5 Days, 5 Pet Peeves I Have As A Consumer - Day 1

Posted on June 11, 2007
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I decided to do this week long series after thinking about it this weekend watching my local weather.

There are several things that just burn my butt as a consumer. So for the next 5 days, I’ll have 5 things that really aggrevate me as a consumer.

Day 1- Crappy Weathermen & Weatherwomen

Perhaps it’s only Houston who has the crappiest weather people. I don’t know about your area but here in Houston, I can watch Fox, CBS, NBC and ABC and get 11 totally different weather forecast for the next several days, and every damn one of them will be wrong.

And when they’re wrong, boy are they quick to come up with an excuse!

What happened to Weathermen who could predict the forecast? I think today’s Weathermen rely too much on so called “modern technology” to predict the weather.

I can remember in years past that neighbors had “favorite” weathermen. Perhaps it’s because I grew up in a rural area, but if you wanted to stay on the air as a Weatherman, you’d better be pretty darn good. The “favorite” weathermen in the areas we lived were liked because they were accurate.

Do you remember the days when they would walk over to the U.S. map and move the Low fronts and Highs with their hands or long pointers? I sure do and those men knew weather. I think they also knew how to network with other Weathermen across the country.

Now days, if they say you have a 30% chance of rain on Tuesday, you’ll probably get it Monday or Thursday if at all.

One of the positive thing I like about the modern technology is the Doppler Radar and it’s ability to predict paths of Tornadoes. However, once again it looks like the bunch of people from Houston either don’t know how to use it or use scientific “guesstimates” more than they do the technology.

Today’s requirements for a Weatherman or Weatherwoman are based more on looks rather than how well they can predict the future. It seems the local TV stations think we do not care about the Weather so much as we care about how the person giving the weather looks.

This is one reason I know get my Weather from the Internet. It’s more accurate and afterall, that’s why I used to watch the Weather, to see what it’s going to do in a day or so.

Which brings me to another point a little off topic. That’s this so called Global Warming. Al Gore and a bunch of illegitimate wannabe scientist and celebs are running around telling me that the polar ice caps are going to melt, etc.

You can’t tell me what the weather is going to do in 3 days, you think I’m going to believe you when you’re telling me what it’s going to do in 100 years? Get a life people, you or I do not know what the weather will be like in a 100 years. My guess is that it’ll be much like it is today. Hot June thru Sept, somewhat cooler Oct and Nov. with rain. Cool in Dec. Jan and Feb. and temps in the 70’s and 80’s during March thru May.

Tomorrow’s pet peeve - Car Hops

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