It’s raining on Cape Cod. Apparently it is snowing lightly throughout the interior of Massachusetts. It’s eight in the morning. Since day break all four Boston stations have been broadcasting nothing but weather related reports. No Today Show or any other news for us. We are not sufficiently alarmed: after all, the sky is falling!
This is what I refer to as “weather hysteria”. Every school in New England is canceled for little or no reason. Probably because Superintendents are advised by Public Works Directors, and worse yet lawyers, that the television station is reporting the end of the world as we know it. Children better not venture out although I would bet every parent in New England will shortly tell the little shits to put on a snowsuit and get outdoors before they kill them.
Why do the TV stations do this? Because people, hearing the end is near, will then tune in to hear the weather report and advertising dollars will rise.
As these things go, this storm is a fairly modest little affair. No real accumulations, roads a little slippery but quite usable. Everyone should be going about their business. This is not Whittier's "Snowbound".
Just another indication that, without even thinking about it, we have become weather wusses, pushed around by the proclamations of a 12 year old weather girl with a nice figure. Unbelievable!
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