{"id":59654,"date":"2016-07-18T14:43:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T19:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59654"},"modified":"2016-07-18T14:43:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T19:43:55","slug":"it-was-thirty-years-ago-today-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59654","title":{"rendered":"It Was Thirty Years Ago Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the control room at KSTP-AM. \u00a0It was a hot, stiflingly muggy July day.<\/p>\n<p>I was screening calls for the Don Vogel show. \u00a0 \u00a0With me in the control room were Dave Elvin, the other producer, and news director John MacDougall.<\/p>\n<p>I got a call on the hotline from John Lundell. \u00a0Lundell &#8211; the manager of the Twin Cities&#8217; Metro Traffic branch &#8211; was doing an experimental traffic broadcast from an airplane that day.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>We put him on the air immediately; Lundell did play by play as he watched the storm develop.<\/p>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ekVcUhr56sY\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d beat them by a solid minute or two &#8211; but the video footage was some of the best taken of a live tornado to date.<\/p>\n<p>It was one of the more amazing afternoons I ever spent on the radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the control room at KSTP-AM. \u00a0It was a hot, stiflingly muggy July day. I was screening calls for the Don Vogel show. \u00a0 \u00a0With 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. \u00a0Lundell &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59655,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59654\/revisions\/59655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}