How come every storm that is east of the mississippi river is the worst on record. Now for the last 10 years the news media tells us that ever time they get a little storm.

K.C. , it seems to me that no matter where you are in this country the weather folks tell you how bad it is somewhere else. Here in the east we always hear how bad it is out west. I think we're having an average winter, and I think we got enough hay and firewood to get us through. Have a great day!

That would be the same reason that most every flood in the desert south west where I live is always a 100 year or 500 year flood. I will turn 51 next week but have lived to see several 100 year and one 500 year flood. Could this be the end times spoken of by God's Holy Prophets?

They tell you lies because they can and the more stupid populous believe them more now.

Here, we have summer like weather. A lil wetter than
summer but it feels summerish.

Yea... stupid people, dont get me started! Like I
was in this discount food store and had a $4.99 item
that I wanted to purchase with visa. The clerk said
there is a $5 minium for visa so I told her to ringit up as $5. She said couldnt do THAT! so I asked for
1 cent cash back and she said couldnt do that, was somehow against the rules, had to BUY something!
I asked her to find something for 1 cent and she couldnt so I left!
THIS is the same store that were selling a box of items for more each than if one were to buy them seperately so I simply opened the box and they said that was somehow cheating.

So I sit and ponder these things while shoveling
poop in the barn trying to find a lesson in it. I think it is something about the future being dedicated to stupid people and it is only stupid people who will fit in our new bold future.

I guess they lost their records.
For years now the news has been"sensationalized",not reported.Now it is the same with the weather.Every little change in the weather is delivered as or with a warning or alert.However,in some areas alerts can be life saving.Here on the east coast I have to chuckle when we get a heavy rainfall "warning".The weather report used to say "rain tomorrow,sometimes heavy,tapering off to showers by evening or morning,whatever the case may be.The temperature is never reported as it is,it has to be "sensationalized" with a wind chill or humidex factor.It is just "sensationalizing" so they can make themselves seem more important in their own minds I guess.

Maybe it's just where you get your news from.

Everything I'd been hearing says this last one that hit DC wasn't as bad as the one in 78'.

I remember that one too. On the coast of NC we had snowdrifts over most of the houses. We kids went around digging out people front doors for days. Some payed us some didn't, but we did it anyway. We were out of school almost three weeks and needed something to do!

Kirk Ross has it exactly right. News and weather are no longer reported; they are sensationalized. Every time I listen to the news, I feel like I am back in line at the grocery store, with a string of stupid Inquirer-like magazines trying to grab my attention with their moronic headlines. Obviously, those magazines are still in business because somebody is buying them. Apparently, sensationalism sells as well as sex.

If I hear the word unprecedented one more time.... AHHHH. Everything is extreme. I am sick of hearing extreme ______. When does it stop being extreme? KM

Old wisedom I have been taught here is that you want 1/2 of your hay and firewood left by Valentine's Day.

Will be ok by that measure.

Remember in the mid '60's we had so much snow that a fellow crawled across country with his D8 Cat and pushed back along driveways and such to make more room for the next snow.

The really bad part of the weather/news is that when there is a real old time blizzard approaching they either don't know it or no one believes them.

KM, when people don't have an oral history that goes back to about 1915 like I do for my area. Everything is a new experience to them. People move around so much; AND they are basicly coddled city dwellers anymore. (weather wise that is) I always liked to hear old time farmers and ranchers talk about what they had seen or experienced.
jwaller, up here even 40 years ago it was get your barn 1/2 full of hay; winter ain't over yet! I can still remember a lot of hay getting hauled the last of febuary, first part of march as a kid. In the blizzard of march 1966, a fellow farmer up here went around with a D6. We also had a large (for that time) local road contractor in New Rockford. He called back all his men and had all his graders, big cats and Pay loaders running within maybe 36 hours. Archie Campbell was his name. He did a lot for everybody any time he could. Might have been the most wealthy man in Eddy county at that time. I never heard that he even took fuel money for that in 66. Think about it an M or 400, 450, IHC were the loader tractors up here mostly. Dad had an H on an F10 farmhand but we had hay in the barn. Cows fed around the barn until maybe a week later when they made a break for the hayracks several hundred feet away. No big deal I guess; asked my dad what will we do if we run out of hay? He said they are in good (fat) shape we would just keep making a trail with loose hay to the gate and get them into the stacks. Told him there was no gate where he was pointing. Looked at me and held up a pair of plyers. Didn't have to do it. Weather changed and quit storming.

Hey Zebu, that reminds me of the other day at the bank. My wife wrote a check to cash and signed the back. She went thru the drive thru at the bank the check was written on. The tellers first question was, "Do you have an account with us?" She wasn't the quickest either.

And, my favorite has got to be before the news or weather comes on, there is a soap operish question such as, rain in the forecast but should we expect flooding? A set up to keep us glued to the tv.

An old farmer once compared the weather forecasters to Playboy Magazine. When I ask how they were so alike, he said " they only try to entertain and excite you, other than that they have no real purpose."

It's all relative. You don't hear much about weather events in less populated places (like North and South Dakota,Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, etc.).
When we had 18" snow storm the 27th of June it didn't even make the Utah news. We had 3' of snow at the big rainbow hippie gathering at Fish Creek and froze a bunch of hippies (not to death though)out of the same storm and that didn't even make the news.
If they paid attention to North Dakota weather it'd make the news most every week. Tough place to winter up there.

Wes, it's not that bad. We don't get cold and humid at the same time. Some years I have experienced an open winter also. Never had enough snow to use a sled. That will make any oldtimer worry more than a blizzard or cold snap.
I think the reason nobody hears about a tough winter up here is cause all our faces freeze until spring! JUST KIDDING! Old saying it kept the rif- raff out.

Yes, it is all relitive. They talk about how hard the wind blows in a hurrican on the east coast. On the Oregon coast they don't have a clue about how hard the wind blows because usually after it gets to 120mpg, the wind gauge at Cape Blanco blows away but who cares. Only loggers and fishermen live there anyway.
It is all about "being prepared for the worst" so we will forget how bad the worst is. Sorta like putting up the signs for flagger on the road so many miles from him that we forget there was a sign back down the road.

Dale, that's so true!

Here in 'Miami of the North',(S E of Buffalo,NY) we have have 4-5" on the ground. Can't use sled to move bale(use cart) and snowmobilers are complaining of no snow. Cold snaps on weekends, now mid 20's and teens at night.

worse storm on record..all a matter of perspective..do reporters want sensational news to cause a stir..if you can't find it lie about it..if you stand around with your finger in your nose and never get prepaired fo anything when it comes it is the worst..at my house we always ready for most anything..doesn't mean things will always be easy but they won't be as hard as they are for the dummies in this world

I get a kick out of the National News talking about 4-5K people not having power. What tripe! We had 13 MILLION without power, in January, on the Canadian border, for over 2 weeks and it wasn't national news after day 2.