KRMG - Shut up already

[Hawkins]

Since Noon today they've been doing that annoying weather-beep thing every 5-minutes and breaking into programming every 20 minutes or so to warn us of our impending doom.

Just looked outside at 8:00pm and its partly-to-mostly cloudy and 37 degrees with no precipitation.

Was it worth it? The grocery stores thank you, but that guy sitting in his snow-plow (I just passed a few minutes ago) on the Creek Turnpike is probably bored as all get out right now.

Lame!

[YoungTulsan]

We gonna die?

[Hoss]

Since Noon today they've been doing that annoying weather-beep thing every 5-minutes and breaking into programming every 20 minutes or so to warn us of our impending doom.

Just looked outside at 8:00pm and its partly-to-mostly cloudy and 37 degrees with no precipitation.

Was it worth it? The grocery stores thank you, but that guy sitting in his snow-plow (I just passed a few minutes ago) on the Creek Turnpike is probably bored as all get out right now.

Lame!

Simple solution?

Stop listening.

Just sayin'....

[Ed W]

The last time we had a OHMYGODITSGONNASNOWANDWEREALLGONNADIE alert, I photographed a truck with a snow plow attached to the front.  It was parked outside IHOP and the driver was inside having breakfast.  He was kinda tickled that I took the photo.

And it didn't snow.

I'll have to find that photo.

[guido911]

Since Noon today they've been doing that annoying weather-beep thing every 5-minutes and breaking into programming every 20 minutes or so to warn us of our impending doom.

You freakin NAILED IT. Good job.

[Conan71]

I have to question their judgement.  As I was getting on the BA yesterday, it resembled a parking lot.  Can they give more frequent traffic updates so I could have taken an alternate route?  No.  But they were able to share a breaking news alert that Regis Philbin was announcing his retirement.  WRGAF that Regis is retiring? How about some relevant info and not beating it into the ground.

[Hoss]

I have to question their judgement.  As I was getting on the BA yesterday, it resembled a parking lot.  Can they give more frequent traffic updates so I could have taken an alternate route?  No.  But they were able to share a breaking news alert that Regis Philbin was announcing his retirement.  WRGAF that Regis is retiring? How about some relevant info and not beating it into the ground.

While I hated the traffic, I loved living in Houston because their news radio shows did 'traffic and weather, together on the nines'.  All day.  EVERY day, 24/7.  So I always knew what the traffic conditions were and could account for it.

I'm not saying that Tulsa needs that, but that nightmare that is now the BA outbound just SW of the IDL at Utica is stupid.  It gets stupid congested at the weirdest times.  And most of it is the typical Oklahoma driver trying to get to the head of the line to beat the merge.  It would be nice to have some sort of traffic channel, or something.

[waterboy]

It has begun.

"ALL Snow, on ALL Channels, ALL the time". Surely something else happened in Tulsa during the night. Then, to make it even sweeter, I clear off my wife's car, heat it up and take it out to see how the roads are. I am immediately tailgaited by some moron in a huge SUV even though I'm driving at a pretty good rate of speed, practically at the dry pavement speed limit on 21st. It gets worse. HE FLASHED HIS BRIGHTS ON ME WHEN I SIGNALED TO MAKE A LEFT TURN BACK INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD. People....relax. This isn't a game show.

Arrogant SOB probably was scared at the unusual sight of a turn signal being used.

[BKDotCom]

KRMG is worthless

[Red Arrow]

Arrogant SOB probably was scared at the unusual sight of a turn signal being used.

Probably thought you were stabbing your brakes or flashing your 4-ways with a bulb out.

[Conan71]

It has begun.

"ALL Snow, on ALL Channels, ALL the time". Surely something else happened in Tulsa during the night. Then, to make it even sweeter, I clear off my wife's car, heat it up and take it out to see how the roads are. I am immediately tailgaited by some moron in a huge SUV even though I'm driving at a pretty good rate of speed, practically at the dry pavement speed limit on 21st. It gets worse. HE FLASHED HIS BRIGHTS ON ME WHEN I SIGNALED TO MAKE A LEFT TURN BACK INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD. People....relax. This isn't a game show.

Arrogant SOB probably was scared at the unusual sight of a turn signal being used.

Thank you for venting what we are all thinking!  I think turn signals must have become an option.  Their use appears to be less in more expensive vehicles.

Hoss, that's precisely why it slows down, it's the jackass who thinks they need to go to the front of the line. If they would get in line with everyone else, it would flow so much faster and there would be fewer collisions resulting from jack-rabbit stops. 

[patric]

So did everyone raise gas prices 10-or-so cents a gallon overnight, or is it just the station at 31st & Memorial (who was cited for price gouging during the ice storm)?

[Red Arrow]

Thank you for venting what we are all thinking!  I think turn signals must have become an option.  Their use appears to be less in more expensive vehicles.

No sense in wearing out something expensive to fix.   It's even more expensive in an expensive car.   

[waterboy]

He actually flashed his brights twice. Once when he tailgated me for a block and again when I hit the turn signal (a half block before the turn). Perhaps some people think that the center lane in the city is like the fast lane on the highway and expect you to just get out of their way. In the city that lane is also a turn lane and when it snows it is often the only lane.

[DolfanBob]

Waterboy +1
I started watching Fox 23 last night for news and got the local "Weather Channel"
Good lawd, no robberies, killings, drive by's, tagging or Mayor bashings going on ?
I mean this is Tulsa right ? I have lived here my whole life and I am truly embarrassed at the total wussification of this City.
I have three ravenous eating children who just love having the Schools close down almost the night before we even see anything happen. I'm sure the decision was made purly on the, Wholly crap we are going to get a inch or two of Blizzard like flakes hitting us over night, hoard the food and fuel people we will never ride this out kind of broadcasts all the local meteorologist start pushing every 2 minutes the day before.
As I write this. Icicles are falling and the snow is melting off my car. How will we every make it through this ?