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Yes, try living in mid MissouriWe definitely do not exist.
We already know that. Rumors of such a place occasionally surface in movies such as The Outlaw Josie Wales, but mostly we believe that central Missouri is an imaginary place consisting of a few outlaws who are still fighting the Civil War and dining on raccoon and possum.
Is that about right? Y'all need to stop burning each other's shacks down. And mix some venison into your diet.
Well, in all fairness, the mission of a business is to make money. TWC is a business. They're in Atlanta. In order to be profitable they need ratings (courtesy of "Dean-On: Apply directly to the Yucatan"), and they need to keep costs low.
Obviously travel is expensive. Sending an intern outside TWC headquarters with a high-def cam is a lot easier than paying for them to fly to Montana to report on a heat wave or blizzard.
Viva la ATL. We gotta suffer through their local shot of raindrops falling on a street outside TWC in order to find out what's going on elsewhere in the nation. Once in a while they actually report on weather in other parts of the world, but mostly in the northern hemisphere. Cuz... who cares about Namibia, right? (uhhh, me, but I don't count...)
You mention Vivian Brown. She made one of my favorite flubs on live tv once. She said (and I swear she did it) "We have reports of a tornado in Alabama where a couple of fatalities resulted in death." She caught at the end how stupid that was, but it was too late.
ROTFLMAO!!!! That's one of the funniest things I've read in a very long time!
I wonder when they'll associate Dean's remants with the I-285/75 interchange in Marietta.
Yeah I totally agree with everyone on all the Atlanta talk. Just because TWC is based in Atlanta doesnt mean its the only place that has weather! I must say though, I do love Jim Cantore! I think he is such a hottie, he can come to my house and broadcast live any time! LOL I cant stand the show Storm Stories though.
Well, here in New Mexico, we can have a blizzard underway but they will mention a few snow flurries somewhere in Texas. We can have tornados and they will talk about a shower in Texas, or Atlanta, or anywhere else. If I wait for 20 minutes just to catch the weekly business planner, when they finally get to it, they spend half their time talking about something other than the weather for the next 7 days...then have to cut to a commercial before they get to day 5! Of course, part of this rant explains why I like New Mexico...so many people elsewhere think of it as another country.
Well, here in New Mexico, we can have a blizzard underway but they will mention a few snow flurries somewhere in Texas.
Good point. In all fairness, I must admit that we in Texas and Oklahoma get an undue share of TWC air time. It's probably a function of ratings combined with the fact that this part of the country has a lot of ready-for-prime-time spectacles thanks to a combination of crazy weather and stupid people. We'll never see the end of people driving into flooded roadways, then being rescued by helicopter. I mean, ya gotta go live to that shot, don't ya?
It's kind of like those car chases that dominate the news in Los Angeles, which often break into national cable news for live coverage. People enjoy watching stuff like helicopter rescues and stupid people in Los Angeles who are trying to get away from the cops while 15 helicopters compete for the best angle to chase the story. I can't say that I feel nothing but empathy for those who were recently killed when 2 such helicopters collided. My condolences to the families of the deceased, but could this maybe be a warning to the rest of them that it's not worth risking your life to get a live shot of some loser who stole a car and is trying to get away from the cops on the maze of LA freeways? (side note: the crash was in Phoenix, as I recall, not Los Angeles, but the lesson applies everywhere.)
Yeah....I agree too...the Weather Channel did to weather....what MTV did to music videos...a long time ago.
Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta....blah, blah, blah.
Way too much advertising and never enough on current weather...or extreme weather in many other parts of the country.
Can't believe they pay people on their staff to travel so much for such lousy coverage of some storm that usually misses the reporter by hundreds of miles sometimes.
GREAT forecasting......
Also.....always found it interesting just how often there's ANOTHER weatherlady at TWC ready to pop out another kid.
ALL the women at TWC must have been knocked up 3 or 4 times by now!
And they all look like they work til their water breaks live on camera!
Something in the water in Atlanta?....or just around the water cooler at TWC?
I don't like it when they call Virginia "Mid Atlantic" . Its not Mid Atlantic. Its Southeast.
Ummm.... everyone I've ever known who has ever used the term "Mid-Atlantic" is referring to Virginia, among other states. Look at a map. Virginia is in the middle of the Atlantic coastal region of the USA, it's not in the SE corner.
Is this some sort of emotional attachment to the Confederacy that has you upset? I don't get it.
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