Storm Awards

Best on Scene Reporter- WHDH channel 7's Steve Cooper. In a 2 minute shot he moved from a local Emergency vehicle to the top of a mountain of plowed snow in the Burlington Mall parking lot. Most reporters would just shown the top of the pile nearing the bottom of a traffic light. Not Steve. He climbed to the top while we were seeing shots of cars driving and plows plowing. Then he climbs down on camera to end the report. I keep waiting for him to fall like the chef on Sesame Street who announces how many chocolate cakes he has then tries to go down stairs. His crash is always funny and so would have been Steves' were he not a super cool on scene reporter who's middle name is "Danger". Steve knows what you need to do to report well from the middle of a storm. You have to let the storm abuse you. The viewer has to see how bad conditions are. Maybe its the waves crashing over a sea wall on to your head or the struggle to stand up in the face of powerful wind. Danger Cooper knows he has to live the storm so we the viewers can experience the storm from underneath our Sunggies.

Best Weather Graphics- WBZ Channel 4 in a surprising upset takes this award for the suprising number of ways in which they show the same fact about the storm with different colors and 3D effects. At first I thought this was stupid until I realized I had watched the whole report with out switching to J.C. Monohan on channel 5 or Dyl on 7. For the forgettable team Todd Gutner and Ken Barlow that's saying something. These two have no chemistry. They make the weather sound as interesting as a PG story about a company christmas party. Channel 4 does always have the best looking water graphic during their regular news casts. I don't really have a reason why it just looks cool.

Sissy Voice Award- Todd Gutner still has his pre pubescent high voice. Its like seeing a really wealthy school's Middle School News report. Because they can afford such awesome graphics. Dawn Haswbrook's voice is like 2 octaves lower. I figure the difference is the same as if Kermit the Frog was speaking to Michael Clarke Duncan.

quick takes: 7news - 11/20/2009 - 3,575 points

dan hausle/steve cooper - the missing mustache has an exclusive phone interview with the 17 year old driver of the lowell hit and run vehicle. (10 exclusive points)  while she sounds very sorry, i suspect she's not as sorry as she will be.  amazingly enough, the victim is in fair condition and is expected to make a full recovery. (35 points).  something tells me that in this case, "full recovery" means a lifetime of nagging aches and pains, an early hip replacement and unfortunately, a premature death.   well, at least she's sorry.

adam williams - i think that adam is one of those guys who is "friends" with a bunch of hot girls - but has no chance of landing any of them.  so, i guess it's smart to befriend mr. williams.

on a completely unrelated note - adam gets a whopping + 3,500 points for his delightful banter with anne allred on his giving up coffee cold turkey (down from his usual 5 cups) and the description of his headache due to the lack of caffeine.



dylan dreyer -this morning's burnt orange silk blouse is well, 2x perky.  (15 points)

anne allred - this blog loves anne allred - but she today she's dressed like kermit the frog. it ain't easy being green.  (5 points)


nicole oliverio - on the scene in duxbury where a highway line painting truck flipped over after hitting the route 3 guard rail.  disaster is averted as they manage to avoid a massive propane leak.  (+15 points)  oh, nicole - you're fantastic, but you should get some winter coat suggestions from michelle relerford.  your off-white coat looks like a pile of plowed snow mixed with with three days of salt, sand and gravel.  (-5 points)