He's lost his mind and doesn't care...

As I post this (at 4:15 PM EDT) the Fort Wayne area is under some weather watches. When it gets bad we head to the local cable weather station that is run by the TV station I used to work for, WANE-TV, NewsChannel 15. What they have is the "Live 15 Doppler Radar Fury" (or as the engineering department used to call it: Lightning Rod On A Stick.)

While the radar image is displayed they air the NOAA Weather Radio audio from the National Weather Service office in North Webster, IN. They have a computer generated voice system so that an overnight warning or updates can be sent from a bigger office and it automatically gets broadcast. They call this voice "Perfect Paul."

What I want to see happen is this: The government has all of our money anyway, why can't they have the weather service voice be Keith Jackson's?? You know, the sports commentator who says "whoa Nellie!!" Can't you see a tornado warning being heeded if Ol' Keith says "that twister's comin' down on you like a big ol' Texas steer" or "look out for that line of hail droppin' like flies in the Oklahoma summertime?" It would change the way we look at weather.

I say get 'er done!!!!
Juan Bodley, off the pundit's soapbox and heading for the Jack Daniels now...