I found a microcassette tape from an answering machine from many years back. PF>was entertaining listening to old friends drunk dialing and leaving messages PF>:)

I rigged up one recording one time (I still have it), where my brother
called me "Sherman Bonner"...after 2 central Arkansas TV weathercasters
from years ago...Ron Sherman and Tom Bonner.

Ron Sherman now runs a teleproductions company for infomercials
(located in the former United Artists UA Four movie theatre complex in southwest Little Rock...next to the former Southwest Mall, where the
Arkansas State Police Headquarters is now).

Tom Bonner is on the executive board at Arkansas Children's Hospital,
just south of the Arkansas State Capitol Complex in Little Rock. It has
one of the top burn treatment centers in the country...and it's
Medflight helicopters are known as "Angel One" and "Angel Two".

Anyway, I took and edited sound bytes from the film the National
Weather Service did on the Wichita Falls, Texas F-5 Tornado on April 10,
1979, called "Terrible Tuesday"...a recording from a tornado siren near
my home years ago...and sounds of high winds from a hurricane...and
combined it into this:

[start of message]

"Hello there. This is Daryl Stout".

[audio clip from Terrible Tuesday]

"Anyone within the sound of my voice. There is a tornado on the ground.
Please take cover!!".

[audio clip of tornado siren]

"Unfortunately, this is the time of year in Arkansas...when severe thunderstorms, producing heavy rain, high winds, large hail, flash
flooding, and tornadoes...can develop and move into an area very
rapidly".

[audio clip of hurricane winds]

"Because of this, I'm currently gathering important weather data, and
can't come to the phone right now. So, please leave your name, message
and callback number after the tone, and I'll get back with you. Thanks".

[end of recording]

Since I had a complete weather station, when I was living at my
parents home, I was never lying about it...as the station gathered data
24 hours a day.

The gentleman's voice from "Terrible Tuesday" was a ham radio
operator, Glen Whatley...I think his callsign was WB9SXX. I don't know
if he's still alive or not.

Sikes Shopping Center, one of the big shopping in Wichita Falls,
Texas, was right in the path of the F-5 tornado, which was a mile and a
half wide at times. Shoppers inside knew the tornado was coming, but
tragically did not know what to do about it...and as a result, panic
ruled. People were killed as they tried to get their cars, which were
tossed unmercilessly by the tornado, which killed 46 people that day.

You can find a link to that film on YouTube.

Daryl

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