Who wants to make a weather forcaster into a pinata?

[Kim, Wild-eyed Bibliomaniac]

I am a pacifist. That being said, I would like to make the local weather people into pinatas. Some of you may be familiar with the geography of the Lake Erie shore line where Cleveland, Ohio is located. For those of you not, here's a brief idea. West of the city, we get snow, but not as much as East of the city, and the counties that direction. We may get a few inches,when they will get a foot. I kid you not. It is the curve of the lake. We call it the snow belt.

In the summer we have humidity and winter, snow. Happens EVERY F'ing year, yet, the weather people insist on acting like we have never had weather here before. They act like one flake of snow and the world is going to end. I repeat, it happens EVERY F'ing year! We joke we have 2 seasons here, winter and orange barrel. We get it, it snows. We have to shovel,blow,plow,what have you.

It's Cleveland. We get snow in September. (Any World Series fans will remember Bob Ucher's stunned voice.) Indians fans know that Opening Day in April can have snow (1 year ago, they were using leaf blowers to clear the field...)

Why do the weather people act like the world is coming to an end? I say we fit them with mild electric shockers and when they flip for now reason, we can shock 'em....


Maybe I just need a vacation....

[A.]

You think that's bad? Try getting a snowflake in South Carolina...the whole freaking county shuts down and you can not buy bread or milk for miles in amy direction. Growing up in the snow belt in upstate New York, In a town that has set a record for snowfall, I have to laugh in a town where 3 inches is close to a natural disaster.