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Have camera phone, will report

June 9, 2005 | 8 Comments

Katie HornerAnother media-related post… Please don’t cry for Channel 5, the only chopperless station in town. While the other three stations launched their helicopters to cover last night’s storms, Channel 5 took the streets with camera phones! “Yes, Katie, as you can see by this grainy two inch photo, it’s still raining out here at 200th and BFE.” The camera phones and Katie “SEEK SHELTER” Horner’s sage advice actually carried 5 to a ratings win last night. Apparently KC viewers like to see professional broadcasters inaccurately report a tornado in the suburbs and then scream at the people off-camera to check on her husband and kids.

Some of our favorite advice from last night:

  • You can stay safe in the storm by wearing a bicycle helmet
  • Gather up your potted plants so they don’t become “yard missiles”
  • If a tornado hits, wrap yourself in a mattress

Categories: Media, Weather


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8 Comments so far

  1. chris on June 9, 2005 3:14 pm

    wow, that’s awesome! it’s good to know that news fear-mongering isn’t limited to TERROR.

  2. worst weather ever on June 9, 2005 7:52 pm

    i dont know how anyone can even sit through half of a local news broadcast on any of those stations. after the top story im usually so annoyed that i have to turn it. and dont even get my started on Jerry Gish…

  3. JBo on June 14, 2005 2:15 am

    TG for all the weather info now available on the COMPUTER.

    Channel 5 “News” is a contradiction of terms anymore.

  4. jldugger on June 23, 2005 1:55 am

    I’ve been privy to a microburst outside of my dorm at KSU (recently graduated). Lemme tell you, potted plants are the least of your concerns. Most houses, especially in JC, have “shade trees” which will bend in amazing ways if they’re as young as the ones outside of Goodnow are, and presumably snap and destroy things if they’re older.

    Microbursts are much smaller forces than real tornados. But they’re also very destructive in other ways. Imagine a parking lot full of cars. They’re full of recently deposited air around one atmosphere. When wind starts moving at like 100 mph, the pressure differential will actually cause all the windows in cars to pop outwards, thanks to the bornuelli principal (at least that’s the explaination we came up with). Not a friendly combo with the rain and wind.

    Basically, I don’t watch the local news. If there’s a tornado, we have sirens. My old grandfather used to have a NOAA radio for such things. They take it far more seriously, I hear.

  5. shoes for sport on October 8, 2005 3:45 am

    shoes for sport

    shoes for sport The aesumnetes spoyl’d overthrown for a express-wagon that the new balance shoes had hoisted the fool’

  6. Alex on August 9, 2007 7:01 pm

    KATIE IS THE BEST! I DONT SEE YOU UP THERE FORECASTING THE WEATHER.

  7. Diana on February 12, 2008 3:19 pm

    My dad had one of those weather radios also. We never listned to the news to tornado watch; especially since we only got the station out of St. Joe to begin with. We heard what was really happening without any hype.

  8. Dale Garrison on February 13, 2008 8:54 pm

    The way I figure it, if the night’s TV news is it’s usual banal collection of crime clowns and perp walks, then that means that at least the world’s not ended. I at least assume they would notice and report that.

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