We're still standing, yeah, yeah yeah....

[captainsblog]

My, the weather pundits had their way with us.  The headlines started showing up about this time yesterday:

Forecasters issue watch for rare April snow!

Snow aims a parting shot at April!

There's a sale at Penney's!

Yesterday, the predictions were around 4 inches. By this morning (when not a flake had yet appeared here), they'd doubled down, said it was late in arriving but would darn well dump more like 9 on our northern climes, more in the snow belts to the south. Sure enough, around 9 or so this morning, the heavy wet snow started coming down.  A bunch of pantywaist schools closed. Reporters were sent to overpasses to find pileups and stranded motorists.

And?

By the time of my noon court appearance, meh. It was cold, disgusting rain again. To say it petered out would be an insult to eunuchs.

What will they be talking about on the 6:00 news, I wonder.

Probably shovel-to-shovel coverage of the snow we didn't get.

Comments

[bill_sheehan.livejournal.com]

Kent Brockman: ... But first! Let's check the death count from the killer storm bearing down on us like a shotgun full of snow.

Weatherman: Well, Kent, as of now the death count is zero. But it _is_ ready to shoot right up.

Kent: Oh my God. [shakes fist at heaven] Damn you snow!

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

I now know, from googling, that you're quoting a Simpsons term, which I don't recognize because I haven't watched it since it was a Tracey Ullmann short series. My first guess was that you were referencing the local weatherman creator of the term "gahkablahka"-

Traffic tie-up caused by people looking at an accident on the other side of the road (or sometimes at excessively enthusiastic human billboards. First used by long-time WEEI traffic reporter Kevin O'Keefe, who also came up with "stall 'n' crawl," "cram 'n' jam" and "snail trail."

[bill_sheehan.livejournal.com]

Sorry - it was a Simpson's reference that has become part of our household shorthand.

And don't tell me about Kevin O'Keefe - I'm a Bostonian, dammit. I know all of the ways of describing traffic on the Southeast Expressway. There's also "fender bender", often the cause of gawker blocker in the other lane.

You were more likely to hear Joe Green in the 'BZ Flying Machine out there in Rochester.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

I vaguely remember him, but more so the fake BZ copter flights by "Piece of Cake" Dave Maynard, who recently passed away.

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

Well, to be fair, heavy wet snow is considered the snowpocalypse here. It's hilarious watching them freak out if there's anything that actually sticks...

(Actually, that'd make an interesting Cabin Pressure ep. Our Heroes get snowed in somewhere, snowball fight ensues...)

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Snowballs make a delightful crackling sound when you rewrap them with nail varnish;)

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

Just wait until you hear the sequel to that ep...

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

We got nothin' here.