The Rain in May Falls Mainly on the Lame
Characteristic of national media (and "local" outlets of national media- Boston Globe, z.b), recent coverage of inclement weather ignores the balance of Massachusetts that lies beyond the Boston suburbs. The AP may be interested to know that in addition to the Hub, it's raining in the 130-odd miles between there and New York state too. Since last Tuesday.
We're ok though- thanks for checking.
[wik]Lest anyone doubt how Beacon Hill views the plebes, proles, and peons who populate the state west of say, Cambridge, consider the recent episode where Ted Kennedy's jet was struck by lightning. He spoke in North Adams, was flying to Cape Cod to spend the night, only to come back out to Springfield to speak the next day. The guy can't even bear to spend a night among his non-monied constituents.
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I just love it when I tell
I just love it when I tell people I grew up in Massachusetts. They say "Oh, your're from Boston." My only reply is "No."
Well, to be fair, my eastern
Well, to be fair, my eastern Massachusetts town did get *16 inches of rain* in the past week, and all but two of the 6 main roads in and out are closed due to flooding. While I freely admit that Hub press is terribly slanted, the yellow and orange parts of the rain band did spend an awful lot of time showering love on the towns near where I live, which do happen to be near Boston, with resultant terrible, terrible flooding.
It does occur to me, though, that there has been NO word about whether and what kind of flooding has taken place west of the I-495 belt. Which is totally typical.
I remember once watching a newscast about the first coyotes seen in the Boston area in decades. The reporter said something about a few sighting,s and then said something like "coyotes are common outside the 495 beltway and in the rest of the country."
Because, you know, once you get all the way out past I-495, it's just a hop skip and jump to Houston, Fairbanks, Honolulu, and Los Angeles.
Johno,perfect example, right
Johno,
*perfect* example, right there- there's Cambridge, then, I dunno, Lowell maybe, then...everyplace else.
I remember one time being at the offices of the Agency Formerly Known as INS, and within earshot of some bleary-eyed applicant explaining why he was late to his appointment. Seems he had to come all the way in from Waltham, the poor bastard, and just couldn't get there that early.
Needless to say the wife and I were somewhere in the neighborhood of agog when the window flunkies tut-tutted and rescheduled him.