bluebyyou

March 26th, 2017 at 8:33 PM ^

Did the thought ever cross your mind that there are many Michigan fans in Ohio who were impacted?  I was visiting friends in the Columbus area and was watching DirecTV and was blacked out for a tornado warning which, you know, was slightly relevant. There are many schools in Ohio not named Ohio State.

M-Dog

March 26th, 2017 at 11:13 PM ^

I lived about 20 miles from Xenia in the '80s (got a speeding ticket there once).

One night the wind got so strong it blew the locked front door of my apartment wide open.  That got my attention and I immediately thought about the Xenia tornado, one of the strongest F5's ever recorded.

Avon Barksdale

March 26th, 2017 at 8:28 PM ^

WHIO in Dayton went away from the game for an area outside their viewing area and got absolutely destroyed on Twitter. They eventually went to a split screen and then decided to go back to the game with about 5 minutes left. We missed about eight minutes of game time.

migoblu

March 26th, 2017 at 8:39 PM ^

fans in Ohio. A weather alert is serious, but the station didn't need to go to a black screen. They could have run the weather alert on the top of the screen, they do it all the time. Someone at the station hit the wrong button or series of buttons.

MadMatt

March 26th, 2017 at 8:48 PM ^

I wonder what Pete will have to say about the failure of the Alabama (cheating-wise) of college hoops. He certainly had a lot to say about 3 SEC teams in the regional finals.

Mi Sooner

March 26th, 2017 at 8:53 PM ^

Earlier today on my way back from cinci. And no, I wasn't there for the NCAA hockey tournament. At times, driving was nearly impossible. We do not get that many tornados up here but there still can take out a city the size of C-bus.

uncle leo

March 26th, 2017 at 9:02 PM ^

Any flash floods in Tuscaloosa, tsunamis in East Lansing, (insert natural disaster in rival city comment here)??

Come on dude. Shit thread, you should be ashamed.

WeimyWoodson

March 26th, 2017 at 9:27 PM ^

I happen to be one.  In fact our new incoming punter goes to the high school about a half mile from my house.  Trey Burke, Jake Butt, Caris Lavert, Taco, and several other Michigan greats have come from here.  We want to watch basketball too, without our houses blowing away ;)

Trump

March 26th, 2017 at 9:50 PM ^

Jesus people. The man was unaware of the tornado. He was just laughing at the fact that they were unable to watch the game. Stop getting offended by literally every possible thing. Find a new hobby.

Rabbit21

March 26th, 2017 at 11:12 PM ^

A weird follow-up to a post asking people to stop getting offended by everything.



Agree with the sentiment that this is in poor taste, tornadoes take precedence and we should all prefer to not be affected by them.

Billy Seamonster

March 26th, 2017 at 11:03 PM ^

Great thread buddy. I live in Columbus. Didn't get too scary where I live but making fun of people in a dangerous situation is absolutely stupid. Who cares where it is. Piss off.

remdog

March 26th, 2017 at 11:25 PM ^

I don't enjoy laughing at the misfortune of others even if it's just missing the end of a sporting event.  And I may be in the minority here but I don't like the whole idea of interrupting television broadcasts with these obnoxious warnings anyway.  There are far better ways for people to keep up to date on weather emergencies these days.  They don't make a significant impact on safety anyway.  I know tornados are scary but they don't have the impact people think - only 17 people died in the US from tornadoes last year, 17 for pete's sake.  About 17,000 people die from slip and falls in the US every year, probably a great number due to ice but we don't have freaking ice warnings interrupting broadcasts.    It's an absurd and antiquated government warning system.

At the very least, they should just change the warning to a small running banner at the bottom of the screen and stop interrupting the broadcast.

remdog

March 27th, 2017 at 12:29 AM ^

they can accomplish the same thing without an obnoxious interruption of the broadcast.  And frankly, I really don't think they ever save anybody.  In fact, they probably kill more people than they save due to heart attacks from their obnoxiousness.  I seriously doubt government rulemakers every did a cost-benefit study for this silly mandate.

And the reality is that we make much much greater tradeoffs of human life for convenience every day.  Just think of the carnage on our roadways every day in the interest of speed.  We even let people ride around on our freeways on two wheeled suicide machines called motorcycles.

But at the same time, we have an obnoxious outdated warning system which doesn't really save anybody.

 

 

rob f

March 27th, 2017 at 12:59 AM ^

If Dorothy would have had TV in Kansas back in the day, and been properly warned of the approaching bad weather, she would have been in the cellar with Auntie Em and the rest of her family and avoided that awful twister and subsequently, those perverse little munchkins.

Instead, she was fortunate enough to survive with nothing more than an awful headache from getting hit over the head by a loose window frame, not to mention the terrible trauma of the Lollipop Kids feeling her up. Could have been much more tragic than just crushing the Wicked Witch of the East to death.

Then again, Kansas TV stations probably wouldn't have interrupted a Jayhawks game anyway, so nevermind.