Dan Rather Honored For Ground-breaking Hurricane Coverage

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GALVESTON, Texas -- In a neighborhood park on Galveston’s east end, a small crowd gathered Friday morning to plant a tree for Arbor Day.
A few dignitaries and volunteers spoke about restoring the island’s tree canopy, much of which was lost in Hurricane Ike. Galveston’s always affable Mayor Joe Jaworski offered a few remarks.　Then he introduced an 80 year-old man standing in the crowd, a squinting fellow with gray hair and a hearing aid and a weathered face that looked familiar, especially to people of a certain age.
"Dan Rather, you are a legend in America," the mayor said, as he read a proclamation declaring this Arbor Day also Dan Rather Day in Galveston.
The old reporter had returned to the scene of one of his biggest stories. A half-century ago, his riveting reports from inside the Weather Bureau office in Galveston warned Texans about a monstrous storm called Hurricane Carla. He literally changed the way the world sees hurricanes, convincing Weather Bureau officials to allow the first broadcast of live radar images showing the massive storm system churning toward the Texas coastline.

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I had an interesting chat with Dr. Neil Frank a few weeks back regarding old footage in the vault at KHOU. It was 'Doc's' first year as a forecaster at the NHC and we lived in a much different time. What is interesting that the 'powers that be' that were reluctant to allow the radar images to be shown 'live' were from elsewhere. I'll place this in our sub forum as it is more of a regional Topic, but it did change public awareness of the destructive power of a Hurricane and had a direct impact on how the media today relays that information.