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Springer to wall-to-wall snow coverage. It’s comical to watch the reporters out in the weather measuring the snow as it falls with a measuring stick.
Such important news warrants veteran newscasters. So the usual, second string weekend broadcasters were shunted aside by the snow-fall celebrities — Bob Ryan on NBC and Doug Hill on ABC.
Doug Hill I like best for his WTOP radio forecasts are tempered by doubt. But even this weekend Doug Hill said there was no doubting the wrath of this mammoth snow storm. Still he said it would be folly to predict exact snow totals until the weather was nigh upon us. Only then would we know.
Last weekend’s snow storm was a big enough event to sweep news of Iraq, Korea and our relations with France right off the front page. There hasn’t been such breaking news since, well, Monica Lewinsky stole the limelight from her paramour Bill Clinton.
But how did this snow in far-away Washington affect us in Rappahannock County? I decided to venture out and see for myself. Sunday I got into my pickup truck and drove into Sperryville.
Burger and Things was buttoned up tight even though its sign said, “Open” — so I could not enjoy a hot dog or
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