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Posted 28 April 2011 - 11:27 AM
I'm from Hueytown/Concord but now live in TX. Heck, I'm 700 miles away and was calling my family in Htown to warn them! Just making the point that there is no reason ANYONE shouldn't have been unaware of the warnings and situation yesterday. Totally... big kudos to the NWS office handling the warnings and the local mets for getting the word to the public. The Long form on air coverage was fantastic. As I watched 33/40's live stream yesterday, I expected to lose him any second as the viewers went from 10,000 to over 30,000 in a matter of a half hour or so. No glitches at all. Also, the chasers in the field were excellent.
Posted 28 April 2011 - 11:27 AM
Personally a large shout out to our NWS regional offices JAN/BMX/HUN/MEM especially. The SPC also did a great job in getting the info out early and excellent wording/disco's on what was coming and ongoing.
For our on air MET's if we are not blessed with the BEST, it is one of the BEST in the NATION period, IMO. Say what you well really do not care but personally James Spann and 33/40 team for the Birmingham market set/raised the bar greatly imo for this area. Yes I know some will disagree that is fine but he/team/live chaser feeds covered the MCS that morning and later on the terrible TOR outbreak I watched all 3 local stations at some point but hands down coverage believe he was on air/visible for 10+hrs and never blinked or left the picture. They had the sky cam on Cullman as the TOR was about to form and carried it throughout......had video of it with camera guy in the city as well. The Fayette/Walker county live feed as TOR roared through, Brian Peters crew. The Tuscaloosa storm John Oldshue had feed on it before it came into view of the Skycam network as it was developing and roaring towards the city once it was visible w/Skycam excellent video feed and then the Birmingham Skycam was all over it as it moved into W Jefferson county as well as LIVE video feed from the field yet again. The LIVE video on the web NEVER skipped a beat, no buffering and was stream-less over 30,000 viewing at once, again never failed once and the cell phone app again stellar.
The overall media market coverage I have no doubt saved hundreds more lives.......
Once again THANK YOU ALL
I'm from Hueytown/Concord but now live in TX. Heck, I'm 700 miles away and was calling my family in Htown to warn them! Just making the point that there is no reason ANYONE shouldn't have been unaware of the warnings and situation yesterday. Totally... big kudos to the NWS office handling the warnings and the local mets for getting the word to the public. The Long form on air coverage was fantastic. As I watched 33/40's live stream yesterday, I expected to lose him any second as the viewers went from 10,000 to over 30,000 in a matter of a half hour or so. No glitches at all. Also, the chasers in the field were excellent.