I'm a weather junkie. There is something about growing up with my mom, who was a Boy Scouts den mother...the idea of "be prepared" was imprinted on me at an early age. (We never run out of anything in my house, especially toilet paper. My mother was NOT like that, by the way.) I just don't feel right if I don't know if I'll need a jacket or an umbrella or a bottle of water.

I live where the weather is very unstable during certain times of the year. (Tornadoes, etc.) I want to know ahead of time!

One of my very good friends just looks outside when she occasionally thinks to check the weather before she leaves the house, and then just "makes do" when she doesn't have a jacket and it's chilly. I admire her make-do attitude, but I just can't emulate it.

Karen