Let's Talk About the Weather
Weather. It's what we talk about when we can't think of anything else to talk about. Lately, it seems that no one can think of anything else to talk about. Facebook, Twitter, the TV news - it's all about the weather. A blizzard across the entire middle section of the country, temperatures in Texas colder than temperatures in Alaska. It really is kind of crazy.
I can understand people in southern states who aren't used to snow and ice and cold temperatures going on and on about it. It's unusual weather. It really is something to talk about. Here in Wisconsin though, it's normal to have cold and snow in the winter. That doesn't stop our local TV news crew from going on and on about it. There's one channel in particular that drives me absolutely bonkers. For some reason, they think they need to stay on the air all day long, pre-empting regularly scheduled programming, in order to talk about every single detail of the bad weather - repeatedly. I mean, yes,we did get a lot of snow this week, and the wind blowing that snow around made the roads treacherous and cut visibility way down, but how many times can you tell people that? Or, correction - how many times do you need to tell people that?
I can understand people in southern states who aren't used to snow and ice and cold temperatures going on and on about it. It's unusual weather. It really is something to talk about. Here in Wisconsin though, it's normal to have cold and snow in the winter. That doesn't stop our local TV news crew from going on and on about it. There's one channel in particular that drives me absolutely bonkers. For some reason, they think they need to stay on the air all day long, pre-empting regularly scheduled programming, in order to talk about every single detail of the bad weather - repeatedly. I mean, yes,we did get a lot of snow this week, and the wind blowing that snow around made the roads treacherous and cut visibility way down, but how many times can you tell people that? Or, correction - how many times do you need to tell people that?