Hubris
Well, it looks like the kommute karma got back at me by imposing a 20-minute delay of transit on BART after I scoffed at all the folks stuck on the highways yesterday during our “torrential” downpour.
FWIW, I find it funny that anytime it looks like we’re going to get more than a couple inches of rain in the Bay Area (or especially in LA) it gets primary coverage on the local news. Living in Seattle just conditions you to accept it as normal and get on with your day. This reporting insanity reached its peak though I think when we were flying out of Burbank a couple days after Christmas and the local nightly news started off with ten minutes on the incoming storm then followed with, “In other news, a Tsunami hit the South Asian countries of Indonesia, Thailand, India, and Sri Lanka today” …
