Do any of you know someone from say, San Diego who has moved to North Carolina? Does the weather make them completely nuts? I’ve heard people from less capricious climes say things like, “It’s nice to have four distinct seasons” Yeah, but three in one week?
Chapel Hill is once again in Severe Winter Weather Frenzy. The DJ on WXYC, the UNC campus station, has been reading a forecast that calls for snow, sleet, and six to 12 inches of accumulation through Friday “but his forecast calls for highs in the 70s on Saturday”. Once again the grocery stores are full of bundled-up soccer moms preparing for the siege of Stalingrad.
It’s weather like this “or at least the threat of weather like this” that makes SUV drivers feel superior and justified, but I saw something stuck under the wiper of an Expedition or Excursion or Canyonero in the parking lot of Weaver Street Market that might bring the driver down a peg or two. It’s from an organization called Earth on Empty.