I'm sick of them saying it's breaking records every single newscast. I don't care. I want to hear what is the weather going to be like. When is your best guesstimate of when it's going to begin, how long it's going to last, how much of a mess it will be. I could give a rat's *** that with just 1.3" more of snow, we'll move into #2 on the snowiest winter ever list. On the flip side to your post, this has been an unprecedented winter for us and, well, I'm sorry, but that's news. The crippling of a public transportation system, the gridlock traffic in a city - it affects a lot of people. It's newsworthy when people are losing jobs and places are losing business because they can't get there or can't open. It's news when the roof of an elementary school collapses.
I really resent that people that aren't living through this are making it seem like we're wusses and we should be able to handle a little snow. We can handle this much snow, when it comes over the course of an entire winter. It's a little different when it all comes in three weeks. I'm watching the news and seeing places who are dealing with ridiculously low temperatures, and ice. I don't ever want to deal with that! I sympathize because how much does that suck???!! Suffice it to say we're all sick of weather stories.
This NY Times op ed piece is pretty spot on.
