Oddity Archive: Episode 255 - Weather Warnings Vol. 3 (Winter Edition)
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- Опубліковано 25 січ 2023
- Snowbound. Let’s sleep in today…and tomorrow…and the day after…and the day after that… (apologies to Donald Fagen)
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This episode kind of made me nostalgic for the days when snow storms meant being able to stay home from school, park myself on the couch with some hot chocolate and do nothing but watch game shows and cartoons.
That’s at least partially what I was going for.
Samesies, even If I had to make up the days, but watching Game shows, and Cartoon Express made it wonderful.
Then you have to make up the time during the summer and you wind up completely regretting it trying to stay awake in a blazing hot classroom. Also, once you're old enough your parents make you clean up the mess outside, so you can't even get to enjoy staying home. Personally, I stopped liking winter once I had moved. My backyard before the move had a small downward incline, so at least I could sled on it. Well, not sled, but one of those plastic saucer things. Then, once we moved, flat freaking city in the back. Plus, like I said, once you hit that certain age over 10, you have to clean up instead of have any fun of any kind.
Going on back in time, school snow days become an incredibly rare event. Today they cancel school for almost anything snow related, but in the 60's and 70's (even into the 80's) they expected you to be at that bus stop with snow up to your waste and below 0 wind howling. If it was _at all_ possible to get a school but out of the garage, it was coming to pick you up.
Or the cruel irony of turning to the news just as the school closings just showed the listing for your school and you had to sit through the whole listing all over again.
Just like when you turn to the TV Guide channel just as they just passed the channel you want to check out and so you have to sit through the whole listing again. Of course that's another story
The cold will never bother Oddity Archive anyway.
*gigglefits*
Just love that ASL interpreter! She's good. And I recall the Blizzard of 1977...snowed in the house for 4 days until a snowmobiler got my nurse mom and took her into work.
WGRZ really bringing new meaning to the term "Bills Mafia"
he-eh-eh-ey!
Bills Mafia?
4:26 I spent a minute looking at the map intent on finding "large wood" until it dawned on me that they said "Larchwood"
…and his upper-midwest accent is pretty mellow.
Here in central Maryland our last big snowstorm was 2016. Winters since then have been pretty rainy and mild. At Christmas we had extremely cold weather but too dry to snow, but of course we had rain. I feel like I'm in Seattle. Anyway, I do miss the community feel of the pre-Internet storm coverage, especially on radio stations. I loved listening to my local AM station in the 80s during snowstorms.
That's what I hate about winter. Living in fear that your favorite sports are going to be "scancelled."
That groundhog interview is gold
Holy Wah! Nice inclusion of Da Yoopers (from my hometown of Ishpeming, MI) classic "My Car Won't Go"! at de end dere, eh!
Hey yaknow dey got popular here in da Niagara Region of Ontario too eh. Heard "Second Week Of Deer Camp" on de radio a lot, den got me a couple 45s of Da Yoopers. Reminded me of Bob & Doug. Since only found 2 CDs
KELO Land - home of (potentially) swearing weathermen and the best sign language interpreters ever! Coming ever so close to levels of Frank Pacholski!
"NewsCope" sounds like what we've been doing for the last 8 years.
You thought the HAM radio voice at 17:34 sounded like the Max Headroom incident, but I instantly thought of Red Leader approaching the Death Star announcing to the other X-Wings "we're going through the magnetic field".
It sounds like that because it's Single Sideband. The main advantage is that you can send signals a LOT further using a lot less power. The main disadvantage is that the receiver has to have a Beat Frequency Oscillator you have to adjust to make the voice sound (almost) normal. The one in the video sounded like it was adjusted a little too high.
Lucas actually used the SSB voice effect first on THX-1138, and much more than in Star Wars.
“…about 20 guns, some on the surface, some on the towers.”
I love weather alert. I remember when I was little I used to watch pbs kids and they would eas alert test. Sometimes I even catch a few eas weather alerts. As a kid I was scared of eas but now I appreciate eas alerts now. It would be nice for you to do a eas alert special for pbs kids.
I remember WGBH (my local PBS station) used to run their EAS tests over a montage of sweeping shots of Boston Harbor set to oddly calming orchestral stock music.
More warnings! Great topic Ben! I miss seeing them on TV. Now it’s just my Amazon echo smart speaker or a notification on my phone letting me know we have a winter freeze warning or red flag warning.
9:47 The “audio bulletin board” goes back as far as the Ohio Valley floods of 1937, when WHAS Louisville and WSM Nashville broadcast phone calls, telegrams, ham radio, etc. There are clips on UA-cam.
A Weather Warnings episode focusing on typical New England weather between December and February, Mother Nature's plans depending? Sweet!
If this episode is referring to the snowstorm I'm thinking of at the start (I live in Saint Cloud Minnesota) at the factory where I work Second Shift they told us to shut everything down by 7 pm because they were going to close all the roads and call all the plows off. The Supervisor said that was the first time they had to do that in YEARS. My 2007 Hyundai Elantra has Bridgestone Blizzak snow tires on it so I got home ok.
Bridgestone Blizzaks are rated for Severe Snow Service (and they have paid for themselves since I got them).
Situations like that are NO place for All-Seasons.
Another round of weather warnings? I've always said weather warnings was my favorite episode due to the warm cozy nostalgic feelings it gives me, so I'm always happy to see it again!
We only had like 2+ inches of snow. Now it's sunny....arctic blast is approaching Monday ...
Greetings from the state of bipolar weather, Oklahoma!
5:11: blizzard or not, we’re burying Rose Mary! 😆
Weather guy drops an F-bomb on KELO, very fun! I always thought most stations had a 7-second delay.
That one does now!
To be clear, I think it was just a glitch.
@@OddityArchive I know, I was just making a joke about it.
And your job still expects you to show up on time.
Then they want to cut your hours later cuz sales were soft due to snow.
@18:20 now that's a sound of the past..that milky husk of smoke wrapping around every syllable - he's on the other side of chill with that pack of cigarettes - he could survive for day on them.
He also said grocery stores ran out of bread, meat, milk, and cigarettes. Definitely a different era!
I appreciate the calm and focused demeanor of 1967's radio announcers.
listening to the Chicago recordings remind me of how we here in Belize do the same thing when it comes to hurricanes especially the one that hit us in early November of 2022
This was a fascinating episode, like an actual window into people's lives effect similar or even more than to your home audio tapes episodes in some ways.
the Algorithm (tm) finally showed me an archive episode after a while. Time to procrastinate even more!
This is definitely a late Christmas Present. I love the "back to the roots" episodes
Oh, man, there was some great emergency weather interruptions when I was a kid. There was this weatherman in Huntsville Alabama, named Dan Satterfield, and he was so over the top and sensationalist, fatalist even.
During the Blizzard of 1993, my small town’s(now-defunct)radio station suspended its regular programming on Sunday morning to broadcast business and school closings for the next day, along with people calling in to offer shoveling/snowplowing services.
LMAO at the Max Headroom comment at 17:38. Saying what we are all thinking...and kinda makes you wonder about the equipment the hijackers had in that incident. Also, both were in the Chicago area.
I'm glad we've had an insanely benign winter in my hometown of Rochester, NY so far this year, I'll tell you what. But oh yeah, we got buried back in '77. Nasty Blizzard!
Hi Ben. My name is Jake Longwell. I'm writing you from Geneva, New York. I've been a long time fan or the archive, but this is my first tuime commenting on one of your uploads. First, great job! I find all of your videos to be fascinating, as I, too, am a fan of so much of the nostalgia you cover on here. I just wanted to correct something for the record. In 1977, WGRZ channel 2 would have actually still been WGR-TV. It didn't change calls to WGRZ until the mid 80s when it was sold away from its sister stations, WGR and WGR-FM. Also, on a similar note, in 1978, WBEN-TV changed calls to WIVB when it was sold away from its AM and FM sister stations. Thanks again for all you do at The Oddity Archive. Keep up the great work!
I'm "across the river" in St. Catharines, and was too young in 1977-78 to remember much i.e. I was today years old finding out channel 4 used to be WBEN-TV. I do remember WGR channel 2, but wasn't the Z added due to some kind of national FCC mandate that all TV stations were to have 4 call letters?
My big takeaway from thie video is that Ben and I are in complete agreement about how far the Empire Mall has gone down the tube under Simon's management. :P
During the WFLD bit, it is interesting that HAM radio was used to get reports. Nice to see. KD9BWU.
Wow that is a hungry groundhog. I used to love snow days, sleeping in, watching game shows and cartoons, then I got to snowboard down the big hill. Now I hope it will not last too long and if i have enough PTO to cover the day. And get off my lawn! Loved this one Ben
thanks for the local workplace accident lawyer clip lol
Here in Philadelphia the city would sometimes dump excessive snow directly into the Schuylkill River which was problematic as it’s the major source of drinking water for the city. Baltimore has or had giant snow melting equipment but I don’t think we have it here.
30:25 i thought an evil laugh was going to follow that
As someone who has spent time in Buffalo, all the opportunistic looting is not a surprise. Some things never change.
I was pleasantly surprised hearing the recent story of a Buffalo man breaking into a school, but to shelter himself and other stranded motorists from the blizzard.
33:25 Ah hell naw. They got the furries here now.
WTAS is now a Gospel radio station going by the call letters WYCA
I hope you cover the other end of this and that's heatwaves. In recent times (at least here in California anyway) it's almost got ridiculous with all these advisories to go to "cooling centers" and not to use your air conditioning during the day (due to brownouts) plus all this other nonsense. When I was a kid all the media would tell you to do when one was coming was have a shot of the outside temperature (usually at a bank) and tell you to get prepared by buying a fan or air conditioner and staying hydrated. Wow, have times changed.
Love this kind of stuff
Logos, jingles, rather creepy intos.
Warnings are kind of the ultimate amongst these oddities.
Watching this while I work on art, after shoveling a foot of snow. Perfect timing heh
Haha, I thought that announcer was going to say, "Make sure to send the government all of your bills for damages."
I live in Southern New England, the last couple of years we have maybe averaged one or two storms a year, and yet to have a major storm this year. I don't miss the shoveling, but I also am not tempting fate either (last night we had heavy winds, but thankfully, only rain, and a shorts wearing 50 degree day today to boot). Granted, by typing this, I probably doomed the area, LOL.
I'm also from New England, and I remember the big ice storm of 2008!
All we get here is COLD air. Lots of cold air. No snow, no ice, just miserable dry cold.
Here in the Philippines, the air was so cold due to Northeast Monsoon winds but there was no snow, no ice, no nothing. Just a scorching sun.
good timing, a Tornado just missed my neighborhood by a few miles, so I had to listen to loads of these a few days ago.
Meanwhile, this is the mildest winter Metro Detroit has ever seen.
Snow? What's that? (near lifelong Floridian here 😀) Aside from that, I know what you mean about the sign language interpreter. I live close enough to Georgia that the local news sometimes covers press conferences from the state. During the pandemic the governor of Georgia held quite a few press conferences, and the sign language interpreter, well, let's say he had a lot of personality. He threw his whole heart, body, and soul into the sign language interpretation. I got to see him quite a few times, and it was glorious!
One more thing - toward the end was Joseph Mullen wearing a Florida Gators hat? In Buffalo? Sweet!
As somebody who has relatives in Florida, I can also confirm that half of them haven't seen snow in quite some time.
Man I haven’t watched you since the the second emergency broadcast salute that was my favorite by the way
Yay, another Weather Warnings episode!
What a bone chilling collection of warnings.
love the weather warning shows and clips
Good Job Ben, Thanks
I’ve been on another archive kick, and this was exactly what I needed. The post-holiday blues are still getting to me, and this video makes the bitter weather almost worth it
@17:32 Sounds like radio transmissions from the New Hope attack run.
We just got 6 inches or so here in SE MI, yesterday. Perfect time for this!
My mom was a kid in the 60s and been through that. She told me about it.
18 inches of snow and the city spokesperson is saying “Schools will be open tomorrow”. Y’all are made of tougher stuff then where I live. Haha.
The guy interviewing the ground hog went on years later to host the short-lived NBC game show "Go!". There's your bit of meaningless trivia for the day...
Oh goodie more EAS alerts, and KELO is 70 years WOW!
1979 Chicago Blizzard coverage is better. You see how the 1st woman became mayor...the late Jane Byrne
All that blizzard business and snowstorms plus sub-zero temperatures during the Winter was enough for me to say enough is enough and when I finally when I got old enough to get out on my own I said that's in and I left Indiana for Florida. That was 40 years ago.
17:35 We're passing through the magnetic field....spread out your x-wings
Switch your deflectors on, double front!
"Yeah, I think I'm better than Darth Swirsky, freaking dictator!"
(I had to combine two references into one)
Bread, meat milk and cigarettes...the four food groups!
The caption says Richard Foster from the Sun-Times, but that's clearly Eddie Deezen.
just a heads up, you will probably get more EAS warnings by recording your local PBS station instead of CBS/NBC/ABC/FOX. for some reason my stations never do EAS weather warnings so i have to turn to PBS or other independent stations around here for them
The cable system overrides ALL channels when an EAS notification goes out-at least around here. The couple of EAS’s we got were at odd hours when I wasn’t recording.
@@OddityArchive cable headend systems override and use a channel that is available on all package levels to send out eas tests/alerts, including EAN/EAT. Usually it's a public access (PBS in our case) or a shopping or tv guide channel they would use. :)
I'm from Watertown, NY. We call this weather Thursday.
Makes me glad I live in Arizona where we don't get these sort of crazy blizzards. We get freezing cold winters down in Tucson, maybe a flurry of snow if we're lucky, but that's about it.
6:13 You needed to be in full police kit to tell us this, Jeff? Or did you know all eyes would be on the lady to your left so it didn’t matter?
@14:05 He took the money and ran out of town before the storms hit…
So wait, would the 1967 WFLD Footage be the oldest surviving UHF tv footage?
So you moved from Colorado to get away from snow only to end up in a state during a snowstorm? Talk about Mother Nature being homesick...
The weather was not really a reason. About the only leg up SD has over Colorado (on the weather front) is that you (usually) get all four seasons, whereas the Denver area has a way of glossing over Spring and Fall.
@@OddityArchive So which has more stable weather, Sioux Falls or Beautiful Downtown Aurora?
Aurora.
@@OddityArchive I’d imagine. The Rocky Mountains have very wavy airflow and mountains to balance things out.
Happy Oddity Thursday!
As a lifelong Floridian, I’ll never understand how human beings wound up in places where the weather gets like this once a year, and were like, “this is fine, let’s settle here”
Opportunity. Places with extremes in weather often make good places to farm, so at one time it was worth it. It was also in a strategic location for transportation and manufacturing, back when America actually manufactured things.
@@johnathin0061892 Yep! 👍👍
People from up north say the same thing about hurricanes. To each his own, I guess. 😀
@@5roundsrapid263 Yep 👍👍
Sioux falls has a airport?. wow i got some cousins that live there
Was that dude’s name really Dick Cox?? 😂😂😂
@17:29 was that a fart?? 😂
Is Luie Luie the only the only topic on the opening that is yet to be covered?
South Dakota residents complaining about people walking in the streets to evade the snow, when we've been doing that in Maine for decades.
Sioux Falls (and surrounding rural) drivers tend to have their head in the clouds, so I don’t blame ‘em.
@@OddityArchive With how undeveloped this backwater pine tree reserve is, I'm not surprised rural folk as a whole have their heads in the clouds.
that old mac voice.. used to use it for comic effect in the 90s. we had a name for that voice but it's not family friendly.
when the cop appears on tv to talk about the snow - not much going on ?
The wind was blowing at....
Me: 34.999 mph?
Benny boy: 25-30 mph.
Me: Ehh, close enough. /j
I can't figure out what this episode is about.
COOL VIDEO THANKS I LOVE THIS VIDEO KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK I TYPE IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE OF MY BAD EYESIGHT
thats okay ill mildly take the piss by talking in all lowercase
Ugh. You don't need to type in all caps because of your eyesight. You can use a program like voiceover or NVDA, both free. Or talkback, also free, if you're on android. There. no more typing in all freaking caps. Now. Go forth and learn these programs. No excuses about being old, either. None. Zip. No. Don't give me that. You can learn how to fuck around on youtube? You can learn how to operate these programs. It's as simple as that. Learn it.