The thunder is getting louder and more frequent, so I head to my weather map on the computer to see if the storm is going north or south of me, or coming straight for me.

As so often happens, the weather map I’ve been using for weeks is gone. They’ve improved it. Or tweaked it. Or sold it to another company. Or had an IPO. Or they’ve been hit by lightning. A quick Google search gets me another online weather map. All this one shows is the county I live in. That’s nice, but I would like to see the county west of me, too. And maybe the counties north, south and east of me. Another search, and I find a map that shows the weather for the whole state. But I don’t live dead center in the middle of the state. Maybe there’s bad weather in a state next to me that’s coming my way. Another search, and I find all the weather I need to know – for my ZIP code.