![]() So here we are in the grips of the Blizzard of 2011. But here on campus, there was awful nothingness! In the interests of full disclosure, the storm went all around us and the students were hammered as they went home and, yes, it was a good thing they got a day's head start. As surely as I'm here today I heard the ghost of Lee George laughing at me from the grave! As I arrived in the early morning to do my morning thing at KOBC-FM there at the campus, I looked into the sullen morning sky. As chapel progressed he and the faculty had an impromptu caucus the end result being for the first time in its history OCC dismissed early and the kids evacuated the place. So as we walked from his office to chapel, I gave Ken a complete weather briefing. They asked me to go to OCC President Ken Idleman and make the case that we should close early and get the kids outa here. That being the case, a lot of the students would get stranded here, they wouldn't make it home or those who tried would run an incredible risk of death and injury and they'd have to keep the dorms open and the caf open, etc etc you get the picture. You see, a monster winter storm had us in the cross hairs and was going to hit like tomorrow. ![]() Two unsavory characters approached me they were professors there at OCC and they were worried men. I was the weekend weather anchor on KSN-TV in Joplin (my old partner in crime, Ken Ford, was the week day anchor) and I was in the final year of my tenure as a student at Ozark Christian College. He had a long career with the Louisville Metro Police Department. It’s Richard Pearson who’s coming from Louisville, Kentucky. I know for a fact that police patrolled his house because of all the death threats. The city of Joplin has its next police chief. What Joplin got was one of the biggest recorded snowfalls since they started keeping records. Veteran TV weatherman and radio personality Lee George gave his last weather forecast while holding his characteristic pointer on Sept. One year, though, he missed the forecast by just a bit. He was a good guy, and served many years faithfully. Lee George was a long time weather anchor on KODE-TV in Joplin. Ok, so I gotta give a bit of a background here. ![]() This is a picture of the Ozark Christian College campus in the grips of the Blizzard of 2011, sent along by Alumni Director Meredith Williams.
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