I've become pretty good at tuning out the warnings of giant snowstorms, since more times than not, blizzards turn out to be flurries, and deluges give way to dustings.
So, when I woke up to a foot of snow this morning, I must say, I was stunned.
Where were the days of warnings, pre-emptive school closings, cancellations of plans and meetings, and threats of deadly ice?
Did all of this get reported this weekend and I just missed it?
Or did this snowfall really come without warning? And if so, why? I mean, how do the forecasters who pledge to stay on the air until the danger is gone miss a foot of snow?
I've advocated for a while that the TV news chillax a little about the weather. Either storms happen or they don't, and forecasters could stand to take it down a notch.
But when I say take it down a notch, I don't mean don't tell me at all. I might've woken up an hour earlier and gotten to work on time today had I known this was coming. It's a good thing the snowblower is gassed up and ready to go.
Andy is the president, publisher and founder of OnMilwaukee. He returned to Milwaukee in 1996 after living on the East Coast for nine years, where he wrote for The Dallas Morning News Washington Bureau and worked in the White House Office of Communications. He was also Associate Editor of The GW Hatchet, his college newspaper at The George Washington University.
Before launching OnMilwaukee.com in 1998 at age 23, he worked in public relations for two Milwaukee firms, most of the time daydreaming about starting his own publication.
Hobbies include running when he finds the time, fixing the rust on his '75 MGB, mowing the lawn at his cottage in the Northwoods, and making an annual pilgrimage to Phoenix for Brewers Spring Training.
