Re: Y2K Midnight Observations

[Chuckigo@aol.com]

In a message dated 01/01/2000 4:50:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
Sptseditor@aol.com writes:
<< the hype preceeding your average winter storm that somehow 
 turns into a 6-foot blizzard is uncalled for. We all know that you should be 
 ready for such a storm around here at all times, since most storms are 
 unpredictable. However, there is no reason for some of the scare tactics we 
 do hear occasionally.  >>

no argument from me on that one, Sean.  we live north of Florida's panhandle, 
then it's gonna snow.  sometimes, it's gonna snow a lot.
(i use that geographic reference point based on a trip home from Orlando... 
snow started in Jacksonville, and for a nice, wintry day, the only crazy 
fools on the snow covered roadways were the "crazy yankees")

although, i was absent during the Blizzard of '78.  ("19" 78 for any 4 digit 
purists <g>)  was there a ton of advance notice that the storm was going to 
get that big and out of hand?  (i was in Charleston, SC, at the beach, to be 
honest, sunburned and feeling almost, almost he said, guilty looking at the 
front page newspaper photo of a snowplow buried in front of Boston's City 
Hall).  
far too many people lost homes and more during that two-day period.  since 
that point, it seems the impending peels of doom ring louder than i recall as 
a misguided youth.

- -Chuck Igo