THIS is why TV breaks into Oprah and Dr. Phil for weather.......

Watch this video---live coverage of a tornado on the ground near Oklahoma City today, beginning near a middle school, proceeding toward an interstate.

I tire of reading blogs and people's comments at Richmona media Web sites complaining of how the meteorologists break into their favorite shows to talk about "breaking weather that's nowhere near me".

Deal with it.

Your community is one of many served by any television station. And if ONE life can be saved by pre-empting Jeopardy, then so be it.

If my child were at this middle school, or my wife commuting on I-35, I'd be grateful to this station for their service, and MOST especially if I lived just the other side of I-35.

Super Tuesday-----for all the wrong reasons.......

Pray for the people in the Mid-South tonight as they're under a huge breakout of tornadoes. Memphis alone is bracing for a third line of severe weather today. Already an area mall has suffered significant damage.

For more on Memphis, click here.

Nashville is in the crosshairs at this hour; for details now and any aftermath, click here.

For my friends here in Richmond, Virginia, not to scare but to advise....my wife and I were on vacation in Nashville in August, 1993 when a horrible line of storms came through one evening, cancelling plans as we decided to head straight home the next day.

That "next day" was August 6, 1993, when the tornado outbreak hit Petersburg and Colonial Heights, destroying homes, parts of Historic Petersburg, and tore through the heart of the then Wal-Mart in Colonial Heights.

We have severe weather possible tomorrow. Keep your eyes on radar and the skies tomorrow!!!!