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Posted by Drew458    United States   on 07/19/2010 at 08:03 PM   
 
  1. Drew - I wonder if that’s the one blew through here late last night? It was a fairly big whoopdeedoo for 10 minutes. I damned-near becrapped myself like a senile seventy-year old - I tell you!

    Then it just kinda nommed out real pathetic-like. You know - just gummed away on the trees a bit like they were badly-fitting dentures.

    Posted by ooGcM taobmaetS    United States   07/19/2010  at  09:06 PM  

  2. Yep. We get a few every summer here.

    I’ve been on the E. Coast from time to time, but (like you, Guest) never experienced quite the turn of weather we get out here in flyover country.

    Posted by ooGcM taobmaetS    United States   07/19/2010  at  10:08 PM  

  3. Yeah, not sure what the north easters would think of a good ol’ frog strangler.

    Myself, I always rely on the ol’ trusty weather rock.

    If rock is cool, decent day ahead
    If rock is warm, hot day instore
    If rock is wet, its raining
    If rock is white, its snowing
    If rock is gone, tornado, head to the basement.

    Posted by Reiuxcat    United States   07/20/2010  at  08:22 AM  

  4. Growing up in the Hudson River valley, I was used to tremendous thunderstorms. It hardly ever rained without house shaking blasts from the sky. What passes for T-storms here is so much less.

    This little post was really about the craziness of the weather report people. We’ve had these kind of storms my whole life, but it’s only in the past couple years, ever since they got their precision doppler radar gizmo, that they’ve started hitting the panic button with a sledgehammer every time a cloud comes by. The weather isn’t any different, but now they can see the wind shear and all that localized interaction cloudish stuff, and it scares them silly. But given the convergent technology we’ve got these days, I think it would be better if their warnings were more localized.

    I’d also like to see TV equipment built more like a mixing board, so that recording devices could filter out the overlay signal. Wouldn’t it be nicer to tape your show without that weather alert, news alert band across the bottom? And wouldn’t you prefer NOT to have the latest crop of pop-up animated ads for some other upcoming show on your tape? Come on. Most of us are paying cash money for TV these days, not taking it free off the antenna like in days gone by. I think that entitles us to pop-up free TV. Hell, I think it entitles us to commercial free TV, or at least ad grouping at the front and back of our shows. This every 7 minutes thing is bollocks.

    Posted by Drew458    United States   07/20/2010  at  09:35 AM  

  5. I can agree with that easily Drew.  Everything is hyped.  The damn TV is too cluttered.

    I just used the post as an excuse for posting an favorite old joke.

    Posted by Reiuxcat    United States   07/20/2010  at  11:32 AM  

  6. When we returned to OH - the local warning siren (which is located at the school, one street over) went off every 20 seconds. Now almost not at all. Same with the stupid weather warning (NWA)machine we bought - it doesn’t seem to go off very often anymore. I’ve been in OK and watched tornadoes go by just a couple of miles away, in TX had to sit in the hallway with brand new baby - due to one hitting Ft. Hood - haven’t seen one since in either place. Yet as I said, here the stupid siren went off all the time. The only time we turn on the alphabet (local) networks is for weather info and one of the 5 shows we actually watch on them anymore. The last time - the spewings of The Won were overridden by the weather idiots pontificating on the storms and which was going to do the most damage - it was the only time I was glad that they felt the need to instill fear in the local populace - better that then the lies of The Won.

    On Sunday we had a little storm go through - barely any toots, bells, whistles and fear-mongering - we had terrible hail that if just slightly bigger would have done serious damage - and more hail than I have ever seen in my life. No warning what-so-ever.

    So apparently they are veering between fear-mongering and ignoring serious storms - typical of government run anything - absolutely worthless and in the end - simply dangerous to the citizens of America.

    Posted by wardmama4    United States   07/20/2010  at  12:45 PM  

  7. The more technology, and shiney whizzbangs they use, the less accurate they get.  Drama and sensationalism are no substitute for real meteorology.  Out here the weather people just piss themselves with excitement over any little thing.  50 years ago the weatherman wrote on a paper map with magic marker and was 99% accurate.  All he did was go outside and look at the sky.  Now with state of the art graphics, weather satellites, and super computers, they botch it almost daily.  That’s progress by god.

    Posted by grayjohn    United States   07/23/2010  at  08:24 AM  

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