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I know Californians, especially in SoCal are used to sunny skies and so have rarely experienced the local new stations going WAAAAAY overboard with adverse weather coverages like in other places where I've lived. In Portland during a supposed snow storm of the century, they had reporters on overpasses or by highways showing you horrible it all was.....often, there were only snow flurries instead of the forecasted Snowmaggedon. Meanwhile my bosses for Greyhound didn't want to hear anything if the roads were not closed by the state. Even if they were, we'd often get sent out under the idea that the road would be open when we got there. Getting stuck at a truck stop with 30 plus passengers for 20 hours of road closure is all kinds of fun. I'd get approached over and over with "Is the road open yet? question" As though I had some inside track....lol
Anyway, officials may think they are saving lives when they hype a storm event, but crying wolf will bite you in the ass eventually.
Anyway, officials may think they are saving lives when they hype a storm event, but crying wolf will bite you in the ass eventually.