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[TWC Fan]

The forums are back up!

[gt1racerlHDl]

Jeanne released a book!

[toxictwister00]

Anyone here know Tracy Humphrey? Looking at her bio she sure has worked at a lot of local news stations over the years.

Tracy Humphrey Joins WXIA-TV

KXTV, Sacramento, CA (Most recent)
KPIX, San Francisco, CA
WNYW, NYC
WJCL, Savannah, GA
WTVH, Syracuse, NY
WKBW, Buffalo, NY
WPHL, Philadelphia, PA

She's now working at our NBC affiliate WXIA as a weekend meteorologist.
http://www.11alive.com/story/about-us/2014/06/20/tracy-humphrey/11097553/

[Mike M]

Anyone here know Tracy Humphrey? Looking at her bio she sure has worked at a lot of local news stations over the years.

I remember her, she worked at our WB affiliate before their in house operations ceased in 2005.

[toxictwister00]

I survived the Internet Blackout of 2014! 

Man, that was the longest, nightmarish, and most major inconvenience of no internet access in my house that lasted a week for me.

It all started back on Tuesday last week when I did the most stupidest, idiotic thing I could have possibly done...I re-installed Windows 7 from my Windows 7 CD I got with my desktop 3 1/2 years ago, hoping and thinking I could get things restored back to the factory settings.

Boy, was I wrong! I only made a bad situation worse. I lost everything (well most of the programs/files were still in the OS drive labeled as "windows.old") The problem with that is I ended up deciding it was best to delete that entire file anyway through the Disk Clean up program tonight and just start off on a clean slate. Plus I freed up over 200 GB of space, so I'm back up to around 835 GB out of 1 TB.

Long story short, you don't realize how excited I am to have internet access again. It's been a rough week, going to the library to submit an online assignment that was due in the midst of this madness, making phone calls tech support, re-installing the drivers/utilities on my PC again, and getting a new DSL modem which I needed anyway. The one I have still works, but it's super old, like March 2005 old.

[Localonthe8s]

Severe Thunderstorm Watch #420 for Colorado. :whistle:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0420.html

[phw115wvwx]

This will come as a shock to all of you, but I'm still here and still watching from afar.  I realize that I haven't posted in a couple months, and I'm sorry for being so idle.  However, I'm going through a difficult spell in life and really have to focus on making my own life better, including my current role in the NWS.  I hope all of you understand as I'm worried most of you do not and have been scared to approach me lately.  If you wish to reach me personally, my PM box is open and ready for concerns and questions.

I was alerted that a previously banned member came on to the forum today, and my investigation confirmed it to be true.  Thus, you may see some alterations and posts deleted, but I did not have a choice as it would be wrong to allow a previously banned member who committed a serious issue the last time to cause the permanent ban to come back on his own and lie and post everywhere out of control.

[Eric]

This will come as a shock to all of you, but I'm still here and still watching from afar.  I realize that I haven't posted in a couple months, and I'm sorry for being so idle.  However, I'm going through a difficult spell in life and really have to focus on making my own life better, including my current role in the NWS.  I hope all of you understand as I'm worried most of you do not and have been scared to approach me lately.  If you wish to reach me personally, my PM box is open and ready for concerns and questions.

I was alerted that a previously banned member came on to the forum today, and my investigation confirmed it to be true.  Thus, you may see some alterations and posts deleted, but I did not have a choice as it would be wrong to allow a previously banned member who committed a serious issue the last time to cause the permanent ban to come back on his own and lie and post everywhere out of control.

I hope everything's going well for you, and thanks for helping to keep this forum running smoothly.  We'll look forward to your return as a regular poster when you can.

[phw115wvwx]

I hope everything's going well for you, and thanks for helping to keep this forum running smoothly.  We'll look forward to your return as a regular poster when you can.

Thanks for the well wishes, Eric.

[TWCJim]

I've never seen EAS messages scroll on Windows Media Center before. 

EAS Required Weekly Test on WMC- July 21, 2014- 11:01AM PDT

[Anistorm]

What do you mean by "a banned member came back"?

also hi for the 586079273029th time 

[boyercam]

I should probably say I sort of back.
The problem with me is I get distracted to other things and so wander away from many forums. I'm going to try and stay a little longer this time

[WeatherWitness]

Well this is really awkward because I seemed to have overlooked this thread, but hi Ana and Patrick.   Nice that you're still able to stop by, Ana, and Patrick, I wish you all the best in your life.  Thank you for taking time to continue to watch the forums and post every once in awhile.

[phw115wvwx]

As I'm trying to find more happiness in my life now, I stumbled across one little thing that made me smile today, which I'm going to share with all of you.  I recall a 30-second commercial airing on TWC in the mid 1990s that was both cheesy and memorable, and I finally found it on YouTube:

Safe Step Ice Melter

So, do any of you remember this ad or get through it all on your first look without chuckling?

[Eric]

Wow - I haven't seen "walk like a penguin" in ages!  Thanks for bringing back memories!