Weekend tweet, trick or treat?
I had a few very busy days in the Weather Centre last week, tracking a parade of weather systems across four provinces. On Friday, I was interviewed for a storm story that would be published on Saturday. I touched on the usual: rain, snowfall totals, wind, fog and the concerns over freezing rain and ice. Ice that accumulates on branches and overhead wires is measured in mm; the term is ice accretion. I got a chuckle Saturday morning when I read the story. Somehow, “ice accretion” became “ice secretion.” I blame auto-correct. A few hours later, I noticed a retweet with a comment that caught my eye. Mark Davidson spotted a hilarious error in a tweet issued by the Nova Scotia Emergency Management Office. The screen capture read “...the rain will then change to a mix of freezing rain and ice cream on Sunday as temperatures…” And so it began: Mark Davidson: “Don’t know if I should be super excited, or just plain cherry vanilla worried. I think I’ll stay home until I see some moon mist .... ” Karen Cook chimed in with: “A little hot fudge will melt that ASAP!” Nathan Coleman added: “Road conditions will be rocky” Dannie Brown: “...or covered in chocolate ripples” From Gerry Lowe came: “Don’t drive until the roads are salted caramel” Brian Steele pointed out the: “Dairy Queen become Storm Shelters” And finally, Ann (Ann Who?) chimed in with: “Dang it!! I bought storm chips when I should have bought chocolate sauce!!” She later posted this: “please don’t let it be grape-nut ice cream.” She followed with this observation: “Windsor gets hockey, world’s greatest sport. Halifax gets kerosene which gave light to homes and cities around the world. Glace Bay: site of the first wireless station in North America which opened up communications between continents. Wolfville invented grape-nut ice cream.” Even the Weather Network had some fun and tweeted “Move over #stormchips” Here’s what I learned. We all make mistakes. Some people are very clever Grape-nut ice cream was invented in Wolfville, N.S. Thanks, everyone. That was a lot of fun!