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Old 02-10-2010, 06:55 AM
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Default Current round of "snow storms" = lead story

on national news. Being from Erie, PA, I find it particularly amusing how what we used to have as a NORMAL winter, in this day of entertaining sensationalism news reading, is a lead story of national interest.

Cities, schools, airports, shopping centers, etc. have been closing for years when there is the occasional whopper storm. A 6' snow storm hardly made the news back in the early 50's.....of course we were blessed as there was no such thing as the 24/7 scare media back then. When it snowed 6-12 inches we didn't hear that it was "dangerous".

Just another example of how the media will fluff up a subject to retain viewers.
Musta been a slow news day in addition!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wonder what the folks in the Dakotas and upper Canada think about such hype.

btk