Picture a map of the US of A. OK if you’re under age 30 when geography was no longer taught in school, look at a map of the USA. Most weather comes in off the Pacific, sweeps across the western states with mostly rain, changes to snow in the mountains and if it’s a strong enough storm heads towards the midwest and beyond. This was taken May 2, this year.
We hear “danger to the Oregon and California coasts.” Then two days after it blasted us, we hear “it’s threatening Chicago and Indianapolis and the East Coast.” Its as if the left coast is one ear and the east coast is the other and there’s nothing in between, which is a supremely arrogant position to take on what is supposed to be national news.
Is it just that so few people live out here that the weather can’t be reported? We got dumped on with rain or snow or sleet or hail and one requires chains to drive and heavy equipment to even get out of the driveway. But nationally, the only concern is California, Chicago and the East Coast. Texas and Louisiana only get play in hurricanes. Yes, we’ve lived through those, running from them and facing them head on. Still you didn’t get the story right on Ike.
It seems as if we’ve made a life of choosing second cities, which have so much potential and better livability than a 500 sf place in Manhattan with a Coleman stove and frying pan. Please, Mr. Al Roker who I admire so much, give a break to us in the mountain states and know that weather has to hit somewhere between California and Chicago. It hits us.
I must give my own weather report. Temperatures are plummeting from the low 60’s and snow is forecast for tomorrow morning. Yes, this is May. Hope your weather is less volatile and you can plant flowers and herbs. Cheers, Dee
Cooking with Dee 
Also Florida, with hurricanes and Kansas with tornadoes. Sorry, folks for being myopic, I’ve never lived there. Dee