My Daily Whine....

Why can't the Weatherman look out the window? ET, phone home! Our national weather service says Vancouver is 9 degrees C, and raining. It's only a Fahrenheit couple of degrees above freezing, the streets are dry, and directly overhead as I peeked out the window, I saw at least one star. Why am I consulting some boob in Toronto, roughly 2,000 miles away (2091 miles) for my weather when I've got a window I can open to discover it for myself? And why don't they make use of modern communications? What are they using? A bonfire and a blanket, borrowed from our Buckskin Brothers? Is many hilltops and many bonfires between Great Wet Coast and Old Fort York on small inland sea, where many palefaces live in wigwams of man-made stone, and can't tell weather from roof of wigwam....