Hello Fellow Travelers!
This week I had my usual mountain of moment-by-moment challenges to deal with (ice in your water: refreshment or "recipe for disaster"?) and then I saw this "Breaking News" on CNN: "Blizzard to Demolish Eastern Seaboard"
It was the lead for days and temporarily outtrumped even Trump himself, so of course, I watched.
But you know which channel was truly jazzed by this calamity, enraptured by the prospect of impending doom? "The Weather Channel"! They were absolutely breathless at the prediction of near-certain disaster! And like all great weather calamities, this one got a cute name. Move over hurricanes Katrina and Betsy, here comes Winter Storm Jonas! And he's a "Nor'Easter". With an adorable, child's name!
Why is it that once a disaster is assigned a cutesy name it becomes a little deadlier?
I was so happy something other than politics was in the news I followed the press following the storm!
The upshot? It was a big mess, but it's over with! Several people died in "Jonas-related" situations. Several not several hundred. You know why the "casualty count" was relatively low? People actually listened to their elected officials! This assortment of governors, police chiefs and health officials pleaded to the public. And the public actually listened. They stayed off the roads! The streets were clear so the emergency vehicles could get to actual emergencies.
In the hours and days preceding Jonas' arrival, the governors of several eastern states appeared on television repeatedly to tell citizens to keep off the roads for 36 hours. By Saturday, the "crisis" was over. Planes flew again and people began digging out of the snow, crisis averted!
"Stay off the roads?" Well,"duh!" Everybody knows that! No one would need to tell me that, I didn't live through brain cancer just so I could skid on some ice pointlessly going to the Kwikee Mart equivalent! I'll never need milk that bad!
I value life too much to take a stupid risk like driving in a blizzard. If I could drive. Which I cannot.
I've fought too long to stay alive to risk running into the "Reaper"by playing in the snow!
I now have a heightened awareness of how truly dangerous everyday life is. I evaluate every circumstance by how potentially dangerous it could be.
I've been dizzy longer than the Civil War lasted, I'm not willing to take any physical chances!
See what happens when communities stay inside and don't drive in blizzards with cute names? Less people get hurt!
Like I said, "Duh!"
This week I had my usual mountain of moment-by-moment challenges to deal with (ice in your water: refreshment or "recipe for disaster"?) and then I saw this "Breaking News" on CNN: "Blizzard to Demolish Eastern Seaboard"
It was the lead for days and temporarily outtrumped even Trump himself, so of course, I watched.
But you know which channel was truly jazzed by this calamity, enraptured by the prospect of impending doom? "The Weather Channel"! They were absolutely breathless at the prediction of near-certain disaster! And like all great weather calamities, this one got a cute name. Move over hurricanes Katrina and Betsy, here comes Winter Storm Jonas! And he's a "Nor'Easter". With an adorable, child's name!
Why is it that once a disaster is assigned a cutesy name it becomes a little deadlier?
I was so happy something other than politics was in the news I followed the press following the storm!
The upshot? It was a big mess, but it's over with! Several people died in "Jonas-related" situations. Several not several hundred. You know why the "casualty count" was relatively low? People actually listened to their elected officials! This assortment of governors, police chiefs and health officials pleaded to the public. And the public actually listened. They stayed off the roads! The streets were clear so the emergency vehicles could get to actual emergencies.
In the hours and days preceding Jonas' arrival, the governors of several eastern states appeared on television repeatedly to tell citizens to keep off the roads for 36 hours. By Saturday, the "crisis" was over. Planes flew again and people began digging out of the snow, crisis averted!
"Stay off the roads?" Well,"duh!" Everybody knows that! No one would need to tell me that, I didn't live through brain cancer just so I could skid on some ice pointlessly going to the Kwikee Mart equivalent! I'll never need milk that bad!
I value life too much to take a stupid risk like driving in a blizzard. If I could drive. Which I cannot.
I've fought too long to stay alive to risk running into the "Reaper"by playing in the snow!
I now have a heightened awareness of how truly dangerous everyday life is. I evaluate every circumstance by how potentially dangerous it could be.
I've been dizzy longer than the Civil War lasted, I'm not willing to take any physical chances!
See what happens when communities stay inside and don't drive in blizzards with cute names? Less people get hurt!
Like I said, "Duh!"
Why can't we find a way to ship all that water over to California for the draught? Especially since water and gas & oil have similar costs and value, we don't hesitate to ship petroleum, but not life-giving H2O...
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