Oh No, He Rolled Up His Sleeves
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (112780)
United States
March 14, 2024 6:25pm CST
We have a going joke around here about our local weather guy, Steve Templeton, when he throws off the jacket and rolls up his sleeves, we know we have some doozies of some weather coming our way.
"Stay away from windows and head for the basements," he likes to say. He says words like "tornadic activity," and you could make a drinking game out of how many times he says, "We're seeing some rotations."
I am not going to lie. We do get tornadoes. We get some very severe weather. But even more entertaining than even the storms themselves is the coverage and the excitement Templeton gets when something is "happening."
He really gets into it.
Most of the time all of the tornadic activity, rotations, and "run to the basement" warnings turn out to be nothing. But I guess at least it is good we have a guy who is on top of things...
And we can guage it all by the lack of a jacket and rolled up sleeves. lol
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@2ndchances24 (12187)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
15 Mar 24
I don't know about you or any 1 else but I've been in some
hairy conary weather, in fla, & I mean HURRICAN stuff, so
when it comes to bad weather my attent is all about the weather.
Our cell phone & tornato sirens have been going off like every
few mins cause we have some major weather right over us.
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@porwest (112780)
• United States
16 Mar 24
@2ndchances24 It was kind of fun as I recall. In a scary way. But fun nonetheless. It was a huge aircraft carrier and so she handled herself well through it. We did incur a little damage like bent catwalks and broken hose reels...but we made it.
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@2ndchances24 (12187)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
15 Mar 24
@porwest 
OH crapola, no thank you.
OH crapola, no thank you.1 person likes this
@Marilynda1225 (91035)
• United States
15 Mar 24
Our local weather guy pretty much does the same thing. He gets all into "bad" weather especially when tv is interrupted for ongoing forecasts.
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@Marilynda1225 (91035)
• United States
16 Mar 24
@porwest we don't get many tornado warnings here but we do get blizzards and hurricanes. So, the weather can become a prime time event for watching the weather folks do their thing.
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@porwest (112780)
• United States
17 Mar 24
@Marilynda1225 I am sure they get good ratings when they do it.
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@moffittjc (128831)
• Gainesville, Florida
16 Mar 24
Some of the funniest entertainment on tv is watching all these weather "experts" cream in their pants whenever severe weather happens. We see it every year in Florida when a hurricane is barreling down on us. These weather forecasters go nuts on tv. I'm surprised none of them have hemorrhaged right there in front of the cameras from their over excitement of the impending severe weather.
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@moffittjc (128831)
• Gainesville, Florida
20 Mar 24
@porwest Hey, it’s nice to see that people still really enjoy their jobs and have fun with it.
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@LindaOHio (222285)
• United States
15 Mar 24
There were some doozies that came through last night. We only got one rumble of thunder and a downpour. Funny about Steve. Have a good weekend.
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@LindaOHio (222285)
• United States
17 Mar 24
@porwest Jim Cantore of the Weather Channel gets really excited over things like thunder s**w. He's a weather nerd too.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
15 Mar 24
He sounds like a fun weather forecaster. Looks like you had some serious weather coming your way.
Your serious weather only made it to Appleton. It didn't reach Green Bay.
@Beestring (15373)
• Hong Kong
15 Mar 24
That guy is doing a good job.
The lady who reports weather on TV here looks too serious even the weather is good.
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