On a lighter note, one evening when the world seemed to be coming apart, one of those where we issued 15 tornado warnings in a single 4 hour shift, some idiot calls the Peachtree City NWS spotter hotline and asked, apparently with all sincerity:
Which is worse, a toad strangler or a gully washer?
We used to have a guy call in to the NWS via ham radio and report to us "Channel 11 is reporting tornados at such and such...." when we explained to him the TV stations get that information FROM US, he'd call up and tell us what the TV was saying with out telling us he got it off the TV. That made it even worse. So we got to where we didn't even log anything the guy said.
Eventually, he went away and left the storm spotting to those who were trying to do it right.
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