Katie Horner..."Sleep in your basement" ???
 

After the joke of the storm they all predicted today my mom was telling me the other night she (Katie) was on tv telling people that if they were not going to be able to continue to watch "them" (Katie & Co.) that people should sleep in their basement.

Mind you I think we ended up with something but hardly anything life threatening or remotely close.

Did this whack job really tell peeps to sleep in their basement? ROFL

Wouldn't shock me.

One of my main beefs with the media these days is the constant state of fear and paranoia they try to incite.

Everything is bad for you and we should never leave the house.

Mods: come take out the trash.

I am surprised it has taken Face this long to MURDERA him.

I PMed him.

This guy is even Douchi3r than m3.

Redneck Raider should get all his casino cash

sleep with your bicycle helmets and your swimming goggles on too

WTF?
This thread is completely uncorridegeable.

I am just beside myself. Sitting here with my popcorn machine and cotton candy pillows in awe of your incoherency.

I'm just waiting for the gubment to send me money and I'm set. :thumb:

There are basements in Olathe?

uncorridegeable?

It's a new concept we are trying out :)

If I were YOU the last thing I would be doing is calling someone else a Douche. :rolleyes:

OMG it rained and lightninged and thundered last night and I slept in me bed in my bedroom. Oh wait wrong day. I was supposed to be in my basement a few days ago cause.....cause.............cause......

Wow a thunderstorm in June in KC......wtf would of thought that would happen?

Seriously. They're over the top this year.

Props to Mike Thompson!!!


http://blogkc.com/archives/2005/06/m...-katie-horner/

TORNADO GHOST STORIES!!!!!

My main point of tonight’s blog is this: Tornado warnings are supposed to be reserved for tornadoes! If you were watching our coverage of the storms last night, you likely saw me mentioning, or rather stressing the fact that there was no tornado in Johnson County (Kansas) . Don made brief mention of this below. Now, it may seem pretty nit picky to you, but I feel that the vernacular in severe weather warnings is very important. When you start issuing tornado warnings, you should be darn sure that: 1. The threat is real 2. You know what you are talking about, and can back it up 3. You realize that you are elevating the level of panic and anxiety among your viewers. To haphazardly throw out tornado warnings, just because you can, leads you down the path of crying wolf. You may get away with it for quite some time before the people you serve …the viewing public… begin to start questioning your credibility. If you do it enough, people stop listening to you, because they have lost confidence in your ability to tell one type storm from another. So, when another May 4th , F-4 type tornado comes rolling down the pike, and you start screaming tornado, tornado…who will listen, or believe? I take this very seriously, and it is why, last night…when another Kansas City television station made the irresponsible gesture of telling people in Johnson County that a tornado was going to drop out of the sky…I went a little bit ballistic. (I kept it controlled on the air…but I was more than a little ticked underneath) This was clearly NOT a tornado situation. We knew that, and so did the National Weather Service. It was a storm that produced 60 to 80 mph straight line winds…certainly a dangerous storm, and one that scared a lot of folks. But it was not a 250 mph tornado! When you put out a tornado warning…particularly only two years after a major tornado outbreak…the F-4 t is what comes to the minds of many viewers. So why elevate already scared to people to the level of panic? It’s not something I feel comfortable doing, and neither does the rest of the weather team…or anyone else here at FOX4. We want you to understand, that when we say Tornado Warning…we mean it. And we want you to be confident that we can back it up with good science…not hype.

Mike Thompson
Chief Meteorologist

:clap: :thumb:

The only way you'll see this trend of "Katastrophy Katie's" end, is if people stop watching.

Alarming the general public for no good reason is nothing more than a ratings / cash grab by the local stations.

It especially irritates me when someone like Bryan Busby gets indignant about people calling in and complaining while he breaks in during an NBA basketball resulting in him "apologizing for doing his job".

What alot of these numb nuts don't realize is that viewers aren't complaining about you "doing your job" necessitating an apology - they're complaining that you're scaring the bejesus out of alot of folks and breaking into programming everytime the sky turns grey. People are sick of it and are beyond taking you seriously at this point.

The pendulum has already begun to swing in the other direction, and when another F4 does hit, folks are going to get hurt because they're assuming that Busby, Horner and Leezak are getting their monthly self aggrandizing, face time in for the week / month.

After celebrating Fathers Day with my FIL, I came home and went straight to bed. Glad to see Bob Dole eventually got him taken care of!

Got who taken care of?

Heh, my ex gf dad watches her and actually does what she says.

If there is a bad thunderstorm outside, he will make the family go downstairs and won't let anyone leave or do anything until the storm has passed.

Simply incredible.

She wants me to fall asleep
peeing in her butt

What a pussy (her dad, not you). :LOL:

If the sirens are going off I will go downstairs after I have looked outside of course.

We had the sirens go off 5 times in abotu a 45 min span one day and all it did was get people to go walk outside.

Most people aren't stupid and know when the weather is really bad and when it is just a strong storm.

Then there are those who have Katie fetishes and get scared at the first crack of thunder.

All of these guys are clueless. After the golf ball sized hail we got last night, I am glad our roof/gutters haven't been replaced yet from thr damage that happened in the thunderstorm during the first week of May. That was the same storm that Mike and the NWS both said was also not tornadic, that destroyed homes in Gladstone and NKC. 12 hours later they admitted that it was a tornado.

Which is why a wise person would know that spring\summer in the midwest = thunderstorms.

Thunderstorms= bad weather, hail, lightning, etc.

The midwest is what many for years and years have called "Tornado Alley"

Pet that all together and what do you get? And you didn't even need Katie to tell you!!! :)


so anyone who is either surpirsed by or otherwise shocked by stormy, tornadic weather in KC April-July has a screw loose in the first place.

Secondly anyone who is surprised and or shocked by weather peeps on tv not being right about shit also has a screw loose.

Don't know if anyone remembers Dave Dusik, a former weatherman on Channel 9 in the 80's. He did a "Chicken Little" coverage of a storm that tracked from Emporia, KS to Mexico, MO, that produced nothing-- of which he evidently did a lot after having been let go.

See post #3.5.

Ok, what was I supposed to get from that?

Guru was referring to DENCHIEFFANMURDERA, whose post was deleted and is now banned. It was originally post #4 in this thread, but now is unnumbered since it's been deleted. It now exists only as a "deleted" message halfway between post #3 and post #4.

Am I missing something about why you're confused? Half of the first 20 posts in this thread were about the issue.

I was expecting a rickroll on that link. That is hilarious. Won't accomplish anything though.

Nope, just wasn't sure wtf peeps were talking about? I did not see the message before it was deleted so I have no idea what it said. So you can understand my confusion as to the continued references to a deleted message. Or can you?

They over-react "error on caution side" here in STL too....

never heard sleep in the basement ROFL

Just to ease the confusion...

He posted that on 10-15 threads along with a few other choice messages.

DENCHIEFFANMURDERA
was kicked to death in infancy
bedeviled child

That's not how I "roll", quality over quantity ;)

When its your house in the path, those updates from Katie are pretty important.

Would you get in trouble if you posted his address, so we could all shit in a box and send it to him? OR, we could send the box to YOU, and YOU could mail it for us! This could work!

Hmm...a good idea, but...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...9153800AAjsL5n

we have tornado sirens around where i live

I think the liklihood of your house getting hit by a tornado is about the same odds as Carl hitting on a draft pick.

people are scared shit-less of them, but unless it is a significant tornado, the odds are about the same as getting sruck by lightning.

I've lived in "tornado alley" my whole life, an never seen one in person.

man sedated if your place gets hit with a tornado, we would be out so many Mcdonalds and taco bell workers!

We used to sit out on our deck in Central Nebraska and see them cruise by occasionally. But if you live in the city you have sirens to alert you.

I don't know how Oklahomans and Texans live in tornado alley without basements.

Briefly. :p

You have 15 posts.... and you had to delete one before leaving this gem...

just STFU

Thats the nice part of town life I suppose.

Well...kind of. I'll agree that it's pretty unlikely that you'll get hit by one, but the chances of getting hit by a tornado in Kansas are 12.6 time higher than the chances you'll get hit by lightning by my calculations (in Kansas anyway).

In a quick dig around the internet, you've got about a one in 700,000 chance of being struck by lightning in a given year. Kansas averages around 50 tornado injuries each year, so based on the population of around 2.775 million, you've got a one in 56,000 chance of being injured by a tornado in a given year.

me too...they just decide not to use them

Those sirens are for outdoor notification only. I work in the fire/emergency management field and we preach constantly about having a weather radio OR listen to your local news media. Its possible that Katie Horner has or will save a life or lives someday.

This bitching about missing your favorite show is getting old.

Sorry Jacob...I'm not picking on you or your post, just using it as a reference.

:spock:

It's even more likely she'll be responsible for deaths by crying "Wolf!" so often no one pays attention when the real things happens.

Not as tiring as that POS and her mugging for the camera every time there's a damn thunderstorm. That's what people are (rightly, IMO) kvetching about. She's worse than the others, but they all pull this crap to one degree or another. As a previous poster noted it's all part of the fear-mongering for ratings that's all to common today.

I'm just happy I had the chance to meet the idiot at Barnes and Noble on the Plaza in the checkout line. We were in the checkout line. I noticed her and told her I was a huge fan. Her expression was priceless when I followed it up with "Sure, Chicken Little was always my favorite book as a kid". The other folks laughed, but she seemed unamused and didn't want to talk anymore. Oh well. LMAO

Lived in Topeka all my life and have never personally seen a Tornado.

And it isn't for lack of trying.

I read somewhere that to be guaranteed seeing a tornado you have to live in Kansas for 1100 years.

Well, only 1061 to go for me. I think I can make it.

So how many have you seen then? Two? Three?

I've always wanted to see one under good circumstances...as in not being in one, but see it from a safe distance.

I saw one from about three miles away about 15 years ago. It hit out in the country, but took out a friend's house completely.

Well, there's NEVER a guarantee. Unfortunately, I can't find any stats about "seeing" a tornado, so I can't tell you what your chances are.

Safe to assume it didn't take out your friend?

Correct. She and her family were actually in town at her grandparents' place at the time, so they were all fine. They came home to nothing but a foundation, though.

I actually didn't know her at the time - just heard the stories when we became friends in high school.

Glad all it is just a bad memory for them then. someone was looking out for them obviously.

Gotta love the internet. It was apparently the same night as the Andover tornado:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andover...rnado_Outbreak

W of Arkansas City to NW of Cambridge
25 miles
1 death - Tornado passed Arkansas City to the west, and then moved between the communities of Strother Field and Hackney. Many suburban homes were completely destroyed, and one woman was killed in her home.

Why? Does that make the tornado turn away? Or does her telling you something you can see out your own window somehow make it different in any way? I guess sirens going off aren't as important as Katie's many irrelevant updates heh?

Maybe it's just me but I'd like to know about the tornado before it is close enough I can see it.

Ok fair enough. But after the first 30 secs of them telling you where the tornado is WTF else do you need to know? How is solid, wall-wall coverage making it any better? If you can't see it outside your window then I can't see why you need to sit in front of your tv for 3 hours watching weather people talk about something that is not around you? And if you could see outside your window I doubt you would be watching TV.

Well chances are the tornado is in your area if you don't have any power, thus not having to worry about the annoying Katie Horner.

LMAO LA has it's car chases on TV constantly, and KC has it's Katie on TV constantly

Speaking of crying wolf, there is nothing better than getting woke up every 30 minutes by the weather radio for thuderstorm watches in Harrisonville or flash flooding in Saint Jo.

The weather radio usually gets shut off quicker than the alarm clock gets snoozed. For the question of "what if", that question got answered in the first week of May, as our neighborhood got hit by a tornado without any sirens or weather radio tornado warnings.

that is what i don't get. tornadoes, ok. do coverage until they go away.

thunderstorms, 'damaging wind', flash flooding - put that thing on in the corner of the screen. do i need to see a rundown of minute by minute where a thunderstorm is or some news dork standing outside in a raincoat telling us it's raining?

Their broadcast covers a larger area than just your house.

WTF is the difference? Does someone telling you about a tornado for 3 hours make anything different if they did it in 30 secs?

If you need to wall-wall coverage to see if your ass is in trouble you are already phocked.

What is so ****ing amazing is some of you seem to have trouble understanding that storms in the Spring\Summer in Tornado Alley produce bad weather! That is until someone comes on the TV with 15 radars of the same ****ing thing and repeat themselves more than the Fox News Channel telling you torndaoes in Ks\Mo\Ok are very probable when it is Spring\Summer and it is cloudy and stormy looking in the sky.

Astounding even!

Here's your sign.......http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=186014

I'm not up on what counties Saint Joe and Harrisonville are in but you can program codes into most weather radios so they only activate for a certain county. That way you don't haveta listen to all the other info going out over them.

I can hook you up with your counties SAME number if you need.

What's amazing to me is that this issue irks you enough that you're willing to spend what has to be hours on here ranting about it.

But yeah, I'm content with the little radar in the corner unless there's an actual tornado warning.

slow day. wtf would you like to see a rant about? It's about time I gave my coinpurse a trim job....want to discuss technique?ROFL

Wow, such insight into the mysteries of weather phenomena. :rolleyes:

I am the master of stating the obvious.:D

FYP