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And, gosh, sometimes I still don't get it right. There she met husband-to-be, Eric, a director at the TV station, and after a three-year courtship, they married and moved to Middle Tennessee where they started their family on Wilson County's west side, and Patton began winning the loyalty of her viewers. Along the sunny, stormy, rainy, icy, sweltering, freezing and sometimes partly cloudy way, she reminisces on a few of her most unforgettable weather events.

Stormtracker was fairly new then. We could see the debris flying around on our City Cam. I realized then what an awesome responsibility it was to try and keep folks safe during threatening times. I would say the floods of were the most emotional event for me," said Patton. At about 10 minutes 'til four, I had the weather graphics done when suddenly every computer system in the station shut down except the weather computers.

So we went on-air with our newscasts with nothing but weather. I talked about that degrees for about an hour and a half. There was no video for news stories. We finally got some reporters to do live shots about the heat, but that was a real song and dance. We flew in and did a tailhook landing and then experienced a catapult launch.

That was pretty exciting stuff. As a matter of fact, I thought I was in heaven for a few seconds. I guess we experienced zero gravity for just a moment after take-off, and I just couldn't feel anything. Video journalist Rich Stone assured me we were still very much alive.

It got a little disheveled over the years. I want to relax a little, have a bit more laidback lifestyle for a while. I want to maybe grow roses again or herbs. Just get my hands back in the dirt again. I'm actually quite domestic--I like to cook, sew, craft, garden, even clean. While she has given up on a few things that were on her bucket list, like watching a space shuttle launch, she clings to one.

Asked what she enjoyed most about talking about the weather, she shared, "Just helping people out with their daily lives. Many people consider me family because I'm in their living room every day. A lot of people have sent emails, cards and Facebook posts saying they were gonna miss me.

I'm gonna miss them, too. Nashville's most weather-wise woman predicted, "I might fill in from time to time. Who knows? Never say never! You may not be getting all you can out of your browsing experience and may be open to security risks! Member Options. Youth Links. News Videos. Lisa Patton hangs up her weather cap. Comment Email Print. Related Articles. Also along for the big day were their children, from left, Eli and Brenna.

Photo submitted. Cannon Info Links. That same day he posted a poll on Twitter, asking readers if bridges and overpasses — which we all know freeze first — are the same thing.

Fifty-eight percent of the nearly votes cast over a minute period said they were different. The technical difference does not matter. He was not setting transportation policy. He was driving home the point that drivers should be wary of slick bridges and overpasses. FWIW, Dictionary. Let the arguing begin. Break out your Venn Diagrams! A good term for a growing weather front, methinks. Drobny started NashSevereWx in Weather data and software that had been only for the NWS and local TV meteorologists recently had become available to the weather nerd community.

I snatched it up. I was equipped to follow storms myself.