Tornado Video - What NOT To Do!
April 19th, 2011 | Bill KirkI'm a loss for words on this one. This guy films a tornado headed right for him and calmly films it from the safety (NOT!) of his parked yellow Ford truck in a wide open parking lot. Better yet, he appears to give a blow-by-blow (pun intended) account of the tornado that nearly kills him while talking with his wife (we guess). Not sure if this guy should get a medal for bravery or have his head examined
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Honey...I Shrunk the Meteorologist
April 11th, 2011 | Bill KirkPopular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science predicted in 1949 that "computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons!" That's roughly 3,306 pounds. Guess that prediction didn't turn out so well as today's computer chips weigh less than 2 grams or 0.004 pounds. As our computing power gets faster and faster it also tends to get smaller and smaller. Is the meteorologist next to be put into the ray gun from the 1989 classic "Honey I Shrunk the Kids"?
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Baseball Season Opens with a SNOWY Curve Ball!
April 1st, 2011 | Bill KirkWe all get excited with the first snowfall of the season but snow in April - enough already! Baseball season opened up early this week to the sounds of "Play Ball" or should that be "Snow Ball"? Temperatures across much of the Great Lakes and Northeast U.S. were the coldest in over 20 years and that's no April fools joke! Normally at the game you hear "beer guy here...get your ice cold beer"...this year he's saying "hot coffee guy here...get your hot coffee."
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