I know that there is at least one group of people who are thankful as we enter this holiday week.

Those would be the TV weather folks.

If you have not heard by now (and I guess maybe that’s possible if you lived on another planet), they got some snow yesterday in Allentown and the Poconos.

Stop the presses.

I haven’t seen such glee since the last time someone got handed one of those oversized checks for umpteen million dollars after hitting a record lottery jackpot.

What you don’t realize is that the TV folks have done just that. They’ve struck gold. We call it weather. They see it as ratings.

That is why, I believe, the mysterious "northern and western suburbs" now include places like Allentown and the Poconos.

That is why TV stations now have Lehigh Valley bureaus. Because it happens to snow there.

Imagine that. Snow in the Poconos. Who’d a thunk it?

Around here, it rained most of the day yesterday and into this morning’s Monday commute. That doesn’t mean the roads are not a mess.

The roads slow to a crawl around here in the summer when it’s raining.
That won’t stop the TV folks from breathlessly telling us all about the conditions about two hours north of here. You know, in the northern and western suburbs.

OK, maybe they got a few flurries in Pottstown. And yes, there might have been a few slick spots on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

They actually are saying that some places up near Allentown might get as much as 5 inches of snow out of this storm.

Some schools are seeing a two-hour delay; one is even closed for the day.
But not here. At least not unless the northern and western suburbs, which I always thought was where Delaware County was located, somehow got transported to the Poconos.

Who knows, maybe it did. I’ll have to check the TV headlines.