SCANNER RECAP July 17, 2023 – Monday

IN THIS ISSUE

Highway Patrol Flashback
Drought Update
Safety Reminders
Missing RUNAWAYS
Obituaries
Community Calendar

A Little “Police” History

40 years ago today, July 17, 1983, the final episode of CHiPs aired. It originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1977, to July 17, 1983. CHiPs followed the lives of two motorcycle police officers of the California Highway Patrol. The series ran for 139 episodes over six seasons, plus one reunion TV movie.

CHiPs was a lightweight action crime drama, which included elements of comedy in every episode (several of the first season episodes play as out-and-out comedies).

Over-the-top freeway pileups, which occurred in almost every episode, were a signature of the show. There was little if any actual violence on CHiPs, and the show can be classified as a dramedy. The episodes filled a standard hour-long time slot, which at the time required 48 minutes of actual programming.

The show was created by Rick Rosner, and starred Erik Estrada as macho, rambunctious Officer Francis (“Frank”) Llewellyn “Ponch” Poncherello and Larry Wilcox as his straitlaced partner, Officer Jonathan “Jon” Baker. With Ponch the more trouble-prone of the pair, and Jon generally the more level-headed one trying to keep him out of trouble with the duo’s gruff yet fatherly commanding officer Sergeant Joseph Getraer (Robert Pine), the two were Highway Patrolmen of the Central Los Angeles office of the California Highway Patrol (CHP, hence the name CHiPs).

Drought Update

🌧️ The 2020-2022 drought is officially over across the NWS Cheyenne forecast area! With the plentiful snowfall last winter followed by the wet and stormy pattern over the high plains since late April, we have seen dramatic drought improvments across the entire area since the start of 2023.

A few pockets of “abnormally dry” remain where recent thunderstorms haven’t quite made up the long term deficit yet, but our area is officially clear of drought. Some portion of our area has been in drought for the last 3 full years. The last time we had this little of our area covered in drought was May 26, 2020, just before the impacts of the very hot and dry summer of 2020 were felt.

Source: US Drought Monitor – https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/

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Crystal D Van Housen

SEPTEMBER 26, 1953 – JULY 13, 2023

Crystal Van Housen, 69 of Gering, Nebraska passed away peacefully with family surrounding her on Thursday, July 13, 2023 at Regional West Medical Center.