Mark Woodley really did not want to go to work on Thursday, and he wasn’t afraid to tell you.
Mr. Woodley, a sports anchor and reporter for KWWL, an NBC News affiliate in Eastern Iowa, was pressed into service as the massive storm system moved across the plains. Temperatures plunged to 12 degrees in the morning and continued to drop, and it was snowing — heavily at times — 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 in about five hours earlier than he would normally wake up, go stand out in the wind and the snow and the cold and tell other people not to do the same?” Mr. Woodley told Ryan Witry, an anchor who was back in the warm, dry studio. “I didn’t realize that there was a 3:30 also in the morning until today.”
An Iowa Sports Reporter Was Sent to Cover the Weather. He Did Not Like It.
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