William Southold, The Southold Report
I love Rachel Maddow. She brings to us the most remarkably researched and thoroughly analyzed important issues of the day, has access to all the key players, interviews them expertly, and lays it out so completely that it is rare that anything is left unexamined. But I would not want her as my weather person.
It most likely would go like this:
RM: Good evening, I’m so happy you could join us this evening. We’ve got breaking weather news, and if you haven’t heard it yet, if for some reason you were away from your TV, or radio, or phone, or whatever device you use to keep in touch with the outside world, you will be glad you tuned in here, at just this right moment, this evening. We have breaking weather news for you.
(Slight pause, but not even a breath taken.)
Because tonight there is news of an approaching storm. No, not a political storm, not the type of storm which we have become so accustomed to over the past 2 years, one that embroils almost everyone it touches, and continues to affect them, and probably will for years to come. No, not that kind of storm.
What I bring you tonight is an honest to goodness, plain, old fashioned weather storm. Right here, in DC.
So I am so glad you tuned in tonight so I could warn you of this very important, and possibly life altering weather event.
Remember last week, when that storm, the one that paralyzed the mid-west causing all sorts of traffic delays that had trucks sliding dangerously out of control across multiple lanes of traffic and flight cancellations that left people stranded at airports for hours on end with no relief in sight? Remember, that one was forecast to hit us as well, but at the last minute it swerved up to the north of us, and we hardly received as much as a glancing blow. In fact, if you remember, it hardly blew at all.
Well, we can’t be expected to be so lucky this time, if all the scientists and meteorologists and all the people who study this stuff are correct. No. Not this time. This time we will have something to contend with.
So just what are the scientists and meteorologists saying about this potential life altering winter weather event? And what should you do to prepare yourself and just what can you expect from this impending storm? Well, we will have the number 1 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration meteorologist right here with us this evening, and we will ask him all of that when we return, right after this.
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My phone beeps: Snow will begin early this evening, continuing over night, heavy at times. Strong, possibly damaging wind gusts up to 30mph. Accumulations expected 10 - 12 inches.
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