Crazy Weather

Well, weather now a days are crazy.
In a day you tend to see all 3 seasons of the year!

That's where weather channels, news play a significant
role. Especially in countries like US, where weather changes
are variant by hour to hour. Its good to keep track.

I still remember, when I first landed in US, I's amazed to
see that they have a separate channel for weather talking
about just the weather 24/7. I wondered what do they have
to talk about so much just on weather. Who would want to
sit in front of the TV 24/7 watch nothing but weather?

Its only one incident and I realized the significance of weather
information. How vital they are to stay tuned to.

It was just another day @ job, I's sitting inside my cozy cubicle
and engrossed in my work. As the evening approached, as usual
office started becoming emptier and emptier because people
were heading home. That day to my surprise office become very
lonely sooner than usual around mid-noon and even my neighbor
cubicle was void. Normally she is an early bird and would leave
early. However, I left the office at the normal time and found even
public transport (trains) to be hardly crowded which started scaring
me as it was not something normal on a weekday. I casually initiated
dialogue with person who was next to me in the train and understood
that its weather prediction which has resulted in crowd flow.

Well, I get down thinking people are crazy how they behave to such every
minute weather updations. In no time, I realized that I was the victim of
harsh weather (they had predicted about thunderstorm/rains/heavy wind/
tornado in some parts of the city). I was stuck at the station place in bad
weather without shelter, without a bus/phone/electricity/soul. Our area
was hit so badly that every road/route were blocked and electric poles/trees
were up-rooted and whole place was a total mess.

After being stranded at the station open waiting hall for about 5 hours, I
reached home in the midnight around 12 am. That's when I realized
how important it is to listen to weather news. When they say something
they mean and after all its for our own benefit.

Its terrific how they predict weather on hour to hour basis and trust me
it exactly works that way. Like the other day when I's in Denver, they'd
predicted snow start/end as 7:03 am/11:57 am. I wondered if that's too
much to talk about hours/minutes? But guess what: It exactly started and
ended at the forecast time. Amazing technology!!

So, lets make our lives better, lets take the advantage of what technology
has got for us to offer. I suggest, that there is no harm in sparing couple
of minutes to know how your day would look like and better be prepared
for any known nature extremes and plan accordingly.