The revenge of the Association

It is STILL windy outside the Manor, but not as bad as earlier this week.  The wind was positively howling yesterday afternoon.  It was like a banshee convention.  And now, our weathermen are predicting the possibility of snow.  Regularr readers will know that I consider our local meteorologists to be the most overpaid and equipped hacks in the history of mankind.  They're provided with hours of broadcast time on TV each day, they have mobile units, and aircraft, and satellites, and radar and dozens of data gathering centers and volunteers throughout the region - and they still can't tell me with any certainty in the morning if I'm going to need an umbrella by the late afternoon.  And today we're being told that sometime between Thursday and Monday there's a possibility of one or more precipitation events, which may or may not be snow, and if so, will either be a lot, or very little.  Gee, thanks "Accu"weather!  I can sit here in the middle of a blazing hot August afternoon and make the same prediction, (with the same amount of accuracy) for any given day in DC from mid November to mid March.  BFD.  And I don't need a billion dollars worth of equipment.