Won't have much fun in Stalingrad

Winter Storm 08! Don't miss any of the coverage. Live from all parts of the inland Northwest. Car accidents, piles of snow, ....and more car accidents. Don't miss being told how extreme the weather is, how treacherous the driving conditions are. -over and over and over and over again. Pick your station, Q6, KREM2, KXLY4, they are all the same. Each with its "exclusive": tower cam, or incident van, or some such gimmick.
I tend to lean toward Northwest Cable News, as they take highlights from around the region -Portland, Seattle, Spokane, Tri-cities, etc. But as you watch, at first you would think that it was the Puget Sound News channel. Guess it makes sense, because that is where the money is. After a while you may actually see a report from Boise!
I suppose that it is good that there is full coverage. Otherwise we would not know how treacherous and serious the storm is. Out my window, I do see deep snow. But respect the cold, and you should be fine, right? The problem is that the TV is not making up these accidents. We drove into Spokane on the 17th to make it by 0900. On the way in, we saw one car facing the wrong way on Eastbound -90 near Freya. -Lane was closed, etc. On the way back, which was probably 1100, we saw ...more. A new accident on Eastbound 90 near Freya (with lane closure) involving two cars: they had kind of "bumped into" each other. We witnessed a Jeep Wrangler slaloming all the lanes of I-90 just past Argonne. And each of the on-ramps from there until we got off at Pleasant view, had a car off the road. So maybe bloated hysteria is a bit of a good thing. It should keep some people off the road. Still, strange people end up on the road, then off the side in the ditch. The funniest part is that a majority of these vehicles were bought so that they could stay out of the ditch. Like, Explorers, and Suburbans, and trucks. I actually have to chuckle. These people would actually do better with a more sensible car: Outback, or Jetta.
The kids want to build a fort in the snow. They also want to build a snow man. They don't seem to understand that there are different kinds of snow. Guess that is my job to teach them. But they need to be out in it to get the education. So far, they like to go, but I guess since I cannot move that well in the stuff, I cannot be there to show them what they are supposed to do. Anyway, the stuff we have right now is too dry for packing. I can't make a snow man in this stuff unless I use the chunks that the plows slough off the street.
This is not a football day. Even though it may be a Saturday, or bowl day, that is what the kids tell me.