Every time a weather phenomenon occurs, a few things come out of the woodwork. First of all, it ruins having fun 65% of the time because you can't go anywhere or do anything. I'm not talking about just snow days, but earlier in the year there was that huge power outage for days and other shit. No one can truly function for more than eight hours without technology unless you are Bear Grylls. Today, I am stuck in my house with nowhere to go (for some reason the tornado sirens are going off right now) and I really want to leave. I may go drink, but that means that I can't watch Dexter all day.
Another thing that happens is that people get so excited the moment this weather stuff occurs, and then they realize.... oh fuck there's nothing to do. So my house decides to get up at 930 and scream and sing, while angry sammich is trying to sleep. He is trying to sleep because he, unlike the others, didn't even set an alarm for his quiz at ten, knowing it was going to be cancelled. Sammich went to bed at five, with confidence, because he is smart and enjoys weather.
The third that ALWAYS happens is by far the worst. Suddenly, every person becomes an expert on what has occurred. Also, they always have stories about stuff that happened in the past that is related. I am baffled that there are 15,000 college kids around me who are already meteorologists. Before going into school, that's all I wanted to do, study weather. Then I realized you needed geometry so I said fuck that, but still decided to learn about it.
Over the summer we had a tornado "rip" through Oxford. By rip through I mean it was five miles north and everyone said it was in this crusty town. As I was sitting in the basement of my frat house, I was very glad to know that all I needed to do for a professional weather update was ask anyone in the room what was happening outside. I have the wrong attitude right now. Instead of enjoying my day off, I am bitching about stupid people. Negative nancy.