BFD, a little snow, geeze

[RichP]

NOREASTER PARALIZES NOTH EAST
THOUSANDS OF TRAVELERS STRANDED in airports
on and on....
The news reports of "The blizzard of 06" are hilarious if not totally blown out of proportion. BFD, so a few places got a foot and some got 2ft. Why do these news people put such a negative spin on stuff. IMO snow storms like that are good for family relationships, wife and I just curled up on the couch and watched movies, did house stuff and talked all day. Daughter and her boyfriend spent the day with his parents playing board games. All in all it's a positive thing to get a nice snow storm and not have to go anywhere. Betcha you could even tie a 9 month window on snow storms and births too
You don't hear the positive comments like 'much needed snow pack for spring run off aided by the 8 hours of snow fall', or 'risk of brush and forest fires were reduced this weekend by the short but heavy snowfall'...
News people must have the MOST MISERABLE lives of anybody in the world with their negative take. If someone came out tomorrow with a cheap and plentiful gasoline/diesel replacement that was 100% pollution free they'd bitch about the 'damage done to the OPEC countries economy'....

 

[DDCxj]

The thing that gets me mad is that when it snows, that is the one and only thing they ever talk about. Apparantley there is no other news. And then theres the reporters that will describe what type of snow it for 5 minutes. They don't think I can go outside to see if it's good snow for chucking at people?

 

[Root Moose]

I think it is all a conspiracy to make people too afraid to leave their houses so that the government can operate at will with everyone cloistered away.

It's a joke! Or is it?

 

[87manche]

I think it is all a conspiracy to make people too afraid to leave their houses so that the government can operate at will with everyone cloistered away.

It's a joke! Or is it?

I just saw a black helicopter...
Then there's this:
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060213/NEWS11/602130425
an 86 car pileup. If you see a "wall" of snow, why don't you slow down?

 

[rockwerks]

We have had no snnow yeat at all this year.........sucks.......we usually average 9' annually

 

[Beej]

Anything less than a foot of snow is still gardening weather.

Puzzies...

 

[lost1]

I think it is all a conspiracy to make people too afraid to leave their houses so that the government can operate at will with everyone cloistered away.

[He knows too much]

[what do you suggest?]

[Take him out]


CRACK!!!

 

[5-90]

There's a reason that I just don't watch the news on TV, or read the papers anymore.

For as long as I can remeber, the new maxim has been "$4!7 Sells."

That's why you don't see any good news anywhere, and why I find the news so damn depressing.

A foot of snow? I can remember, several times (when I was a kid in northern IN) seeing six to eight feet of snow hitting the ground overnight.

Don't even get me started on weather prognosticators - I'm usually more accurate than they are, for my purposes, with somewhat less information...

5-90

 

[rockwerks]

There's a reason that I just don't watch the news on TV, or read the papers anymore.

For as long as I can remeber, the new maxim has been "$4!7 Sells."

That's why you don't see any good news anywhere, and why I find the news so damn depressing.

A foot of snow? I can remember, several times (when I was a kid in northern IN) seeing six to eight feet of snow hitting the ground overnight.

Don't even get me started on weather prognosticators - I'm usually more accurate than they are, for my purposes, with somewhat less information...

5-90

X2..........my motto is if it gets bad enough someones gonna tell me....I have not watched news or read a paper in over 5 years.........(I do read the funnies though)

 

[5-90]

Oh, the funnies are usually the only thing worth reading! I've found that it's usually comedians who have the best grip on reality - not the newsies...

5-90

 

[CMNCHE]

Dick Cheney got so pissed about the coverage of the snow storm he shot someone just so he could become the top story.

 

[jeepinandy]

Dick Cheney got so pissed about the coverage of the snow storm he shot someone just so he could become the top story.

I honestly had soda coming out my nose when I read that......
Now I have a mess to clean up....


Thanks alot CMNCHE ... LOL

 

[esrasmu2001]

Don't get me started on Mid-southern peoples paranoia on a little bit of this white stuff hitting the ground. Every store was jam packed with people loading up on supplies like they were going to be stranded by tens of feet of the white stuff. We only got an inch if that, and was gone by the next afternoon. Then we get a couple flakes in the air and the school system calls me at 5 am to tell me that there isn't any school on account of snow. Sheesh. I remember getting up with two feet on the ground and still having to get my ass to school. I guess living in and growing up in a snow state gives me a just bias.

The media attention on the normal occurances of WINTER boggles the mind. I agree about a good heavy snowfall is great for the spring run off, (and might I say a few good holes to play in too). The lack of snow, combined with the yo-yo temps in the northeast hasn't done to well for the snowmobile / tourist industry up there.

but hey... that's my $.02

 

[Root Moose]

Good thing they don't actually get snow.

 

[esrasmu2001]

Good thing they don't actually get snow.

Now that is what I am talking about!!

 

[yardape]

I really have nothing to add but that's never stopped me before. The Washington DC metro area is a prime example of the paranoia you guys are talking about. Someone spits in the road and traffic will come to a halt with the local news/weather helicopters hovering and reporting up-to=date traffic conditions that have nothing to do with reality. Then, as mentioned above, there's the school closings or late openings due to an inch of snow requiring 1 parent to stay home from work,.... for what?

I'd guess just as there are too many people out here who do not know how to drive in the white stuff, there are too many people who ignore it all together and make it very dangerous for the rest of us. Snow and speeders are a bad mix in a town where everyone is trying to drive 5 miles an hour faster than the guy in front of them.

When the snow hit my cul-de-sac it was an opportunity for neighbors to get out and be neighborly by collectively digging everyone out and in the process getting reaquainted,... (ie. being neighborly which otherwise does not EVER happen.) On that subject every media oulet periodically runs a story on how Americans are overweight. When the snow hits is there ONE article written on how healthy it is being out in the fresh crisp air shoveling snow? I've never seen it. While quite frankly I'm no overt lover of the cold and snow, as Rich pointed out, it always creates a welcome break in the routine of life. Too bad the media doesn't care to present it that way. But then good news does not sell,... drama does and that is human nature which is not the fault of the news media.

 

[Beej]

Good thing they don't actually get snow.

:laugh3:

Looks like May in Northern Saskatchewan...

 

[XJ Dreamin']

I really have nothing to add but that's never stopped me before. The Washington DC metro area is a prime example of the paranoia you guys are talking about. Someone spits in the road and traffic will come to a halt with the local news/weather helicopters hovering and reporting up-to=date traffic conditions that have nothing to do with reality. Then, as mentioned above, there's the school closings or late openings due to an inch of snow requiring 1 parent to stay home from work,.... for what?

I'd guess just as there are too many people out here who do not know how to drive in the white stuff, there are too many people who ignore it all together and make it very dangerous for the rest of us. Snow and speeders are a bad mix in a town where everyone is trying to drive 5 miles an hour faster than the guy in front of them.

When the snow hit my cul-de-sac it was an opportunity for neighbors to get out and be neighborly by collectively digging everyone out and in the process getting reaquainted,... (ie. being neighborly which otherwise does not EVER happen.) On that subject every media oulet periodically runs a story on how Americans are overweight. When the snow hits is there ONE article written on how healthy it is being out in the fresh crisp air shoveling snow? I've never seen it. While quite frankly I'm no overt lover of the cold and snow, as Rich pointed out, it always creates a welcome break in the routine of life. Too bad the media doesn't care to present it that way. But then good news does not sell,... drama does and that is human nature which is not the fault of the news media.

media hype: Shoveling snow will give you a heart attack :laugh3:

Reality: Our driveway was 1/4 mile long. You didn't shovel it out. You parked the cars out at the end and walked in and out until the snow melted. You drug the groceries in on an old Mopar hood (I don't remember what model: mid '60's Fury probably).

As for the pile-up: Nothing burns my chaps more than drivers who won't take responsibility for failing their one prime directive - DON'T RUN INTO ANYTHING!! "But you can't see anything in the fog/snow/rain/dust." Then slow the fawk down you dip$4!7. They piled up over 100 vehicles on the I-70 Missouri River bridge one year. Perfectly CAVU morning except for the fog rising off of the river. "I drove into the fog and ran into something." Well, duh.

 

[Root Moose]

:laugh3:

Looks like May in Northern Saskatchewan...

South coast of Labrador actually...

 

[funvtec]

i'm excited to get some snow, they are saying 3-6 inches in the next 24 hours


its not much but we haven't seen much lately