Thunderstorm Warning/Watch

[jimedmondsfan]

Seems to me that a reasonably observant, life long midwesterner can figure out when we might have a problem with severe weather brewing.

yeah, but what about those people who just moved into the area, from say...Nevada where they have earthquakes, but not thunderstorms or tornadoes..

[Popeye_Card]

Seems to me that a reasonably observant, life long midwesterner can figure out when we might have a problem with severe weather brewing.

yeah, but what about those people who just moved into the area, from say...Nevada where they have earthquakes, but not thunderstorms or tornadoes..

Well then they should be used to natural disasters striking without having the news warn you.

[KyCardinalFan]

Seems to me that a reasonably observant, life long midwesterner can figure out when we might have a problem with severe weather brewing.

yeah, but what about those people who just moved into the area, from say...Nevada where they have earthquakes, but not thunderstorms or tornadoes..

A guy who works for my husband is from Argentina. He came here to go to college. He'd never experienced severe thunderstorms before moving here and couldn't believe the casualness of some people toward a tornado warning. He worked at a McDonald's while in school and in an exasperated voice he was like, "Sirens are going off and people stayed in the drive-through to get their food!" To hear him tell it was funny. I don't know what he expected, everyone to scatter?

Although we have had two tornados hit this city in 8 years, so people do take it more seriously now. As I would imagine, Simbagal would agree regarding Atlantans.

[InvincibleCakeEater]

CNN just picked up a feed out of Hennessey, Oklahoma where a news helicopter is filming tornadoes from start to finish. Pretty incredible stuff. You don't usually get to them completely develop and everything from that view. A second tornado just touched down. Amazing.

[InvincibleCakeEater]

Holy crap, right now the 3rd tornado just touched down. This is incredible footage.

[Radbird]

I stood on our front porch checking things out. I love the "calm before the storm"....

That reminded me of going through Hurricane Alicia when we lived in Houston in 1983. We took a direct shot and the eye passed directly over our house. Our "stovepipe" chimney had blown off, so I went up on the roof during the "calm" and covered the chimney hole with plastic. I'll never forget how eerie it felt - everything perfectly calm and still. A very surreal experience.

[MrCrowesGarden]

As I've said in this thread before, I think alerting people about t-storms in the area is a good idea. I do think, however, that TV meteorologists sensationalize the dangers that come with it quite often.

Tonight was a good example of this. We had some mild to moderate thunderstorms this evening, nothing uncommon in this area this part of the year. Weather doofus had to break in with his "severe weather alerts" every 15 minutes to tell me that the storm, like most weather patterns, is moving east. I was watching the nascar race, and the coverage was dropped for about ten minutes after this guy came on.

I've got no problem with a crawler at the bottom of the screen and even a little graphic in the corner, but they made this seem like a much bigger catastrophe than it actually was. Please inform me if there actually is news to report.

[Jocephus]

teh weathe rpeople definitely sensationalize it...gotta make sure people stay on that channel

here in wichita, this entire past week...every night we are getting storm warnings and such...so every night is filled with reports...it ticks me off though...like,during leno and stuff...they will show his episode but do weather stuff in the commercial breaks, but once conan comes on they just interrupt his show entirely...

another thing, here in wichita...i guess wichita is the station everyone in western kansas tunes into, so they are responsible for informing the western kansas people of whats going on...so it could be clear in wichita, but they are doin' 24/7 coverage for the people on the west side of the state....

[ghostrunner]

The way I see it is that I wouldn't want a big graphic thrown up on the screen when I go to see a movie. Despite it's accessibility, I don't treat television any different than movies. I don't do a whole lot of talking if I'm watching Lost or the Office, and I turn the lights off if it's just me. Those shows are better than a lot of movies I've seen out in the theater. It ruins the experience when you got a huge county map blocking important stuff. I'd pay for these shows if there was the option to do so. I can live with the crawler, but big graphics - not so much. If they do put them up, I'd hope it's something worse than a thunderstorm.

[jimedmondsfan]

I stood on our front porch checking things out. I love the "calm before the storm"....

That reminded me of going through Hurricane Alicia when we lived in Houston in 1983. We took a direct shot and the eye passed directly over our house. Our "stovepipe" chimney had blown off, so I went up on the roof during the "calm" and covered the chimney hole with plastic. I'll never forget how eerie it felt - everything perfectly calm and still. A very surreal experience.

I remember Alicia! We were living in Dallas at the time. Simon and Garfunkel were doing their reunion tour and I had tickets at the Cotton Bowl...but when the storm hit--I assumed they would cancel the outdoor show, so we didn't go. They DID hold the concert and I got screwed on the tickets (no refund since the show actually did go on). Who wants to stand in 100 mph winds to watch a concert? Or pay $83 to miss it? GRRRR