Back a while ago, my wife and I were getting ready for the “big one,” having stocked up on batteries, milk, bread, gassing up the car, getting the wood stove ready (if needed), and checking on mother.

We kept a running account of the storm updates on the TV weather channel. It seemed as though every new update would increase the probability of more snow accumulation and a higher wind velocity for the upcoming blizzard.

The weather prognosticators seemed gleeful and a bit giddy as they kept “piling it on” in their updated reports.

Out of the blue, my wife announced, “It’s not going to happen.”

When I questioned her, she replied that the weather indicator spot on her arthritic back wasn’t throbbing and that she would lay “dollars to doughnuts” that we wouldn’t receive the full force of the predicted, well-advertised, oncoming “blizzard.”

She was correct in her assumption, once again.

Maybe the weather forecasters should check with her, or the Farmers’ Almanac, thus becoming more attuned to what is happening, weather-wise.

An appropriate analogy might well be that “the buildup was awesome; the climax was a dud.”

Noyes Lawrence, Lisbon Falls