As the East Coast braced for the worst snowstorm in history on Thursday, comedian Lewis Black sat back in his New York City home wondering if all the hype was more media storm than Mother Nature.
“It’ll be unbelievable,” he quipped of the forecast for historic snow that was supposed to obliterate Washington, D.C., and make its way to the Big Apple starting Friday. “Once it starts it’s fine, but to have these weathermen come on and show me maps. The problem is is once newspapers and TV news realized that the story was more important than the news, that was the end of it.”
By Friday morning, the storm was starting to bear down in the South and head into the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore metro areas, which forecasters said could get 2 feet or more. Most schools in D.C. were closed, airports were expecting cancelled flights and driving advisories were in place to clear the roadways.
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Blizzard warnings were in effect across the East Coast with Black’s New York expected to get 6 to 12 inches of snow.
If it comes, Black said he is ready to just sit tight. He has no where to be until he hits the road for a show in Skokie, Illinois, on Jan. 28. He pulls into Tucson Feb. 6 for a show at Casino del Sol Resort’s Conference Center.
But on Thursday morning, he was still waiting for Mother Nature to kick into high gear and watching the media make a blizzard out of a bluster.
“We live in this nonsense and then they make conjectures about the nonsense, which is not news,” he explained, summarizing the early reports as larger than life. “If God had an idea of the worst snow storm this would be the idea that God had. Everything is beyond belief. It’s all conjecture.”
