OT- Columbus Misses End of UNC-Kentucky Game
Any bad news for Columbus is good news.
http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/columbus-ohio-viewers-miss-entire-kentucky-unc-finish-1793660609
After posting, I realized the wording wasn't exacty what I wanted. Tornado is all around bad news. Missing the end of the game was the bad news I was focused on.
It's not like they have a reason to watch any of the NCAA (or NIT) Tournaments.
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.
At least it wasn't a Michigan game. Just a Heidi Bowl moment.
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Doesn't seem like something to laugh about. It's not like they asked for a tornado warning.
Tornadoes and tornado warnings are no laughing matter. Even though I was not close to it, I still remember as a child the devastation that hit Xenia, Ohio, in 1974. 33 people died and 1,300 were injured.
https://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/ddn_archive/2011/04/19/xenia-t…
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.
March 26th, 2017 at 11:39 PM ^
Lots of people from Kentucky in Dayton. They must have been pissed.
Nice upvoting of your own post. I was curious who would upvote such a dumb thread, but then it made sense.
Any bad news for Columbus is good news.Really dude?
this is a good thread
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.
Just shy of finding humor in OSU fans in Columbus dying of cancer.
What if it was colon cancer brought about by unprotected cooler-sharing?
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.
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 ;)
March 26th, 2017 at 10:22 PM ^
March 27th, 2017 at 10:59 AM ^
Worthington, here!
March 27th, 2017 at 11:21 AM ^
Just off State Street here.
Also, I apologize for assuming your gender.
March 26th, 2017 at 11:12 PM ^
Agree with the sentiment that this is in poor taste, tornadoes take precedence and we should all prefer to not be affected by them.
March 26th, 2017 at 10:08 PM ^
Hard to imagine he was unaware of the tornado when the headline of the linked story he shared mentions it.
I can't speak for the rest of Columbus, but I have the Internet:
March 26th, 2017 at 10:15 PM ^
That was one heck of an ending. Many great games this tourney...
March 26th, 2017 at 10:18 PM ^
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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.
March 26th, 2017 at 11:31 PM ^
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.
March 27th, 2017 at 12:59 AM ^
March 27th, 2017 at 11:31 AM ^
Awesome.
March 27th, 2017 at 10:49 AM ^
aaaaand facepalm.
March 27th, 2017 at 11:19 AM ^
Couldn't happen to a nicer town.