I've followed a good bit of the Buffalo winter storm story.
It's a curious piece to me.
People act like this was a mega event, and beyond one's imagination.
Back in the 1990s, I worked with a guy who grew up just outside of Buffalo, and he could sit for ten minutes each week....describing winter storm action in the 1970s/1980s.
His stories would be the stuff that Hemmingway or Steinbeck would write. Intense....dramatic....'threat of death', and so on.
So I'm kinda wondering....did Buffalo just simmer for the past two decades with marginal winters and people get dopey?
Something is not right about the dramatic angle that the news folks portrayed the situation, and you are left to believe they went through a long era of 'light' winters.
Snow was said to be a thing of the past. Much of this is media tosh. Where I live every month in the winter the media go on about a "weather bomb." It just the same old winter storms moving through as usual.
ReplyDeleteI live in Germany, and for the most part...you can say over a 10-year period....there's going to be two years of the 10, which are ultra moderate summers or winters...based on fronts coming and going. Then there's going to be two years of the 10, which are ultra extreme, with fronts delayed or stalled, and you get a heck of a cold/hot period. The remaining six years are average. You can go back over decades and even centuries to see generally the same deal....unless you have a really active volcano in the mix...somewhere in the world.
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