One of the nicest side benefits of cutting the cable.

[hmskl’dParticipant 6406]

No more commercial weather reports.

No more play by play coverage of every thunderstorm in the area with loud tones and crawling information at the bottom of the TV screen. No more calling every front hazardous, severe, or potentially destructive. No more “over forecasting” to cover their tails.
I’m not against good weather forecasting .. as a kid I saved my pennies and bought a barometer. But, I don’t need their forecasting any longer.
As a society, maybe “they need” thunderstorm watches, warnings, storm sirens .. and minute by minute coverage of ever nuance of every cloud passing by.

I don’t.

Life has gotten so much better without all the forecasts and doom filled potential scenarios, the Super Radar 2000, the Storm Team Coverage, The Prediction Centers and their Computer Model Guidance. The Accu-Radar, the Doppler Plus, the Super Doppler with mega-rotation detection, lightning detection, and bow-echo graphics in bright orange .. or Heaven forbid, bluish white.

I sleep better, my life is better and I’m a more relaxed person since cutting the cable and watching the clouds myself. If bad weather approaches, I can handle it. If bad weather things happen and a tree blows over .. no one from the weather office will come over and help me clean up. They make noise. Noise.

Over the past twenty seven years, I’ve had two trees and one outbuilding damaged by weather. It all happened during the same storm. Over the past twenty seven years the weather men and women have probably set off their warning tones on media about a thousand times .. probably more. For those who depend on this .. that’s wonderful. All it did for me was to rattle my nerves .. I know they mean well, I just can’t live that way any longer.

I prefer a life without their help. I’ll survive. If a storm naturally occurs; I’ll deal with it .. just as my ancestors did on their remote farms for generations .. without any graphics or sometimes, the hype. Recommended for the masses, those who want it .. not for me. Weather happens. Bad weather happens.

Better safe than sorry??? yes, storms can be very dangerous; deadly. Being weather synched and prepared for every storm front might be best for those in the cities, suburbs, countryside and anyone else who wants to be tightly wired to the media. However, those days are past for me .. I will deal with Mother Nature quietly, maturely and adequately .. without all the noise, the nanny state baby sitting of every cloud that passes my head that might drop a hail stone. Nothing wrong with that for those who want it .. those who need it; I don’t. My weather radio is safely stored in it’s original box in the closet. I know where to find it.

Don’t necessarily do as I do. Stay safe, in every way you can. Stay tuned to your nearest source of media for latest updates and warnings.

I’m quietly looking skyward at the clouds from my hammock .. I see some stunning thunderheads on the horizon against the blue evening sky moving in from the west .. we’re doing just fine here; just fine.

[BubParticipant 1405]

hmskl’d wrote:

They make noise. Noise.

Exactly brother, I couldn’t take it anymore, no news, weather any of it for me anymore.
If something drastically historic happens someone will tell me, but honestly n f g.

Great post….

Just rolling down the road

[DarkRyuParticipant 2354]

I haven’t watched the news since I was 10 years old…and I didn’t watch it much then. The news was boring. Now I can get whatever news I want via the internet, and disregard the rest. It’s amazing to me that the news stations have actually stayed in business and on the air.

Nowadays if there’s a severe weather alert (tornado, large hail, damaging winds, etc.), the authorities send an emergency text message to my phone. I don’t need to know about a “potential” tornado that *might* happen in a week. I just need enough warning to take shelter, and that’s what the emergency sms system is for.

And as for regular weather, who gives a s~~~ if it’s going to rain or be cloudy or be sunny? Not me. You deal with whatever weather comes your way. Now if you’re working on some sort of construction project you need to know what the weather is going to be like so you can take steps to protect your project, but other than that I can’t think of anyone that actually NEEDS to know what the weather is going to be like. We lived without weather reports for thousands of years.

[Anonymous 14]

Reading or playing games is time much better spent than watching T.V. in any form. You need a weather report now and then a saved 10 day forecast of your area is all that is needed. Want to talk about relaxed? Do what I do every night, read for a few hours until you get really sleepy, then turn off the lights, and boom, you sleep like a baby. I sleep just fine through storms, in fact, I prefer it over calm weather.

[GregB0Participant]

We had a local WXcaster whose weather forecast was “look out your window and what you see is what you get.” He would then roll tape footage of the regional and national forecast from other affiliates. Did this for 36 years.

One of a kind he was

​"​My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.​" - Clarence Buddinton Kelland

[Anonymous 42]

My cable made a great Tarzan swing until it got snagged on my bumper and torn down, about a half mile of it, ever see telephone poles dance?

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