I deep deep deep in my heart feel that in this age of technology, the weather people have become total alarmists. I will never forget {because I'm typing it here} when channel 3 first got doppler radar. They interrupted regularly scheduled programming to tell me it was RAINING ~ and to zoom in on the street in some town, not close to me, to show me how much it was raining {not a newsworthy amount}.
Now, the weather channel has started NAMING winter storms. Seriously? What's next? Naming clouds? Naming lighting bolts? This is giving the wrong message. I hate to remind the herd, because they should remember it for themselves, it snows in the winter. It gets cold in the winter. Every once in a while it will dip below zero. It will not kill you because you are smart enough not to go out there to sunbathe.
Which brings me to today's snow day.
The predictions for today began a week ago. A WEEK ago they began predicting the coldest weather in 20 years...a WEEK ago the high for Tuesday was -5 with a low of -10. The issued Winter Storm Warning was calling for 8 to 15 inches of snow. Actual: we've got a dusting & it looks like {from the radar, that I'm smart enough to read} we'll get a little bit more. They are now predicting 2 to 15 inches {way to cover all bases}
And it is cold. So I'm dressed warmly.
And I don't think there is a school open today...all called off last night before 8:00 pm...when it was still raining. Was it the right call? Probably. I can't imagine the roads are good out there with a layer of ice under the snow...but the attitudes & fears. That's the most frightening part to me. We are not stupid, people.
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