How are you still employed?

With Saturday's Tech vs. S. Miss. ending in rain, I was curious to why I was surprised by the sudden down pour. I get my forecast from www.weather.com. Today, I was informed of a 30% chance of rain around 11pm. Clear skies other wise. We all know how that story ended.

This is not the first time our forecast source has gotten it wrong; I grew up in New Orleans, and therefore I know who Nash Roberts is. For those of you who do not, Nash Roberts was born to Louisiana in 1918. He retired from broadcast in 1984, only being brought in to do special commentary on storms after that. So by the time I was 8, he was 72 and still being brought out to draw on a dry erase board to tell us we were boned.

Striking fear into children since 1948.

It's not that Nash was wrong, as a matter of fact, he was the ONLY local reporter to accurately predict the path of Hurricane Betsy. But for every Nash Roberts, there is a Jennifer Gray. 

Jennifer Gray is the ripping-hot weather girl for KTBS ArkLaTex news. While absolutely one of the hottest meteorologist around, she is about as accurate as a blind man with a machine gun. 

Go ahead and lie to me, it wouldn't be the first time.

It seems to me that every time we are told 50% or less chance of rain, we should double it. How is it that someone can come on TV, give you information concerning how to plan your day, and then get it totally WRONG? Did you not go to school for this shit? 

I only hope that one day, I can have a job I continually fuck up at, and still collect a pay check. All I want is an apology. It's only decent to come on air and acknowledge the fact that I got wet because YOU told me it was safe. That, unfortunately, will never happen. 

Cheer up though, because for every crappy prediction we get from our weather source, there will always be a hot weather girl talking out of her ass.

I wasn't really listening anyway.