've never experienced a thunderstorm like that. Even in Windsor, ON we get a tonne of storms, and that one last night was one of the fiercest. The sky was illuminated for what seemed like minutes at a time! Yvonne spoke to Environment Canada Meteorologist Chris Fogerty and it turns out during a regular lightning storm you would experience a few hundred lightning strikes (which still seems like a lot!) During last night's storm, between 15-20-thousand strikes happened around the province! Chris also shared the good news that it looks like Hurricane Dean won't be coming up around our area.

So, Yvonne had a special guest in the studio today - Alyse Hand. She's one of Yvonne's students and is going into second year at the Nova Scotia Community College. She was totally pro, asked some amazing questions and I have no doubt she's going to go far in this industry. It's funny, when I first started here I had just turned 23 and I was the baby, the idealistic young woman and now I'm turning 30 this year and being around Alyse who is still idealistic made me feel like an old cynic myself!! It's hard to believe I've been in the biz for 10 years now, time truly does fly by. I felt really old when I was watching Newsworld and saw the CD turned 25 years old today and I remember when they were new in the stores. Don't you hate that?

That was interesting to hear that there never was a resolution in the case of Rick's mom versus the Post Office. It happened last Xmas. Rick and the family sent his mother in Ontario some gift cards in a Christmas card. Well, someone opened up the card, took the gift cards out and even cashed them in! But...as Yvonne mentioned, nothing was ever done about it. Unreal.

Oh, am I alone in thinking I never, ever want to hear the words "Gene" and "Viagra" in the same sentence?

Well, the blog and poll are taking a wee break. I'm leaving for Germany on Sunday and so I'll be back for the last week of the Summer Hotline on August 27th. As per usual, the congenial Austin Price will be in taking your calls. Rick is back too, so be nice to him, okay?

Have an excellent week and I'll chat with you soon!!

Cheers, (or Prost as they say in Deutschland!)

Amber