Ever since Bill Clinton left the state you guys just keep coming up short ehhh? 
I for one welcome our new snow overlords. Hell, if its gonna be below freezing in the deep south we might as well enjoy a dusting of snow.
I wonder what other cities’ equivalent of the “Sylvan Overpass” is?
(That’s where reporters always go for snow reports…it’s in the hills above downtown and spans a freeway. It’s become a joke that reporters go there any time there’s a hint of snow.)
When Rick Emerson was on the air a year ago, the snow was called “Stormgasm 2008.” The heatwave last August was Hotpocalypse.
BTW, I voted for nonstop coverage.
I never understood people’s obsession with weather reports. Most of the year, it doesn’t matter; in the winter, it’s useful to get a forecast, but it’s often likely to be wrong.
Normally, I think it’s pretty much idiotic when the news media gets all crazy about what little bit of ice / snow we get here in Dallas (usu. 1/2" or less).
OTOH… I’m giving them a pass for today though. It’s snowed steadily since like 4 am, and we’re coming up on 10 inches of snow since then, which is something like 3 above the all-time one day record snowfall.
And it’s still steadily snowing…
I’m pretty sure the point is that the snow is considered important information, and they want to make sure everyone sees it. But I definitely prefer the way it’s usually done on my favorite station. They have a ticker at the bottom, with a map of the area, and will occasionally run a weather report instead of the local part of the commercial breaks.
If you are near the I80 corridor anywhere between San Francisco and Reno, it’s Blue Canyon. Sometimes Nyack or Truckee, but usually Blue Canyon. It’s at about 4500ft (Donner Summit is 7239ft ), on the side that gets all the precip, so it’s a great photo-op if you like that kind of thing.
I like to listen to the radio in the morning, because I can do that without disturbing the other members of my household.
This week has been Pledge Week, so I’ve been getting mindless Pledge Week blather while I’m waiting for closure and road information. I don’t like Pledge Week under any circumstances, but this week has just been serious irritation. I think that they should have suspended the mindless on-air blather and moved the campaign online for the duration.
I voted for “I have a window”, but the truth is I have a window AND I have a husband who is obsessed with news and weather reports. Part of his obsession with weather is because his employer is the FAA, and he works in the radar department of the DFW airport, which is a major hub. He started by doing repair and maintenance work, and now he’s systems engineer, but if there’s a hardware problem, then he’s likely to be called in. So he actually has a reason to keep an eye on the weather reports. He will regularly share his information with me, too, whether I care about it or not. If I didn’t have him, I’d probably want a crawl with breaking news and reports, but that’s about it.
I really don’t care about the fronts moving in or out of the area. I just want to know if a tornado is likely to hit the house, or if our power is likely to go out, or something like that. I hate those “on the scene” reports where some newscaster is shown out in the bad weather. I don’t need to see someone freezing, or getting soaked, to be convinced that it’s cold and/or wet outside. I’ll take your word for it, really I will. Seeing a newscaster get cold, wet, or blown away with a tornado does not really give any more information than could be reported in a nice, warm, dry, calm studio.
I had to go out yesterday for some medical tests, and it was good to know that we’d had some snowfall and were expecting more, so I could allow extra time to get to the clinic.
I don’t think that I’ve ever seen this much snow in Fort Worth. It’s beautiful, but I’m very glad that I don’t have to go out today. Fort Worth doesn’t have much in the way of snow removal equipment, which is sensible, because we generally only get a dusting of snow overnight, every two or three years, and that dusting is generally melted by noon. I’m somewhat worried that powerlines will fall, or possibly branches will break. We’ve knocked off the worst of the snow in our trees and power lines, but of course we really can’t go into a neighbor’s yard and do that, even if we wanted to.
No. I don’t care. I live in Canada. I can look out the window. Luckily, I live in a place with sane news and don’t have to deal with 24-hours-of-weather.
I just need to know about road conditions, really. And what’s closed. I also like to know total accumulations of snow, and how windy it is, and whether it’s turning to ice. Just so I can guess at whether or not the power will go out. But you can give me that with a news ticker, thanks. I don’t need hours of OMG!!! coverage.
It was crappy enough being trapped in the house for almost a week (I’m on crutches too). Having nothing to watch all day except for weather reports almost drove me insane. Hour after endless hour of reporters standing on forsaken street corners telling us all about their adventures getting there and how everyone else should stay home … my dislike of the media and their thirst for attention had me screaming at the TV by day three - “go home yourself and shut up!”. By day 5 I just gave up on TV news completely except for a few minutes each night.
Snow is clearly an important story when if falls where lots of people are paid to keep their jaws flapping. All this snow that’s being whined about is standard fare where I grew up (near Cleveland), and a light snowfall where my wife grew up (Syracuse, NY).
I was flipping out pretty hard Wednesday night because my local stations couldn’t figure out how to do a ticker over the HD programming, so they gave me letterboxed SD with a ticker at the bottom telling me “It’s snowing out, but not as much as we thought: instead of 9-15 inches you’re going to get 1-2. But you should still be careful!” For about 75% of the non-commercial time of each show.