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Forecasts come pouring in

You know what really fries my frijoles?!! These weather forecasters that break into my favorite programs with their “doomsday” forecasts.

Here I am sitting on the sofa, ready to do my couch-potato act, gripping a bag of Fritos corn chips and can of near beer, in front of the boob-tube for the remainder of the evening and – voila! – out they come, all perky and pesky as a buzzing housefly. He or she is pointing their finger at a map, announcing ominous prophecies of the coming snows, rains, high winds or whatever the climate may, or may not portend.

This letter is not meant to belittle their jobs but to just put in the proper perspective. Many of us Western New Yorkers situated on a lake plain usually take a brief, or even a prolonged spell of harsh weather with a certain grim inevitability – of whatever will be, will be. Politicians, though, will appear on the air, doling out advice on how to keep warm … and of course stay inside. But in the main there’s little they can do about it. You just have to suck it up, bear with it all and dream and think spring.

Also … in the Feb. 4 OBSERVER an article written about power restored to a New York jail lacking heat. I guess that’s where the term “… landing in the cooler” comes from.

Ralph Burke is a Dunkirk resident.

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