Feb 18 2009
Weathering the Storm
After a few days of beautiful weather here in Northern Alabama, we are having the opposite today. Storm warnings abound and the weather man is having one of the moments that he lives for. I love our local weatherman, but he gets so excited when it’s his time to monopolize the television station. He can talk for hours on end about virtually nothing, and give such a detailed weather report that we wonder how we ever survived a storm without him. The thunder is rolling right now, but I’m going to try to get this in before the power goes out.
Speaking of weather men and news people, it really gets me at times that they think we have to actually SEE them standing out in the rain, or at the site of some big accident, before we believe that it is true. I have always been able to tell on my own whether it was raining or not, and I can hear the wind and thunder, so I really don’t need some fool standing outside getting wet and wind-blown. This brings me to another point; I’m sure the whole world thinks that everybody in Alabama is stupid, due to the characters that they pick to interview on television after the storms ( or the accident) has happened. They always show some older person with no teeth who describes the funnel cloud, “Yep, I seed it comin’ over that there hill, and it took off the top of the shed - whoop - jest like that - it was gone.” Honestly, we don’t all sound like that.
Oops, I got to go - I hear that there storm a-comin’ and I better git myself and the dogs down to the tater cellar.
