Archive for February, 2009

Harris Nuclear Power Plant Field Trip

I’ve met rock stars, movie stars and athletes during my days as a TV weatherman, but what I got to do Thursday was by far, one of the coolest!
Progress Energy gave a small group of media a behind the scenes tour of their 22 year old nuclear plant early Thursday morning. That’s the only bad [...]


Local Meteorologist Becomes Muppet

Several months ago, through the wonders of the World Wide Web, humans were able to create Simpson’s characters that looked exactly like they did.  Now, you can do the same thing with Jim Henson’s Muppets!
FAO Schwartz allows you to customize your own Muppet and for a small fee of $90, you can have it in [...]


Record February Snow In North Carolina

There were numerous pictures sent to the NBC17 newsroom after the snow that fell early Tuesday morning, but none were as good as what we got below.
Apparently the snow in Franklinton, North Carolina was a little more than what we got in the Triangle!