When I lived in serious snow country the standard weather oracle was a dedicated portable radio which broadcasts only national weather service forecast/status for the area. Most commercial radio stations basically rebroadcast that info with commercials and comments from on-air 'talent'.

Weather is one of my hobbies. I operate a full weather station and recommend these sites to anyone who is curious about the weather:

http://www.weather.gov/ (type in your city/state or for precise info use the latitude/longitude feature)

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=lahaina%2C+HI

Hey, that's funny.

During the first Iraq war 17 or 18 years ago, at work, we had a whiteboard and I was always the one everyone wanted to write something weird on in the morning. So one day wrote:

I don't wanna blow up
I'm a terrorist squid
Got lotsa bombs-n-planes-n-stuff
for me to play with

You're so smart!

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Thread now back in the proper (working) subforum...

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He's certainly smarter than his avatar.


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Its not Limbaughs station. It is a private station that pays Limabaugh to syndicate his show since its popular. I realize this is an idea foreign to liberals. No one wants to listen to them, so they have to buy radio stations.

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Seems like they are trying to use leverage to do just that. Because you play Limabaugh we wont give you weather emergency news. The flip side being that if they didnt have Limbaugh they could get it. Combined with the Fairness Doctrine, and attacks like on Imus, it all adds up.

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That is an interesting take.
Comedian Rush Limbaugh may be popular in other areas of the US, but not so in Broward County.
Maybe no one wants to listen to Limbaugh, and that is why this radio station needs these hurricane warnings to remain on their station.
Sort of a hostage situation, or at least auditory punishment.

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If he wasnt popular, the station wouldne carry him. Unlike socialist liberal radio, conservative radio is based on standard market economics.

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Elminate all taxes on income and replace with a national sales tax.

Whether Limbaugh is popular or not in the area isn't really the point. The point is that a group of Democrats are refusing to use a particular station for public service just because they happen to carry Limbaugh. Who gives a rat's ass what they air during non-emergencies? If the station is the best one, as it appears to be, for airing emergency info, the Dems need to STFU!

Broward may cancel deal with radio station because it airs Rush Limbaugh: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

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This is all just another example of politicians letting their personal politics get in the way of whats best for the country. Kind of reminds me of the Republican debate, where not one candidate would want a homosexual Arabic translator, despite the fact that we're in desperate need of people to fill the role.

These Democrats are willing to risk the safety of Americans simply because they don't like Limbaugh, like those Republicans are willing to risk the safety of Americans simply because they don't like homosexuals.

I'm actually surprised that partisans still exist these days, when it seems so plainly obvious that both Democrats and Republicans can be absolutely mindless.

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Seriously, this is ridiculous. What's next are they going to run to their mommies crying and snot nosed because Rush called them a poopyhead. This is freakin' childish. For Christ sakes, grow up.

Sorry, but the assertion was made by the OP that liberals were trying to silence speech they didn't agree with. Not an iota of evidence has been provided to back that up...

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Does this station ( owned by Clear Channel Commo ) have a choice in which personalities fill their airtime? No, it does not.
Broward Co is roughly 2-to-1 Dem-to-Rep., so popularity in this county is questionable.
Listening to Limbaugh et al must seem like having teeth pulled to any Democrat.
Syndicated Conservatives are on from 9am to 9pm. No one should be forced to listen to this much mind-numbing drivel just to catch the latest storm warnings.

I will repeat what I said earlier- these hurricane warnings should not be broadcast by a single source; every radio station should be putting these warnings out. There should be no one " official " source.

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Yes, you need one official source. The reason is so that everyone is on the same page, so that authorities can contact one station instead of twenty. All other stations monitor the official one and then put out the same information so one doesn't have to listen to the official one for updates. The reason this particular station was chosen as the official one was because of it's signal strength and the Dems are acting like spoiled children about it. They really need to get over it and do what's best for the community.

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