"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:CgZCd.620242$wV.514014@attbi_s54...
Is it just me, or does it seem like weather forecasting has gone off the
deep end?

Once again, we've been deluged with "Winter Storm Warnings" in the Midwest
that have turned out to produce a few inches of snow. As one station
(primarily the Weather Channel) starts to hype the coming "huge storm" all
the local stations feel compelled to jump on the bandwagon. They, in
turn, start running live segments of "Doppler Radar" and serious talking
heads showing all of us that it is -- *gasp!* -- actually SNOWING outside!

Har! Har!

Jay, (gasping for breath between chortles of hysterical laughter.....)
you should see what happens up here in the north end of California's share
of the Mojave Desert when it snows. Honest, it does that every three or four
years. Back in '83... why, we had ten inches!
Two years ago, about four inches fell, and stuck, just before sunrise.
Would you believe about one out of six or seven cars rattled down the street
with chains! Some of those didn't think about what that extra eight inches
or so of chain was going to do to the fenders, if they didn't tie it down.
Yep, school was dismissed. The city declared a skeleton workday. Half
the Navy employees failed to show up for work. A few days later, a citizen
wrote a letter-to-the-editor condemning the Highway Patrol for not
establishing emergency escorts on the highways.