This morning, as Washington wakes up to about 3-5 inches of snow, the various highway departments are in lockstep, with harsh words for weather forecasters.
“Of course the weathermen didn’t predict it,” he said. “If you did your job that poorly, would you still have a job?”
If the forecast had been more accurate, she said, “we would have started with more trucks.”
“They were just so awfully wrong,” Dave Buck, a spokesman for the Maryland State Highway Administration, said of the forecasts.
I guess they were tired of being blamed for not getting plows out in the streets, so this time they are heading off the complaints by pointing fingers at forecasters as quickly as possible. Petty. Very petty.
