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Offline mbweather

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anone else miss the original weather channel?
« on: July 19, 2008, 03:15:57 PM »
It really sucks that there is a potential tropical storm forming 80 miles offshore from my house and I am stuck having to watch these riduculous recounts of storms from many years ago. Bands of rain are roving in and there is no tropical update at 50 after and no local on the 8's until the very end of the show.
Also sucks when a good strong thunderstorm is bearing down and and there is an hour of some stupid show that means nothing to anyone except the 27 people who were affected by it 18 years ago. God forbid that there is a real hurricane coming and I'm all excited but TWC decides to run a marathon of Forecast Earth that day. I used to be a weather channel junky, but I find myself watching less and less. I say the weather channel goes back to it's base. Let The Learning Channel and Discovery run the documentaries....
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Offline Mike M

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Re: anone else miss the original weather channel?
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2008, 03:22:20 PM »
TWC would pre-empt Forecast Earth more often if they had more OCM's....
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Re: anone else miss the original weather channel?
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2008, 03:33:09 PM »
Well this isn't a very severe system. (Where do you live btw) TWC has been talking about it quite a bit for the times when I have turned it on.
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Re: anone else miss the original weather channel?
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2008, 03:47:01 PM »
Just wait.  When that sucker becomes a Tropical Storm, there won't be any long-form programming for a LONG time.   :rofl:
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Offline Stephen

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Re: anone else miss the original weather channel?
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2008, 03:47:37 PM »
Quote from: tpirfan28 on July 19, 2008, 03:47:01 PM
Just wait.  When that sucker becomes a Tropical Storm
It IS a tropical storm. ;)
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Offline tpirfan28

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Re: anone else miss the original weather channel?
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2008, 03:52:30 PM »
Quote from: Stephen on July 19, 2008, 03:47:37 PM
Quote from: tpirfan28 on July 19, 2008, 03:47:01 PM
Just wait.  When that sucker becomes a Tropical Storm
It IS a tropical storm. ;)
Wait...no way!  And TWC isn't in all-hell-breaks-loose-mode yet!?  Dang.
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Offline texasstooge

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Re: anone else miss the original weather channel?
« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2008, 11:00:29 PM »
Quote from: tpirfan28 on July 19, 2008, 03:52:30 PM
Quote from: Stephen on July 19, 2008, 03:47:37 PM
Quote from: tpirfan28 on July 19, 2008, 03:47:01 PM
Just wait.  When that sucker becomes a Tropical Storm
It IS a tropical storm. ;)
Wait...no way!  And TWC isn't in all-hell-breaks-loose-mode yet!?  Dang.
:rofl2: :rofl2:
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Re: anone else miss the original weather channel?
« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2008, 11:31:35 PM »
Just wait, they will be.  :rofl2:
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Re: anone else miss the original weather channel?
« Reply #8 on: July 21, 2008, 08:25:06 PM »
Actually, they are. Corner insets, storm alert music, and having Dr. Lyons to actually get some on-air time. They might be taking their own hype one hundered notches higher.
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