Lately I’ve been wondering what in the heck has happened to
people these days. We have a cold snap
and it’s 0 degrees at night and in the 20’s during the day and they close
schools for two days! Yes, in Virginia
they closed schools because it was too cold. Today there was no school again,
because it rained and it might freeze! Tomorrow they are predicting the
temperature will reach 65 degrees with thunderstorms! Yes I did say thunderstorms. Guess my little dog will be hiding under the couch for a while.
The way you hear the weathermen and women talk you would
think that we are on the meteorological eve of destruction…
“Listen up people you better button up that overcoat because
if you walk out that door you are going to freeze in your tracks!”
“Icicles are going to be hanging from your eyelashes.”
“Oh gosh Steve how long do we have to suffer in these
crippling temperatures?”
“Well Linda, an artic front is moving in and will arrive by
noon, so hop under those covers and stay there till March!”
The way they go on we must be heading to a second ice age!
The way they go on we must be heading to a second ice age!
When I was a kid, we weren’t lucky enough to get a “cold”
day off from school. It had to snow to
be able to leave that homework unfinished. We sometimes had entire weeks of single digit temperatures and no one batted an ice encrusted eyelash. We just put on a coat and went about our business as usual. Are we breeding a
generation of weather wimps?
I live in Virginia.
It’s not Antartica and the temperatures are usually rarely extreme
in the winter. This past week was the first time I used my coat in 3
years. I was beginning to think it would
out of style before I got any use out of it.
We haven’t had more than a dusting of snow in four years and my snow
shovel is gathering cobwebs somewhere in the basement. And everywhere you go all anyone talks about
is how cold it is.
Before you know it, though, winter will be just a memory and
the winter weather wimps will go into hibernation and out will come the summer
ones…
“Geez it’s so hot you can fry an egg on the sidewalk, how
will we survive this deadly heat wave?”
