Define irony: At the job where I’ve started questioning my future, I’ve now had two separate incidents in which I’ve had a health issue entirely connected to work. I’m still not convinced the first one happened, but I had another li’l situation this week.I was covering the ceremony to mark the fifth anniversary of…
Have I ever told you I used to live in Oregon? The saga started out in SuperOregon. Then I moved on to the big city, living in Portland about three years. Fun fact about both Standard and SuperOregon: They sometimes get hot in the summer.But not this hot.During my first summer, when we’d read the weather report…
“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…
Li’l Baby Scaia was a big fan of meteorology. Back in the olden days, I’d space out to The Weather Channel when they, you know, talked about the weather instead of sending Jim Cantore into whatever disaster.Funny Jim Cantore story: I was working in Houston for Hurricane Ike. During situations like this, emergency management agencies prefer everyone…
Rolling blackouts have come to an end, giving us the opportunity to argue about face masks again. North Texas has climbed above freezing for the first time since last Saturday.https://twitter.com/scaia/status/1362839336387928070Back in 2011, I was two years into this life I chose in Texas. Scaiaholism was only contained to the WBAP website.That year…
Not enough people are reading this blog. If only more loyal Scaiaholics had seen last week’s post, we might have heeded the warnings to stay home.There was nothing funny about that crash. I talked to several people who were there. One said he was glad to come out with only some damage to his rear bumper.During that…
You might feel a lot of ways about the weather we’re having. Today was a prime opportunity to shove my microphone in the face of people who were filling their gas tank.https://twitter.com/scaia/status/1359524578444337156In a situation like this, I often try to locate the nearest QuikTrip. First, they don’t seem to mind reporters…