Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar
Shut the Hell Up!
RECEIVED Mon., Feb. 20, 2006
Dear Editor,
Hey, to all you local weathermen and women. How about you shut the hell up? In your shallow, desperate attempts to pretend you're something other than someone who reads what the National Weather Service tells you, you're screwing the people who work in this town. Friday night, all the idiots from all the local stations were "teasing" the weather, talking about sleet and freezing rain! I went to the NWS home page and guess what? Low temps were predicted to be 42 degrees. Now, I'm not sure where these idiots went to school, but 41 degrees does not make ice nor sleet. Of course, when people hear these morons flapping about the sleet and freezing rain, people don't go out. So, hundreds of bartenders, valets, doormen, and dare I mention hot dog vendors lose thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars each time people don't go out because some asshole thinks water freezes at 41 degrees. So hey, pretend you're something, flap your gums about weather, and cost working people money so you can look important. If it's not going to freeze, shut the hell up. If there's not going to be ice, shut the hell up. If you need to pretend to be important, get a real job instead of pretending reading from a teleprompter is one.
Hey, to all you local weathermen and women. How about you shut the hell up? In your shallow, desperate attempts to pretend you're something other than someone who reads what the National Weather Service tells you, you're screwing the people who work in this town. Friday night, all the idiots from all the local stations were "teasing" the weather, talking about sleet and freezing rain! I went to the NWS home page and guess what? Low temps were predicted to be 42 degrees. Now, I'm not sure where these idiots went to school, but 41 degrees does not make ice nor sleet. Of course, when people hear these morons flapping about the sleet and freezing rain, people don't go out. So, hundreds of bartenders, valets, doormen, and dare I mention hot dog vendors lose thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars each time people don't go out because some asshole thinks water freezes at 41 degrees. So hey, pretend you're something, flap your gums about weather, and cost working people money so you can look important. If it's not going to freeze, shut the hell up. If there's not going to be ice, shut the hell up. If you need to pretend to be important, get a real job instead of pretending reading from a teleprompter is one.
Carl Swanson
