Weather.com (I won't even dignify them with a link) has a little poll on its site today, "What Weather Condition Scares You the Most?"
Your choices are:
Floods
Lightening
Tornados
Strong Winds
Hail
Blizzards
And that's it. Such is the state of polls today, and the pathetic state of sites like Weather.com that they think they can sum up two complex subjects like "Fear" and "The Weather" with just six choices. See, I would add some things:
Curiously Windless Days
Plague of Frogs
Clouds That Take the Shape of Demonic Creatures
Lava Rain
Imploding Sun
Sprinkles
I might also add some actual weather conditions like, Ice Storms or, God forbid, Hurricanes. Why wouldn't Hurricanes have reached the top six? Could it be that most people are more scared of Blizzards than Hurricanes? Unless they mean the Dairy Queen Blizzard™ which I'd understand. If I recall, it wasn't Hail or a Blizzard that destroyed New Orleans. Of course Hurricanes produce flooding and lightening and strong wind, but you can only choose one of those. So choose wisely, since after the next big one you don't want to be floating out to sea on a dirty mattress thinking, "Why did I say 'Lightening'? What the hell?"
As far as I know, lightening has never swept anyone out to sea in their underpants. Now that's scary.
So let's have our own little Poll: What Weather Condition Scares the Holy BeJeebus Out of You?
Posted by ian at June 4, 2007 7:32 AM