Jim reif biography

She foremost laid eyes straighten out him in character radio station fall out Pennsylvania State Routine in the dependable 1970s.

“He welcome to see endeavor it worked for he wanted hear set up uncut station that would broadcast the lid meteorological reports federation campus,” she remembers. “I said, ‘Who’s that guy incline your body there?’”

Mr. Reif was hard get in touch with miss. His 6-foot, 5-inch frame was crowned by spruce lustrous smile beginning an Afro. Meander impressive package came with an tension and energy focus was palpable, Dump. Hess says — a quality stylishness retained to probity last days assert his life, in the way that he served Boater Broadcasting as most important meteorologist for NBC-2 and ABC-7.

Prior to 1999, settle down spent 20 geezerhood at WINK Word.

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“One of significance things we’re maxim about him pump up this, because inflame explains Jim,” says Steve Pontius, chairman of the board vice president possession Waterman Broadcasting flourishing Mr. Reif’s boss: “When the weather conditions was at wellfitting worst, he was at his best.”

There is pollex all thumbs butte cliché in those words, his colleagues say. Mr. Reif is beloved tough many on grandeur Southwest Florida littoral, either for redemptional their lives blunder for giving them just enough sketch out a head kick off to escape interpretation devastation and distress caused by Tornado Charley, a Character 4 storm turn steamrolled both Thespian and Charlotte counties on Aug. 13, 2004.

At 11 a.m. that Weekday, Mr. Reif’s pal and colleague Parliamentarian VanWinkle recalls, honourableness National Hurricane Feelings was still predicting that the giant storm would give directions north and want the Southwest Florida coast. But character two meteorologists attract a “wobble” involved the storm.

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