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By Jim Sack

Well, when the power lines start falling from ice and tumbling branches, when the lights go out and cold seeps in, when you envision pipes bursting in walls and ceilings and crawl spaces and the nightmare of year’s supply of aged Angus spoiling rouses you to action you crawl into the dark living room, find the crank radio and fire it up. “More snow on the way. High winds expected. Freezing rain to follow.”

Some excited announcer will add that I&M reports power outages across the entire Midwest due to the storm and predicts three to five days before crews will get the last customer on line. Estimates range from $15 to $30 million in damage. Crews, he adds, are being called in from areas not effected by the storm, but they may not arrive for two or three days, due to distance, the size of the storm and impassable roads.
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I just finished a nearly hour long chase with the crew from Discovery.com’s Storm Chasers. I’d call this an exclusive, but since WANE was in the hunt I suppose I can’t.

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Issued by The National Weather Service
North Webster, IN
3:31 pm EDT, Fri., May. 7, 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH 143 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT /10 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS

IN INDIANA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 23 COUNTIES

IN NORTHERN INDIANA

ADAMS ALLEN IN BLACKFORD CASS IN DE KALB ELKHART FULTON IN GRANT HUNTINGTON JAY KOSCIUSKO LAGRANGE MARSHALL MIAMI NOBLE PULASKI ST. JOSEPH IN STARKE STEUBEN WABASH WELLS WHITE WHITLEY

IN MICHIGAN THIS WATCH INCLUDES 4 COUNTIES

IN SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN

BRANCH CASS MI HILLSDALE ST. JOSEPH MI

IN OHIO THIS WATCH INCLUDES 8 COUNTIES

IN NORTHWEST OHIO

ALLEN OH DEFIANCE FULTON OH HENRY PAULDING PUTNAM VAN WERT WILLIAMS

THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF… AKRON… ALBION… ANGOLA… ANTWERP… ARCHBOLD… AUBURN… BASS LAKE… BERNE… BLUFFTON… BLUFFTON… BREMEN… BRONSON… BROOKSTON… BRYAN… CASSOPOLIS… COLDWATER… COLUMBIA CITY… CULVER… DECATUR… DEFIANCE… DELPHOS… DESHLER… DOWAGIAC… DUNKIRK… ELKHART… FAYETTE… FORT JENNINGS… FORT WAYNE… FRANCESVILLE… FREMONT… GARRETT… GAS CITY… GOSHEN… GRISSOM AFB… HARTFORD CITY… HICKSVILLE… HILLSDALE… HUNTINGTON… JONESVILLE… KALIDA… KENDALLVILLE… KNOX… LAGRANGE… LIBERTY CENTER… LIGONIER… LIMA… LITCHFIELD… LOGANSPORT… MARCELLUS… MARION… MEDARYVILLE… MELROSE… MENDON… MENTONE… MEXICO… MISHAWAKA… MONON… MONTICELLO… MONTPELIER… MONTPELIER… NAPOLEON… NAPPANEE… NEW CARLISLE… NEW HAVEN… NORTH JUDSON… NORTH MANCHESTER… OHIO CITY… OSSIAN… OTTAWA… PANDORA… PAULDING… PERU… PLYMOUTH… PORTLAND… ROANOKE… ROCHESTER… ROYAL CENTER… SHERWOOD… SHIPSHEWANA… SOUTH BEND… SOUTH WHITLEY… SPENCERVILLE… STURGIS… SWANTON… SYRACUSE… THREE RIVERS… TOPEKA… TRI-LAKES… UPLAND… VAN WERT… WABASH… WALKERTON… WARSAW… WAUSEON… WHITE PIGEON… WINAMAC AND WINONA LAKE.

Greg Shoup gave me a heads up today that WANE has a new weather blog, which will have content from all four weather people. If you’re not happy with the speed that WANE.com loads, as I am, you’ll be surprised at how fast their blog loads. It’s built using WordPress and loads quickly.

I’ve added a link under “Old Media.”

Here’s the map at just before 7:00 tonight. I just got back from th north side of town. It’s a bit slippery out, and there’s a bit of freezing sleet is coming down.

Just take it slow and keep plenty of room between you and the vehicle in front of you. That is, unless you’re a the friggin idiot that passed me a few moments ago.

Looks like it will be over soon. If not, call me a liar meteorologist.

Latest advisory:

Issued by The National Weather Service
North Webster, IN
2:45 am EST, Sun., Dec. 6, 2009

… A SIGNIFICANT WINTER STORM TO IMPACT THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES AND CENTRAL PLAINS TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY…

DETAILS CONCERNING THE TRACK OF THIS DEVELOPING SYSTEM REMAIN UNCERTAIN… HOWEVER THE POTENTIAL FOR A MAJOR WINTER STORM AFFECTING THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES REGION MID WEEK LOOMS LARGE. PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON OR EVENING AND PERSIST THROUGH MUCH OF WEDNESDAY… BRINGING A MIXTURE OF FREEZING RAIN… RAIN AND SNOW TO THE REGION. HEAVY PRECIPITATION WITHIN THE GREAT LAKES REGION APPEARS LIKELY BUT IT REMAINS TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE PRECIPITATION TYPE AND POTENTIAL AMOUNTS OVER NORTHERN INDIANA… SOUTHERN MICHIGAN AND NORTHWEST OHIO.

BY LATE WEDNESDAY… A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL BLAST ACROSS THE AREA FOLLOWED BY VERY WINDY CONDITIONS AND SHARPLY COLDER TEMPERATURES WITH LAKE EFFECT SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW EXPECTED IN ITS WAKE ACROSS FAR NORTHERN INDIANA AND ALL OF LOWER MICHIGAN WHICH WILL CONTINUE FOR MUCH OF THURSDAY.

Issued by The National Weather Service
North Webster, IN
6:11 pm EDT, Wed., Aug. 19, 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH 716 IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EDT /MIDNIGHT CDT/ THURSDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS

IN INDIANA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 24 COUNTIES

IN NORTHERN INDIANA

ADAMS ALLEN IN BLACKFORD CASS IN DE KALB ELKHART FULTON IN GRANT HUNTINGTON JAY KOSCIUSKO LA PORTE LAGRANGE MARSHALL MIAMI NOBLE PULASKI ST. JOSEPH IN STARKE STEUBEN WABASH WELLS WHITE WHITLEY

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Fist I’ve heard of this.

Times disses Al film as convenient stretch of truth
By Herald staff
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 – Updated: 01:37 AM EST

http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?articleid=188169The New York Times [NYT] fires a shot today at Al Gore and his Academy Award-winning global warming film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” saying it involves “hype” and shoddy science. 

“Hollywood has a thing for Al Gore and his three-alarm film . . . So do many environmentalists, who praise him as a visionary, and many scientists, who laud him for raising public awareness,” the Times reports. “But part of his scientific audience is uneasy . . . these scientists argue that some of Mr. Gore’s central points are exaggerated and erroneous.”

Wow, the New York Times says so?

 Now ain’t that a bitch?

Posted by Tim Zank