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SNOW!!!

B

BIG APE

;D ;D SNOW COMING TO THE TRIAD!!!

Here we go again, nothing much to talk about except Most of the local forecasters, Radio and TV are calling for 4"'s of snow in the Triad beginning Sunday afternoon and night!!!HA HA HERE WE GO AGAIN!! Wonder what Frank Deal or "Cloudy McClain would say if they were still around?? BIG APE!!
 
If it's gonna come, it's gonna come.

If it forces me to forego my weekly ministry at the rest home so that I can write the crawl that informs the good folks of Rockingham County and beyond that their Sunday night church services are canceled . . . .so be it.

If it forces me to go home at midnight to tend to my wife, then leave out again at 3:30am to return to work, write another crawl to tell school kids that they have a day off and to remind moms and dads to stock up on aspirin and Maalox . . . so be it.

If it forces me to actually see if the transmitter's reflected power meter still works, and I have to monitor VSWR, and reduce our flea power to microwatts so that we can protect an aging final tube 'til June 12th . . . so be it.

If the temperature rises to what they're calling for on Tuesday, and all of the slush gets sucked down the Reidsville storm drains, and the road salt doesn't rust out the bottom of the old reliable PT Cruiser, I might look back on the snow and say, "...didn't we all have fun?".

Later . . . .
 
We've set up a tower camera in downtown Reidsville, which should be pretty if we get the predicted accumulation. Take a look . . . http://www.reidsvilletowercam.info.

I've also got my own webcam streaming to the internet, and I don't mind at all if you take a peek . . . http://cdn1.ustream.tv/swf/4/viewer.80.swf?cid=1/433026

These are both using Adobe Flash technology, so the site may ask you to download a plug-in before you can view the images.

Enjoy . . . Matt/WGSR-TV
 
Thanks! That was cool! Ain't technology amazin'! You'll probably see snow before the rest of us in the Triad. Bring it on, I'm ready!
 
;D ;D ;D Alright Matt..Now all the rest of you "Big Shots" let's see your stuff on here.. This is the official snow site.. It's amazing, I have listened to every local AM/FM (Not many) forecasts and all the TV Forecasts..and they are more or less the same except Lanie Pope on WXII..who says..we ain't gonna get but 1-2 inches maybe?? Now NWS, THE WX channel NOAA Fox and FMY says 3-5 or more so what's up with that?

6-9 inches coming to the TRIAD

BIG APEEEEEE11111
 
I want to see which school district makes a muck-up of it and call their students in during snow, or shut down when we end up with nothing.

When it comes to severe weather stuff these days forget radio... TV and the 'net is where it is at.

UK is different, primarily because there is no real local TV to speak of - it's essentially national with local opt outs. As such, radio is still first port of call for emergency information. I remember one year that bad snow came in, the local station merged their AM and FM output and went into "snowline" mode. Then the power went down on the main FM transmitter - left the station on AM only. Then there were a couple of hurricanes: one of which left the local translator cut off from the main station. However because the station owners figured out that it would be worth their while to do separate programming on the translator (and had purpose built studios in that community), it was no effort to fire up their own emergency programming from the translator and co-ordinated events for the community there.

Most radio stations probably these days think emergency broadcasting is just relaying the Emergency Alert System and their wonderful robot voice.
 
Interesting comment about the UK.

Definitely off-topic for this board, but when London had that big snow event a few weeks ago I checked out Kiss100 and Capital FM -- I wasn't really impressed with them. One of Kiss's jocks busted out a five or six hour shift [which is really odd for UK stations, apparently,] I guess because someone couldn't make it in, and then they went automated [but with some kind of cool sounding "special" snow mix at night,] and just after 6:00 AM that day capital's DJ said there were too many closings to list and that people should "call the school" for that information.
 
Big deal. Put some chains on your tires & spend Oct. thru March in Geauga, Lake or Ashtabula Counties outside Cleveland. Mammoth lake effect squalls are as common as day & night here.
 
Matt Smith said:
We've set up a tower camera in downtown Reidsville, which should be pretty if we get the predicted accumulation. Take a look . . . http://www.reidsvilletowercam.info.

I've also got my own webcam streaming to the internet, and I don't mind at all if you take a peek . . . http://cdn1.ustream.tv/swf/4/viewer.80.swf?cid=1/433026

These are both using Adobe Flash technology, so the site may ask you to download a plug-in before you can view the images.

Enjoy . . . Matt/WGSR-TV
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If I look very closely.... I can see Russia from your cam! hahaha
Seriously, good effort there.
 
Hope you got your bread, milk, batteries and candles.
From the reports I am hearing it's nasty there. Thanks for the video cam.
Streaming online to hear Greensboro radio its great.
I will enjoy my sunshine today, and no snow.
 
I got the last loaf of bread at the local Food Lion. It must have been a '3 loaf alert' for sure. Lots of snow. Probably 2 days off for the schools in the Triad.
 
Hey Matt, thanks for the webcam view but is the auto-iris on your home camera stuck? Could burn out the senor.
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It's a real el-cheapo webcam, and for whatever reason it doesn't iris down while it's streaming. When I reboot the stream, it adjusts, but I can't always be there to do that.

Glad you enjoy the views, and by summer I'll get a better camera.

Later . . . .
 
I use ManyCam as a Front End for my Webcam into Ustream. It allows me to control the camera as well as add graphics - PLUS, like Ustream, it's FREE!
 
Hads things turned out differently, this would have been the first big weather event for dgital TV. This means two things: If you have it and it works, constant weather updates without anyone losing their favorite shows.

And if you're one of the 160,000 without power, you rediscover radio. One station I listen to had periodic updates during the usual music.

Even if you have power, your cable might go out and ... OH, NO! The TV really doesn't work!

That didn't happen since digital is not here yet.
 
I almost wanted the TV forecasters to be wrong so hopefully they'd back off on the super deatailed forecasts...I think they are SOOOO enamored with their technology and computer models and desire to be 1st on everything, they sacrifice accuracy for speed and "aesthetics". It's MUCH easier to look like a fool when your "Future Doppler Sky Forewarn Forecast Model" says at 8:14pm exactly, the rain will turn to snow in Winston, 8:32 for GSO, 8:45 for Burlington...it's will snow for 3 hours...then stop for 3 hours...then 4 more hours of snow". I'd rather hear "we're expecting 3-6 inches and amounts will vary across the region".
 
The show I was watching was briefly interrupted by a guy saying snow is falling at 2-3 inches per hour and will last for 12 more hours.

That would be a disaster.

I saw one map that said 8-plus inches for there and here.

The snow started late here and everything had maybe three inches on it.
 
We didn't get any snow here. I wish'd. I do dig the downtown cam of Reidsville. With those lights in the trees it really looks just like the Champs Elysees! Thanks for posting it, Matt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D :D :) :eek: ;D :D :) ;D ;D ;D ;D :D :D
 
Matt Smith said:
We've set up a tower camera in downtown Reidsville, which should be pretty if we get the predicted accumulation. Take a look . . . http://www.reidsvilletowercam.info.
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Hey Matt, you mind climbing up there and straightening that thing out? I'm having to put a stack of CDs under my monitor to get the horizon to be level. :D

Looks great aside from that little skew! Wish there were more small-town indy stations out there!
 
Sorry, I'm allergic to ladders and tall towers. DubbaDon well remembers when we climbed the South Campus water tower at UNC back in '78. I swore then I would never climb another tower, guyed or not, and I've kept that oath for 31 years.

Besides, loading our dinky little tower with my 400+ pounds of flesh would not be a pretty sight.

Later . . .
 
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