Blizzard of Coverage

By James Poniewozik | @poniewozik | December 18, 2009 | +

There’s a snowstorm coming to Brooklyn! Or maybe not. The storm track could change. It is far too early to say for certain. But basically YES! there is definitely going to be a GIGANTIC BLIZZARD this weekend! Begin freaking out immediately! I encourage panic buying! If not looting!

[Editor's note: Tuned In is not a reliable source of weather information or disaster-preparedness advice.]

Anyway, this means that, if you’re in the East and you’re like me, you will spend Saturday and/or Sunday glued to The Weather Channel. Not as the storm is approaching, but as the storm is transpiring. Why is it so fascinating and soothing to watch a storm on television that I could watch by looking out my own window? And what are your favorite snowbound-TV habits?

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I live in Montana, and the weather has been a tiny bit blizzardy over the last two weeks, but as this is Montana, it’s not that bad. But anyways I never bother watching the Weather Channel. There’s nothing I can do to fix the weather, and it’s always changing so yeah. Plus I don’t like going outside usually anyways unless I’m at the river or ocean. Umm when I’m really bored I find old movies that I used to watch when I was a kid like classic Disney movies and Candleshoe. But since I saw the Star Trek movie last spring I think I might be an aspiring Trekkie. I’ve watched all of TOS, TNG and at this very minute actually I’m working on the first season of Voyager. Having a hard time getting into it though…
http://twitter.com/poniewozik James Poniewozik

How can you live in Montana and not like going outside? I’ve never been there, but there’s nothing BUT outside there, isn’t there?
lhathaw08

hahaha, yes. I live in upstate NY (where it snows quite frequently), and I always love to watch people’s reactions to upcoming larger-than-normal storms. A lot of “I’ve haven’t seen this much snow since…..” (yea… it was last year) Unfortunately, being a young’n of only 23- this winter brings my realization of, oh crap- huge storms still mean I have to drive to work :(
anon76

Aarg! On behalf of all the Montanans who loved the state but were forced to leave to find actual employment, I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to have read that. You can be a Trekkie in any damn state, but there’s only one last, best place.
On the other hand, The Weather Channel is 99.9% East Coast weather, even when it’s 70º and sunny from the Florida Keys to Portland Maine. Go West, young James- I guarantee your Weather Channel watching will decrease precipitously.
pittsburghpoet

I teach at a social service industry. I’m preparing an hour for the week after Christmas, Roses in December. We’ll read all the good summer poems, all the good tropical poems, a couple about roses, and William Blake’s “Laughing Song.” Free poems available on line. I’m also catching some Christmas specials on Hulu: I like the new Disney one.