by Chuck Larlham
Member since:
January 19, 2009

Stupid Storm - Stupid Weathermen - Stupid Doctor

February 01, 2011 06:19 PM UTC
views: 0 | 18 people recommend this | comments: 63

Supposed to get 3 -4 inches last nite... barely a flake.  Supposed to start snowing here at three o'clock... it's not here YET, and it's SIX o'clock.  Stupid newsies and weathermen have turned a foot of snow into "The Storm of the Century!" or some such asinine thing.  My boss says work from home if you can.  OK -  I can and I probably will.

The Luvly Laura had her first cataract surgery scheduled for one o'clock this afternoon.  The clinic called at ten this morning, after I'd already taken a sick day, and canceled.  Why?  Because, "You might not be able to get in here tomorrow because of"The Storm of the Century!""

For Pete's sake, folks, this storm has been predicted for five days!  You had PLENTY of time to call me yesterday!  (Well, we hoped it wouldn't come.)  REALLY?!? We live in MICHIGAN... the Midwest... a veritable hotbed of snowstorms!  They don't "not come!"  And we've been driving in snow since Hector was a pup (52 years for me)!

Meanwhile, the Luvly Laura gets to go another two weeks without her contacts.  I get to play calendar games (they rescheduled for Monday the 14th) so I can get another day off.  And it's STILL WINTER!  What if we get another "Storm of the Century?!?"

Stupid storm!  Stupid weatherman.  Stupid doctor.

It's a CONSPIRACY, I tells ya... a freakin' CONSPIRACY!

Comments: 63

Tracy Fabre Feb 1, 2011, 6:28pm UTC
You're handling this with remarkable serenity. :-)
Chuck Larlham Feb 1, 2011, 6:38pm UTC
AND aplomb! Don't forget the aplomb!
Jim G. Feb 1, 2011, 6:29pm UTC
It's called cabin fever, Chuck, LOL.
Chuck Larlham Feb 1, 2011, 6:36pm UTC
We don' need no schtinkin' FREEZER!
Chuck Larlham Feb 1, 2011, 6:43pm UTC
It's FIFTEEN farkin' degrees... and DROPPIN'!
Dorothy H. Feb 1, 2011, 6:37pm UTC
It's an inconvenient life, sometimes. Lots of, "wait-n-see" events, and non-events.
Chuck Larlham Feb 1, 2011, 6:40pm UTC
OK - YOU explain it to th' Luvly Laura. SHE doesn't believe in inconvenient. lol
Chuck Larlham Feb 1, 2011, 6:42pm UTC
SHE believes in blamin' ME!
Chuck Larlham Feb 1, 2011, 6:45pm UTC
Um... yeah.
Jim G. Feb 1, 2011, 6:51pm UTC
Punxsutawney Phil comes out tomorrow - Only six weeks to go.....
Kasey Klein Feb 1, 2011, 6:57pm UTC
we're getting a little rain


Thanks for posting to Short Story and More!
George Shaw Feb 1, 2011, 6:59pm UTC
Chuck, look at it this way. There were people who didn't show up at the World Trade Center on 9/11 because of one freeking thing or another. Maybe it was best that you were not on the road at that time and place. Jes' sayin'
Lisa Westerfield Feb 1, 2011, 7:05pm UTC
Oh, the weather outside if frightful.
I HATE THE SNOW!

Well, I feel better.
Chuck Larlham Feb 1, 2011, 7:23pm UTC
And ya make ME feel better.
Good. Now, go kill the doctor. ;)
Kevin E. Feb 1, 2011, 7:27pm UTC
You gotta just love the fear factor don't ya?
Sandy Moore Feb 1, 2011, 8:09pm UTC
Maybe it is time to do your own weather forecasting. Have a good night Joe.
Linda B. Feb 1, 2011, 8:45pm UTC
I'll send a tornado or two up your way if you want. Might make a nice change.

Saturday it was 65 degrees, bright and sunny for the most part. Today it was thunderstorms/tornado watches and the temperature has dropped from mid-40s to mid-30s just in the last hour.

I'd kinda like to have some 'regular' weather, myself...where the temps stay within a reasonable range for several days in a row. But this is Mississippi, where we can be at 80 degrees one day and below freezing three days later. If you don't like the weather here, just hang around--change is on the way....
Chuck Larlham Feb 3, 2011, 7:04pm UTC
Tornadoes don't like me. At least three of 'em have tried to kill me, and three others came close enough to cause concern.
David C. Feb 1, 2011, 8:52pm UTC
Chuck, it doesn't look like you were getting a lot of love here. I feel for you. Maybe we will finally get that "Storm of the Century" and it will be out of their system for a while.
Chuck Larlham Feb 3, 2011, 7:04pm UTC
Nobody respects a good rant any more.
Teresa A. Feb 1, 2011, 9:45pm UTC
It has been a strange winter here (Minnesota) so far. We actually already have as much snow as we would typically get the entire winter.
Storm of the Century put my workplace on a 2 hour delay this morning. That's fine, I go to work at noon. Then they decide to shut campus down at 5 pm. Fine, but I have work to do until 7 PM. There were 4 of us that decided to stay put until we finished or security threw us out. Storm of the Century kept security in its cave and I drove home through a slushee. Will Storm of the Century keep us in tomorrow? Doubtful.
Kathy W. Feb 1, 2011, 10:18pm UTC
Still snowing in STL, over a nice "rough" layer of ice about 1/2" thick. HWY 70 shut down, from Wentzville (5 miles west of me) to the State of Kansas. Missouri is the "New Minnesota." YaY! When the tornado-winds move north? We're supposed to get 60 mph winds. That will just make it even more interesting. They canceled The Senior's heart appointment today, too. Closed their offices. I was glad they did. He's better off waiting a week, than busting a hip in the parking lot. Make hot chocolate for Laura, and add jes' a little whipped cream. She can't be mad after that!
Wilka
Ann Weaver Hart Feb 1, 2011, 11:02pm UTC
You know, we aren't used to this kind of cold. It's in the teens. We get plumb stupid over this kind of stuff, and we don't even have any snow. Wind chill in single digits. Oh woe! It must be that the climate change people are making it up.

Featured in the Triple Name Club.
Thomas R. Feb 1, 2011, 11:52pm UTC
Just watch channel 7 news Detroit. The will continue to make it sound far worse than it is! They say I'm going to get more snow than you, 12 to 15 inches. Well we will see!
Tami G. Feb 2, 2011, 2:06am UTC
My my Chuck this is the first time I have seen you rattled for something other than what the government or politics. lol Doc's sure can mess up your day I see. Just hang in there it is all part of the newbies in the work force. Get the older ones out & let the bright, new ones in with their computers.
Weather guys have millions of dollars in new stuff to tell us about our weather but all I have heard is big one coming, don't know who much, what time or what it will be but it is the worst you have ever had. I have to hand it to you this time you really do have a reason to complain about this one.
Lloyd 'Tony' Cope Feb 2, 2011, 7:48am UTC
Chuck, in an ironic twist, this event was under-reported and we got walloped.

January 2011 New Jersey snowstorm


Damage from last week's snow storm.

I guess weather reporting truly isn't an exact science.

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Karl Leuba Feb 2, 2011, 10:51am UTC
Chuck I feel for ya, but it's a bit late to schedule a flight to Phoenix for medical care. The airports, even here are a mess. It hasn't been this quiet in my little house in the landing pattern for weeks.

Good Luck on the Valentine's day surgery, and "soldier on."
Lets not and say we did Feb 2, 2011, 10:58am UTC
we need tee shirts "I survived the storm of the century" lol
thanks for the post
have a good day
Graham L. Feb 2, 2011, 1:03pm UTC
WHAT snowing in winter? what next sunny in summer. Who would have believed it
William Windsor Feb 3, 2011, 2:37pm UTC
It took me a day and a half of digging to get out of "snow prison." My back is not happy, but I am.
Chuck Larlham Feb 3, 2011, 7:11pm UTC
I have a big ol' pick-'em-up-truck eatin' snow-thrower. Took me two hours to clear my driveway and help the neighbors with the snow-plow junk at the ends of theirs.
Charles T. Feb 5, 2011, 3:17pm UTC
It keeps those 24 hr news networks and the weather channel in business tho!
Annmarie B. Feb 10, 2011, 12:35pm UTC
So sorry Chuck. Hope Laura is doing okay.
Annmarie B. Feb 10, 2011, 12:35pm UTC
Hey I can do the weather predictions by my body pain. lol

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