Fay? Fay?
I think tropical storm Fay forgot to turn on the rain faucet for this area.
It never fails, they call school off, they open the schools as shelters, and then the storm never actually hits, and so the county is now out millions of dollars because the storm never even came close so they can't get the money back from the federal government.
They called school far too early yesterday, they should have waited until 6pm to make that call because at 6, they knew it wasn't coming here.
But the panic that the local weather people create every time there's the possibility of a storm, just drives me nuts.
I hate it.
As late as 1am, they were still telling people to get into their interior rooms when the winds start, yet they knew and were telling people, that the storm was going to make landfall far far south of us.
And now on the noon news, they are talking about the damage that we didn't get.
Pure craziness.
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Between Charlie Crist and the idiots at the news, they've caused such a ridiculous overreaction. I'm up in Orlando and can't run my business because the schools are out and so then the daycares closed and parents need to stay home. So ridiculous.
Posted by: Avitable | August 19, 2008 12:49 PM
I know it. My sons first day at school was yesterday, and they got a day off for this?
Nothing freaking happened!
I hate the way they incite panic over the weather here. It's truly ridiculous.
Posted by: Kat | August 19, 2008 12:57 PM
I've been having the same feelings all day. I keep yelling, "IT'S JUST A THUNDERSTORM" because at this point it is. I was so happy to see that the garbage people were actually working today, but my room mate's been having hideous frustrations all day because she's three days out from a college deadline and trying to sort out a bunch of mix ups and now can't because no one is at the school today because of the "hurricane".
Posted by: Ami-chan | August 19, 2008 2:54 PM