Was That It?

    So Irene is hitting us tomorrow right because there's no way the rain shower we got today was the ferocious storm everyone was hyping up. The picture taken above might not have been taken today but I'm sure you could have taken a similar one somewhere on the Cape. Ya, some branches got knocked down, some people lost power, there were some floods but this thing was wayy over hyped.  They were making this storm out to be the East Coast version of Katrina and it ended up having about as much intensity as J.D. Drew.  Don't give me that "Better safe that sorry" bullshit.  The fact is billions of dollars were wasted today.  I understand that weather is a scary thing because it's something we have no control over and that theses things can be unpredictable. However, you cannot tell me that when the storm hit North Carolina and was barley a category 1 hurricane officials up here couldn't have toned down the natural disatser relief effort.
    Fact is, last week forecasters started talking about how this could potentially be a category 4 hurricane and suddenly everyone turned into chicken little running around like the sky was falling.  On top of this Joe Blow over at the weather channel doesn't want to admit he's wrong and who would? I mean if I thought that I could say whatever I wanted with no repercussions and get some face time I absolutely would.  Then you get to stand out in the storm like a little kid so every 5 minutes the station can cut to a live feed of a you and you can tell them information they could have gotten by looking out a fucking window.
   The worst part about this is that it makes the Northeast look like a buncha pussies. Everyone and their mother is laughing at us.  You know how we think southerners are fucking crazy for freaking out over 3 inches of snow? That's what we look like to the people of Florida, Texas, Louisiana, etc. So maybe next time we should take the forecasts with a grain of salt and think our heads not our emotions.