Non-locals may or may not forgive this, but Gary England is a prominent local meteorologist. He's been around for a zillion years and you can even catch him on the movie "Twister".
...and now he's a drinking game.
Pregame
1. Everyone selects a storm chaser other than Val Caster. Every time Gary
talks to your storm chaser, you take one drink. Take two drinks every time we
see footage from your storm chaser. Take four drinks if your storm chaser says
"tornado on the ground."
2. Everyone selects a county other than Pottawatomie County. Every time
Gary mentions your county, you take one drink. Take two drinks every time we see
footage from your county. Take four drinks if a tornado touches down in your
county.
One drink
1. Take one drink every time Gary says the following:"Hook echo"
"Updraft" "Metro" "Doppler radar" "Wall cloud" "Ranger 9"
"Underground" "Mobile home"
2. When Gary gives a list of counties, take one drink for every county in
the list.
3. Take one drink every time Gary interrupts a program. Take one drink if
Gary says "You're not missing any of [program name]." Take one drink when Gary
says "We'll keep you advised."
Two drinks
1. Take two drinks every time Gary says the following:"Baseball-sized hail"
"Waterloo Road" "Pottawatomie County" "Deer Creek High School"
2. Take two drinks every time Gary mentions the following towns:Altus
Burns Flat Dill City Gotebo Hydro Lookeba Meeker Mulhall Oktaha
Olustee Shattuck Slaughterville Tryon Vici Waukomis Wayne (or Payne)
Weleetka Wetumkah
3. Take two drinks every time Gary talks to Val Caster.
Three drinks
1. Take three drinks if we see footage from Val Caster.
2. Take three drinks if we see footage from Pottawatomie County.
3. Take three drinks if Gary mentions the following:"Immediate tornado
precautions" "National Weather Service" "Mesocyclone" "Portable Radio"
"Take shelter" "Tornado warning in effect until *"
Four drinks
1. Take four drinks if Ranger 9 must land to refuel.
2. Take four drinks if Gary issues his own tornado warning, not recognized
by the NWS or says the following:"Will someone please answer that phone?" "Do
you see power flashes?"
3. Take four drinks if a shirt-less tornado victim is interviewed.
Finish your drink
1. Finish your drink if someone uses the word tornado as a verb or if Gary
mentions the nearest cross streets to you.
2. If Gary says "We've lost Val," pour a little out for your homies and
finish your drink.
We added catagories.
1. If Gary speaks directly to children who are home alone, take a drink.
2. Take one drink for every article of clothing Gary takes off or loosens, take a drink. Touseled hair counts as well.
3. If ever ever again Gary says "We aren't fartin' around people!" the way he did on May 3rd, 1999 (I cannot testify to hearing it, I was taking shelter in the bathtub), drain the bottle.
8 comments:
I want to add: any time Gary says, "I think we've lost him" about one of the storm chasers, you drink.
On the bright side, I guess none of you will feel the storm when/if it hits.
These are great! You're going to have to use a shot glass if you want to make it through the pregame. I have an additional rule, if you don't mind. When Gary has to be told to leave the newsroom and got to the basement/safe place, have 4 drinks.
I also live in tornado alley, and we recently had a tornado...pretty bad around where I am. I wish I would've known of this game before...could've adapted it for my local weatherpeople and not been so scared during the storm. In fact, I'm pretty sure by the time the tornado would've hit, I would've been passed out in the basement, sleeping like a baby.
Anon, I have only been scared by a tornado once. I think I have the false sense of security common to folks around here. I go 35 years without getting hit so I somehow think it'll never happen to me.
Silly and dangerous, I know.
One of my favorite memories from my freshman year in college, though, was a tornado watch. We evacuated my dorm and all went to the basement. There was a group of girls who weren't "from around here". Oh, how they cried and prayed for their lives! My only concern was that I had to perform in chapel the next day.
I should probably worry more, I know.
I can hear rednecks printing this all over Oklahoma...
VERY FUNNY!
I remember a comment from May 3rd, 1999. Gary advised the listening audience to get to a bathroom in the center of the house and "Wrap yourself around the toilet." hehehe
LOL! I'm from Enid but live in Tulsa now. We don't get to see Gary in all his glory these days. However, I was in OKC a few years ago when a tornado was coming and we had him on TV in the hotel. Things were getting pretty close to the station. At one point everyone had left the studio to seek cover (including Gary) but they forgot to tell the guys in the helicopter. They kept talking to Gary and finally they just say, "Gary? Gary? Gary?!?"
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