I remember turning on the weather channel in high school, and the person would always stand in front of the west coast, blather on about the east coast at length, and then dedicate a few seconds to the west: "it's going to be sunny in most of California (no kidding), with massive snowstorms in eastern Washington which may or may not isolate the entire state, now back to you Bob".
Up until 1992 the weathermen would still stand in front of the hurricane while blathering on about rainstorms in the midwest. Then Andrew happened and that changed everything.
