Where's the snow?
This post may come back to bite me, but no snow here yet. Snowmageddon, as Enviro Can has dubbed it already has claimed victims - air travellers and school buses. One nauseating point, AM 640 has for the past 18 hours has been poohpoohing the idea of a snow warning. Encouraging "Real Canadians" to ignore the deal, "Are we a Nation of Wimps?". Callers are being encouraged to recall how they used to crawl naked through the snow to appear in the one room schoolhouse that produced university grads on a regular basis.
The National Post has someone liveblogging the storm here
What Don Martin (G&M #1 pundit) has to say about "Snouts at the Trough":
read it here
The National Post has someone liveblogging the storm here
What Don Martin (G&M #1 pundit) has to say about "Snouts at the Trough":
read it here
3 comments:
The moron making these "real Canadian" comments on AM 640 should be reminded that a young Port Hope woman lost her life this week by forging ahead in bad weather,losing control of her vehicle while entering Highway 401 at Welcome. Her decision to travel in stormy weather resulted in her death, the injury of her infant child and two other adults, and a life-altering experience for the transport driver who hit her car. This poor woman was decidedly Canadian, but was killed nonetheless.
On the other hand, in my workplace we had someone declaring yesterday that they would not come to work today because of the threatened "snowmageddon". This person lives 5 minutes north of town.
When it was pointed out that (a) it wasn't even supposed to begin until Friday morning around 9 am, and (b) perhaps the person should wait and monitor the actual conditions through the day rather than depend on iffy forecasts yesterday to decide not to work today, a stony glare was the reward.
The media hype is just too much these days, and it alarms people unnecessarily. I'm not a drive through anything type of fool, but a little common sense is required. If only the media would use some too.
"Snowmageddon" is a poetic extravagance that only seasoned poets should handle. Journalists are more adept with handling mediocrity, but they don't like to think that of themselves.
So yes, the news media should draw on common sense, and leave the field of uncommon sense to poets.
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