my daily weather check on my pda revealed this startling news Friday...
there is a "severe weather watch" in effect through the weekend...
as several fronts, which will grow in strength, make it through our area...
I'm NOT building an ark...
or collecting canned goods anytime soon...
these warnings always lead us to believe that Mother Nature...
is pissed... and about to exact deadly vengeance on us all...
that there will be "walls of water"...
[maybe .75 of an inch in our area !!!]
and that we needed to know this severe weather was on the way...
so we could be prepared...
well, they've "cried wolf" too often...
in the first place, .75 inches of rain is NOT severe weather...
unless you have NO shelter and are allergic to rain...
and in the second place, most of the time these, "warnings" amount to nothing...
going north or south of us...
or just plain, fizzling out without producing much rain at all...
I lived in Chicagoland for 5 years[1973-8]...
they had REAL severe weather alerts...
not to mention REAL severe weather...
the kind that you HAD to respect...
tornadoes... thunderstorms... downpours...
4 inches of rain in an hour...
and BLIZZARDS... real white-outs...
26 inches of snow... in 24 hours...
[on May 2...]
not to mention the 2 weeks in January when it was -20˚F...
all day... for at least 10 days...
each year of the 5 that I lived there...
then came the "January thaw"...
when the temp finally got up to zero...
& people took off their heavy coats...
at 25˚, they wore shorts...
oh, it was often "raw" into May...
sleet, howling winds & "sideways" rain...
but never again, -20˚ F after the January thaw...
so don't tease me with your lame NorCal "severe weather alerts"...
I'm NOT buying it...
now a "severe foot watch"...
that would get my attention...
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