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As you are certainly entitled to your opinion, your self-centered attitude (centered on self, rather than others) is evident. While you may think that your comment "let them fall in" (and drown) is appropriate, IF IT WERE YOUR CHILD, you would have a different attitude! You wouldn't be saying about YOUR OWN CHILD, "let him fall in and drown", calling it "Darwinism"! That's the lack of empathy that I'm talking about. You think that it's better for people you don't know (because they have no relationship to YOU) to die, than for there to be safeguards and other warnings of possible/probable dire

Thanks for sharing that - I hadn't heard this either. In light of the drowning, those who talked about "Darwinism", and "let them fall in", "nobody else's responsibility" rightly appear grossly insensitive. This is a perfect example of what I was talking about. Some people nowadays are SO self-centered and So self-righteous that they don't give the first thought to other people in this world. There is probably a larger social dynamic at play here where the ability to empathize is being lost. I think that this would be an extremely sad statement on the human condition if we get to the

I didn't know for sure if you were an adult or not! "Can I sue him" is a fairly childish way of looking at issues when the subject is civic responsibility. I get it that we have this difference. You think that the scope of the weatherman's job is to tell you only the weather conditions and that the station bears no civic responsibility to the community at-large. So I guess the "It takes a village" concept is out for you, too! I just don't go about life with an every man/person for himself outlook. We'll have to agree to have that difference. I never heard anyone ever say an unk

Are you an adult? What are you talking about "Can I sue him"? Surely you know the difference between civic responsibility/concern for human life and a legal obligation! Or maybe not, 'cause like I said -- Are you an adult? It's a bit like the phenomenon of "black ice", sheets of ice on the road. It rains, then freezes. You can SAY that it's not the weatherman's job to say one word about black ice -- but you can hardly argue that it's not his civic responsibility to pass along that warning.

There! I knew that we'd find common ground! Of course it's not supernatural because there's no realm called Supernature! There is only nature and the human mind, which interprets in a predictable way. "Real Magic"? An oxymoron, since magic is all about illusions and gaining advantage over the mind's perceptions. "The Devil"??? You're kidding /exaggerating, right?

We're not talking about PROTECTING, we're talking about INFORMING, which IS the job of weathermen. It's their ONLY job. When there's a lightning storm, they'll remind you not to stand under a tree. When creeks/rivers are swollen, they remind you not to cross a creek in your vehicle if you can't see the bottom. When a tornado is coming, do they JUST tell you that a tornado is coming? No, they tell you to seek shelter away from windows, etc. With every extreme weather event, there's a corresponding warning, because extreme weather events are uncommon. Most people would consider it helpful, benef

Exactly so! That's why it seemed so bizarre that a weatherman would make a blanket statement about a pond freezing over, with no information about the depth of the pond and not considering the other variables which affect pond-freeze. I think that it probably is an intern handling Mr. Burns' communications. Whether it is or not, it's not a very flattering representation of the Glenn Burns brand!

You asked me why I would need to be reminded not to walk on a frozen pond. That was pretty insulting, don't you think? I don't need to be reminded, but I consider other people - that their circumstances might not be identical to mine. It used to be around here that every couple of years at least one child in the metro Atlanta area would drown from falling through the ice. For some reason - it could be ignorance of pond ice - it happens regularly. So -- let me ask you. Do you think a reminder would have possibly been beneficial? What could it possibly hurt to remind parents to keep their K

It's mostly for parents to remind their kids. It's usually kids who fall through the ice. I guess you'll want to know why that happens, too! In children, the part of the brain used for connecting actions with consequences and other decision-making skills is not fully developed. It has been three years since the last REAL cold snap and in 2010 a couple of kids in Gwinnett County drowned from falling through the ice. That's why parents have to keep reminding kids and why it's a good idea as a public service for weather personnel to remind parents to discuss with kids the hazard of frozen ponds.

"Wind Chill" is a description of the effect of wind on the bare skin. It's true that W/C has nothing to do with water freezing, since it's a perception instrument. WIND does have an effect on water freezing, since wave action on an icy shore (at five degrees) freezes water more quickly around the edge. Each wave adds ice to the existing edge, thickening the ice somewhat, and extending the ice toward the middle. What's strange is that Mr. Burn's pond, according to him, didn't have a "spec" (sic) of ice. A pond that is only a few feet deep would freeze faster than one that is deep, but all

Do you have a pic,? I'd like to forward one to him.

So I just heard from him again: "We don't have any reports of frozen ponds. I have asked. I have one and not a spec of ice."

I'm pretty sure that it's the ego thing, which is why, apparently, he felt the need to say, "good thing the ponds didn't freeze". I'll just say that it seems like GB has issues. You know how, with some people, you like them more, the more that you talk to them? G.Burns isn't like that! He didn't seem especially intelligent/sharp, friendly, or interested in helping people. But then, some people don't make good initial - or secondary -- impressions. I've had some nice conversations with Karen Minton, btw. But this guy? Not so much....

Among other things, what was weird was that he didn't seem to be able (or maybe willing) to comprehend that a small pond can freeze all the way across while a large, deep pond might just freeze around the edges. Maybe his entire talent involves taking the computerized model of weather events and relating them to the public -- the problem being that there's no computer model for him to consult about ponds freezing over. This is compounded by his unwillingness to warn of weather situations before they become dire. I have to wonder if he warned at all when the weather was cold for over a we

This was the second-ever discussion online with Glen Burns, chief weatherguy at WSB-TV. Both discussions were weird and they both had to do with ponds freezing over. Like I did here, I asked Glen Burns to remind people to tell their kids not to venture out on pond ice because it couldn't support their weight and they could fall through and drown. His response to me was - "It will be too warm for ponds to freeze - ponds don't freeze in less than 48 hours". This is the day BEFORE the temps were to go down to 5 degrees. I told him that warning about pond freeze was like warning about tornad

I watched it again. It looked worse the second time!

I think that pidgeon-holing people is against the law in GA!

What you call "giving it up" is just making necessary paradigm shifts that allow necessary progress. The progress will take place, with or without your blessing. I get it. You don't like the direction our country's going. There are too many people being accomodated who are too different. You don't like gays getting married or the large number of hispanics whom you suspect probably got here illegally. You think that a certain percentage of people are getting a free pass and you're having to pay for it. You think that religion is losing to atheism and that we'd all be better off if things were

Excellent!

I'm suspicious of the end of the game, where one particular Auburn player took himself out of a couple of long plays, committed pass interference in the end zone, then allowed the winning touchdown pass to be thrown to the guy he was covering. If you get a chance, watch #11 on defense during the last FSU drive.

I appreciate the offer, but I don't smoke. But who knows? In 20 years, I might take it up!

If the people who run GA (as opposed to the citizens) believed in freemarket capitalism, we would have some of the greatest casinos in the world! So it's not a matter of Georgia meeting demand and putting Georgians to work - It's about a narrow ideology taking precedence over the public good. And that narrow ideology is not about to give way to the new paradigm of pot growing/production in GA. We just don't do progress here. It will happen eventually, but not until billions of revenue have been churned in other states and the nervous nellies here figure out that the production of marijuana is

Here in GA, it just doesn't stay cold long enough for ponds to freeze solid enough to be safe to walk on. It's a hard n' fast rule here - It should never be done because it's never safe.

Parents, you'll want to have a talk with your children about their staying away from frozen ponds. It has been several years since it has gotten cold enough for kids to venture out on to frozen ponds. Several years ago, though, when we'd have a cold snap into the single digits for a day or two, the ponds would APPEAR to freeze solid. And every year there would be a couple of stories of kids who fell through the ice and drowned. Occasionally the horror story was compounded by the death of a friend who suffered the same fate attempting to save the first boy who had fallen through! Because we

The "REALITY" of the situation is that there never was anything to this story but a scheme to get free advertising. There never was a suspension, because Phil and the crew were on break from taping. I predict that the effort will be wildly successful and that there will be more such "REALITY" drama-events to kick off the new seasons of other shows, once they see the success of the DuckDynasty "controversy".