Friday, April 18, 2008
Snow
Request to the local Seattle media: when there is a forecast for snow or if it does indeed snow an entire inch or so (perish the thought), could you please not report the event as if the fifth horseman of the apocalypse has arrived? Please? I'm sure it is ratings driven but the fear-mongering is getting out of hand.
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Ahh, yes; reminds me of occasional snow in central England. We lived in an international house where most were from 'non-snowing' countries. It probably makes me a snow-scrooge, but to say that I was pissed watching them play gleefully in the gently falling snow would be an understatement. A bit like snow at Simpson I suppose. Just promise me you won't throw any snowballs at helpless little girls (if you know what I mean).
After going through three winters in the Midwest I have a better context in which to place the Puget Sound "blizzards" that we experience. Last year it snowed 3-4" while I was at work downtown and my usually 30-40 minute commute home by bus instead took three and a half hours. I was singing that blog-song you wrote about snow all the way home that night. And if I saw Jamie Slutzi I might just try to hit her in face with a snowball. I am kidding of course.
You wrote a blog like this a few years ago, I remember. Count me out of your readership, o boring one.
"I am kidding of course." :D
Preach it, bruthuh. Seriously - the news turns everything in to a decapitation-inducing carwreck. I remember a few years back when Mt. Rainier had that glacial damn burst and take out a campground. It set off the lahar warnings and Jim Foreman was at Harborview by the helicopter pad yelling, "This is where they will be bringing the dead and wounded!" A few picnic tables were lost to the mighty Nisqually River. Geez. Calm down folks.
- AC
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