By The Beachwood Classic TV Affairs Desk
1. Classic Drinkers
Posted on May 21, 2009
What I Watched Last Night: Vortex 2
By David Hall
I’m a weather geek. Often I’ll just put The Weather Channel on as my background, because I’m interested in weather anywhere. I know I’m not alone; Tom Skilling has his following, more and more time is devoted in news broadcasts everywhere to talk about what’s going on and, heck, they even have “The Weather Channel!”
So, with the advent of the tornado season, Mike Bettes of TWC is joining with a team of more than 100 scientists and crew with an “armada” of mobile radar trucks, etc., to track tornadoes throughout “Tornado Alley” a strip of states including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and parts of a couple of others.
TWC has been promoting the living crap out of this series, which basically is the 6-9 pm window that usually is manned by Bettes, a determined no-nonsense type with television good looks and Stephanie Abrams, who is both exceedingly knowledgeable and more bubbly than a bottle of San Pellegrino. She talks very fast and because she knows so much and has so much to say, she sometimes stumbles over her words. She can be both annoying and endearing at the same time. Her fatal flaw? The tendency, in just a couple of hours to ask multiple times, “What are you doing now?”
Posted on May 14, 2009