Here's how spoiled we are (as Coloradans and Americans): when the big storm did not arrive by noon Saturday, people took to social media to taunt and insult meteorologists (mostly from TV stations).
I had the feeling, listening to the weather folks' comments on Saturday, that they felt like they were being deluged with criticism and name-calling. I don't feel too bad for the weather people -- they don't HAVE to read Twitter, it turns out -- but our default of looking for someone to blame for just about everything is disheartening.
By Sunday at noon, however, those same people were calling "Uncle" and wishing the blizzard would leave them alone.
Maybe it is really a positive sign that so many people have that much faith in science and actually expect the weather models to be quite accurate, from amount of snow to exact timing.
I was thinking that there are times when Nature smacks us in the head with reality, whether it is the nearly two feet of snow at my house or being hit with a debilitating virus -- not me, but I read that nearly half of white Republican males plan to avoid vaccination -- or remembering just how heavy frozen water can be (at least for an old-timer trying to shovel out the front steps).
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