THE WEATHER MAN WHO CRIED WOLF!

I am sure we can all remember the story/fable from our childhood years of the little boy who cried wolf one too many times and no one believed him. The lesson was if you cried for help and were only joking too many times, no one would believe you.

We seem to have weathermen here in the western New York area who must have been absent the day that story/fable was read at school. A few years ago, we had an unexpected snow strom hit the area that left children stranded at school or en route home over night. We live in a snow area, so this kind of storm is not rare.....maybe unexpected at times, but not rare.

Now it seems as if the weatherman has taken the lesson of the little boy who cried wolf too seriously for most Buffaloians. It seems every time there is a chance a storm might hit the area, the weatherman pushes the panic button and emits reports that cause us to push the panic button. This has been happening ever since that one storm a few years ago. I guess the weatherman doesn't want to be caught with his pants down again.

Just this past Friday, the weathermnan reported that 2 major incidents were going to hit the area. First one: he predicted enough rain for most of us regreting not building an ark. Second one: he reported a major lake effect storm (for those not familar with that term, it is the worse and most destructive snow storm that can hit) to hit us by Monday morning. As is the custom of us here, that kind of storm means running out and buying up bread, milk, toilet paper, and beer.

Well, so far he has been wrong on the first count. While we had some rain off and on yesterday, it was not even close to what was predicted. The way it looks and feels now, I doubt very much if a lake effect storm will hit us. I doubt if we will even get enough snow to cover the ground if even that.

Some may say that predicting the weather is NOT a skill, but a game of chance. Some may say that there is no true way of prediciting what will happen 48 hours from now or even 24 hours. As for me, I will give the weatherman credit for not wanting us to go through what we did a few years ago. However, I tend to lean toward his crying wolf......one of these times we will not listen to him and WILL be hit with a major storm.

Well, if you do not hear from me in a week or so, it might be that the weatherman WAS right and we got hit with that lake effect storm and all the power lines are down. I think I am going to find my snow shovels just in case................


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