Universal Hub - WHDH

We'll give that a drink and a half

adamg — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:33:50 +0000

Channel 7's Nancy Chen just checked in from a hill in Worcester. Drink! Then she bent down and picked up some snow to make a snowball. But, darn, the snow was so dry, it just disintegrated. So we'll rate than a half drink.

Pete Bouchard worries if we've gotten too soft

adamg — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:20:42 +0000

Blizzard of '78 aftermath in Revere. Photo by Jessica O'Brien. Posted under this CC license.

On the 11 o'clock news last night, Bouchard seemed worried that, after two years of little snow, we wouldn't know how to deal with the foot of snow the National Weather Service now says we could get, starting as early as Thursday night.

Does he have a point? Should the French Toast Alert Level be raised to Orange? Or will the genes from our collective history (35 years ago today, folks) kick in?

Horrible hitcher

adamg — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:41:53 +0000

Nicole Oliverio at WHDH tweets the driver of one of the station's news vans had just gotten on I-93 south when she realized somebody was on the roof. Seems somebody with places to go but no way to get there had climbed on somewhere between the station's Government Center offices and the I-93 ramp.

The guy surprisingly wasn't hurt. Said he needed a ride, but didn't have $$

No junk on Channel 7

adamg — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 05:13:17 +0000

Compare this screen grab from WHDH's report on the annual L Street plunge with this photo of the same swimmer.

No snowballs yet, but a shovel

adamg — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 23:17:03 +0000

WHDH's Ryan Schulteis just did a report from Bridgewater, where he shoveled some slush to show us that, yes, it's wet. He was followed by the station's standing-on-the-side-of-a-highway reporter, Victoria Warren, who held a snow brush throughout her report, but didn't use it.

For some reason, reporters stationed at Gillette Stadium are doing their reports without hats on. Only Channel 4 weatherman Joe Joyce was dressed sensibly, with a hat on, as he stood in front of the WBZ Accuweather Mobile Weather Urban Assault Vehicle with the LED readout.