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Don’t you just love all the amazingly good advice you see on the local news?

Like:

When driving in slick conditions you need to leave more room between you and car in front of you and slow down. Brillant.

And other stuff like health stuff:

You can keep your immune system up and be generally more healthy if you make sure you eat fruits and vegetables……and if you can’t do that maybe try a multivitamin. I think I even caught Harry Smith rolling his eyes at that report this morning. Duh.

And excellent reporting from hardware stores:

I’m standing at XYZ Hardware store and they are telling us they are getting a run on shovels and rock salt. Back to you.

With all that great help what is my mother going to do with all her free time???

I will say that the weather people pretty much got it right this time so that was impressive. Katie Horner has changed her look a little but I can’t figure out quite what she did. All I know is she looks better. Hair, weight, makeup……can’t put my finger on it.

Katie Horner's Weather World

Wouldn't it be nice to just live in Katie Horner's little world? I'm watching her this morning doing a local promo for herself and saying that getting the temperature right isn't the most important thing in being accurate. She says that her being here, at the ready, watching the radar for you and ready to bust in any moment on a show you really want to watch is REALLY represents the best weather reporting. Really. I guess gay weather man Gary Lezak (not that there is anything wrong with that) is starting to get to her.

I would suggest that getting the temperature right is everything in being able to predict weather. You have to get the temperature right first don't you to understand how things are going to work out?

Let's look at our current Winter Storm Watch 2008. If she would have known for example that it would be 60 yesterday and still 40 this morning she would know it can't snow.

Katie, I don't want to see more of you on TV. Scare people much? I don't even need for you to try to get the weather right a week out......could you just get it right for the current day and the next day? All I need to know is what to wear and what to put on my kids.

I don't let the weather run my life but you should understand that I know people who plan their every moment by the weather. They decide not to go out, they run to the grocery and stock up and then they run to the basement with a flashlight in hand and finally.....they call me and my wife and tell us not to go out, stock up on groceries and batteries and get to the basement. They call over and over giving us tons of little updates and they wanna know what it is like at our house.....less than 10 miles away from their house and then they tell us how that compares to their house.......you feed their fear and anxiety and drive us crazy. Got it??

By the way, interesting website by somebody who really has a problem with Katie......man....I know how much work it is just writing a little post a few times a week. Can you imagine devoting an entire website to getting the weather girl fired. Ron Burgundy would be proud.