<seeyou8286@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:62643dce-3ecd-425b-8dcb-1ba2cf44e686@j1g2000prb.googlegroups.com... Weekend storm? Never heard before,what's this? Usually a weather phenomenon (often a moving cold front, with wind, rain and sometimes lightning) that occurs on the weekend, i.e. leisure time when more people will be outdoors than on weekdays. For sailors, "storm" includes
Jean Smith wrote: In article <h8SdnTvIEsTt0_XVnZ2dnUVZ_qLinZ2d@posted.hiwaay2>, cmadams@hiwaay.net (Chris Adams) wrote: Once upon a time, Suzie Nolen Bennett <suzienolenbennett@yahoo.com> said: I generally consider it a 'bad day' when someone complains that a public safety announcement (involving my family and friends) interrupts 'their' preferred televised sporting
Several years ago they did a similar thing during the NBA finals. I went to a bar to watch the game only to be constantly interrupted by severe weather alerts of huge storms in the Fort Payne area. After missing most of the game, I left disgusted. I almost never watch the local news, but the next day I watched expecting information on damages, injury, and death. All they reported was
Suzie Nolen Bennett wrote: Well gawllay... local weather killing a kid and injuring a bunch of other folks just ain't important enough to interfere with your soccer- sofa experience. Hate it for ya. First, they didn't give that information, all they had was a crawler across the screen, not useful information for anyone. Second, it's a reasonable assumption that anybody watching
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:16:38 -0500, nik Simpson <nik_s@knology.net> wrote: So I presume the ABC affiliates wanted the European Soccer Championship final and pre-empted ESPN's HD coverage. So it's a reasonable assumption that anybody watching WAAYTV this afternoon wanted to to see the game, and preferably uninterrupted in HD. So the local geniuses who can't run a banner on an HD signal
