Floods and leaky basements Not a happy way to spend two days. We've been hammered over the last 48 hours with over 7 inches of rain, with more to come after a today's brief respite. And only last week, the Knoxville paper was talking about the serious drought, and how there was no end in sight.
Weather forecasting must be a pretty cool gig. You throw a dart at a map, make a guess, then report it on the local news. You may be right, you may be wrong, but you get to do it all over again the next day. Major league baseball players are the only other group I know of who can screw up 75% of the time, and still keep their jobs.
The scary thing is that the weather forecaster who can't predict what the weather will be like this weekend is the same guy who is predicting climate changes over the next century. The scarier thing is we take him seriously.
Sheeesh.
Posted by Rich at March 19, 2002 10:53 AMHello!
Went looking for info on wet basements, and came up with your site. I wanted to let you know how much I agree with you re: weather forecasting. You mentioned darts, but I think it's because they don't have windows to look out of before they hit the news show!