Oddity Archive: Episode 255 - Weather Warnings Vol. 3 (Winter Edition) 

This episode kind of made me nostalgic for the days when snow storms meant being able to stay home from school, park myself on the couch with some hot chocolate and do nothing but watch game shows and cartoons.

The cold will never bother Oddity Archive anyway.

Just love that ASL interpreter! She's good. And I recall the Blizzard of 1977...snowed in the house for 4 days until a snowmobiler got my nurse mom and took her into work.

WGRZ really bringing new meaning to the term "Bills Mafia"

Here in central Maryland our last big snowstorm was 2016. Winters since then have been pretty rainy and mild. At Christmas we had extremely cold weather but too dry to snow, but of course we had rain. I feel like I'm in Seattle. Anyway, I do miss the community feel of the pre-Internet storm coverage, especially on radio stations. I loved listening to my local AM station in the 80s during snowstorms.

Holy Wah! Nice inclusion of Da Yoopers (from my hometown of Ishpeming, MI) classic "My Car Won't Go"! at de end dere, eh!

More warnings! Great topic Ben! I miss seeing them on TV. Now it’s just my Amazon echo smart speaker or a notification on my phone letting me know we have a winter freeze warning or red flag warning.

That groundhog interview is gold

4:26 I spent a minute looking at the map intent on finding "large wood" until it dawned on me that they said "Larchwood"

I love weather alert. I remember when I was little I used to watch pbs kids and they would eas alert test. Sometimes I even catch a few eas weather alerts. As a kid I was scared of eas but now I appreciate eas alerts now. It would be nice for you to do a eas alert special for pbs kids.

"NewsCope" sounds like what we've been doing for the last 8 years.

KELO Land - home of (potentially) swearing weathermen and the best sign language interpreters ever! Coming ever so close to levels of Frank Pacholski!

That's what I hate about winter. Living in fear that your favorite sports are going to be "scancelled."

If this episode is referring to the snowstorm I'm thinking of at the start (I live in Saint Cloud Minnesota) at the factory where I work Second Shift they told us to shut everything down by 7 pm because they were going to close all the roads and call all the plows off. The Supervisor said that was the first time they had to do that in YEARS. My 2007 Hyundai Elantra has Bridgestone Blizzak snow tires on it so I got home ok. Bridgestone Blizzaks are rated for Severe Snow Service (and they have paid for themselves since I got them). Situations like that are NO place for All-Seasons.

9:47 The “audio bulletin board” goes back as far as the Ohio Valley floods of 1937, when WHAS Louisville and WSM Nashville broadcast phone calls, telegrams, ham radio, etc. There are clips on RU-vid.

You thought the HAM radio voice at 17:34 sounded like the Max Headroom incident, but I instantly thought of Red Leader approaching the Death Star announcing to the other X-Wings "we're going through the magnetic field".

Another round of weather warnings? I've always said weather warnings was my favorite episode due to the warm cozy nostalgic feelings it gives me, so I'm always happy to see it again!

We only had like 2+ inches of snow. Now it's sunny....arctic blast is approaching Monday ... Greetings from the state of bipolar weather, Oklahoma!

This was a fascinating episode, like an actual window into people's lives effect similar or even more than to your home audio tapes episodes in some ways.

A Weather Warnings episode focusing on typical New England weather between December and February, Mother Nature's plans depending? Sweet!

5:11: blizzard or not, we’re burying Rose Mary! 😆

Weather guy drops an F-bomb on KELO, very fun! I always thought most stations had a 7-second delay.

@18:20 now that's a sound of the past..that milky husk of smoke wrapping around every syllable - he's on the other side of chill with that pack of cigarettes - he could survive for day on them.

And your job still expects you to show up on time. Then they want to cut your hours later cuz sales were soft due to snow.

I appreciate the calm and focused demeanor of 1967's radio announcers.

listening to the Chicago recordings remind me of how we here in Belize do the same thing when it comes to hurricanes especially the one that hit us in early November of 2022

Oh, man, there was some great emergency weather interruptions when I was a kid. There was this weatherman in Huntsville Alabama, named Dan Satterfield, and he was so over the top and sensationalist, fatalist even.

Wow that is a hungry groundhog. I used to love snow days, sleeping in, watching game shows and cartoons, then I got to snowboard down the big hill. Now I hope it will not last too long and if i have enough PTO to cover the day. And get off my lawn! Loved this one Ben

During the WFLD bit, it is interesting that HAM radio was used to get reports. Nice to see. KD9BWU.

This is definitely a late Christmas Present. I love the "back to the roots" episodes

the Algorithm (tm) finally showed me an archive episode after a while. Time to procrastinate even more!

LMAO at the Max Headroom comment at 17:38. Saying what we are all thinking...and kinda makes you wonder about the equipment the hijackers had in that incident. Also, both were in the Chicago area.

I'm glad we've had an insanely benign winter in my hometown of Rochester, NY so far this year, I'll tell you what. But oh yeah, we got buried back in '77. Nasty Blizzard!

During the Blizzard of 1993, my small town’s(now-defunct)radio station suspended its regular programming on Sunday morning to broadcast business and school closings for the next day, along with people calling in to offer shoveling/snowplowing services.

30:25 i thought an evil laugh was going to follow that

My big takeaway from thie video is that Ben and I are in complete agreement about how far the Empire Mall has gone down the tube under Simon's management. :P

Unfortunately, Minnesota and North Dakota did get that blizzard warning just before Christmas of 2022.

thanks for the local workplace accident lawyer clip lol

Here in Philadelphia the city would sometimes dump excessive snow directly into the Schuylkill River which was problematic as it’s the major source of drinking water for the city. Baltimore has or had giant snow melting equipment but I don’t think we have it here.

good timing, a Tornado just missed my neighborhood by a few miles, so I had to listen to loads of these a few days ago.

@17:32 Sounds like radio transmissions from the New Hope attack run.

I hope you cover the other end of this and that's heatwaves. In recent times (at least here in California anyway) it's almost got ridiculous with all these advisories to go to "cooling centers" and not to use your air conditioning during the day (due to brownouts) plus all this other nonsense. When I was a kid all the media would tell you to do when one was coming was have a shot of the outside temperature (usually at a bank) and tell you to get prepared by buying a fan or air conditioner and staying hydrated. Wow, have times changed.

Hi Ben. My name is Jake Longwell. I'm writing you from Geneva, New York. I've been a long time fan or the archive, but this is my first tuime commenting on one of your uploads. First, great job! I find all of your videos to be fascinating, as I, too, am a fan of so much of the nostalgia you cover on here. I just wanted to correct something for the record. In 1977, WGRZ channel 2 would have actually still been WGR-TV. It didn't change calls to WGRZ until the mid 80s when it was sold away from its sister stations, WGR and WGR-FM. Also, on a similar note, in 1978, WBEN-TV changed calls to WIVB when it was sold away from its AM and FM sister stations. Thanks again for all you do at The Oddity Archive. Keep up the great work!

love the weather warning shows and clips

I live in Southern New England, the last couple of years we have maybe averaged one or two storms a year, and yet to have a major storm this year. I don't miss the shoveling, but I also am not tempting fate either (last night we had heavy winds, but thankfully, only rain, and a shorts wearing 50 degree day today to boot). Granted, by typing this, I probably doomed the area, LOL.

Love this kind of stuff Logos, jingles, rather creepy intos. Warnings are kind of the ultimate amongst these oddities.

WTAS is now a Gospel radio station going by the call letters WYCA

Yay, another Weather Warnings episode!

Watching this while I work on art, after shoveling a foot of snow. Perfect timing heh

As someone who has spent time in Buffalo, all the opportunistic looting is not a surprise. Some things never change.

Man I haven’t watched you since the the second emergency broadcast salute that was my favorite by the way

33:25 Ah hell naw. They got the furries here now.

What a bone chilling collection of warnings.

1979 Chicago Blizzard coverage is better. You see how the 1st woman became mayor...the late Jane Byrne

My mom was a kid in the 60s and been through that. She told me about it.

Haha, I thought that announcer was going to say, "Make sure to send the government all of your bills for damages."

Snow? What's that? (near lifelong Floridian here 😀) Aside from that, I know what you mean about the sign language interpreter. I live close enough to Georgia that the local news sometimes covers press conferences from the state. During the pandemic the governor of Georgia held quite a few press conferences, and the sign language interpreter, well, let's say he had a lot of personality. He threw his whole heart, body, and soul into the sign language interpretation. I got to see him quite a few times, and it was glorious! One more thing - toward the end was Joseph Mullen wearing a Florida Gators hat? In Buffalo? Sweet!

All we get here is COLD air. Lots of cold air. No snow, no ice, just miserable dry cold.

@14:05 He took the money and ran out of town before the storms hit…

17:35 We're passing through the magnetic field....spread out your x-wings

I’ve been on another archive kick, and this was exactly what I needed. The post-holiday blues are still getting to me, and this video makes the bitter weather almost worth it

Meanwhile, this is the mildest winter Metro Detroit has ever seen.

We just got 6 inches or so here in SE MI, yesterday. Perfect time for this!

Oh goodie more EAS alerts, and KELO is 70 years WOW!

All that blizzard business and snowstorms plus sub-zero temperatures during the Winter was enough for me to say enough is enough and when I finally when I got old enough to get out on my own I said that's in and I left Indiana for Florida. That was 40 years ago.

18 inches of snow and the city spokesperson is saying “Schools will be open tomorrow”. Y’all are made of tougher stuff then where I live. Haha.

6:13 You needed to be in full police kit to tell us this, Jeff? Or did you know all eyes would be on the lady to your left so it didn’t matter?

Good Job Ben, Thanks

I'm from Watertown, NY. We call this weather Thursday.

The caption says Richard Foster from the Sun-Times, but that's clearly Eddie Deezen.

Happy Oddity Thursday!

The guy interviewing the ground hog went on years later to host the short-lived NBC game show "Go!". There's your bit of meaningless trivia for the day...

Makes me glad I live in Arizona where we don't get these sort of crazy blizzards. We get freezing cold winters down in Tucson, maybe a flurry of snow if we're lucky, but that's about it.

Bread, meat milk and cigarettes...the four food groups!

just a heads up, you will probably get more EAS warnings by recording your local PBS station instead of CBS/NBC/ABC/FOX. for some reason my stations never do EAS weather warnings so i have to turn to PBS or other independent stations around here for them

As a lifelong Floridian, I’ll never understand how human beings wound up in places where the weather gets like this once a year, and were like, “this is fine, let’s settle here”

So wait, would the 1967 WFLD Footage be the oldest surviving UHF tv footage?

So you moved from Colorado to get away from snow only to end up in a state during a snowstorm? Talk about Mother Nature being homesick...

Sioux falls has a airport?. wow i got some cousins that live there

@17:29 was that a fart?? 😂

Was that dude’s name really Dick Cox?? 😂😂😂

Is Luie Luie the only the only topic on the opening that is yet to be covered?

when the cop appears on tv to talk about the snow - not much going on ?

that old mac voice.. used to use it for comic effect in the 90s. we had a name for that voice but it's not family friendly.

South Dakota residents complaining about people walking in the streets to evade the snow, when we've been doing that in Maine for decades.

The wind was blowing at.... Me: 34.999 mph? Benny boy: 25-30 mph. Me: Ehh, close enough. /j

I can't figure out what this episode is about.

COOL VIDEO THANKS I LOVE THIS VIDEO KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK I TYPE IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE OF MY BAD EYESIGHT