You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™
Blizzard 2013
3 feet of snow. Trucks spinning tires. Snow blowers blasting dogs in the snout. Governors and mayors at podiums pleading with people to stay home. I love the women standing behind them, signing so emphatically.
I see an army of snow plows and cars in ditches and snow coming down.
“I’d rather walk than drive,” says one woman.
My favorite quote of all time is “if you don’t have to be out then stay home.”
Really? That could be said of anything any time anywhere.
A myriad of reporters are standing in front of salt piles and snow drifts and citizens scraping their windshields.
Airports are shut down and streets in Boston are a deserted theater of white.
It’s devastating and makes good TV, but by the time I post this, Monday, the biggest storm in the history of the Earth will be file footage. Warmer temperatures will be upon us, and the slush will be melting into liquid so what.
I’m just saying, it’s snow, it’s inconvenient, it’s cold, but it’s not a hurricane. It’s not a tornado. It’s not a tsunami.
Relax national news people, chill out.
Yes four people have died. Four people dieing on the entire East Coast doesn’t seem like a lot of deaths.
I’ve covered Tornado outbreaks where 25 people died in an instant.
Now that’s a nightmare.
Snow melts.
Tornadoes dissipate and fly off into the sky to be with the wizard of Oz and Dorothy, but they leave behind splintered lives and broken dreams.
Snowmageddon? It looks rough, but it’s not the end of the world.
A Friend of mine showed me a picture of his brother in the North East. He was in swim trunks and captured in mid air diving, shirtless, pant less, bootless, into a 3 foot snow bank. It’s a great shot. It said, hey this is kind of fun.
Relax people. Relax TV networks. It’s just snow.
And that’s crazy.™