>> I love being able to educate the public and help people.
I mean, that's really what I believe that I'm here to do, especially when it comes
to severe weather and natural disasters.
I want to let people know, hey, this is the weather forecast, and this is how it's going
to impact you and your family today.
Are you ready?
Are you prepared?
Do you have a plan?
Do you have a disaster safety kit?
Do you know what to do?
And so with all these things, I want to give them the weather forecast, explain the impacts,
and help keep them and their families safe because it could ultimately save a life.
Challenges in my job, it's funny because when you are doing the weather on TV
and let's say there is a severe thunderstorm warning but it's only affecting one county,
but you have to go on TV because it's your job to keep the public informed and keep them safe.
So you do a cut in.
You break into their favorite primetime programming and then your Facebook,
your twitter, your e-mail, phone, everything blows up because viewers are angry.
And they don't care because that thunderstorm is not affecting their county or city and I'm on TV
and I'm interrupting their favorite program.
And that's when you have to kind of take a step back and say, well, sir or ma'am,
we're trying to keep everybody safe.
This is my job.
I'm sorry.
You can probably watch your program online later.
So it's just one of those things that you have to do and it's just the nature of the job.