Senator Hank and I actually did a pro/con segment on Channel 42 in Birmingham around 1994...he'd wear his American Flag tie and I'd wear, well, I'd be dressed down let's say, and we'd go at it for a few minutes on an issue three days a week. It was the first TV exposure I'd had since doing newscasts in Vietnam a quarter century earlier, and I loved it. That led to my full-time gig at what was then called WBMG (WIAT now) as a kinda weather guy. No, I am not a meteorologist, but I did play one on TV. The "Southern Exposure" segment was a combination brief weather forecast and a feature story. We had an actual meteorologist on call for severe weather. Anyway, I was thinking about all that today because Senator Erwin is running for Lt. Governor after 2 Senate terms...and because there's severe weather about, so the CBS station here in Montgomery interrupted 60-Minutes twice for about 10 minutes each time. Hey, I get severe weather...but what happened to one of the three digital channel that they have thanks to a gift from the taxpayers? It's devoted to weather 24-hours a day...wouldn't a crawl telling who's in the path be enough on the regular channel?
I hope Erwin gets SMASHED in the election and that we will finally be rid of that horrid dinosaur FOREVER!!!
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