Found in my drafts folder from 2014

[cjsmith]

Side effects of having lived through some pretty bad storms: When weather forecasts say there's a bad storm coming, you spend a few minutes thinking about whether you'll need to get up a bit early in the morning and whether you remember where the heck you stored your raincoat.

Side effects of NOT having lived through some pretty bad storms: When weather forecasts say there's a bad storm coming, you spend a few minutes sneering at the "panic" and working up some witty remarks for the moment that the storm does not exceed expectations.

Yeah, human nature hasn't changed much since 2014, nor has the fact I'm a curmudgeon. Okay then. Good to have that all checked out. In other shocking news, gravity still works and the sun rises pretty much in the east.

Comments

[marahmarie]

I'm lucky if I can remember if I *have* a raincoat, much less where it is. Wearing them's the worst, anyhow, so I don't miss them too much if I don't have one (or simply can't find it anywhere).

When weather forecasts say there's a bad storm coming, you spend a few minutes sneering at the "panic" and working up some witty remarks for the moment that the storm does not exceed expectations.

I have a witticism for that: "If you want to know what the weather's like, look out the window". Rarely fails even when meteorologists do, which I say because some people tend to worship/live and die by forecasts. I trust my eyes (and how I feel, as low pressure systems signaling rain or storms coming tend to take me down physically well before they hit) much more.

Tornadoes, of course, are a different story.