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I minored in meteorology for some reason.”Gotta minor in something,” I suspect I said to myself at one point.Li’l Baby Scaia used to zone out with The Weather Channel on. This was back before they started naming random storms and airing shows about driving trucks. In The Weather Channel’s defense, many of the shows are about…

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“Good weather for microphone shovin’,” I thought to myself as I woke up Thursday morning.When that batch of thunderstorms moved in Wednesday night, I had just left dinner in the Mid-Cities. When I first moved to DFW, I was the afternoon anchor at WBAP. When we had a tornado warning, I’d go back and forth with our…

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The National Weather Service has now confirmed ten tornadoes hit the area last Sunday night.This has led to reporters from across the country showing up in the Preston Hollow neighborhood to shove a microphone into the face of people whose homes were damaged. In fact, that’s become a standard line to introduce myself.”Hi, I’m Alan with…

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I woke up this morning to a notification on Facebook about all my associates who marked themselves safe from the “Western Ohio Tornadoes.” I had gone to bed early and didn’t know what had happened.”Where am I, 1974 Xenia?!” I asked myself. People who grew up in Western Ohio totally get that.Loyal Scaiaholics know I grew up…

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