Friends,
I’d love to be a weatherman, as would you. While you’re working on your mission-critical widgets, wouldn’t you love to be wrong all the time and keep your job? Blatantly wrong. All of the weather widgets I check, from Yahoo! to The Weather Channel to Accuweather (tee hee) missed the snow this morning. Each one of them.
There was snow, ice, fog, and some windy wind thrown in for maximum fun this morning. In the Midwest and East, they see that and scoff. In Southern California, we flip our cars over with something that must amount to glee. I saw one this morning that I reported to the rescue personnel in person since the mobile phones weren’t working. I woke the firemen up, and friends, please feel free to throw away your Hot Firefighter Every Month calendars. There’s not a lot of glamour in half-asleep firemen pulling up their pants asking you if you know whether the driver is dead at 6:30 in the morning.
You’d have thought that the word would’ve got out by this afternoon, but nobody told the Volvo driver at the Keen Camp Summit. He seemed okay and was clambering out of a window with his briefcase when I drove by. A dozen spectators and helpful citizens were on his side of the road. Two underdressed and shivering families from the valley were conducting snowball fights on the other side. I dunno, a little callous?
By the way, Accuweather now says it’ll snow tomorrow. Good catch!
– bob