Take, for example, the storm that unleashed a record foot or so of snow onto the region. Granted, this was a pretty grand dumping. But the TV snow reporters have been piddling on themselves like high-strung poodles. They give the impression that we have entered a new Ice Age. One station kept using the word "pounds" (or was it "pounding?") to describe the snowstorm. I got so excited I went out on my porch to listen to the explosions. Damn. All I heard was the natural soft sounds of snow falling – IN WINTER! I was asleep when the following melodrama unfolded: My lovely wife, Sherry, told me she was watching TV Monday morning when one of the crews foolishly got its news van stuck. If I got a Spokesman-Review car stuck in the snow, I wouldn't want anyone to know for fear of getting royally razzed. But these nincompoops apparently reported on their marooned vehicle as if it were a major storm development. What were these clods doing outside, anyway?/Doug Clark, Spokesman-Review. More here.
Question: What is the silliest thing you've heard or read about Snowtastrophe '08?
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
record foot or so of snow onto the region. Granted, this was a pretty grand dumping. But the TV snow reporters have been piddling on themselves like high-strung poodles. They give the impression that we have entered a new Ice Age. One station kept using the word "pounds" (or was it "pounding?") to describe the snowstorm. I got so excited I went out on my porch to listen to the explosions. Damn. All I heard was the natural soft sounds of snow falling – IN WINTER! I was asleep when the following melodrama unfolded: My lovely wife, Sherry, told me she was watching TV Monday morning when one of the crews foolishly got its news van stuck. If I got a Spokesman-Review car stuck in the snow, I wouldn't want anyone to know for fear of getting royally razzed. But these nincompoops apparently reported on their marooned vehicle as if it were a major storm development. What were these clods doing outside, anyway?/Doug Clark, Spokesman-Review. More here.
