DFW-EAS

@KanawhaCountyWX Wow. I'm glad your house didn't have any damage. I would've been terrified as well. I had a pretty close call with a tornado in 2012. Dad came to pick me up early from school that day because he'd seen the radar and was worried about it. I just remember all the street lights being on which was super weird for 1:00 in the afternoon. At one point we were driving (Dad wanted to check on some family of ours).

So imagine this. You're five years old. You and your Dad are in the car right near a tornado. He gets out of the car to walk up to their house. It's raining so hard it's difficult to hear anything. You have light perception but it's not very useful given how dark it is. So as he gets further and further from the car, as he's walking through the rain away from you, his shadow gets more and more distorted until you can see nothing at all. Then it starts hailing and the sirens start blaring. You are in the back of the car and can do nothing but listen to the radio and look out the window hoping that he didn't get sucked up by the tornado.

That was my introduction to EAS and weather stuff. Brad Barton is great, by the way. When there's a particularly bad storm, hearing his voice still has a calming affect all these years later.

So the plan is to get a cabinet to replace the table that a bunch of my stuff is sitting on, and the nightstand below it which holds the Mini PC, ethernet switch and about a trillion other things as well as a massive nest of cables. This will be a great thing. The only problem is that I'll have to find a good floor stand that will hold the yeti in place in front of my face.

@KanawhaCountyWX Oh my. That's a mess.

Oh that's obnoxious. Got the new sound system and forgot the mic was mounted to the desk the speakers are sitting on.

Oh here we go, severe thunderstorm watch

@KanawhaCountyWX Fort Worth switched around the same time. I forget what day it was exactly, but I do remember that I woke up one morning, checked the walkie talkie (it's all I hhad at the time) and it was normal, then I checked again before I left and it had a new voice. Went up to Tulsa that week and NWS Norman and Tulsa were both still using CRS. I honestly figured it was an NWS Fort Worth specific thing for a while. That was before I had easy access to the internet.