[californiadisasters] Re: Batten Down The Hatches!

Every TV market has its unique local characteristics. One that stands out in Sacramento is the way the local stations report winter weather. It almost never snows in Sacramento, but as Grams knows, when it starts snowing in the Sierra, they all send remote trucks with reporters and cameras up to a spot off I-80 about halfway between here and Reno called Blue Canyon. The reason they all go to the same spot is it's the farthest distance that the trucks can broadcast and get a signal back to the stations. It's a regular ritual, which is almost painful to watch: Reporters bundled up like Eskimos and looking absolutely miserable reporting on how cold and miserable it is. Part of the misery is that they have to stay there for a couple of hours to do repeated live shots throughout the news broadcasts. And they've been doing it for so many years that there are absolutely no new ideas to make the next report a little more interesting or creative than the last one. I know at least one reporter who quit some years ago and went to work for the state largely because he couldn't stand another trip to Blue Canyon.

--- In californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com, Carlos L-M <laremasters@...> wrote:
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> Just heard scuttle that there is a tornado "warning" in the bay area. I have seen no official word, so treat it as such.
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> To: californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com
> From: sactovic@...
> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:30:29 +0000
> Subject: [californiadisasters] Re: Batten Down The Hatches!
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> Raining steadily in Sacramento. Hail and thunder yesterday.
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> --- In californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com, grams46@ wrote:
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> > we are in el dorado county - northern california - 2100 feet. we have
> > had 1.81 inches of rain in the last three days and about ten minutes of rock
> > salt sized hail yesterday. freezing temps in the night.
> > we could get another inch of rain today. raining now.
> > peace from kathy
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