Weather Reporters
Friday, Dec. 16, 2005, found me working in the warehouse – okay, I got conscripted to help doing inventory. “But I have dyslexia!” “I have ADD!” My plea-bargaining was to no avail.
I was hoping to have friends visit that weekend so I was wanting to hear the local radio station come on with their weather forecast when, finally: “Friday will have a chance of flurries and – 4. Saturday will have a chance of flurries and – 4. Sunday will have a chance of flurries and – 4. Monday will have a chance of flurries and – 4. Looking ahead to Tuesday, (wait for it) will have a chance of flurries and – 4.”
Cripes, I thought the guy was on Valium!
1989 - I was in my office and happened to glance out the window. It was raining so hard I could barely see the restaurant across the street. The local radio station, which is a mere 4 blocks up the street, came on with their “100% accurate up-to-the-minute weather forecast” and their forecast? “There is a 30% chance of rain in our area today.”
Weather reporters have less credibility with me than politicians, even less than used car salesman. And I was one, once.
I swear they go through drama school. They get us, the public, all worked up with their histrionics – “Armageddon is coming this weekend, so you better cancel that trip you were planning.” Much to the detriment of places that rely on tourism – B & B’s, hotels/motels, resorts, ski hills, etc.
Yes, let’s take these bastards to task. So, send an letter, e-mail or phone your newspaper, radio station, TV station, that YOU’RE PISSED OFF AND YOU’RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE !!!
I was hoping to have friends visit that weekend so I was wanting to hear the local radio station come on with their weather forecast when, finally: “Friday will have a chance of flurries and – 4. Saturday will have a chance of flurries and – 4. Sunday will have a chance of flurries and – 4. Monday will have a chance of flurries and – 4. Looking ahead to Tuesday, (wait for it) will have a chance of flurries and – 4.”
Cripes, I thought the guy was on Valium!
1989 - I was in my office and happened to glance out the window. It was raining so hard I could barely see the restaurant across the street. The local radio station, which is a mere 4 blocks up the street, came on with their “100% accurate up-to-the-minute weather forecast” and their forecast? “There is a 30% chance of rain in our area today.”
Weather reporters have less credibility with me than politicians, even less than used car salesman. And I was one, once.
I swear they go through drama school. They get us, the public, all worked up with their histrionics – “Armageddon is coming this weekend, so you better cancel that trip you were planning.” Much to the detriment of places that rely on tourism – B & B’s, hotels/motels, resorts, ski hills, etc.
Yes, let’s take these bastards to task. So, send an letter, e-mail or phone your newspaper, radio station, TV station, that YOU’RE PISSED OFF AND YOU’RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE !!!
posted by Musings from Idle Acres | 6:36 p.m.
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