[Oldeconomybuyer]

Brainwashing. It happens every day on ABC’s Good Morning America. The wife watches it and they treat every thunderstorm like its the end of the world.

[oh8eleven]

The wife watches it and they treat every thunderstorm like its the end of the world.
Our local stations (Rochester NY) are the worst. At least four or five times a week, unending alerts scroll across the screen warning us of impending doom via thunderstorms, flash flooding, high winds, etc.
In the winter, every snowstorm is the "storm of the century" as if we hadn't had snow before. And the temperatures are always given as a wind chill, as if we lived in Siberia or worked outdoors all day.
Enough already.

[Vinnie]

Yes, and another trick this year is to announce how many millions of people are going to be affected by some storm marching across the county.