Snow's On the Way - You Are Now Free to Completely Freak Out on the Roads

Well friends, you heard it here first: with a staggering 1" snow predicted for the region, you are now free to 1) completely throw common sense out the (car) window, 2) race to your car to go out and buy milk, bread and toilet paper, and 3) over-react to a routine climatic occurrence as if the region's been blanketed with a fresh layer of radioactive fallout.

Freak out may commence in five, four, three, two..........

Seriously, it seems to me that there's an entire bureaucracy that's evolved from these pseudo-emergencies. At it's center is the indisputable fact that there's money to be made (overtime for the truck drivers, cops, etc.), snow days need to be used (all those snow days the MoCo Board of Ed allots will go for naught if they're not used, so better use them at the first possible opportunity, never mind the minuscule amount of snow on the ground) and children need to be taught that snow in any amount is a deadly serious freak of nature - that is, until classes are canceled, at which point it's WHOOPEE! time for all those suddenly safe students (unless you live in Canada).

Honestly, just a wee bit of common sense and proportionality is called for. Unfortunately, it seems to be a commodity in very short supply when we're tlaking about MoCo government.