Hazardous Weather Alert (thanx jdarkwulf)

[athelind]

And you thought you were having bad weather...

(The original NOAA weather service page won't last very long, so the page has been Saved to the Stormdancer Archives. I suspect someone's gonna be in trouble for this one...)

Update [10:35]: Awww, it's already gone, less than 45 minutes after I spotted it. Wuff got it from FARK, so the NOAA people probably noticed that they were getting bombarded with hits for a little out-of-the-way town in Missouri and found the gag. Check the Archive Link, kids, it's still good.

Oh, and there really is a Hazardous Weather Condition moving into that area, so they needed to scrub the gag to let people know the real thing.

I stand by my original hypothesis: Somebody's Gonna Get In Trouble.



Update [11:02]: At The Missouri: All Warnings NOAA page, I found this:

WWUS73 KEAX 171825
NPWEAX

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY-PLEASANT HILL MO
1225 PM CST WED DEC 17 2003


MOZ012-021-171930-
ANDREW MO-CLINTON MO-
1225 PM CST WED DEC 17 2003

...THE TEST EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH IS CANCELLED...

PLEASE DISREGARD THE PREVIOUS NPWEAX MESSAGE.  IT WAS A TEST MESSAGE.

$$

NOONAN

Someone REALLY has a sense of humor...

Comments

[drleo.livejournal.com]

Actually, it wasn't a test message. It was a real catastrophe that they meant to keep hidden. But now the Earth is back in orbit and no one will ever be the wiser thanks to the SUPERFRIENDS!

Thanks for saving that one

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Ever see the movie "The Day the Earth Caught Fire"?
Ths street scenes were shot in Fleet Street at the actual art deco Daily Express building......
while the paper was still going out...

[hafoc.livejournal.com]

And the author of the message is Heinlein? (snork!) I knew he faked it!