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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 05, 2008, 12:59:32 AM »

Yeah I think this is only the second time in my life that I've experienced a storm of this magnitude. The only other time I can think of is back in 1992, when we had an actual tornado about 100 feet from our house. 

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 05, 2008, 12:38:06 AM »

Oh I live for them too, no doubt. But it was getting to the point where it wasn't fun any longer. I like being outside in thunderstorms, but once tornadoes get involved, its safety before anything else (especially when you have a 10 y.o. lil bro to think of).

I just realized I coulda got my camcorder out and taped the action. Little too late to think of that now. 

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 05, 2008, 12:12:44 AM »

We had some bad storms roll through here around 3Pm ET. About 4PM ET I lost power, and on my trusty police scanner (which, conveniently enough also receives NOAA) I heard reports of tornadoes spotted by trained weather spotters.

Also interesting is that for the first time EVER the EAS was activated several times during the course of the evening, once interrupting the local news just before power went out (the other two times were on the radio).

Scary moments for sure. 

Maryland, D.C., and Northern Virginia got pounded twice today. Once in the afternoon, then again in the mid evening. Both events featured major bow echos, which spawned a few tornadoes.

Its been a very long time since I saw a bow echo like the one I saw with the storm that came through at 3PM. I was very close to taking myself and my younger brother (we were the only ones at home) down to the basement. It was that intense. And like I said in the last post, I've never been through a storm that produced as many EAS alerts as tonights did. I just got a look at some tornado info, and 4 tornadoes are confirmed, all in southern MD and Northern VA.

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Local Forecast / Re: Trammell Sightings

« on: June 04, 2008, 11:35:42 PM »

I'm surprised Brian replied to your emails. Me and several other people emailed him and never got replies back

Where does he say he got a reply? 

Billy never got a reply about "After the Rain". Victor was simply saying that Billy is the only one who gets replies from Brian Picard.

I see. Sorry 'bout that. 

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 04, 2008, 11:34:51 PM »

We had some bad storms roll through here around 3Pm ET. About 4PM ET I lost power, and on my trusty police scanner (which, conveniently enough also receives NOAA) I heard reports of tornadoes spotted by trained weather spotters.

Also interesting is that for the first time EVER the EAS was activated several times during the course of the evening, once interrupting the local news just before power went out (the other two times were on the radio).

Scary moments for sure. 

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Everything Else TWC / Re: New Graphics for all shows

« on: June 04, 2008, 11:30:29 PM »

I'm not a big fan of Weather Center's new graphics. They seem "older looking".

And that's precisely why I DO like them. 

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Local Forecast / Re: New LDL weather warnings the same

« on: June 04, 2008, 11:29:11 PM »

First, as for the beeps, I live in Baltimore County and mine still does the beep and narration sequence.

The numbers are areas of latitude and longitude, IIRC.

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Local Forecast / Re: Trammell Sightings

« on: June 04, 2008, 11:28:13 PM »

I'm surprised Brian replied to your emails. Me and several other people emailed him and never got replies back

Where does he say he got a reply? 

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Local Forecast / Re: TWC music artists on MySpace

« on: June 04, 2008, 11:27:27 PM »

terry coleman
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=259675006

Wow, he's offering downloads of two TWC songs for only 99 cents!! That's a real bargain coming from him!

Yeah. Last I heard (from you, in fact, I beleive) was that he was ripping people off, charging some extravagent amount for a CD that didn't even include all of his TWC songs. 

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The Game Room / Re: A game, put the wrong emoticon at the end of the sentence

« on: June 04, 2008, 01:58:12 PM »

We're happy your here. 

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 04, 2008, 01:56:33 PM »

Welcome aboard!  :sunglasses: 

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Local Forecast / Re: Trammell Sightings

« on: June 04, 2008, 11:58:17 AM »

Maybe to you its unsure, but its not to me. I have not heard even a single fact that would lead me to think even a little that it might be on there.

BTW, speaking of Billy, I noticed he's shying away from this conversation all the sudden. 

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Local Forecast / Re: TWC music artists on MySpace

« on: June 04, 2008, 10:57:39 AM »

got the idea from you actually     from finding Trammel Sparks myspace page here.  been looking for other artists too.  thanks for posting Mr. Starks' page. 

Your very welcome!  :sunglasses:

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Local Forecast / Re: Trammell Sightings

« on: June 04, 2008, 10:27:32 AM »

And you only ASSUME its the 40th song of the set. Who says? 

Who says its not?

Pretty much everything we know says its not. Caution says its not. We don't have a single FACT that says it is. All we seem to have here is alot of presumptions, assumptions, heresay, and speculation.

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Local Forecast / Re: TWC music artists on MySpace

« on: June 04, 2008, 10:24:36 AM »

Good idea! I never thought about doing something like this!  :sunglasses: