Doug Kiesling – Weather Paparazzi
Today I was out covering the major flooding that is taking place in North Dakota. The Wild Rice River is flooding it’s banks and creating major flooding that is impacting eastern Richland County, ND which is just south of the Fargo area near the town of Abercrombie, ND.
Most of the rural roads within a mile of the river are being washed away as the flooding backs up into farmers fields and then spills over the roadways to create a new path for the water to flow.
Today we were out covering the major flooding that is setting up in the Red River Valley to the southeast of the Fargo / Moorhead area as above normal temps rapidly melt off the winter snow pack.
Footage shows the major flooding impacting the Sabin, MN area along the Buffalo River which has burst it’s banks by a half mile in places.
The area was covered with fog and lite rain as the flood waters covered the landscape. This is a repeat of what happened last year around the same time of the year as the flood waters all flow towards the Red River and up north towards Fargo, ND and Moorhead, MN.
A powerful winter storm hit the Midwest and dumped almost a foot of snow in places in central Minnesota. The snow caused major traffic delays and hundreds of accidents from Saint Cloud to the Twin Cities metro area.
Footage shows cars in the ditch, along Interstate 94 and Highway 10 around the Saint Cloud, MN area. The snow totals ranged from five inches to ten inches around the area with a heavy band from Glenwood to west of Saint Cloud and down to Lakeville, MN area.
I got to love the fans that have watched the show I was on and the people that visit my blog pages here and on BNVN.com and or Examiner.com
At the same time I have to wonder about some people that send hate mail and post just the stupid stuff. If you can’t say it to someones face then why would you post it?
I was just looking over my Examiner.com page to see if there was any comments made and I saw this one.
Nicole Foster says: I have seen and heard your name for some time now. Doug, you are an jerk who makes money from other peoples misery. Go to hell !
Really? So what does CNN, Fox News, NBC News, The Weather Channel, ABC News, CBS News, and the rest of the media do? Oh yeah, they make money from reporting the news which in most cases is bad news.
Some people need to get a life and think about what they post before they post.
Global cooling is in full swing in the Midwest as high temperatures did not even make it above 3F in the Minneapolis, MN metro area today. The arctic air mass that has moved into the area also brought brisk winds which made it feel more like -21F.
Overnight Snow Video. B-Roll footage of an overnight snow storm that hit the area of Minneapolis, MN. Video of people out in downtown and footage of snow plows.
Looks like today will be a mass panic at the malls for Christmas Shopping and travel due to a powerful winter weather system setting up in the central part of the United States. I’m gearing up to go cover the storm that Neva and I joked about with having to do so much stuff over Christmas that watch everything gets shut down due to the weather. Forecasts are for 20+ inches of snow from Minneapolis to Saint Cloud, MN.
Sarah Palin and her family made a visit to the Mall of America today to meet fans and autograph copies of her best selling book “Going Rogue”.
Sarah Palin was at the Mall of America for an autograph book signing event for her new book “Going Rogue”. Various B-Roll footage of Sarah and Todd Palin meeting their fans and autographing copies of her new book.
For all of the first time visitors to my personal website that have come here from seeing the show Tornado Road marathon on The Weather Channel today, thank you for visiting and I suppose you have a few questions. Feel free to email me your questions about the show.
If your just here to send me an email saying YOU SUCK, or you hate me on TV, well before you do that, just remember, I did not pick who I got to chase with on that show, the production company did.
Also I did not edit the show and I did not produce the show. I’ll be happy to give you the producers phone number and email address to tell him he sucks if you really hate the show but I’m just some dude that was stuck with someone I could not stand for a month.
If you liked the storm chasing and the hurricane chasing you saw on TV and want to see more of the insane footage, you should check out the YouTube video that Chris and I put together.
The Weather Channel (TWC) will be running a marathon of the new show called Tornado Road on Thanksgiving day staring… ME.
The broadcast times are from 7:00 PM Eastern with non stop broadcasts all evening and into the early morning until 4:00 AM Eastern.