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2 years ago
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I've read two articles today whining about the lack of snow this December in the continental US. They were written like not having a couple of feet of the stuff on the ground in time for Christmas is a massive tragedy.
Being a farmer, I work outdoors. You can keep your freakin' snow. I hate the stuff. Despise it.
I understand that a snowpack is vital to recharge the ground water, blah-blah-blah. But think about all the flights that won't be cancelled or diverted due to a snowstorm. Think of all the road wrecks that won't happen. Think of the black outs that won't occur when snow-laden trees fall on power lines. Think of the homeless people who won't be freezing in the snow. Think of the animals who won't starve.
Those people mourning their lost ski vacations ought to be ashamed of themselves!
The Snow Queen is a horrible, horrible person, La Belle Dame Sans Merci. I think the news and the weather channel are just sad they can't NAME WINTER STORMS!!! and DISCUSS THE SNOWPOCALYPSE!!! A brown-ground winter is dull. Pictures of drifts taller than the plows cutting through them--now THAT'S newsworthy!
I could smack Irving Berlin upside the head for putting the notion of the necessity of a White Christmas into people's heads. He wrote the song in hot and sunny California. It was recorded in May of 1942 and released in July of that same year. July! And Berlin was Jewish! What's he know about Christmas, anyway?!
No, I'm happy it's warm and snowless. So are my baby lambs, who don't have to tunnel through cold, wet snow to get food.
Mele Kalikimaka!
Being a farmer, I work outdoors. You can keep your freakin' snow. I hate the stuff. Despise it.
I understand that a snowpack is vital to recharge the ground water, blah-blah-blah. But think about all the flights that won't be cancelled or diverted due to a snowstorm. Think of all the road wrecks that won't happen. Think of the black outs that won't occur when snow-laden trees fall on power lines. Think of the homeless people who won't be freezing in the snow. Think of the animals who won't starve.
Those people mourning their lost ski vacations ought to be ashamed of themselves!
The Snow Queen is a horrible, horrible person, La Belle Dame Sans Merci. I think the news and the weather channel are just sad they can't NAME WINTER STORMS!!! and DISCUSS THE SNOWPOCALYPSE!!! A brown-ground winter is dull. Pictures of drifts taller than the plows cutting through them--now THAT'S newsworthy!
I could smack Irving Berlin upside the head for putting the notion of the necessity of a White Christmas into people's heads. He wrote the song in hot and sunny California. It was recorded in May of 1942 and released in July of that same year. July! And Berlin was Jewish! What's he know about Christmas, anyway?!
No, I'm happy it's warm and snowless. So are my baby lambs, who don't have to tunnel through cold, wet snow to get food.
Mele Kalikimaka!
I mean, I'm from a Scandinavian country with the same popular image, and over the last 100 years we've had what amounts to a White Christmas... EIGHT times!
Usually we end a up with a think layer of snow that stays for the entire season, and when we DO get heavy snowfall, temperatures often shifts so its melted within days...
I recall one winter recently without snow at all and where the temperatures only went subzero around 3 times all in all...
As a kid I loved the snow and still does as an adult... except when I have to drive and work in it... :-|
Round these parts, a resident is more likely to fire up his snowmobile and tool around the neighborhood before starting a snow thrower to clear any snow from his driveway.
Vix
And didn't Irving Berlin also sing about "Blue Skies"? The song about sunny, clear, cheerful skies?
And since so much food gets wasted, I think the high prices today are simply greedflation.
I remember snowstorms as a kid that caved in the rooves of buildings where I grew up and caused endless traffic accidents.
We only got snow maybe every third year?
Maybe every 4 or 5 sometimes?
No snow was preferable.
If we wanted snow, we could drive into the mountains and find it there.
It didn't take long.
-Badger-
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