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Are Weather People Just Born Dumb or Is it Acquired?


Local weather reader:

There is no heat index today because there is no humidity.

Local weather reader (the guy below, but different from above) referring to Hurricane Alex heading toward “Old Mexico.”  Not to be confused with New Mexico or Used Mexico or Middle Aged Mexico.

Weather reader in Texas:

“Luckily, hurricane Alex has taken a swing South and will now be hitting northern Mexico, and not Texas.”

Those lucky Mexicans get all the breaks.

On a related note… more stupidity…

Peggy West, a county supervisor from Milwaukee WI, weighing in on the Arizona immigration law … said, “If this were Texas a state that borders Mexico I would have to look twice at this, but it’s Arizona, a state that is a ways removed from the border…”

Arizona doesn’t border Old Mexico which luckily is getting blasted by Hurricane Alex.

Big Wind Blew in From Winetka, Big Wind Blew Right Out Again.

High winds knocked out our power last night. All we had for background noise was the weather radio.

We were OK, until the computer voice gave the fear inducing warning:

blah, blah, blah, exclamation point, backslash, right bracket, double you, eye, left bracket, blah, blah, blah

In case you don’t have a NOAA weather radio, the same message is on a loop. Yes we listened for the entire two hours the power was out.

Nancy was OK with it, and I certainly was because having tinnitus, there is nothing worse than a totally silent room.

Even

exclamation point, backslash, right bracket, double you, eye, left bracket

gave me comfort.