None so far. Still, on Monday night, with a bit more snow falling, announcers plugged bravely on about the disaster in the making. There they would be, standing in the snowflakes and talking of the storm. Or interviewing a law-enforcement official about what was happening on local highways. Things are going just fine, the official would say.
Traffic seems to be moving along.
Sure thing, the official would answer. Perhaps you've long thought, as I have, that the one sure-fire way to ward off a big storm was to predict it. All that foretelling would make any respectable storm dissipate, just to keep us humble. But here was a whole new twist. And the mere foretelling set off all the normal storm responses.