Buzz Bernard’s new blog – a weather, whether blog!
A sub-note from the agent....
Six or one half dozen of another. My mother used to gage the weather by “Arthur” (arthritis). She would say something like, “Mmm—mmmm, I think Arthur is coming for a visit.” Then she would look to the sky, locate wind direction and check the color. If it was “high yella” (a yellowish glow), she would say, “We are fixing to get it.” She was right more times than Bill Powell, the weatherman we had on WMAZ for decades who is now deceased. He had a commercial he did when he was training the new weatherman to take over. I think his name was Chip. Anyway, he held up this crocheted doll and said, “I have this hung up outside. If it is wet, it’s raining. If it is white, it’s snowing. If it is hot to touch, I go back inside.” I liked him a lot.
I used to live in Georgia where you never knew what was coming. We had every type of weather you can think of: tornadoes, hurricanes, thunderstorms, flooding from torrential downpours that once lasted nearly two weeks in ’93 and Macon was flooded all down Riverside Drive and, yes, ice and snow storms; one that kept our electricity off for 10 days. We had to go north to get heat. What an oxymoron!
Now, I live in Dallas, Texas. I thought when I moved here I would see cows, horses, ranches, real cowboys and dinosaur-looking oil wells (I was weaned on JR Ewing). The reality: it is a melting pot of international corporations and very few indigenous trees. Prime hood for tornadoes, heavy winds, hail the size of baseballs and flooding – when it rains. My husband took two years of meteorology and can read the sky. Around here you can read the cars, too. Those poor things without garages look like the lunar surface.
So read Buzz’s blog, think about who is closest to being right and then walk outside, look at the sky, find the wind direction and use your common sense. If you are in that area, the Eastern Seaboard from the Carolinas upward, make sure you have a heat source, flashlights, food and water. Heck, do that regardless of what any weather man says. That is why God gave you reasoning.
--Jeanie Loiacono
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