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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
Oh please...What is up with these people? I’m looking out my Massachusetts window right now...Color me unimpressed so far.

Here in Illinois/Wisconsin we heard snowmageddon thrown about, for what wouond up being a nasty batch of wintry mix (IL) and 16" of pwedy stuff, gracefully delivered (southern WI).

Hey folks. It's Wisconsin. It's winter. In the old days we called it a snow storm, and people prepared (chains, studded tires in the NE, stay at home, take your chances).

I lived in CT in my youth, and the ice storm in the early '70s (73?), the real deal in '78, a barrage of mid sized storms one after the other in '93-'94, all exceed most of what we had in recent years.

I think it is all about ratings, to get people to watch local news and weather stations, with their 4D-Meta-Doppler forecasts. The newspapers will find a big drift for the photo, and a story about an 80 year old who had a heart attack in her home and couldn't get help. Good grief, Buffalo gets this every year. It is New England; snow is no stranger to the Yankee.
30 posted on 02/08/2013 1:13:51 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("C'est la vie" say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell. -- Chuck Berry)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Buffalo gets all the bad publicity. Try lining in the snow belt.

I’ve seen it come down 5 inches an hour in Oswego County and it never made the national news.


45 posted on 02/08/2013 1:26:25 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: Dr. Sivana

“I think it is all about ratings, to get people to watch local news and weather stations...”

Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!

We haved a winner!

You nailed it.


84 posted on 02/08/2013 5:31:34 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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