Call it the Payback Storm of 2013.
After a winter and a half of relatively mild weather, a powerful storm is expected to pound the state Friday, with a triple-threat combination of up to 2 feet of snow, high winds whipping up blizzard conditions, and heavy waves battering the coast, the National Weather Service says.
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Oh goodie... where is Dickie when you need him... We do have Harvey Leonard on Channel 5 bragging how he predicted the Blizzard of '78... first!!! Hey... Wanna bett Harvey is gonnaz do his best to hype yet another storm of at least equal size?
Well, not to be outdone, the meteoritelogisticals and the print media typists are working themselves into fits of predictatorial excess (we hope)... J.C. on Chanel 5 (lookin good these days) is saying 6 to 12 inches around Boston . . . but here's the Glob echoing the Channel 4 casters with pipedreams of 2 feet or more. . . And if you watch the tv predictatorial excessers, you will note that they have an undisclosed number of computer "models" ... none of which so far seem to be very much in agreement. . . So the prognosticators are in 7th heaven as they try to scare the bayjayzus out of residents of the hyperstate of Taxashoosetts... Did Deeval the self-assessed Magnificent either buy or borrow Mike Dukakis' cardigan sweater so he can add yet another feather to his under construction legatistic memory (aka legacy).
Crank.
Huh?
I hate snow...must stock up on bread - at least 17 loaves...hee hee
Yea!!! Can't wait. I've always loved snow. Bring it on!
We live in New England where is usually snows every winter. When will snow storms, any impending snow storm, stop being big news.
Okay, we need to be warned/advised when a storm is coming. Do we really need TV news reports standing alongside roadways waiting for the first flakes to fall and the enevitable list of what we need to prepare for the storm? If someone lives here and doesn't know enough to have snow tires and/or chains and to avoid shoveling snow if you have a bad heart, no news story is going to change them.
Pleast, tell us when and how much and leave it to us to decide how much bread and milk, or beer we need to buy.
Regarding Harvey Leonard predicting the Blizzard oh '78 firstmeant present this observation. I sent this e-mail to my brother this morning. --- Having a cup of coffee at Starbucks, reading The Globe and getting ready to stock up for the next "storm of the century" on Friday. They had segments in and on the news yesterday about the Blizzard of '78 yesterday. I remember it well. To show you how people's memories play tricks over time, Emily Rooney with a few guests on her Greater Boston show last night, repeated the oft mentioned myth that the Bean-pot Tourney still went on with 15,000 fans at the old Garden. They all "remembered it." I recalled that it didn't go on. Googled it at several sites to be sure of my memory. A few hundred fans showed up to a cancelled Bean-pot and were stranded there for a day or two. The Tourney was postponed until March 1st. The guests were Michael Goldman, Democratic advisor now who was working as some storm center executive in Boston and Boston City Councilor, Lawerence DiCara filling in as acting Mayor because Mayor White was stranded in D.C. But, Ahhh! They ( all three ) remembered it well. And they're all younger than I. Got to go out and get water, bread, milk and...oh, yeah, wine to go with my whine
...may I present this observation. Autocorrect...not always correct...