"Deep Freeze 2007!"

The local news channel is just killing me. Every time we get a weather "event," they feel the need to come up with a catchy title for it with special graphics and all, like they're promoting a concert or something. It's comical.

The other thing they always do it talk about the number of "waves" of the storm we are going to get hit with. Like this afternoon, the guy on channel 4 was pointing to the animated radar, telling the TV audience that we're only experiencing "wave #1 of the big storm. Wave 2 and wave 3 are on their way and will hit us over the next day or two." That got really old after we heard that phrase for a week solid just 3 or 4 weeks ago during the "Ice Storm 2007." In reality, we just got hit one time and the ominous and threatening waves 2 and 3 hit somewhere else.

Meteorology must be the only job in which you can be so wrong so often and still get paid big bucks. Just crazy, don't you think?

I just went to the KFOR (TV Channel 4) website to try to find their graphics for the "Deep Freeze 2007" but they're nowhere to be found now. They must be afraid that the other channels will rip it off, it's so good. It must be a very competitive local TV News market down here. =) Here's the 7 day forecast.


Quite forbidding, wouldn't you say, family in PA? and in Toronto? I mean, the long list of school closings hasn't stopped since we turned on the TV an hour ago to watch Jay Leno. And it doesn't matter how well anyone can drive in this stuff because everyone else is driving crazy on old slick tires.

I just think it's funny.