When I watch the news I just want the facts and no opinions by the reporters. The forced banter between anchors at the telecast end are cringe worthy. The sports guy that straps a device on his hand and then waves it around while he gets wound up is bad. I doubt reporters get paid much. Maybe a guy like Kevin Cooney who was the lead anchor and led highest ranked news for a long time. Ch 8 has misfired lately on weather starting with Jason Sadeko & now Chris. Odd guys.
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Truth is Chris just couldn’t measure up to John McLaughlin and Kurtis Gertz. Maybe KCCI will go back to hiring talented people again.
Very popular local anchor left evening news to go into my former industry/company. I knew then they must pay absolute **** to on air talent because I just about doubled up salary when I left.
Amber Alexander left channel 13 due to anxiety issues. Tough job I guess. I get the climate change, but he seemed to force feed it all the time.
I watched KCCI a couple months ago when we were having a severe weather outbreak. Chris was covering some of the storms and seemed to be really struggling. He was breathing funny and struggling to explain what was going on. I turned to the other station because it made me a bit uncomforable watching Chris struggle so much. I'm not a mental health expert, but it seemed like he was struggling with some anxiety issues at that time.
Pretty funny to complain about a meteorologist talking about climate change too much in 155 page thread dedicated to documenting increasingly severe and unusual weather, lol.
Eh, at least 75 of those pages are recycled d*ck jokes.
I'm going to be watering my plants tomorrow to guarantee the Western burbs get rain. You are welcome
We lived here in 1988. (See attachment)
Since we’ve moved back: #3 record winter snowfall, below normal spring temps and now this nice reminder.
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Gonna get way worse before it gets better. Good news is that corn and beans prices will go up
Was away for a week. Just drove in did quick yard walkabout. Ferns are down, ginger is wilted and azalea and rhododendrons leaves are also wilted or curled up. 85% of lot is shade so lots of shade loving plants that are not loving living in a northern shade desert.
1988 was very dry and hot in my area. We sprayed beans for spider mites, they are very small, hard to see. I told the ISU Extension guy I didn’t want to spend the money. He told me if they get bad enough you won’t combine beans. I sprayed. 80% chance of rain on Saturday, I will take a 1/2” , need eveerything we can get right now.
