nothing profound here

I didn't even realize the shift until the radio announcers were providing information about school closings by reading lists aloud for seconds on end: my, how times have changed.


[Edit much later to clarify my navel-gazing: Since the advent of the internet, apparently there is no need to read school closings aloud on the radio. There is also no need to skim them across the bottom of the local TV channel. Only when the internet cannot be relied on (because the power is out) does that old standby of youth in the second half of the 20th century reappear. And there I was, never even noticing that it was gone.]