I was in the control room at KSTP-AM. It was a hot, stiflingly muggy July day.
I was screening calls for the Don Vogel show. With me in the control room were Dave Elvin, the other producer, and news director John MacDougall.
I got a call on the hotline from John Lundell. Lundell – the manager of the Twin Cities’ Metro Traffic branch – was doing an experimental traffic broadcast from an airplane that day.
Lundell told me, with some urgency, that he and his pilot were watching a tornado as they flew over the newer, sparsely-populated suburb of Blaine.
We put him on the air immediately; Lundell did play by play as he watched the storm develop.
I flipped on KARE11 on the control room TV, and watched as the Bears put up their own coverage, live from one of their choppers:
We’d beat them by a solid minute or two – but the video footage was some of the best taken of a live tornado to date.
It was one of the more amazing afternoons I ever spent on the radio.
I was about a mile south of there, stuck on University Ave, watching this take place – and trying to figure out how I’d get out of the gridlock if tornado came any closer! (It died out after trashing the nature center).
I landed at Crystal Airport and was still tying the plane down as the tornadoes went by to the north. That was as close as I ever wanted to come to one.
Probably’d do some damage if it went through there today.
Is that the one that missed all the houses, shopping centers, and parking lots, and managed a touch down in Springbrook nature preserve?
BG,
Yep!
DG,
Alas, you’ve gone back to your old habits – making snide, dismissive, condescending claims that your facts (“ironically”) can’t support, and scampering away, thereby using my comment section as a metablog.
I told you I wouldn’t tolerate it.
So this time, in addition to needing you to start discussing the claims you make in my comment section, I’m going to need some answers from you.
. So – whatever became of that? That was at least seven years ago; any updates?
I could find a lot more, but I have a life.
God bless ya, DG, but I’m calling BS on you.
Cue Springsteen singing Glory Days.
A very memorable moment.
One I’m sure you’d rather focus on than say…….the Republican plank against porn, once more puritanical righties trying to insert themselves into people’s bedrooms and sex lives.
Remember – or are you deep in a memory hole – when you were on and on about supposed lefty intrusion in sex for promoting clear consent to sex as a push back against rapists using ambiguity to justify their criminal conduct? Oh – wait – that would be the GOP again, the rape party, trying to push against rape on campus efforts from the Obama administration.
I’m no apologist for porn, but the primary function it serves is an aid to masturbation and it is not demonstrably widely addictive. It is worth noting that the American Psychiatrists Association define it, where it is a problem behavior, as more compulsive than addictive, one more thing compulsive people are prone to. In contrast they define both internet gambling and internet gaming like world of warcraft as genuinely addicting — yet no sign of the right giving a damn about any real addiction.
No, the right only gets their knickers in a bunch over sex and sexuality. No other far more legitimate and deserving focus of public health, including gun violence, AIDS, opiate addiction, to list a few, get inclusion on the GOP platform.
Yeah, much better to focus on weather. Much safer. Less hypocrisy involved in avoiding current events.
I focus on whatever I want. It’s my blog. You seem to have trouble with that concept.
I asked you three questions, above. Please see to them. Thanks.
I remember that show clearly. My wife and I were commuting home and listening to the “Round Mound of Sound” when the storms went through just behind us.
DG….PISS OFF!!
I miss the gray colored text in Dog Gone comments, especially for thread jacks that just go on, and on, and on, …
These, BTW, are the words of the ‘plank’ DG has a problem with:
Five will get ya’ ten she never read them.
I had a vague memory that back in the 80s Minneapolis feminists shutdown some porn shops and had porno seized and burned. I found this online, it’s wikipedia, so buyer beware:
And, of course, we all know that Hillary believes that political speech should be subject to criminal prosecution, especially political speech that criticizes Hillary Clinton.
I am no great expert on pornography, thankfully, but one thing I have learned is that the industry maintains its own clinics for STDs and mental illness. It is as if they don’t want independent doctors and psychiatrists raising the red flag at what they’ll see.
And really, I have learned a touch about predators on children–I’ve helped set up programs to avoid it at two different churches–and it appears that about 25% of girls and 16-17% of boys are molested in some way. And yes, the arrests one reads about in the papers do indicate that pornography is a factor, part of the process by which offenders “groom” their victims to think that what they’re about to do is normal.
Not the only factor, but hardly to be dismissed, either.
I’ll give her props for this: That WAS a pretty-epic thread jack.
Fever-swamp, and hypocritical (short memory of Hosebeast Dworkin’s local romps?), but epic nonetheless.
And DG?
Not only was the thread-jack the least elegant I’ve ever seen, but even by the standards of thread-jacking, it was irrelevant to the thread at hand.