Actually, I'm waiting for them to realize that the electronic voices that they
use sound ethnically "white", then there will be all hell to pay.
Discrimination, in the terms of ethnically biased electronic voices, will
become the rage as the country progresses further into politically
correctness.

If you don't believe me, they began experimenting with various voices.

http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/re...noaa02007.html

As an analog to this, the Time Broadcasts originating in Canada (CHU) are
given in French and English. Not bad, those in Quebec that are fluent in
French deserve to be able to hear the time signal in their native tongue, BUT
the broadcasts are so neurotic that they, on a minute to minute basis,
alternate the French first, then the next minute the English is first. Sheesh,
you have to wait for the tone to ascertain the time anyway, who gives a squat
what language's signal is broadcast first.

Start all the minutes in French, who cares? It's the BEEP that counts.

http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/
http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/main_e.html
http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/time...adcasts_e.html

Unrelated (to the above diatribe), but time related:
http://www.time.gov/exhibits.html

Regards.

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bm9ub3RtZQ==.d8ee1a39f635216f938ad20b295db80a@105 8036176.cotse.net,
DXER@Radio wrote:

Since the NWS is just another typical federal agency awash in lazy,
swaggering, cretinous Affirmative-Action type minority employees, I'm
surprised the weather radio alert was even broadcast.

Never say never.
Nothing is absolute.