(October — 2011)
I am writing this blog post the week after an extremely busy news cycle in Washington, DC. Not only was the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial supposed to open on Aug. 26, but three days prior, the area was rocked by a 5.8 earthquake — something we aren’t exactly known for. As if that wasn’t enough, we were also the recipients of Hurricane Irene on Aug. 27. And, Congress wasn’t even in session.
Of course, for certain parts of the Northeastern corridor, evacuation was mandatory. Better to be safe than sorry. But now that the majority of those areas escaped Irene’s wrath unscathed, constituents are again grumbling about melodramatic weathermen predicting hell and high water. Sound familiar?
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Get together with all the other weathermen and commiserate a little bit. Then, get your answer and prove yourself right. Remember, just because the last storm was “all bark and no bite” doesn’t mean the next one won’t try to take a chunk out of you. So, remain diligent in your overreactions; your constituents will thank you later.