Tarp

 As I said before, the best and most unresponsible job in the world is being a weatherman. For days now in New York they were predicting a snowstorm that never materialized, Result of this prediction was that they salted the streets, suspended alternate parking and put snow clearing crews on alert.

This last move made sure that they get overtime pay for sitting in their trucks and drinking coffee. The money is my tax money. So anyway the snow never came. I wonder if they make the weather people responsible for these bad forecasts.

Now we are in a new cycle. They are predicting 5"-8" snow for Thursday. Seeing is believing.

We are parking our car in an outdoor lot behind our building. My wife decided that the poor car should not be exposed to the wintry elements so, we bought a tarp to cover it up whenever snow is predicted. So far it worked pretty well. At the last snowstorm the car was clean only the cover had about 10" of snow.

When we want to go out we remove it then at the first sign of bad weather we put it back on. On an off, on and off. Like a yo-yo. I tried to explain to my better half that cars are not that sensitive but to no avail. What is the difference between 10 inches of snow on the tarp or 10 inches of snow on the car?

Oh, the tarp. It is tailored for our car, was not cheap, yet it is tearing at the seams whenever we put it on. Probably it was made in China!