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Posted on 9/26/24 at 5:51 pm to TulaneLSU
Friend,
Your topics are always comedic-informative. Have you ever thought of making a list of your finest work? Only Honkus's Chinese Covid Adventures thread has topped your Stacey Dash Cameo.
Yours,
MSUDawg98
Your topics are always comedic-informative. Have you ever thought of making a list of your finest work? Only Honkus's Chinese Covid Adventures thread has topped your Stacey Dash Cameo.
Yours,
MSUDawg98
Posted on 9/26/24 at 6:01 pm to TulaneLSU
Yeah I remember when Breck laughed on air about his wife falling off a stool and breaking her ankle. I think it was a few days later that his wife died of a blood clot caused by the broken ankle. Breck was a tool and bad weather man. He was so bad even Margret Orr was better than him.
Posted on 9/26/24 at 7:30 pm to TulaneLSU
Post of the Year
Posted on 9/26/24 at 7:36 pm to geauxbrown
Posted on 9/26/24 at 7:52 pm to TulaneLSU
Which one did you kill and eat?
Posted on 9/26/24 at 7:56 pm to LSUneaux
Bob Breck melted down when Nash Roberts said Katrina was going to hit New Orleans early on when Breck said he was going to the Carolinas. For that simple reason alone Nash over Breck.
And leaving out Al Duckworth and Margaret Orr is a criminal offense.
And leaving out Al Duckworth and Margaret Orr is a criminal offense.
This post was edited on 9/26/24 at 7:58 pm
Posted on 9/26/24 at 8:06 pm to MrLSU
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Bob Breck melted down when Nash Roberts said Katrina was going to hit New Orleans early on when Breck said he was going to the Carolinas. For that simple reason alone Nash over Breck.
I’m pretty sure I remember Breck apologizing on air after it was clear Hurricane Katrina was headed this way. New Orleans got fricked because of the man made leaves, but the NorthShore and the Mississippi Gulf coast got fricked by Mother Nature.
Posted on 9/26/24 at 9:49 pm to TulaneLSU
Any list without Nash Roberts as Numero Uno is bogus. Thank you for the list anyway Friend.
Posted on 9/26/24 at 10:02 pm to tgrbaitn08
Dawn Brown had the tits and Bob Breck was a frickin' drama queen.
Posted on 9/27/24 at 12:16 am to Giantkiller
You're missing Al Duckworth in there, along with Nash and Bob in the Top 3.
Posted on 9/27/24 at 12:57 am to TulaneLSU
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TulaneLSU
He lives, I tell you. He lives!
Posted on 9/27/24 at 1:11 am to dbeck
For real… how does this dude still exist?
Posted on 9/27/24 at 1:35 am to TulaneLSU
Pretty solid list and timely. I hope all are praying for Helene’s victims tonight.
I won’t quibble over much about Bob Breck’s somewhat tenuous elevation to primacy. It’s not easy for an outsider to make a place for themselves in the Crescent City. Breck, the unwashed midwesterner did.
It’s perhaps hyperbole and unfair to say unequivocally Nash “blew” Camille. He worked with the technology of lesser gods and Camille’s slight jog ENE spared New Orleans and provided opportunists ammunition to slight him. Camille did brush Plaquemine Parish and St. Bernard Parish before finally making landfall at Waveland, Mississippi.
He wasn’t far off on Camille with the tools at his disposal and hit with Hilda in 1964 and Betsy in 1965 arguably shepherding his viewers through three major hurricanes in five years. I recall in the early 1970’s, between 71 and 75 New Orleans was threatened with two hurricanes [edit: Eloise and Carmen ?] and Roberts correctly predicted one would bend eastward and hit Florida’s Panhandle and the other slide west and hit the Acadiana Parishes.
Notwithstanding my minor disputes, your list is a very nice return to your old form. Perhaps some encouragement will inspire similar lists for the great and not so great among New Orleans’s news anchors and sports reporters.
On another note, I do hope you’re continuing to embrace and adhere to your 1928 Book of Common Prayer. I’m fortunate to have a KJV/‘28 BCP combination for the Daily Office and other such devotions.
Poor Archbishop Cranmer. He struggled mightily to tack a course that would keep him off Rome’s shoals and out of Zwingli’s whirlpool.
Respectfully,
M.
I won’t quibble over much about Bob Breck’s somewhat tenuous elevation to primacy. It’s not easy for an outsider to make a place for themselves in the Crescent City. Breck, the unwashed midwesterner did.
It’s perhaps hyperbole and unfair to say unequivocally Nash “blew” Camille. He worked with the technology of lesser gods and Camille’s slight jog ENE spared New Orleans and provided opportunists ammunition to slight him. Camille did brush Plaquemine Parish and St. Bernard Parish before finally making landfall at Waveland, Mississippi.
He wasn’t far off on Camille with the tools at his disposal and hit with Hilda in 1964 and Betsy in 1965 arguably shepherding his viewers through three major hurricanes in five years. I recall in the early 1970’s, between 71 and 75 New Orleans was threatened with two hurricanes [edit: Eloise and Carmen ?] and Roberts correctly predicted one would bend eastward and hit Florida’s Panhandle and the other slide west and hit the Acadiana Parishes.
Notwithstanding my minor disputes, your list is a very nice return to your old form. Perhaps some encouragement will inspire similar lists for the great and not so great among New Orleans’s news anchors and sports reporters.
On another note, I do hope you’re continuing to embrace and adhere to your 1928 Book of Common Prayer. I’m fortunate to have a KJV/‘28 BCP combination for the Daily Office and other such devotions.
Poor Archbishop Cranmer. He struggled mightily to tack a course that would keep him off Rome’s shoals and out of Zwingli’s whirlpool.
Respectfully,
M.
This post was edited on 9/27/24 at 7:09 am
Posted on 9/27/24 at 7:25 am to TulaneLSU
This schtick is so fricking old.
Posted on 9/27/24 at 7:41 am to TulaneLSU
Dear Friend,
Why no mention of Dan Milham’s stint as the host of varsity quiz bowl? This could bolster the argument that he belongs in your top 10.
Why no mention of Dan Milham’s stint as the host of varsity quiz bowl? This could bolster the argument that he belongs in your top 10.
Posted on 9/27/24 at 7:42 am to TulaneLSU
Friend,
Mr. Breck was truly one of a kind and in the early days at WVUE his weather broadcasts were must see TV. For me and in particular my Grandmother the time he did a summer broadcast in shorts and sandals to demonstrate how hot it was is pure gold. My grandmother however had a level of dislike for Nash Roberts that bordered on holistic rage. She blamed Nash for the deaths of all of those people on the Mississippi Gulf Coast during Camille as he was insisting that the storm was going in closer to Pascagoula and Mobile. There was no forgiveness in her for the man. Years later she confronted Mike Early about why he would ever bring out a criminal to inform people of safety matters related to weather. She would dutifully watch Garland and Angela, but when Nash came on she would switch to Channel 6 and whomever they had on whether it was Bart Darby, Russ Minshew or Dan Milham.
However, she reserved particular rage later on for Nancy Russo at WWL. As time went on she warmed up to Bob Breck but by that time she was in her early 80s and not able to put up much of a fight about it. Indifferent about Dave Barnes though. She did not turn him off like she would Nash or Nancy.
Personally, I like Bruce Katz. He is very no nonsense. Always has been since his days on Baton Rouge on Ch.2 where he was always playing second fiddle to Pat Singleton who was not a meteorologist but just a "forcaster" Bruce's Coats for Kids, however was originally Shingleton's cause in Baton Rouge. Katz adopted it when he came to NOLA. Today, though WVUE has the best collection of meteorologists by far with Katz , Norwood and Zach Fradella.
Weather and who reports it is so important. It matters.
Mr. Breck was truly one of a kind and in the early days at WVUE his weather broadcasts were must see TV. For me and in particular my Grandmother the time he did a summer broadcast in shorts and sandals to demonstrate how hot it was is pure gold. My grandmother however had a level of dislike for Nash Roberts that bordered on holistic rage. She blamed Nash for the deaths of all of those people on the Mississippi Gulf Coast during Camille as he was insisting that the storm was going in closer to Pascagoula and Mobile. There was no forgiveness in her for the man. Years later she confronted Mike Early about why he would ever bring out a criminal to inform people of safety matters related to weather. She would dutifully watch Garland and Angela, but when Nash came on she would switch to Channel 6 and whomever they had on whether it was Bart Darby, Russ Minshew or Dan Milham.
However, she reserved particular rage later on for Nancy Russo at WWL. As time went on she warmed up to Bob Breck but by that time she was in her early 80s and not able to put up much of a fight about it. Indifferent about Dave Barnes though. She did not turn him off like she would Nash or Nancy.
Personally, I like Bruce Katz. He is very no nonsense. Always has been since his days on Baton Rouge on Ch.2 where he was always playing second fiddle to Pat Singleton who was not a meteorologist but just a "forcaster" Bruce's Coats for Kids, however was originally Shingleton's cause in Baton Rouge. Katz adopted it when he came to NOLA. Today, though WVUE has the best collection of meteorologists by far with Katz , Norwood and Zach Fradella.
Weather and who reports it is so important. It matters.
This post was edited on 9/27/24 at 7:44 am
Posted on 9/27/24 at 3:00 pm to TulaneLSU
Present day Weather folks just report what NWS says. Local weather forecasting is no longer what it used to be.
Back in Lake Chuck, the Gold Standard was Rob Robins, 100% self taught. All the Lafayette oil industry paid attention to his forecast than anyone else.
The 24 hr period where we had 28 inches of rain in the early 1980's he was even cheerleading to get another inch so we could break the previous record set in the 1950's when the then active Chennault AFB had 5 feet of water on its main runway (the longest in Louisiana and an alternate site for emergency landing of the Space Shuttle)
Back in Lake Chuck, the Gold Standard was Rob Robins, 100% self taught. All the Lafayette oil industry paid attention to his forecast than anyone else.
The 24 hr period where we had 28 inches of rain in the early 1980's he was even cheerleading to get another inch so we could break the previous record set in the 1950's when the then active Chennault AFB had 5 feet of water on its main runway (the longest in Louisiana and an alternate site for emergency landing of the Space Shuttle)
Posted on 9/29/24 at 1:57 pm to TulaneLSU
Bob Breck is definitely not #1. He was the only one to get Katrina wrong, kept saying it would turn. He always seemed to swing for the fences and be out of line with what the other ones predicted, and he also swung and missed most of those and was wrong more often than the rest.
Posted on 9/29/24 at 3:02 pm to TulaneLSU
Solid list.
Nash is #1 though.
Nash is #1 though.
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