Tuesday, August 05, 2008
In case of weather emergency in Chicago
Rely on WFLD, Fox 32, for your severe weather information. Do not expect the otherwise stellar Tom Skilling at WGN to give you info until well after the threat passed you by. This is born out by the south suburban tornado in June and yesterday's severe weather, which I watched out the window while downtown during round 1 and in Hyde Park during round 2. Telling the bartender to switch to WGN offered no new information other than the county was under a tornado threat--and that was obvious from watching the Cubs game. Watch the line organize here.
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Why does relying on Fox for anything strike me as odd...
Yes, I know. But they really had the news response for the tornado that blew through Richton Park, through locations I had personally spent a lot of time. Watching all the local outlets, Fox by far had the best "coverage"--frequent radar updates, and/or rather, for such a dangerous system, they interrupted their programming appropriately. The stations with the weather subchannels (talking about the digital channels here) failed to have any revelance and proved the futility of the "24/7 weather" channels. When I needed an answer to what the tornado warning was about last night, and I was away from a computer, WGN didn't have it.
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