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.