I guess it's been 10 years or so since weather forecasting has gone "high-tech". I remember Doppler Radar changing the way we were informed of what's outside the window. All of a sudden we were getting breaking stories in the middle of prime-time television to tell us it's raining out there and this certain street in this certain city is really having it come down hard. And this was supposed to change our world.
Well, I believe that it has changed our world. We've become citizens afraid to venture out there because we've been told that it's the "worst-storm-ever" or my favorite, a "snowpocalypse". We've never know more about the fronts and the areas of low pressure than we do now, and we're afraid.
It's snow people. We get it every winter. We've driven in it all our lives. It's not any different now that it was twenty years ago. And I don't need a television reporter driving around with a video camera (touted as cutting edge mobile technology) showing me the snow on the road.
Obviously ~ I'm losing this argument. The TV stations have spent thousands of dollars on their technology ~ and they've got to make it worth their while. So I guess I'll have to join them. This picture from my cutting edge mobile technology shows the road conditions coming home from The Q and our free Monster's game yesterday... It's the "weather out my window" because I had my "boots in the snow":
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