Friday, February 1, 2008

Winter Weather Blues

People around here complain about the cold (though our "cold" is Minnesota's "warm-up"), and they freak out every time it snows, but personally speaking, I will gladly take +10 F with fluffy snow falling, or even a crisp, dry -10 F, over our current 33 F with freezing rain, any day of the week.

Snow is pretty and you can play in it. Cold dry air is both invigorating and purifying (and is usually accompanied by a gorgeously sunny day). The weather PA has right now (our second round for the week) make the roads a giant slip'n'slide and is the stuff from which Jane Austen characters are always contracting near-deathly illnesses.

And yet the local weatherman is always "happy to report" we'll be staying on the warmer edge of the system and will only see rain, not snow.

I say, drop the temp and bring on the snow!

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