If you don't like philly weather leave!

[TGunn]

I had to vent this afternoon leaving work at 5pm. The F bombs were flying out of my mouth walking with my co workers on the side walk. All day everyone was freaking out about the weather. They've lived in Philly,PA all their lives but when Winter weather hits they act like they've never seen it before in their life. We live in a city where the streets are cleared..salt is on the roads, not too mention some of these people have 4 wheel drives. i learned how to drive in the snow in 1975 in 2 door Automatic Ford Maverick.. I attended a college in a small town in VA that didn't clean the streets off at all. My brother taught me on a hill covered in about 10 inches of snow.. Why does no one else I have ever met since.. know how to drive in the snow? Maybe some driving schools could teach this PLEASE! I told everybody at work..if they don't like the weather in PHILLY ...LEAVE!!!!

 

[Unregistered]

Ummm this board is for radio discussion. Not about the weather!

 

[Unregistered]

Me, I don't like Philly "Weather."

OK, lets make this about radio. I've lived in, worked in and spent time in a lot of markets (small, medium and large). No place is more obsessed with weather than Philly. I know this is a chicken and egg question - did the media's obsession get people obsessed or did public obsession get the media obsessed? I went to school in this area. The Delaware Valley wasn't always this obsessed.

I blame KYW. They started it. They started throwing out the news cycle and started reading school closings. This sent the message that schools can close and should close in bad weather. And then local TV jumped in teasing people with their "storm of the century coming" teases and promos. Then they started doing all these stories telling people the appropriate thing to do when winter weather is expected is to run out and buy mass quantities of bread, milk and eggs. (Probably the worst thing to buy because if power goes out, that's the stuff that spoils quickest.) And, of course, buy a snow shovel (apparently the one from the last storm won't work any more).

Elsewhere, if it bleeds, it leads. Here, if it falls, it leads.

 

[Bob Eubanks]

Throwing out the news cycle because of information relevant to people's lives was perfectly valid back in the day. But why just blame KYW...I never listened to them for numbers growing up. It was Ken Garland plugging away at the numbers that had me hoping to hear mine, and usually disappointed. They threw out their programming, too.

But more broadly, "if it bleeds it leads," and the corollary when it comes to winter weather, is our own collective fault. We get what we ask for by tuning in. (And I have yet to hear a single news or weather personality, aside from jokes, suggest people should actually buy bread and milk...that's a wierd behavior entirely on those who partake.)

 

[DavidZ]

Me, I don't like Philly "Weather."

OK, lets make this about radio. I've lived in, worked in and spent time in a lot of markets (small, medium and large). No place is more obsessed with weather than Philly.

One of those markets that you worked in or spent time in could not have been in Boston or elsewhere in New England.

I would say that New England is probably more obsessed with the weather than Philly. Weather reports, even in good weather, usually takes up the most time in any TV newscast in Boston. Add in news reports about the weather and there are days you would think that the weather is the only thing in the news.