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The above cartoon quite accurately demonstrates the way the local news media reports about snowfall around these parts. It can be anything from an inch to three feet and it’s quickly labeled The Storm of the Century. Regular television or radio programming is interrupted to bring us the latest flake by flake coverage. “Winter Storm Warning is in effect for Capital City! It’s gonna be a big one folks! Holy cow look it the radar here! Snow just everywhere! Best to stay off the roads as driving could be dangerous…”

No kiddin’. (And that includes you, you people with your friggin’ SUV’s!!! Ahem…sorry, small car complex). I swear tho’ that the newscasters around here are NOT originally from around here because they get so damn excited about snow. And they seem to assume that their audience has never experienced snow either and thus…it’s big news! Look, it’s snow! It happens around here, every year about this time and has for many thousands of years I suspect! Should continue for at least…oh another thirty years anyway before the apparent devastating effects of global warming finally slap us in the face.

Global warming? I’ve got a foot and a half of snow in my yard right now and the temperature outside is about 15 degrees with a windchill factor of -10 and I’m supposed to get upset about global warming?!

Anyway, it’s snow, it’s white, it’s cold, it’s pretty and eventually it’ll melt and be gone and we’ll be complaining about the black flies and the heat and humidity of summer.

And that’ll be big news too.