Nor’easter

After hearing the weatherman all day Tuesday 3/20/18 talking about the nor’easter that was going to hit our state late that night and all day Wednesday about all the people that were going to lose power and not have heat scared me. Listening to the governor Gina Raimondo on the radio and television that she was closing down the state warning everyone to stay at home, watch out for falling trees, if you see down wires especially if there’s sparking don’t go near them, the school Superintendent said “close all the schools” I saw people running to the supermarket for bread and milk, to the gas station to fill there vehicles with fuel and into the liquor store for beer, I saw people in Stop and Shop fighting each other over a carriage, it wasn’t a pretty sight, luckily for me I had plenty of fuel, bread, milk, beer and cat food for Bananabell and Rusty. After living through the blizzard of 78 and being stuck at work for five days I wasn’t taking this warning lightly,

When I woke up Wednesday I was happy to see I didn’t lose power, looking out the window to see how much snow I had to shovel there wasn’t one snowflake to be found anywhere. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement.

Patrick Young said it best: “The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right to often for us to ignore and wrong too often to rely on it.

David Di Saia
179 Warren Ave
East Providence RI 02914
401-486-7048