The more things change…2010’s big news
Thursday, December 29th, 2005
By Chris Fitzsimon
Michael Munger End-of-the-year columns look back. I thought it would be more fun to look ahead. Here are the stories I came up with, for a North Carolina newscast five years from now:
• Clean-up efforts continue in Eastern N.C., amid the devastation of Hurricane Mu 71. 2010, of course, is the first time that hurricane names have gotten as far as Greek letters and numbers. The hurricane smashed hog waste lagoons all over the coastal plain, making many areas uninhabitable. An Army Corps of Engineers spokesman said, "Well, sure, our simulations predicted this. But who thought it would actually happen?"
• On the jobs front, the last textile mill in the Western Hemisphere closed today, in Kannapolis. It will be bulldozed, and replaced by a Wal-Mart. Activists gathered to protest the new superstore, but then said, "Oh, heck with it. We need to do our Christmas shopping and Wal-Mart is selling clothes really cheap!" (more…)
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