Rant=overboard

It's absolutely become a joke, and it has what should be the smarter public
officials acting like Chicken Little. We've had a total of about 12 inches
of snow this year in central Wisconsin. 8 inches of that came in one night.
It's actually all melted now and everything is ice covered. The snowmobile
trails are closed because there isn't any snow, but I bet we've had over 20
winter storm warnings and watches. We had one yesterday, it didn't even
snow last night or today. I'm sure we'll have a few issued tonight. My
television screen has burning across the bottom from the Winter Storm
Warning ticker.

No school here this past Monday. Too much ice. Funny how our 55 employees
all made it to work. Funny how they made it to work alive, heck nobody even
ran in the ditch! Funny how the 10 semi's we loaded all delivered their
loads all around the state and then miraculously made here to pick up our
loads. Funny how every other business around was able to operate, but the
business of educating our kids has to stop every time the sun doesn't shine.
When I was little and lived in town, they would still have school for the
kids that could walk to school, even if they couldn't pick up the kids on
the bus route. Nowadays the "norm" is school is cancelled and you listen to
the radio to find out the days that you actually HAVE school! If it does
start snowing, more often then not, they will cancel school but keep the
kids there just until after lunch because then they can count it as a full
school day.

And it isn't just in the winter, the weathermen do the same thing in the
summer. If we would get 1/10th of the rain, hail, thunderstorms, high
winds, and tornados that they predict, this state wouldn't be fit to live
in.

Just off of MSNBC in a desperate million word per minute fashion...."So in
addition to the rain and the snow and the freezing temperatures that will be
blasting the midwest and moving up into New England, we will get all the
effects of those conditions as well, with over 10 to 12 inches of snow
expected for much of the area....." No ****?? Really? Now that's a
newsflash... never before have I had to experience the actual effects of the
rain, snow, freezing temperatures and bitter windchills... somehow it was
all surreal.... All that stuff must have happened while I was in school.

Oh, and if I hear the term "Wintery Mix" one more time, I think I'm going to
gag.

As far as weathermen being nuts... our local weatherman years ago was
actually arrested two or three times for public nudity.

Jim