Re(2): not having 2 work weekends/nights Posted on April 28, 2024 at 11:13:19 PM by wx watcher
Yes and every night for decades, we've had our 10 minute class in meteorology.
The problem with most is that they like to follow their storms to the far edge of their viewing area where only the cows are watching, leaving us on the leading edge of the metro needing to go find our own interactive map to see what's coming down on us.
I've had enough close calls, I"ve loaded wx radar apps on my smaller devices now so I can go hide and see what's coming. I hate it where i live...the whole area's sitting on top of caves and rock so there are few basements. And those freakin storms know right where we live. Ya'd think this was a trailer park on the SW edge of town!! We've had 3 confirmed twisters in 3 years within a half mile and the first one took 500 homes on the other side of town. Dark as hell, downed lines on the major roads; I had to drive thru it that night for medical reasons. Knowing what I know now after all these years, after a strike, I'd dispatch a photographer to catch the walk-ins heading to the closest ER to the strike. They can even get useful video on a smartphone or ipad , find a WIFI and feed it to the newsroom. The problem with a strike is nobody's answering the phone... everybody's busy who didn't get called in. On nights like that, every station's way understaffed and not enough people are supporting him on the air since he's stuck doing radar play by play and can't do any gathering or get reports run to him from the newsroom'scanners to hear what the Sheriffs people are seeing and telling their dispatchers. Some markets tho have done it for so long they have the drill down PAT! I was lucky enough to have spent some years in such a place.
IF I was young and building a house, I'd have the foundation people make a room right under the front porch cement. Our first little house had that. Now we just have an interior hallway on a main floor slab which in no way could handle a direct hit. Replies: There have been no replies.
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