Seattle SnowMageddon: The Winter Storm That Wasn’t
Well, according to the brightest minds with the most technologically sophisticated equipment, our area was due to receive up to 18″ of snow overnight. Ha. Snow totals here up against the Cascades are 2″ of new snow in the past 24 hours at best. I would dare say that this was hardly a winter event at all. Newscasters collect data and then climb the stairs of perpetual excitement (one grabbing the headlines over the other). Ultimately, they convince each other based on emotion rather than fact. Now that each news agency is committed to fostering the upper bounds of possibility, they send out crews looking for “snow drama” to broadcast their heroics to the huddled masses who are seen as hunkering down in their homes grasping to their HDTV’s. Journalism? Oh, brother. I can invest in about 3 continuous minutes of news journalism comedy before my sarcasm drives mom out of the room. Glad I gave up watching TV about 30 years ago.
In any case, I dared the elements and took you outside during a lunch break from work. As usual, you had a great time playing and exploring in what little snow we did have. We then came inside and had mom fix us some hot chocolates. I think that you wore your chocolate mustache for the rest of the day.
Ok, I have to quit fooling around and get back to my day job.
Happy Kid!!
Love,
Dad
