Twelve hours ago the weather services had those of us on Miami Beach hurtin’ for certain. Schools let out early, businesses sent their employees (96.4% of those who want to work our government told us yesterday) home to “prepare” and dark hearsay intelligence had it that basic necessities such as food and gasoline (which sre excluded from our government’s calculation of the inflation rate) would be scarce today at any price owing to the shuttering of service stations and supermarkets.

Twelve hours later Orthodox Jews wander the merely damp streets pushing their children in strollers, the weather services wrong agayne.