WeatherTalk :: General Thoughts :: Times Are A Changin’
WeatherTalk :: General Thoughts :: Times Are A Changin’
Looking back at Dennis one more time…
I am beginning to realize that we broke lots of new ground in relaying weather information to the masses. We had not one, but two meteorologists “blogging†from the Alabama Gulf coast with laptops and wireless Internet access.
My associates Brian Peters and Bill Murray posted to this blog before, during, and after the arrival of Hurricane Dennis. And, the blog reached more people than some TV stations during the event! The number of people reading the ABC 33/40 weather blog here peaked at 71,342 last Friday, followed by 67,394 Saturday and 55,333 on Sunday. Just a year or so ago most people around here never heard of a blog (short for web log). Astounding.
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Astounding, yes, and I for one am grateful that they are moving in this direction. We don’t have cable tv (internet yes. You have to decide on your priorities…) and haven’t for years. The only news or weather information we get is over the internet and during Dennis we were able to keep track of things a whole lot better than ever before. I have hits counted there on all three days. As well as most other days. Tis always an interesting and informative read.
Themocracy
Agreed. I hit their blog, and had them doing the “talking heads” thing on the TV in the background. Pam Huff has NOT grown more endearing with the years…….but I digress. They had “wall to balls”, err, I mean “wall to wall” coverage of the storm Sunday, and you could tell they were stretching things a time or two. (Or three, or four, or five….poor video of a pier disappearing (no pun intended) into the surf only goes so far) The blog seemed more informative, and less, well, like Pablum for the masses. The TV was good, but they had to do a lot of repeating. And repeating. And repeating. And repeating.