Trevor Davis gets my vote for hero of the month. His simple act every couple of months may have saved the life of someone you know.

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You don't have to be a basketball fan, to be into the college hoops mania this time of the year. The media and pressure from co-workers makes it tough for some people to stay on the sidelines.

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After Dr. Mel wrote about his comparison between the storm this past weekend in Connecticut and Hurricane Gloria nearly 25 years ago, I went into the 'Action News 8' archives to pull this clip from a special program produced by WTNH following the storm. This is just the opening couple of minutes. Enjoy.

Many people are commenting that the weekend storm brought memories of Hurricane Gloria, the last full-blown hurricane to make a landfall in Connecticut. That was in 1985. Gloria delivered the single greatest power outage in the history of the state. Nearly half of the power grid was knocked out, and a week would pass before electricity would come back on line to most residents. Over 700,000 residents lost power, compared to nearly 100,000 power outages with the past weekend storm. The storm made a landfall at Milford around midday. Flooding was minimal because Gloria came during low tide. But 8 fatalities were associated with the storm, and losses came to nearly 2 billion 2010 dollars.

The storm was one of the most powerful to come so far north in recent decades, but it fell appart when crossing LI Sound. At one point, its winds hit 145 mph, but Gloria was barely hurricane intensity when reaching Connecticut.

I called it the "lunch hour storm." Maybe our last weekend storm was no match, but it was big enough!

Yeah, that was a pretty ugly game the UConn men played Tuesday in the Big East tournament against St. Johns. I can understand the frustration of head coach Jim Calhoun not wanting to immediately say the Huskies would accept a bid to play in the original college basketball tournament, the NIT.

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If you were watching the Academy Awards on News Channel 8, you probably saw a revealing new promo announcing a logo change "Coming Soon". Yes, after 14 years, the News Channel 8 logo will exit stage left around the end of April. So why the change? Did the News Channel 8 logo do something wrong? Not at all. The News Channel 8 logo has served us well, but just as the world has changed significantly over the last decade, so too has the way people consume their news.

No longer is local news only watched on tv. Digital products including mobile and online now often serve as either the primary or complementary choice for accessing news and information. In fact, a survey released March 1st by the Pew Research Center uncovered these two fascinating facts: 1) The internet has surpassed newspapers and radio in popularity as a news platform on a typical day and now ranks just behind TV, 2) 33% of cell phone owners now access news on their cell phones.

If that's the case, then the "Channel" element in the News Channel 8 logo no longer effectively represents everything we stand for. Over the past decade, WTNH has been a leader in bringing you the best local news coverage online at wtnh.com and more recently on the go to your mobile device. We’re now even on Twitter and Facebook, as well on your computer desktop through our new iPulse “widget”.

So, now is the time for a new logo that more clearly identifies our news, showcases the best places you can access our coverage, and represents our commitment to the bold, hard-hitting, "no bull" news coverage that you'll get no matter where you are.

We hope you like it as much as we do.

If you are a snowlover, and you live in Central or Northern Connecticut, you have to be a bit unhappy... It seems that Connecticut was in a void as it relates to winter cold and snow. For the three months of Dec. Jan. Feb., Bradley reported 3 inches of snow below normal and temperatures about 2-3 degrees warmer that normal.

Yet along the shoreline and points south, the picture dramatically changed. Bridgeport picked up about 17-18 inches more snow than normal, and the three-month temperature was just a shade less than 1 degree below normal. And of course, point south even had more snow.....Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wahington picked up record snowfalls of around 80 inches. What a mixed up year!

Technically, Connecticut's weather was close to "normal," but tell that to the folks living in Greenwich.

A lot of people are blaming the El Nino Oscillation which brought warmer than normal ocean temperatures to the eastern Pacific. Storms formed in abundance and moved through the Southeast. But equally important was a blocking pattern in the North Atlantic which forced cold air to move far to the south. The cold, dense air blocked the northward motion of the storms and forced them out to sea. Southern Connecticut seemed to be on the border zone. The cold circulation was part of the North Atlantic Oscillation(NAO) which was in its cold, negative phase.

It will be a winter to remember.

In case you missed it, the UConn women's basketball team is about to make history again. As great as the team is, I still think the national media isn't paying enough attention to their skills.