Storms

It is amazing how much the weather affects us. I spend the majority of my day lost inside a dungeon the maze of corridors that include my office (not that I am complaining, at least I have real walls and not a cube farm) without even a single window to the outside (the subject of windows that look out into a bland hallway is post in itself). For the most part the only time I see the outdoors is when I leave for lunch or leave for the day. Yet here we are on our second major hurricane (third if Bonnie had not fizzled out) and like everyone else around me I find myself glued to the weather channel and online reports of the storm. Which segways into the topic of how much technology has affected our reaction to weather (saw that one coming huh?). Think about it; one hundred years ago a persons concept of the weather was limited to their general area, what was affecting them. Sure there were exceptions such as the military which were concerned with weather on a larger scale but for your average person it did not matter what the weather was like in a different state, much less a different country. Now here we are watching these storms as they form on the far side of an ocean and tracking their movements for days. For myself the ability to perform this monitoring from my PC instead of being forced to watch the weather channel on TV is huge since I cannot stand to watch the weather on TV. I can pull everything up on my PC and have immediate access to the information that I want. The end result of all of this is a society of information addicted individuals. Isn't it great?