This was pretty bad. I’ve been seeing the outrage in the news feeds and such. I think every area has at some point been forecasted to have a light snow and then got dumped on. It happened here in Tennessee back in the 90’s. The forecast called for 4 inches of snow, we got 4.5 feet. It shut the city down for a week. At my house, we were without power for 9 days.
The outrage that folks have is silly. Assuming city officials have some sort of control over such changing weather conditions is ludicrous. We’re always looking for someone to blame, but the blame really lies with us. We’re comfortable and our routines are set and if anything, including a forecast for a dusting that intensifies and turns into inches, upsets those routines, we want to lay blame at someone because we had to.. what? get in our cars or not and deal with a situation that is out of the control of everyone involved? Bleh.
Do they think Atlanta expected to have the issues they had when the snow hit them? Do they think that folks in the pan handle of Florida ever considered that a hurricane of huge proportions was going to come bearing down on them after being safe from such things since recorded history? We cannot control the planet, only what we do to it. We cannot control the weather, only brace for impact whatever that may be. Mother nature can still surprise us and that becomes more and more apparently with each natural disaster we face and each increase in storm intensity we experience.