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The Game Room / Re: Lie your Butt Off

« on: April 19, 2012, 06:20:10 PM »

Gas prices are as low as $ .90

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: April 17, 2012, 06:19:36 PM »

I got to enjoy a good thunderstorm today.  It also hailed, where I was at work. The hail was about the size of marbles.

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: All the OCMs acting the same?

« on: April 16, 2012, 06:02:20 PM »

Wow, Matt, you actually watched TWC for once? XD

It was their choice (their TV), not mine. I think several of you are not understanding the question here. Mike asked if all OCMs were "acting the same," not "serious."

You mean you couldn't tell them to turn it off haha? j/k  :lol:Ok, I am getting off the subject. So, we are misunderstanding Mike's question?

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Wake Up With Al

« on: April 15, 2012, 06:58:30 PM »

I never have liked WUWA since its debut in July 2009 and never will like it, either.

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: All the OCMs acting the same?

« on: April 15, 2012, 06:48:07 PM »

They have to follow guidelines given to them or else they could lose their job so perhaps the person in charge of on-air operations does not want them to have their distinctiveness

Are you saying that if Dave Schwartz were still there, they wouldn't let him act the way he always acted, like saying, "Good to see you tonight, my friend."?

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General Weather Chat / Re: Modified Saffir-Simpson Scale Effective May 2012

« on: April 15, 2012, 06:43:04 PM »

Will this change help the winds in a major hurricane to be more consistent with its minimum central pressure? For example, Hurricane Katrina was a category 3 storm with winds of 125 mph, however, its pressure, 920 milibars, which is consistent with a category 4 hurricane (nearly a 5).

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Programming / Re: Couple of videos

« on: April 15, 2012, 06:30:19 PM »

Here is another PSA. This one with Marny Stanier as she talks about carbon monoxide dangers and ways to protect the home and family from it. This one is from 1995.

Marny Stanier -Carbon Monoxide detector PSA - 1995

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Severe Weather / Re: Severe Weather Season 2012

« on: April 14, 2012, 02:40:29 PM »

It's highly unusual to see SPC this aggressive on an event.

Yep. I think April 27th of last year, when my area here in Alabama was hit so hard, was the last time they were this aggressive on an event. Despite the dramatic video of last week's tornadoes in the Dallas area, this may be much worse than that event 11 days ago was.

I am concerned about our own Matt Marron, who lives in Omaha, which is included in the High Risk area. 

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The Game Room / Re: Lie your Butt Off

« on: April 11, 2012, 06:31:02 PM »

Oklahoma is not in tornado alley.

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Heather Tesch moving to weekends

« on: April 11, 2012, 06:26:50 PM »

At least she is still on. I am glad of that. 

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Local Forecast / Re: Has the L-bar been discontinued?

« on: April 04, 2012, 07:22:41 PM »

I didn't watch it, but I know they only bothered to cover it because it was tornadoes affecting a large population area to cover their own butts, they wouldn't have given a crap if it had of been of string of them hitting a rural area.

Exactly. That's just what I was going to say.

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Local Forecast / Re: Has the L-bar been discontinued?

« on: April 03, 2012, 09:36:00 PM »

TWC doesn't care anymore, IMO. They will continue to promote programming uninterrupted, unless a tropical system is nearing. The L-bar was a good idea to at least show radar and a forecast. All you have now is some dinky LDL.  You absolutely cannot rely on TWC for severe weather coverage (or really any weather coverage) anymore.

That is so sad.

You should also note that the quote you just did was from August 2011 and things have definitely changed since then

Things certainly have changed since then. 

I realize that was nearly 8 months ago. Have things really changed since then?

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Local Forecast / Re: Has the L-bar been discontinued?

« on: April 03, 2012, 06:53:17 PM »

TWC doesn't care anymore, IMO. They will continue to promote programming uninterrupted, unless a tropical system is nearing. The L-bar was a good idea to at least show radar and a forecast. All you have now is some dinky LDL.  You absolutely cannot rely on TWC for severe weather coverage (or really any weather coverage) anymore.

That is so sad.

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Severe Weather / Re: Severe Weather Season 2012

« on: April 03, 2012, 06:46:14 PM »

I've been looking at high risk zones historically throughout the last 10-15 years, and it seems like the most dangerous weather outbreaks are starting to occur more and more east of the Mississippi. Maybe I'm crazy to suggest this...but could Tornado Alley be shifting eastward?

Idk, there are several "tornado alleys" in the country, not just the one in the heartland of the country. There is also "Dixie Alley", as well as the "Ohio Valley Alley", but they can happen anywhere at anytime. They occur in all 50 states.

You wouldn't think they would occur often in New England, which they don't, but in 1953, one hit in the Worcester, Massachussetts area and killed 90 people and there was another in that state in June of last year.

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Severe Weather / Re: Severe Weather Season 2012

« on: April 03, 2012, 06:40:53 PM »

I just heard that there have been no injuries reported associated with the tornado outbreak in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area.

There are numerous tornado warnings for counties in northeast Texas, while the threat looks like it's over for the Dallas/Fort Worth area as drier air moves in behind the front.