"This is the only weather map we have to work with right now. Dean has questions so maybe we'll have to do a little question-and-answer session here soon."

What do you do when you're a local weather reporter and the computer that animates the forecast for the green screen freezes up? Yes, that's right: you get help for your friends.

But it doesn't end there, of course! ABC News 4, knowing that there is currency is local news shenanigans, released bonus footage.

All I can think is, what if this had happened in the final moments of Al Roker's 34-hour forecast-a-thon? What amazing performance art would we have gotten then? I bet it'd involve sock puppets.