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Blizzard Nemo

Nick said:
What stations are off the air because of Nemo?
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As of 9:20am, actually off, just 1.260-WMKI and 1.300-WJDA.
However, 0.590-WEZE, 0.950-WROL, 1.150-WWDJ (all Salem stations <owner, not city ;)>), 1.570-WMVX, 98.1-WCTK all on, but with dead carriers.
Since 1.260’s and 1.300’s sticks and all of the Salem station’s studios are in Quincy, those are likely just strictly victims of a local power outage, rather than any issue with the stations/facilities, themselves (other than not having backups! ::)).
 
Nick said:
What stations are off the air because of Nemo?
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WUMB has been off the air since early this morning, perhaps due to power outage at their Quincy transmitter site.

They may be broadcasting on their simulcast stations in other areas, I'm not within range to hear any of them.
 
Two of WBUR's Cape Cod simulcast stations, WBUR 1240 AM West Yarmouth and 91.5 FM WSDH Sandwich, are off the air probably due to power outages.
 
TWC made this "fantastic" idea this fall to make winter storm names. This is WHY I do NOT watch the Weather Channel anymore! That, and due to all of the "Storm Riders/Caught on Camera" crap that they carry now a days.

Still praying for you guys - some areas in CT got 40 inches!!

-crainbebo
 
crainbebo said:
TWC made this "fantastic" idea this fall to make winter storm names. This is WHY I do NOT watch the Weather Channel anymore! That, and due to all of the "Storm Riders/Caught on Camera" crap that they carry now a days.
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30 inches here, sleeping at the office for second straight night waiting for street and parking lot to be plowed.

Oh, and TWC's slide toward mass-appeal garbage started when NBC (now Comcast/NBC) acquired the channel. First thing they did was force that glad-handing clown Al Roker onto its morning weathercast, and it's been downhill from there. Of course, TWC itself always had its critics who'd say (correctly) that TWC was mass-appeal garbage compared to the late, lamented "A.M. Weather" on PBS stations.
 
I feel that the National Weather Service will eventually cave in and name significant winter storms. Most people will remember this blizzard as Nemo, not the Blizzard of 2013.
 
There's very sound meteorological reasoning for not naming winter storms. NWS won't cave into the marketing trends of TWC and WFSB.
 
According to WBRU's Facebook page, their transmitter was down.

95.5 WBRU
5 hours ago
Our transmitter in East Providence (which is the tower that shoots our signal to you) is currently having issues. We are on the air at the studio, and will keep you up to date on our return to the airwaves. Hope you find a warm space to spend the night, if your power, like most of us, is still out at home.
 
Nick said:
Most people will remember this blizzard as Nemo, not the Blizzard of 2013.
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No way! Just because one TV channel is calling it that? Those of us actually sitting here in the dark because of it are talking about a blizzard, not nemo.
 
Ah, what's the harm?

We were all yakking and writing scripts and ideas once, at one of a series of sessions my pal called 'kitchen s#!+', and he was asked, in a trivia sense, who won the 1980-something World Series.

'Not far back enough to remember,' he snorted.

We all knew what he meant. Plus, he was a huge guy ; 6'2, 300, beard, afro. When he didn't remember, we decided that the year's winner wasn't important, either.
And it really wasn't in a Great Moments In History book yet. There was nothing immediately identifiable about the date.
As effete New Yorkers, we remembered the winners in '41, '47, '55, '69, '86, etc, because they were NYC milestones. Then there were the Earthquake World Series, the Cancelled World Series and the Poker World Series.
One way or another, all of those had some other form of identification, or recall, aside from a year.

So if locals (or whomever is affected) can affix situations, reactions, parallels and preparedness to scourges such as Hugo, Gloria, Katrina, Sandy, and our very local Agnes (Wilkes-Barre), then I can't see a problem with winter storm names, regardless of the originator. And the weirder the name, the better and more distinct the reference. (I got a kick out of the Ironic Times headline, 'Another unpronounceable volcano erupts in Iceland').

My mileage doubtless will vary, but the Weather Channel has been so dead-on with its actual calls (and its predictions ahead of those calls) that whatever they do or whatever they name it is fine with me. As long as they keep getting their *product* correct, we'll have four pages in favourites.
 
This is when I wish wtkk was still talk,instead i had to listen to wbz on my smart phone.
 
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