Looks like the folks at FireKatie.com
are finally getting their wish. Bottom Line Communications is reporting that Katie Horner is getting shown the door at KCTV5 and should be gone by summer (so no more interruptions for How I Met Your Mother or NCIS).
Media watcher John Landsberg writes that the CBS affiliate "has been conducting secret focus-group tests with potential weather candidates
around the country." He notes that KCTV5 wouldn't confirm or deny the story. If true, we may have seen our last Horner-gasm -- and played our last round of the Katie Horner Drinking Game.
Horner has been at KCTV5 since 1994; she became the station's chief meteorologist in 1998. She's best-known for breaking into programs with hysterical and overprotective weather news. (She once told children to wear bike helmets during severe storms.)
The Katie Horner Drinking Game was created by Adam Yarbrough one stormy night in 2009 when Horner
interrupted regularly scheduled programming for another marathon
forecast. So one last time, here's the game (just don't blame us when you're black-out drunk):
The Katie Horner Drinking Game
If
Katie's wearing jeans, it's clearly casual day. All players must be in
their underwear.
If Katie mentions a watch or a warning of any
type, hold tight to your drink and sip nervously.
If Katie tells
you it's hailing in your area, run outside to freshen the ice in your
cup.
If Katie speaks directly to your children, give them a heavy
dose of cough syrup. (If you don't have kids, drink it yourself.)
If
Katie says, "Tonganoxie," everyone passes their drink to the person on
the right and chugs.
If Katie says, "Take cover," top off your
drink. It's gonna be a long night.
If Katie talks about being
scared for your life, chug.
If Katie asks the audience to e-mail
her rainfall totals or storm-damage reports, take a crazy party pic and
send it to her.
If Katie references Newschopper 5, take 5 gulps.
If
Katie announces a tornado warning, fire up the blender and make some
pina coladas.
If Katie talks about Doppler coupling, make out with
the person to your left.
If Katie walks off screen, take a long,
steady chug until she returns.
If Katie talks about peace of mind,
drink.
If Katie tells you that you're in the clear, the game ends.
If
a tornado actually hits your house, move the party to KCTV5 and get
Katie drunk with you!
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I little boy in Joplin survived the tornado by wearing his bike helmet. The helmet was distroyed. He would have been dead without it. Good advice Katie.
i would like to spend some time with her in a rain shower LOL
@Smackfan on May 22, 2011 at 5:49 PM oh some have. She has gotten around in both marriages.
Who gives a shit if she's getting a divorce or what goes on in her personal life. That has nothing to do with the weather. And you people have nothing better to do than worry about you damn tv show being interrupted, seriously? Get a life. I'd much rather know if there is a storm coming our way. She's a great metrologist and they should keep her around. KCTV5 is making a mistake.
What goes on in Katie Horner's private life is her business and nobody elses. She has started looking really sharp and I think that is great. But, back to being a meteriologist..........she is the best. When storms are hitting the greater kansas city area I go to Katie for input. Yes, I don't like having favorite shows interupted. However, I can catch them again..........I won't have a 2nd chance of having a life if I am not informed and get caught in the middle of a storm/tornado.
She gives exceptional advice to all in regards to safety.
So I vote that Katie stays where she is. Get a life you naysayers!
I wonder the action of letting Katie go has anything to do with the rumor that she is having an affair (not sure with who) and is filing for a divorce???? Hummm?
I think it is rediculous the way people are treating Katie Horner. She is doing her job. It is too bad when all people have to worry about is missing a game they want to watch or their other shows. That is all they are. People 's lives are at stake and these people are our neighbors. How would they feel if it was their family or friends who did not get a warning and something bad happened. Their complaints just go to show how selfish this nation has become. People only think of themselves and not anybody else. I think the station to tell them to get a life. Lorna Paxton.
In response to the person defending Ms. Horner: the danger she brings with her hysterical behavior is because viewers have learned to ignore her warnings because she over-reacts and when there is a true emergency we won't take her seriously, and therefore not take the vital precautions. Gary Lezak is much more professional and reliable. I always listen and heed his advice.
This bitch is an A-HOLE with a capital A. Loves to talk during emergency weather broadcasts about her husband (# 2) and her father-in-law up north, the "PHYSICIAN" ("DR. SO-IN-SO"). Used to ride a $5,000 road bike in designer tights, proclaiming herself a triathlete or some shit. Tried to destroy Husband # 1 in her Johnson County KS divorce a decade or more ago, and got the job done because she was such a media darling with KC-TV 5 for so many years. She gives new meaning to the word C - NT. Good riddance, Katie, and keep your sorry ass down when the next funnel roars into town, especially if you're out pedaling with your oh-so-important friends.
Regardless of how bad she is I think she is HOT and I want to DO HER
When the tornado came through Piper, Kansas a few years ago. It was Katie that got us to safety. I love TV shows also. But My life is worth more!!!!
Lkfwoa 1 day ago I think the person who wrote this should be made to stand in the direct path of an F5 tied to a post when other meterology folks tell you...""Oh...Just a sprinkle or two".Then they might see why precise weather forecasting is important. As far as the helmet stuff..that is an amazing idea. Let's just say it's your 7 year old and you have gone to the basement...or maybe you dont have a basement. If you can protect the brain by putting on a bicycle helmet you will have done well....But, since you think that is sort of "whoeeee" then while you are facing your F5...we wont give you one. I had the gift to work with her and I know her work ethic.It is spotless.She looks at weather from all sides...yes, even the personal side. By the way...her degree in meterology isn't just GIVEN to anyone. The classwork is brutal and it is hard to get through, but she got through it effortlessly. If you don't like her that is your right..but, you don't need to be so crude about it. Have you heard that your tv can change channels? It's a new thing...goes with the reomote. If she leaves it will be a loss. I pray the powers that be think about this seriously.
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I think the person who wrote this should be made to stand in the direct path of an F5 tied to a post when other meterology folks tell you...""Oh...Just a sprinkle or two".Then they might see why precise weather forecasting is important. As far as the helmet stuff..that is an amazing idea. Let's just say it's your 7 year old and you have gone to the basement...or maybe you dont have a basement. If you can protect the brain by putting on a bicycle you will have done well....But, since you think that is sort of "whoeeee" then while you are facing your F5...we wont give you one. I had the gift to work with her and I know her work ethic.It is spotless.She looks at weather from all sides...yes, even the personal side. By the way...her degree in meterology isn't just GIVEN to anyone. The classwork is brutal and it is hard to get through, but she got through it effortlessly. If you don't like her that is your right..but, you don't need to be so crude about it. Have you heard that your tv can change channels? It's a new thing...goes with the reomote. If she leaves it will be a loss. I pray the powers that be think about this seriously.
I think the person who wrote this should be made to stand in the direct path of an F5 when other meterology folks tell you...""Oh...Just a sprinkle ofr two".Then they might see how precise weather forecasting is important. I have worked with her and I know her work ethic...you are wrong!
I woind3er if those 300 who died recently in that Tornado outbreak would have survived had their TV stations not catered to those entitled to see their all important tv program? Anyone want to bet had that happened here Justin Kendall & these other self absorbed idiots would be raising hell why no one was warned & why the Networks allowed those people to go unwarned? I bet they would especially if it was Justin's house scattered all over the county.
Wow who is the whiny douchebag here. I dont need to a 30 minute fucking break in programming to know its raining. Dont be such a pussy Smasters.
You all are missing the important story here. Horner is leaving and the rapture is coming in 5 days. This is no mere coincident.
She is the 5th horseman, Hyperbole.
What's more pathetic: Horner's weather reports or the people who obsess over them? Call it a tie. Tie goes to the runner. Yawn.
What a bunch of whiney butt sissy's. Do you really think that your program is more important than someones life or property. I don't like my programs to be interrupted either but that is just life and mother nature. Where have all of the good and decent people gone? Selfish babies!
Not to mention falsely stating there was a tornado on the ground in O.P. , when all of the other stations basically said she was full of shit. Fake weather degree to boot. Remember when they had her college history on their site, but pulled it because she college hopped so much they knew it was embarrassing. Congrats on your P.R. degree weather "chick". Now get back to what you do best, self promoting yourself. And please, never show us a swimsuit shot again. We don't give a f about your marathon history. Honestly, how many casting couches did you have to "break in" to be lead "meteorologist"?
STFU, it isn't the main reason. She doesn't even have a real weather degree, plus the fact that is is more focused on scaring people into watching the news with her TMZ promos. Good riddance..
this is you, isn't it, Phar?:
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You people are un-real! If your criteria for a severe weather issue is whether it interferes with your favorite TV program, them you truly spent too much time in front of the "idiot box". Although at times, I agree, she seems a little hyperbolic, I would rather suffer through that than know nothing at all. Come on people get a REAL life.
I just hope she doesn't end up at KSHB. I like too many NBC shows, and I don't need her interrupting Community.
She'll still do her fear mongering, but now she'll run into movie theaters right before the movie ends and tell everyone to put on their bicycle helmets and get down on the nasty sticky floor.
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