Drives me nuts!!! This storm's hype started almost a week before landfall is due. 24-48 hours before is plenty of time for the frenzy to start. Weather is so unpredictable, even the same day forecast is often off! Weather is like a political poll...

It upsets my husband to the point of him not sleeping. That being said we've had very good reason to worry in the past. Thank goodness the SFD comes to pump us out when our street floods past what our two pump sump system can handle (which is too often).

While forewarned is forearmed, the hype that gets thrown around while the storm is far from our shores gets to me. Weather is difficult to forecast, nearly as bad as earthquakes! Anything can, and often does, happen to change the course of a storm. So, while updates and warnings help prepare, let us not over hype the coming weather to the point where hardware stores sell out of all flashlights, batteries and generators almost a week in advance of a possible weather event!

The town has had decades to prepare for these types of storms in the way of drainage work in problem areas. Should the homes that got hit last year get flooded next week, they should form a group and hire a lawfirm to seek damages from the town and it's carrier.

All this hype is one big media commercial (literally) suck in. "If it bleeds, it leads" - or, in the case of weather, if it blows or snows. They want you to watch constantly, or click furiously. More revenue.

I half listen to it, and keep an eye on the internet models.

I'm already stocked up. I always have batteries. As to the rest - it's Halloween in Salem! I set in enough supplies for a week at this time of year. Hopefully, the car never moves.

Almost time to post the "snow on the pumpkin" photo from last year, lol.