“The Masters used a pro-active approach rather than a ‘hope’ plan,” wrote Forbes columnist and University of Georgia atmospheric sciences professor Marshall Shepherd. Tournament organizers recognized there was a threat of severe weather, changing the schedule on Saturday so rounds would be played earlier in the day before the worst of the storms threatened. I will continue to repeat that if and when we cut into programming to keep people safe.- Ella Dorsey April 14, 2019

The Real Housewives of Atlanta The Bachelor Sister Wives 90 Day Fiance Wife. Lives are more important than 5 minutes of golf. Nikki-Dee Ray is an Emmy Award-winning Meteorologist for News Channel 5. To everyone sending me death threats right now: you wouldn’t be saying a damn thing if a tornado was ravaging your home this afternoon. “You wouldn’t be saying a damn thing if a tornado was ravaging your home this afternoon,” she said. She also Tweeted about the responses saying lives are more important than five minutes of golf.

“Here at CBS 46, our number one priority is to keep you all safe.” “The thousands of hateful emails and phone calls and Tweets that (fellow meteorologist) Jennifer (Valdez) and I and the CBS 46 newsroom received are unacceptable,” Dorsey said. broadcast that a plan for how the station was going to handle the severe weather was made beforehand, including that it would use a split screen so that the Masters could still be watched.īut the sound couldn’t be heard, and viewers complained the tornado alert could have been communicated by a scroll at the bottom of the screen or a phone alert. An Atlanta television meteorologist said she got death threats Sunday after her station interrupted coverage of the Masters golf tournament when a tornado warning was issued.Įlla Dorsey, a meteorologist with WGCL-TV, explained during Sunday’s 11 p.m.

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