January, we hardly knew ye

While I am sure there were many areas of the country where the severe weather prognostications of the past few days were correct, southeast Michigan was not one of them. The fun part (he writes, full of cynicism) was watching the local newscasts scramble to keep this some sort of important news story, when truthfully, it wasn't. Twenty inches of snow in Chicago is big news; eight or nine in Michigan is not. The highlight, though, was watching the idiot reporter from Local 4 get out a ruler at 4:30 this morning (roughly nine hours after the snowstorm began) to show us that four--that's right, count 'em up, four--whole inches of snow had fallen overnight. In Michigan. Not Georgia. Not Alabama. Michigan. In other breaking news, water is wet, the sky is blue, the sun will rise tomorrow, the Pope is Catholic, and local newscasts will rot your brain. Peace, emaycee