Admit it -- as the snow piles up around us here in central Pennsylvania, you've been mesmerized by the colorful maps on the Weather Channel.  You've been watching the angry green colors spread over the Midwest and the Ohio Valley while you keep hoping that the nasty pink (ice!) stays away.  But why is it now mandatory that weather reporters have to go to the scene of the worst weather -- aren't there reporters who live there who could better tell us what's going on?  I'm losing all respect for those reporters who stand out there while being pelted by rain, snow, ice or being blown off their feet by the wind.  Their camera crew must be having fun, too.

If you want to put this storm, or any other weather, into perspective, check out the weather radio stations across the country (http://www.wunderground.com/wxradio/index.html). 

It's strangely comforting to listen to the weather somewhere else -- especially when you find a place with worse weather!