It is all over the news. We are supposed to get a lot of snow, for our area, this weekend. It has been on all the news casts and they are predicting 6-12 inches. That is substantial for this area. I looked out the window in the morning. There is no snow, it is not snowing, but I'm looking for signs to confirm its arrival.Earlier this week I didn't watch the news. When I got into bed it was about 20 degrees F. When I got up I told me wife that it was 30 degrees F. Something didn't look right on the temperature gage. I looked closer and realized that I hadn't acknowledged the decimal point. It was 3 degrees. It went from mild winter weather to rather severe weather without warning. We had what we needed to survive the cold and it was inconvenient, but not life threatening.
I think weather forcasting has changed. It has moved more from what you need to know to protect yourself to how inconvenienced we are.
And me? I guess I'm grateful that I didn't have to commute during the storm. Knowing me, that could have been life-threatening!
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My papa says the same thing. He said before it was, "Oh gee...there's going to be about a foot of snowfall today. Drive carefully." and that was it. Now it's like, "Oh my goodness, don't drive...it's awful out there. And during the commute...oh it's just so bad and we're going to be stuck in traffic for days!" It's Minnesota. It's snow. It happens. And when it does we are always going to be stuck in traffic or inconvenienced. Oh well.
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