Official Ike Storm Alert Thread

[Spring Rubber]

Wow, so Carl Parker is in the studio again while Betty and Sam, for the second Storm Alert in a row, were told to take a load off. Surely that says something about what TWC thinks of their pairing...

I don't think Betty and Sam are a very good pairing. IMO, they don't seem to work well together. But I also still don't understand the weird schedule for Storm Alert? Why were Kevin and Kim, the Weekend Now crew, doing PM Edition?

Methinks TWC doesn't want Betty and Sam handling Storm Alert.

Anyway, Jeff's not in the field this time, so except him and Jen to do the early morning coverage.

Also, TWC is officially promoting Carl Parker's blog on weather.com/tv and on the TV network; I wonder if TWC is starting to appreciate Carl again after moving him to weekends last year. I still miss him on PM Edition.

Also, weather.com/tv is now entirely red for Storm Alert. They're really going all-out for this one!

[beanboy89]

Carl Parker mentioned about 10 minutes ago for us to blog with him tonight (http://www.weather.com/blog/weather/8_17183.html?from=tv_welc_relatedcontentleft) - and that comments/questions posted may be featured on air tonight. For the heck of it I left a comment there, and I'm very curious to see if it actually does get featured on air tonight.

I don't see your (or any comments) there. It says "Comments (0)."

[Spring Rubber]

Carl Parker mentioned about 10 minutes ago for us to blog with him tonight (http://www.weather.com/blog/weather/8_17183.html?from=tv_welc_relatedcontentleft) - and that comments/questions posted may be featured on air tonight. For the heck of it I left a comment there, and I'm very curious to see if it actually does get featured on air tonight.

Hmmm...the comment didn't post. Is something wrong with the site?

[Mike M]

I believe the comments have to be approved before they are shown.

[Stephen]

Hmmm...the comment didn't post. Is something wrong with the site?

It takes a while for them to appear (I believe they have to be manually approved).

[tpirfan28]

Carl Parker mentioned about 10 minutes ago for us to blog with him tonight (http://www.weather.com/blog/weather/8_17183.html?from=tv_welc_relatedcontentleft) - and that comments/questions posted may be featured on air tonight. For the heck of it I left a comment there, and I'm very curious to see if it actually does get featured on air tonight.

I would expect live blogging/Twittering to become a new norm for TWC.  It's seemed to catch a full head of steam recently.

[beanboy89]

Hmmm...the comment didn't post. Is something wrong with the site?

It takes a while for them to appear (I believe they have to be manually approved).

What did you ask a question about anyway (in case it doesn't get approved or answered on air)?

[Thecoolwriter]

My question got answered on-air once.

[Localonthe8s]

My question got answered on-air once.

Wow that's cool! When?

I also recall a time a picture Martin sent to TWC was shown live on-air too!

[Thecoolwriter]

It was back when Gustav was happening.
I didn't send in a question about Ike, though.

[toxictwister00]

I started to send in a picture of the tornado damage I had in my backyard, but since we were out of power for most of that weekend, I forgot about it.

[Spring Rubber]

We are now on "limited commercial interruption presented by Geico."

[tpirfan28]

Huh...presented with limited commercial interruption by that damn gecko and Geico.

Dang...beat by Spring...

[beanboy89]

And that means we're down to local forecasts at the top and bottom of the hour only. I wonder what flavors we'll see?

[Localonthe8s]

Jim Cantore just said "We are having one hell of a night". Nothing wrong with saying hell just sounds unsual.