Sample Chapter from "Six Inches of Partly Cloudy" by Dick Goddard

8/6/2019 Sample Chapter from "Six Inches of Partly Cloudy" by Dick Goddard

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2011 Dick Goddard

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Library o Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataGoddard, Dick

Six inches o partly cloudy : Clevelands legendary meteorologist takes on everythingand more / Dick Goddard and om Feran.1. Goddard, Dick 2. MeteorologistsOhioClevelandBiography. 3. elevision weath-ercastersOhioClevelandBiography. 4. WJW- V ( elevision station : Cleveland,Ohio)Biography. 5. Cleveland (Ohio)Biography. 6. Quotations. I. Feran, om. II. itle.QC858.G63A3 2011551.5092dc22 [B 2011006560

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Contents

Foreword by Tim Taylor 7 Preface by Tom Feran 10 Introduction 11

Swimming With Sharks 13 Television and Me 23 Words on War 41 What Are You Afraid Of? 47 True Lies 49 The Ohio Country Myth 52 Go Bucks! 58 Snowbelt Diary 61 Lore and Lure of the Woollybear 65 Fox 8 Pet Parade 74 Starry, Starry Nights 78 School Daze 83 Weather Wisdom According to Kids 86 Believing Goddard 89 Global Warming 11 3 When Your Tang Gets Toungled 121 Gossip 129 Pets 134


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Forewordby Tim Taylor

aking nothing away rom such Cleveland media icons as Dorothy,Barnaby, or Ghoulardi, Dick is simply the most beloved person-ality in the history o Cleveland broadcasting. Dick Goddard has gone

rom being Northeast Ohios avorite uncle to its cherished grand ather. Inshort, Dick Goddard is the mana title he sometimes wears uncom ortably

and with great humility. Still very much a country boy rom Green, Dick com-bines an innate love o animals and compassion or those less ortunate with adevilish sense o humor reminiscent o Pecks Bad Boy or Eddie Haskell, whosepranks always get everyone else in trouble while leaving him unscathed.

No one would know that better than I do. For three decades I was privi-leged to have a ront-row seat to both the public and private lives o the grandpoobah o Cleveland weather. You could say I was either privileged or hilari-ously victimized by such proximity to the man I still address a ectionately as

Goddardto which he always replies, Whatard?Te king o the Woollybear Festival doesnt just enjoy the chaos that nor-

mally accompanies a live television newscast, he revels in it. In act, the morechaos he can create during the most serious moments o a news broadcast,

Its the Beloved Brillo Head, Tim Taylor,giving me an assist at one o our charityevents. Hes carrying a gol club, whichis nothing unusual. It tells me this might

have been one o Tims annual gol outingsbene ting the local epilepsy oundation.

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the more rewarding his day. Many o Dicks most incredible antics both pro-essionally and socially are alone worth the price o this book.

But he also had an uncanny knack o getting himsel in trouble on the air,o ten describing his many on-camera predicaments as talking himsel into a verbal cul de sac. Sometimes it went ar beyond a simple stumble. Only weeksbe ore I retired at the end o 2005, Dick unwittingly provided me with a going-away gi t that just keeps on giving because it now tops my very long list o Goddard stories.

As all turned to winter, Dick lamented to his aith ul viewers that he al-

ways eared the dreaded spoonerism at the approach o each new winter, when hed be aced with saying cold air mass several hundred times or thenext ew months. Only this time, what he was thinking overrode his tongue,and he actually uttered what he was always a raid o saying, which was coldmares ass. For a moment there was nothing but shocked silence, ollowed by Goddard con rming what we all thought we had heard. Oh my God . . . I saidit! Howls o laughter lled the studio and much o the Fox 8 building. But as youre about to read, this was only the latest reason that Dicks orecasts have

always been must-watch television.

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Dicks love and dedication to animals has been well documented. But hisinnate goodness and generosity also extends to people. Over the years it some-times has made him a target, but again, not without humor. Such as the timeDick, Robin, and I were about to enter our avorite take-out eatery and a manapproached with his young son, instinctively looking to Dick or the money they needed to buy dinner. Dick generously o ered to take them inside withus and buy them dinner. Te man never blinked when he responded that hedrather have the money because they wanted to go Chinese.

Dicks propensity or investing in questionable schemesand businesses is also legendary. Dragging his close riendsalong with him has also cost me a ew bucks over the years,causing some colleagues to suggest that our investing mis-sion statement might easily be buy high, sell low.

o be air, Goddards riendship did change my person-al ortunes when he hooked me up with his high-poweredagent, the late Ed Keating. Te big Irishman had already made his bones in the rough-and-tumble world o nego-

tiating with the billionaire owners o ootball and baseballteams. Keating, in act, success ully pulled o the rst tan-dem contract in NFL history, involving running backs Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick o the Miami Dolphins. And on the wall behind Keatings desk hung a blown-up multimilliondollar check he negotiated or Hall o Fame reliever DennisEckersley.

I tell you this because, or all o Keatings celebrated negotiating savvy, hecould never quite gure out how to control Dicks appetite or, shall we say, in-teresting investments. Keating would call in a state o exasperation and panic,asking how we ever got involved in another hare-brained scheme that always reminded him o Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton.

As youre about to learn, Dick Goddard is appropriately as unpredictableand uncontrollable as Clevelands weather. And thats why contributing to abook about his ascinating li e was irresistible. I think youll agree that Dick Goddard was, is, and always will be Clevelands own, one-o -a-kind, exaltedCleveland weather guruand, oh, so much more. Enjoy the stories!

Dicks love anddedication toanimals has beenwell documented

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PreFaCeby Tom Feran

elevisions history is crowded with rsts, mosts, and longests.Most o those records have asterisks attached to them, indicating thatthey apply to one particular station, network, city, or state. And then

there is Dick Goddard, who has had the longest career as a V weather ore-caster in history. Not just at V8, or in Cleveland, or in Ohio, but the longest

career anywhere. Period. No asterisk. His true peers are a hand ul o legendary meteorologists who had remarkable careers in a eld as ckle as the weatheritsel .

Harold a t was the rst V meteorologist west o the Mississippi (and oneo only three in the country), when he started orecasting or DallasFort Worthin 1949 on WBAP (later KXAS). Dubbed Worlds Greatest Weatherman onthe all-night Road Gang radio show or truckers, he was the longest-serving

V meteorologist in the world when he retired a ter orty-one years and ten

months in August 1991. Woody Assa was an original sta er at WLB in Jackson, Mississippi, when

it signed on the air in December 1953. When he ended his career in August2001 a ter orty-eight years, he was recognized as the longest-serving weath-erman at one station in the history o television.

And there is Canadas Dave Devall. When the ormer Royal Canadian AirForce meteorologist retired rom CF O- V in oronto on April 3, 2009, Guin-ness World Records and the World Records Academy announced that he heldthe newly created record or longest career as a weather orecaster: orty-eight years, two months, and twenty-seven days.

Dick Goddard tops that. He made his V orecasting debut on May 1, 1961, which made May 1, 2011, his tieth anniversary on television. Except or ninemonths when he went to Philadelphia with KYW- V, and then was under con-tract with V8 but waiting out a no-compete agreement, he spent all ty years on the air in Cleveland, watching the winds alo t and the woollybears.

Entering his ty- rst year in television, he is the worlds longest-servingV orecaster and the undisputed dean o Cleveland television. It is highly

unlikely that anyone will ever do it longer, or even come close.It is certain that no one will do it better.

I tracked Hurricane Gladys onthe weather board at KYW inSeptember 1964. Im holding apiece o chalk, which is whatI used to mark the map. Ittook hours to do it, and a ter

our years I was on the vergeo white lung disease. I would

chalk our hours a day.

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IntroduCtIonby Dick Goddard

It was the early 1940s, and down on our little arm south o Akron (now thecity o Green) I was lying on my bed with my tail-wagging riends, Bootsand Buster. We had just listened to Jack Graney broad-casting the Cleveland Indians game. On clear nights my little Zenith radio could ever so aintly pick up the legend-ary Red Barber, voice o the Brooklyn Dodgers.

While trying to dial up the Dodgers I came across a late-night radio preacher who was in spiritual high dudgeonand warning everyone about the new evil that was spread-ing across the land: ELEVISION! From his electronic bul-ly pulpit the minister proclaimed that television was the work o the devil, since God never intended or picturesto y through the air. Te preacher warned that anyone

who was watching or connected with Satans tool wouldbe destined to spend eternity in a ery urnace.

Since, like everyone else, I was ascinated by thoseuzzy, ickering images on six-inch black-and-white television screens, I was

consoled by the thought that I would be wearing asbestos underwear with my V riends Kukla, Fran, and Ollie.

For ty years I have been tumbling and ying through the atmosphere andinto living rooms and bedrooms throughout Northeast Ohio. And it has beena dizzyingand delight uljourney. What ollows are some o the highlights

rom my wicked and sin ul career on the boob tube. With my V talesandcartoonsI hope to make you smile.

Im sure that Ill raise a ew hackles with some o my opinions, as well. Isubscribe to the adage that I you dont want to be criticized, say nothing, donothing, be nothing.

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It was the old Notre Dame ootball coach Frank Leahy who said, Id ratherbe lucky than good. I have been one lucky ellow. I grew up in Green,a arm community just north o Massillon. Its a city now, but it was

Greensburg at the time. Be ore that, back in the early 1900s, it was Inland. I you look at a map, youll see Greensburg, Pennsylvania; Greensburg, Ohio;and Greensburg, Indiana, all at the same latitude. Te pioneers would namea community and say, Tis is a good name, but too many people are comingin. Were gonna get out o here. Were gonna move west. So they did, and they

named the new place Greensburg. We lived on a ve-acre arm, growing vegetables. It would be called a truck

arm. We had a stand out ront, and Id be required to go out and sell stu . Ihated it. I anybody bought a dozen ears o corn, they would get eighteen be-cause I wanted to get rid o the stu as soon as I could.

Right across the street rom us was a huge chicken ranch. Tey had thou-sands o chickens, and would eventually decapitate and de- eather them. Fortwo summers I had the job, or about ty cents an hour, o cleaning out thebuildings where all the you-know-what rom the chickens was, in huge pyramids. In the hot sun those piles took on ali e o their own. Tey began to glisten and move. A ter two years o doing that I decided I didnt want to get into solid waste management. I havent had chicken since, or anything with eathers.

Im pretty much a vegetarianI dont even eat animalcrackers. But Im not vegan, and I love cheese. And I dont eat coleslaw be-cause nothing to this day compares to my mothers coleslaw. My mom was agreat cook.

I havent hadchicken since,or anything with feathers.

Happy Trails Farm has a widevariety o animals, including theaptly named Wild Bill.

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My dad was mechanic, and very good at his job. He worked or Railway Express Agency, and what a tight out t that was. My mom said he never took a promotion into management because he couldnt re anybody; thats whata kind soul he was. He was an exemplar o honesty. Tey were wonder ulpeople. Neither made it past the ourth grade, but they were the most honest,kind, and hard-working people you could imagine. Tey had common sense

and reason, which trumps all the degrees and certi cates o achievement thathang on walls.

Sp sI was an only child, so my imagination came into play. I liked to go to school

because I had riends here. Back on our little arm, I was making up games. Idthrow a ball up against the house, making up baseball games. (I never broke a window, but I did break some siding.) Id broadcast the games to mysel , too,announcing them the way I heard on the radio, listening to Jack Graney do theIndians games with his sidekick, Pinky Hunter.

Sportcaster Jim Graner and newsanchor Pat Murray were two omy partners on Channel 3s Eye- witness News . Both were unnyguys. They would laugh so muchat each other that one had toleave the set when the other wasdoing the news so they wouldntbreak up on camera.

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Tey used some imagination, too, because they didnt travel with the team.For away games, they would use a telegraph wire. Tere would be a longpause, and youd hear in ormation coming in on ticker tape. During away games in World War II, i it began to rain, they couldnt say what the problem was. Teyd say, well, the game now has been suspended, apparently becausethey gured the Germans or the Japanese were listening in, and i they knew it was raining it would be a problem. In 1944, they couldnt broadcast games be-cause they didnt have a sponsor on the radio. Finally Bug-a-boo came to ourrescue, the bug spray. Id listen to Detroit games, where Harry Heilmann wasthe announcer, and Pittsburgh. elevision wasnt even a rumor when I was inhigh school, but by the time I was a senior, television had come in.

I loved ootball. Well, growing up near Massillon, o course I did. I think any newborn male still gets a ootball in the hospitals there. We scrimmagedMassillon once in ootball, and that was a big mistake. We were a Class Bschool. Te coach scheduled this thing with Massillon, and as we were in thelocker room I questioned it. Te coach said, Now remember, those peopleput their pants on the same way we do. I said, Yeah, but their waist size is,

like, 42. Youre a smartass, Goddard.

A promotional ad boastingChannel 3s expandedEyewit- ness News . It was a long day orme thenI was on the news atnoon, 7 p.m., and 11 p.m.

Leg ManBill Jorgensen, the rst evening news anchor I worked with at KYW, debuted the

rst live newsroom cut-in in 1961 It was a shaky start, since unknown to Bill, in thebackground behind him, the assignment editor and a cameraman were having a

st ghtBill was also one o the rst TV news anchors to stand while reporting He had

enjoyed communing with nature over the weekend when nature called With nopaper at hand, he grabbed a clump o grass, which un ortunately contained agoodly amount o poison ivy He stood or several weeks

Bill o ten came to work in summer wearing the standard suit and tieand

shorts That worked well until the night the fimsy anchor desk collapsed on theair, revealing his unique anchorman attire That was the last time or shorts

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I was a tailback and a single-wing, and I playedbaseball, toothird base. In basketball we were Class

B champions my senior year. We had good teams.I survived a tryout with the Brooklyn Dodgers,

right a ter my senior year. Tere were two hundredkids in Akron at Firestone Park. Tey asked me andtwelve other kids to come back the next day, butnone o my buddies were asked so I didnt go. Imsure Spider Jorgensen, who played third base or theDodgers, elt very secure I wasnt playing. But I got ahit o Akrons number-one pitcher, one o the bestplayers ever in Akron, Dick Hamlin. Tats my claimto baseball ame.

Being a ootball nut, I saw the rst Browns gameever, in August 1946, in Akron. I bought my buddy aticket and we both went. Te Rubber Bowl was lled.For about twenty- ve years the Browns opened at

the Rubber Bowl. Tey used to play six exhibitiongames. Now theyre down to our. Teyll probably cut it down to three, which makes more sense.

A ter graduation rom high school in 1949, theKorean con ict (it seemed like a real war) dictated

service to my country. I enlisted in the United States Air Force. My goal sincechildhood, however, was to be a cartoonist or Walt Disney. (I still have theDonald Duck I drew when I was ve years old.)

Following basic training at Sampson Air Force Base, I was given the stan-dard aptitude test that would determine the job I would have or the next

our years. Un ortunately, I ound there were no openings or cartoonists inthe military. Since I quali ed as a sharpshooter, the air orce said I was acandidate or gunnery school. No thanks. Te lieutenant who administered

A display o gauges was ahigh-tech touch on KYWsweather set in 1962.

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my quali cations then told me that I was suited or meteorology school. I accepted, even though my only experience and interest

with weather was that I had been out in it. While a number o my ellow weather school graduates were

immediately sent to Korea, the air orcein their wisdomsentme to Greenland. Dont laugh. In the twelve months I was there,not one North Korean made it into Greenland. Tey knew better.

A ter Greenland, I was assigned to the 6th Mobile WeatherSquadron at inker AFB in Oklahoma. Tis led to the greatest ad- venture in my military career. I was one o six meteorologists thatsupported the Atomic Energy Commission on the rst ull-yieldhydrogen bomb test at Enewetak (then Eniwetok) in the Paci cislands (see A Glimpse o Hell). I met Edward eller, ather o the H-bomb, in the weather ofce.

A ter being discharged, I entered Kent State University in pur-suit o a Bachelor o Fine Arts degree. It took ve years o workingnights at the U.S. Weather Bureau at the Akron-Canton airport,

but I nally made it. It was the weather broadcasts on local ra-dio stations that prompted KYW television in Cleveland to call and o er mea chance to audition. I initially said no thanks, since I had taken no coursesin the KSU communications department and only one speech course. I waseminently unquali ed or television. Besides, we were all air orce or navy vetsat the Weather Bureau, and we thought we were a big deal because we wereon the radio down there. We had about three stations in Canton and Akron.

When KYW called again, several weeks laterand at the urging o my

weather riendsI told them I would give the tube a try. (Ironically, I receiveda avorable response rom Walt Disney productions in Cali ornia the same week.) I became the rst meteorologist on Cleveland television. A storm re-ally opened the door or me. It was Hurricane Donna in 1960.

I had been doing my radio reports on Hurricane Donna, a huge, slow-mov-ing storm that hit nearly every state on the East Coast. KYW called the next week. Te general manager, George Mathieson, had been driving to Akron

or a speech when he heard this young guy on the radio, who seemed to know what he was talking about. Tey were looking or a meteorologist becauseDon Kent had been so success ul on their Westinghouse sister station in Bos-

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a S f ttim taylor: People see Dick and they bring him hard-luck stories Hes a so ttouch or people in trouble, almost as much as animals We were going out to din-ner at Wendys between shows one evening, and it was heartbreaking There was aguy with his kid outside The guy comes up to Dick and says, Can you spare somemoney or my son and I? Were really hungry Dick goes, Well, Ill tell you whatIlltake you Come with us into Wendys, and well buy you dinner The guy said, Id

rather have the cash We want to go Chinese

Tim Taylor worked beside Dick Goddard as TV8s chie anchor rom 1977 to 2005. Muchhonored or his broadcast journalism in a career spanning fve decades, Tim also took a justifed and glee ul measure o pride in being, at one time, Clevelands only main maleanchor with his own hair.

d v orobin Swoboda: Dick can be tranquilly oblivious We were driving back romMuscular Dystrophy camp once, and the Highway Patrol had a speed trap on theside o the road with a radar gun They started waving us over Dick drives right onby I said, Dick, I think we were supposed to pull over Well, how do you know,

Robby? I said, Well, they were waving us over and otherpeople were pulling over He said, Hmm, and kept drivingHe claims he called later and turned himsel in

Robin Swoboda has been Dick Goddards riend and sometimecomic oil ever since she joined WJW-TV8 as Tim Taylors co-anchor in 1986.

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ton, WBZ. Te Westinghouse stations were looking or guys whohad some exposure to isobars. Tat was the entre I had.

My audition at KYW went on or weeks in 1960. When I wasdone, others would ollow me into the studio. Im sure I was ter-rible, but the others were evidently worse. I was ready to callit quits when the V station called to say they would o er mea thirteen-week contract. Tats how sure they were that Id bestaying around. My dad urged me to turn down the o er sincethere was a good chance that Id be swimming with sharks. I jumped in anyway.

KYW actually took me on a test run in December o 1960 whenthey put me on Linn Sheldons Barnaby show. I brought my petraccoon, Freddie, with me rom the arm. He was a big hit. Barna-by and Dorothy Fuldheim, Big Red, were Clevelands most popu-lar personalities at the time. Barnaby had already been on KYW

or years, and he con ded to me the secret to being a success ontelevision: Honesty, sincerity, integrity, and the ability to ake all three. Linn

was a marvelous entertainer and raconteur.Te rst time you are on television is an experience you cant imagine. Ive witnessed the H-bomb, I was in a tornado in Akron, Ive own into a hurri-cane with the U.S. Navy hurricane hunters, and Ive own upside-down withthe Air Force Tunderbirds. No big deal. On V or the rst time your wholeli e passes be ore your eyes. My initiation came on May 1, 1961, with veteranbroadcasters Bud Dancy and Jim Graner. I remember Jim introduced me by saying, Dick Goddard, the rst meteorologist on Cleveland television, will

be here with his rst rumor in two minutes. When I began, my voice was upseveral octaves. Some said that small animals began to gather outside the sta-tion.

I compounded my shaky television debut with a spoonerism when I re-erred to the weather legend o croaking rogs as roaking crogs. As I slumped

at my little dra ting table in the KYW newsroom, I expected our program di-rector to o er the opinion that thirteen weeks is a long time. In retrospect,I gured that viewers had to call the station and demand that I stay on the airbecause I was so entertainingly bad.

I quickly became aware o the animosity that existed between newspaper

In 1963 I few into Hurricane

Flora, one o the deadliest hur-ricanes in history, with the U.S.Navy Hurricane Hunters, on the rst nighttime low-level penetra-tion o a hurricane. Hurricanereconnaissance planes fy throughthe less violent portion o thestorm, usually the southwestquadrant. Going in at less than a

thousand eet, we were surround-ed by continuous lightning.

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journalists and those on television. Te print reporters and journalists hadit all to themselves be ore the hair-sprayed electronic rivals arrived. While a

number o local columnists were kind to me, some were vicious. Te radio- V editor o the Akron Beacon Journal relished publishing letters to the editorthat ridiculed me. Dont worry, the V expert wrote. He wont be aroundlong. I was embarrassed or my parents and amily.

Since I had no previous V experience, I thought that KYW would send meto some sort o television charm school. (Tey have such places, and a riendo mine at a competing Cleveland television station was sent there to learnto blink, since his eye contact was unrelenting.) In reality, KYW hung me outto dry. It was sink or swim, and thanks to the generosity o viewers, Ive beendog paddling ever since.

Ive had the good ortune to work with some wonder ul news directors, butmy rst was not one o them. He was very likely the role model or Ed Asnersacerbic character on the classic Mary Tyler Moore Show . Te guy could havebeen the ront man or a amine. He elt that both weather and sports had nobusiness being on a television news program.

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Piddling PrognosticationIt was a weekend in late January 1978 Along with Doug Adair and other TV

olks, I was at the sled dog race in Geauga County As we were waiting or the starto the race, a husky came over to Doug and li ted his leg When the laughtersubsided, I kiddingly said, He must have seen your show I also relatedthe Eskimo legend that such behavior oretellsa coming storm (more laughter) Five days later,the deepest storm in Ohio weather historyhit the state The blizzard o 78 createdwinds o over 100 miles an hour

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I had, evidently, collected enough viewers to allow an extension o my ini-tial contract. It was eleven months a ter being hired that the news director

con ronted me in the teletype room. He said, Goddard, they want you over atthe Hollenden House tomorrow. Teyre going to give you an award or what-ever youre doing. I said, I dont believe it! He said, Neither do I.

I wasnt on the air long be ore the program director at KYW took me asideand told me to point out any bad orecasts rom the local National WeatherService. I told him that I couldnt do that. Te shark swam away.

Everyone in the television news business has stories to tell about the per-sonalities they have met. Following are the memories I treasure.

This is my avorite photo. Thosewere the days. Cleveland mademe, Robin, Tim, and Casey itsown. And we were.

During the 1995 World Series,this notorious gang o ourwere warned by security thatthey would be thrown out o theAtlanta Braves press box i theykept cheering or the Indians.


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