from Raleigh News & Observer:
No one deserves a sunny future more than Sir Walter Wally, Raleigh’s luckless Groundhog Day forecaster.
The newest Wally, still a baby, has been hit by a car, suffering head trauma and the embarrassing loss of forehead fur.
But on Friday, he wriggled out of his cardboard burrow and whispered happy news to Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker: Spring will come early this year.
“He told me we’d have a warm year,” Meeker said at the N.C. Museum of Natural Science.
Punxsutawney Phil agreed, 500 miles to the north in Pennsylvania. So did Staten Island Chuck in New York and Georgia’s Gen. Beauregard Lee.
