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BLIZZARD WINTER CHILL BITTER COLD WATCH 2008

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VERITAS DE VOCE

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Is this market seriously that hypersensitive about the cold?? BRRRR...

FOX and BELO8 were rocking the early (4:30 a.m.) weather forecasts because of er... rain, and oh yeah, cold, and um, the roads were wet. Dork-us was even riding shotgun because evidently Greg Fields couldn't handle the influx of terror caused on our Dallas' skies. FOX ran the "closing" lists, and had only Paradise ISD as a 2-hour delay. Oh yeah, just in case we weren't petrified enough, NBC claimed Dallas "may have experienced (wait for it) one-tenth of an inch of ice.

1/10? Hell, better notify the Dallas Stars. We may have a new practice arena for them.

Man. How I love this market so. ;D
 
Sounds a lot like how Tom Snyder (during his Late Late Show days) would describe the L.A. stations whenever they'd get the least little sprinkle of rain --something akin to an end-of-world scenario ... You could tell TS was somewhere between exasperated and ROTFLHAO about it. Even funnier when you think he had to actually share a desk and newscast with some of the same kind of folks :D

(How TS is missed..... :( :'( )

I figured the locals would be trying to out-do (or don't) each other, I didn't bother watching before I left work this morning.
 
It was a total joke man, The only people with any sense of calm were the radio folks, as they seemed to laugh the whole thing off.
 
A meteorologist friend of mine (at the National Weather Service) explained to me one time how difficult it is to forecast an ice event. There are several major events that have to happen at once for an ice storm to occur, and those several major events are somewhat rare in North Texas (thus why it's usually only once a season or so). That said, I can forgive the over-the-top forecasts and coverage all week long, but why not send everyone home in the morning when it's obvious nothing happened?

I remember one snow storm/ice event last winter when Dorkus was on a Saturday morning. He had the News 8 Doppler Radar zoomed in on Mesquite and showed that "it's snowing" on such-and-such street. My thought then, was "well, good. I bet the people on such-and-such street were too stupid to look out their windows...

If we have a 1979(?) ice storm again, 1995 Mayfest hailstorm, or the 2000 Downtown Fort Worth/South Arlington tornadoes again, bring in the heavy guns and feel free to lose all sense of balance in coverage. When it's cold and wet, let's all just take a deep breath, bundle up and drink a little cocoa....
 
Mike Snyder was his usual over dramatic self at 10pm last night. At the begining of the newscast he said ''Rain is starting to fall in the metroplex and (in that Ted Baxter tone) IT'S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE!"
Of course 15 minutes later David Finfrock gave a much more realistic forecast calling for most of the ice to be north and west of DFW and slight chance of ice on bridges. Of couse the news dept's had been sending reporters to the high-five all day and day night as well as doing stories on the sanding trucks for 2 days.
 
The meteorologist was right. It's very hard to predict winter weather in north Texas. The problem is that we've had several instances in the past few years when it looked like we had dodged a bullet, but then an hour later some major highway had 200 accidents due to ice.
This event didn't pan out. That's okay. I didn't see a whole lot else going on that was more interesting than weather today anyway. Did you?
 
Where else in this market - this major, top-5, cutthroat market - can you get paid like a rockstar, be wrong most of the time, and get most of answers from either oh, CABLE TV or Wikipedia? Answer: Every weather forecast in town has someone in that predicament that would shout, "AMEN". Followed by "Ka-Ching."
 
VERITAS DE VOCE said:
Is this market seriously that hypersensitive about the cold?? BRRRR...

FOX and BELO8 were rocking the early (4:30 a.m.) weather forecasts because of er... rain, and oh yeah, cold, and um, the roads were wet. Dork-us was even riding shotgun because evidently Greg Fields couldn't handle the influx of terror caused on our Dallas' skies. FOX ran the "closing" lists, and had only Paradise ISD as a 2-hour delay. Oh yeah, just in case we weren't petrified enough, NBC claimed Dallas "may have experienced (wait for it) one-tenth of an inch of ice.

1/10? Hell, better notify the Dallas Stars. We may have a new practice arena for them.

Man. How I love this market so. ;D
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You know? Years ago at one of the TV stations I worked for, there was a letter posted on the door of my office by the GM from a viewer complaining that a certain crime drama had been interrupted for a weather break-in. And hat was the break-in for? To tell everyone that it was now "raining in Levelland Texas."

So I guess it is not just Dallas...
LOL
 
texas_prwriter said:
If we have a 1979(?) ice storm again,
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Talking DFW here...

YES, definitely 1979...January 1, 2 and 3. Eclipsed, in my opinion at least, by the snowstorms of Feb 16-17-18, 1978 (14 inches total, IIRC) and Dec 23-24-25-26-27, 1983. The 1978 snow marathon was forever captured on the second episode of "Dallas."
 
MikeShannon914 said:
texas_prwriter said:
If we have a 1979(?) ice storm again,
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Talking DFW here...

YES, definitely 1979...January 1, 2 and 3. Eclipsed, in my opinion at least, by the snowstorms of Feb 16-17-18, 1978 (14 inches total, IIRC) and Dec 23-24-25-26-27, 1983. The 1978 snow marathon was forever captured on the second episode of "Dallas."
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I knew Mike would know! We were in Massachusetts in 1978-79 and suffered through one of their worse winters on record up to that point, but moved to Texas just in time for the summer of 1980. :D
 
MikeShannon914 said:
texas_prwriter said:
If we have a 1979(?) ice storm again,
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Talking DFW here...

YES, definitely 1979...January 1, 2 and 3. Eclipsed, in my opinion at least, by the snowstorms of Feb 16-17-18, 1978 (14 inches total, IIRC) and Dec 23-24-25-26-27, 1983. The 1978 snow marathon was forever captured on the second episode of "Dallas."
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I'm sorry Mike, but it is the "Texas TV" baord, not the DFW board, and the subject didn't specify that this was a Dallas only thread. So please excuse my intrustion.

And by the way, my Grandfather was caught right in the middle of the famed "Blizzard of '78" in Boston, but went to work anyway!
 
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