Just another raininy day

So all the weather hype has made the event very anti-climatic here and in Wilmington, where Blake is. No hurricane, no Thousand Year Flood, no tornadoes. I am certainly keeping those suffering tougher weather in my prayers and I know weather can't be 100% accurately predicted. However, if you ever wonder how people find themselves in bad weather situations, it's because scenarios like this play over and over and over. The media gets us all hyped up for events that don't turn out to be the doom and gloom that was predicted. We were told to prepare for 8 inches of rain. Then it went up to 12. Now it's down to 5. We've gotten less than 2 with only another 1/2 inch predicted today. I've spent 2 days cautiously watching weather news and reading weather blogs with the concern for the safety of my child. And this crap is no worse than a hundred other storms I've seen since we moved here. It's exhausting to prepare and worry for predicted major events, and it gets old. Damned if they do, damned if they don't. Yah, yah, yah, I get that. I think, however, it's just more proof of how ridiculous our society has become. I'm sick and tired of people blaming others for what happens to them. If people weren't so quick to lay blame, maybe meteorologists and officials wouldn't make these events wouldn't be so overly exaggerated. And if I hear another desert dweller beg for the rain to be sent their way after years of exporting water, watering lawns and golf courses for aesthetics, and filling swimming pools when they live by MAJOR bodies of water, I just may scream! ;p