Extra! EXTRA! Hear all about it, whether you want to or not:

The TV weathermen

are in emergency voice mode

stirring up alarm for the viewers,

decidels raised, you can almost see

the exclamation points......

why, I can even see their underlined

italics:

Another DREAD STORM, like the kind we were once used to and did not give such a big rip about in the olden days, is headed our way!

We chuckle to hear of the armies of snowplows idling on the I-road entrances and exits, to learn via shouted declarations of the salt supply numbers. Road pavement temperatures are cataloged, with the dire dynamic of potential freezing rain. "All snow throughout the night for (the enumerated counties, one by one).................."AND STRONG WINDS!"

We know far too much about all the weather tics, thanks to these zealous predicters/prevaricators.

Here at the raccoon district we shut off the raging television. What is to come will come. We will bake those pumpkins from the Thanksgiving decorating of the church, instead. See the snow in the morning.