Yesterday at this time, Middle Tennessee was in a state of sheer panic over the threat of severe winter weather. Nevermind that our meteorologists would be more accurate predicting the second coming of Christ. Nevermind that this particular forecast was downgraded three times over the course of a week. Nevermind that the only time we actually get hit with real snow is when they are calling for sunshine. Gas prices skyrocketed, Kroger sold out of milk, and – thirteen hours before the first anticipated snowflake fell – 55 counties closed their schools.
Currently, you can find me curled up in the recliner with a cup of coffee, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and my laptop staring at a snow free landscape out of the front window of my home. There is no snow; not one flake on the ground. While, for the sake of my kids I am mildly disappointed, I am not complaining. It’s noon and I’m still in my pajamas.
I do find the pandemonium of Nashville yesterday pretty humorous given the outcome of our Winter Weather Watch. It leaves me considering how often we allow ourselves to go into a tailspin over a maybe. We convince ourselves that possible scenarios are imminent based on our hopes or fears rather than fact. How many times do we make decisions, sometimes life-altering ones, based on uncertainty before we have given the clouds a chance to turn and miss us completely?
There are medical maybes.
There are financial maybes.
There are relationship maybes.
Are you making choices based on fact or changing circumstance?
Maybe it all goes back to the old saying, “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.” I’m sure the county school board is feeling that one today. The skies still might open up and pour down white fluff from above, but I doubt it. After all, my daughter forgot to wear her pjs inside out and flush an ice cube down the toilet.
7 Responses to “Predict This!”
I hear ya! I’m home in my jammies today too, but it did actually snow in Missouri. I think they closed here as much for the cold and wind chill as for the snow. But yes, we closed once ahead of time like that, and then it RAINED all day.
I remember the first year I lived here they cancelled school on Tuesday for the coming snow on FRIDAY. LOL
I guess I must make a note here that we do have about half of an inch of snow afterall… School is closed again tomorrow. LOL
Great point! This makes me think back to all of the panic over the Y2K debacle, and all those folks building “end of the world shelters” in their backyard.
I still think the snow issue is a consipiracy between News Channel 5, Kroger, and the oil companies….makes ya ponder, don’t it? LOL
My brother still has chickens left over from Y2K.
Well yes I was upset it didn’t snow and the kids were out of school. Seemed like for nothing until I got to the entrance of my subdivision at 3:30pm. Slowing down properly I got in the right turn lane and slid sideways in the entrance.
You didn’t take out any mailboxes did you???