Some people like to pretend they’re better than everyone else and blow off anything that doesn’t affect them personally.
And they make fools of themselves by pretending that an inch of light show is the same thing as a foot of frozen slop.
I’ll bet people in Noah’s day blew off the rain Noah was warning them about , too.
One thing that makes this storm a big deal is the very cold weather behind it.
Ice is going to stay ice for many days.
Snow is not going anywhere for many days.
While folks in the northern tier of the country are used to it this will hit places that experience those conditions very rarely.