husker wrote:....well my windshield is now all white - news reports that we'll have 8" must be a slow news day in the world....
Oh? You find the local news reports annoying in Washington State as well?
Thanksgiving night the northern half of this state got about an inch of snow. Unusual for this time of year, (the highs are usuallly 50ยบ), but not unheard of.
The 11 o'clock news forecasts all led off with emergency style reports about "dangers to early shoppers", read in urgent, almost panicky tones by the news anchors. In-the-field reports were shown by reporters standing outside in the light snowfall as if they were in the middle of some battle zone. Dire warnings were given repeatedly about "black ice", and motorists were interviewed about the phenomenon.
All this for a 1" dusting of snow on Thanksgiving night.
Of course, by sunrise the next day, the snow was all cleared away, (in the parts were the light dusting didn't disappear of it's own accord).
Turns out the "early shoppers" the Thanksgiving night's news broadcasts were talking about were those few people who were going to the stores which opened at midnight, which a few stores did as a gimmick. That's what they used 15 minutes of a half hour Thanksgiving night news report for-those midnight shoppers might run into an inch of snow that was falling.
But hey, don't get me wrong-I just
love my local news broadcasts!