If you flipped on the weather channel or the Today Show in the past few days, you may have seen that Pittsburgh got hammered with rain on Wednesday evening. When normal downpours happen during the summer, they usually last about 10 minutes then turn into a small drizzle.

Wednesday was like God turned on a shower for 4 hours.

Unfortunately I was caught driving through this while the radio warned of tornadoes, gale-force winds, and flash flooding. “Don’t Drown, Turn Around” is their favorite catch-phrase during times like this. What, like it’s not raining behind me? I’ll just turn my car around and there won’t be any rain or flooded roads the way I came?

I also love how they chastise people for driving through this kind of weather. On TV they’ll show cars floating in 2 feet of water and make snide remarks about how he shouldn’t have been driving in the first place. Well how about with all those millions of dollars worth of equipment, you give us a little WARNING when shit like this is going to happen! The forecast for Wednesday was a 20% chance of thunderstorms.

AND WHY AREN’T YOU HELPING THAT POOR GUY IN HIS CAR FLOATING DOWN THE STREET???

I don’t get angry very often. But weather and sports are probably the only two professions that you can be wrong 90% of the time, and still keep your job. When it comes to sports, who cares? Unless you’re gambling your mortgage payment on a game, it’s just entertainment. But weather affects a lot people when you’re wrong, and weathermen are wrong way too often.

The only thing worse than a weatherman screwing up is hearing a dozen times from old lady coworkers about how intense that storm was the other night. I’d rather be sitting in my car floating down the highway.

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