Mark Woodley really doesn’t want to go to work on Thursday, and he’s not afraid to tell you.
Mr. Woodley, sports presenter and reporter for KWWL, an NBC News affiliate in Eastern Iowa, was brought into service as the major storm system moved through the plains. Temperatures dropped to 12 degrees in the morning and continued to drop, and snow fell – at times very heavy – as Mr Woodley broadcast live from the streets of Waterloo for more than three hours.
“What better time to ask the sports guy to come about five hours earlier than he usually gets up, go out into the wind, the snow and the cold and tell the others not to? ” Mr. Woodley told Ryan Witry, a presenter was back in the warm, dry studio. “I didn’t realize that there was also 3:30 a.m. until today.”
The extreme irritation of a grown man is a gift for internet that kept above give.
As Mr Witry continued to check in throughout the morning Mr. Woodley became increasingly annoyed.
“Stay tuned to the show for the next few hours to see me becoming more and more irritable,” he said, before lamenting missing out on a mission that could have left him in the car.
“How do I get that Storm Chaser 7 quest?” he asks. “That one is hot, it’s not hot outside right now.”
As the minutes and hours passed, his attempt to speak became more intense.
“The good news is that I can still feel my face,” he said. “The bad news is that I wish I couldn’t.”
And as the sun began to rise, Mr. Woodley wondered aloud if he was joking.
“Can I go back to my normal job? I’m pretty sure, Ryan, you guys added an hour to the show just because someone liked to torture me,” he said. “Compared to two and a half hours ago, it is getting colder and colder.”
He signed at dawn – “thankfully for the last time this morning” – with large piles of snow behind.
In an interview, Mr Woodley, who has worked at KWWL for 20 years, said that the previous 24 hours were “crazy” and that the response was extremely positive, including from his employer.
He said: “This whole thing is unbelievable, I don’t understand how celebrities do anything. “It is exhausting. I like it because it’s something new to me but I’ve never seen anything like this happen.
Mr Woodley said he did 14 live monologues over the course of three and a half hours but picked the funniest pieces to put together “like a trailer for a horror comedy” and posted it. social network. He initially posted the footage to his personal Facebook page, but friends and family encouraged him to put it on Twitter. Next thing you know, director Judd Apatow and actors Josh Gad retweeted him.
While Mr. Woodley was a little worried he would get in trouble with his bosses at the station, he said “they know who I am on the airwaves,” adding a touch of sarcasm and irony that wasn’t meant to be. character. He said the station was “completely ready”.
Mr Woodley managed to talk about stopping doing the second round of coverage on Friday morning and instead plans to return to his usual 6pm slot for a preview. City music bowl where the University of Iowa will play the University of Kentucky in Nashville next weekend.
“I’m so excited not to be that guy again, and if god willing, I’ll never do it again,” he said. However, if his team is short on people, as was the case this week, he said he would be reluctant to join.
As a local reporter, Mr Woodley said he imagines one day making it “great”.
“Known as a sports guy and sly old weather isn’t on this list,” he said, “but it is.”
