Friday, 30 December 2022

The Buffalo 'Storm' Action

 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.