Local weather douches who interrupt football games
 

I realize severe weather warnings are a big deal, but this self important dickbag yesterday kept interrupting during the 4th quarter of yesterdays late game between the Pats and Chargers. If you want to run a scroll at the bottom of the screen fine. You want to cut in briefly at commercial break, fine but there is no excuse for prattling on and on while showing off your various satellite weather maps when there is a football game on that has divisional implications.

Weathermen need more carries

I see Katie Tornado's influence reaches far......

When Katie is wearin' a hockey helmet, LOOK OUT.

I hate this shit. So I might die in a tornado or thunderstorm. Okay. Now get that goddamn map off my screen. Quit interrupting my ****ing game. Or my goddamn SEASON FINALE! Argh may sweeps. Those are the worst.

I completely agree, a scroll is adequate. There are SOOOO many other places to get detailed weather information that anyone who is so stupid they can't find it elsewhere deserves to die in the storm.

One of the local stations had there general manager on air this morning at 6:45am to address this complaint. Bob Dole thought he had some valid points, without saying it quite the way Bob Dole is about to phrase it:

IT'S A ****ING GAME.

While it might be the most important thing in your world at that particular moment, they have a larger responsibility to the viewers in their area who...you know...MIGHT LOSE A ****ING LIFE if they don't get proper warning to take appropriate action. Tornadoes kill people, and often develop/change in a matter of minutes. Crawls cannot be updated quickly enough to allow for CRITICAL information to get to the people for whom it might mean life or death.

Seriously. Go to Wal~Mart and buy a jumbo box of perspective.

Right. Because that 80 year old woman down the street from you is probably getting better info on her iPad than she's getting from her local broadcast television station. :rolleyes:

She was going to die soon anyway. :D

Seriously though, everyone has a goddamn radio, which is better anyway because many of them will operate on batteries in the event the power goes out.

Perhaps it could be arranged that severe thunderstorms only come to fruition during games without divisional implications?

Well, to be honest, the station COULD just wait until a commercial break. Just ask the twister to go into a holding pattern, or something.

There's a member here named tiptap that could probably help. He likes to talk about the weather. I had an aunt like that until my uncle did the right thing.

I thought that this was going to be a rant against lightning delays.

Here's the link to someone more tactful than Bob Dole.

http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=13377463

It's still horseshit. If there's a dangerous storm coming, what more do people need to know other than they need to take cover?

Back in 1975, an F4 tornado came within a 1/2 mile of where I lived. When we were notified of the storm, we grabbed a radio and headed to the basement. We didn't glue ourselves to the local TV station for coverage.

And the way this country is, the station could get sued by "not properly informing of imminent danger".

Funny though, they will probably get sued by some football fan for interruption of personal time and win.

That seems entirely too reasonable.

Give me a break, it's all about getting people to tune in. If you live in the midwest, you know about tornadoes and how fast they can strike, and what to do when they are coming. If you're stupid enough to sit in front of the TV and not take cover until they tell you with pinpoint accuracy that it's headed for your house, then again, you deserve to get injured or killed.

Yes, but if they're still of breeding age the rest of us should show some gratitude for their sacrifice.

Did you read the linked article? It basically apologized for not going to a split-screen sooner. I think it's entirely reasonable to have a split-screen showing the coming storm's track. It's like complaining about the tornado siren waking you up.

Yes, I read it, and I was responding more to the "we're committed to your safety...blah blah blah" nonsense.

Look, I find storms fascinating and I often do watch the coverage (which is the real reason they insist on putting it on), but I know damn well my safety is in my own hands and no one else's.

So, you are suggesting that they interrupt other programming for severe weather reports to boost ratings?

But if you've grabbed a mattress and are covered, cowering in your tub because you're in the warning area, how the hell are you going to watch the GAME?

Seriously. Bob Dole will bring an extra case of perspective to next year's bash.

Yes, I believe part of the reason they do this is to pimp their weather coverage in hopes that you'll more likely tune in to their news broadcasts.

LMAO Christ, if there's a threat in my immediate vicinity, the game becomes irrelevant to me and I will take the necessary measures to ensure me and my family's safety. But if the threat is two freakin' counties away there's no good reason for me to not be able to watch the game.

The problem is that they come on gettin' all up in the air waaaaay too much. I honestly just tune them out now because it's almost become like the boy that cried wolf. If they would only break in when it's REALLY important I might pay more attention. It may not be the smartest thing in the world but when I hear sirens going off I just go back to sleep. I know, I know, you all will be saying "I told you so" when I find myself lying under a bunch of rubble one night. Oh well.

Football vs. Life.

Personal responsibility vs. I need the TV guy to tell me when to seek shelter

Katie Horner can't wait for "snownami" season to begin!

I'm not even saying to not cut away at any time. There's absolutely no reason to stay on the air for that length of time going over the same satellite weather maps over and over again. I'm not familiar with the news station Bob Dole is referring to but the local cbs affiliate interrupted the game twice without the courtesy of a split screen. I noticed that ABC kept running Americas funniest home videos uninterrupted while this alleged weather crises was occuring. They pull this shit because they are self important douchebags who don't care what they have to interrupt in order to have an audition tape ready so they can move on to a bigger media market.

You've got your own Doppler radar in the backyard? Cool!

This is exactly right. Get on, tell us what we need to know and then get off. They stay on there for so long it's rediculous.

Yes, I do in fact. It's called my eyes. If there's a tornado headed towards my house I can be in my shelter within 15 seconds. But they're not in the backyard, they're out front since tornadoes generally travel to the north and east.