I've got to wonder how much of this mess is from meteorologists crying wolf too many times. We live in a serious snow belt, waking up to sixteen inches is not surprising (it's snowing right now, actually.) But in the last five to seven years, seems like the weather men have to proclaim doom and gloom worst case scenarios every time snow starts falling. Probably half a dozen times throughout the winter, we are hearing about a possible blizzard that may be the worst in decades, and invariably, it ends up being nothing out of the ordinary. But schools shut down and people panic. And what's funny is that the two really serious storms we've had in that time period, the weather men completely missed. I still joke about driving in to work and the radio said to expect four to eight inches of snow-the numbers were right but wrong at the same time, we had four feet by the end of the day. My point is, after hearing horrible news from these guys and never having it happen, I've become very skeptical of weather predictions. Even living on the opposite end of the state from the city, when sandy hit we still had all the schools shut down, people were panic buying water and supplies-yet all we got was some gusts and rain.
