Relative Something

It’s amazing what materializes out of nothing. It’s like being from Minnesota and talking about the weather with a stranger. From absolutely nothing, comes something. BAM! How about this weather? It sure is something, isn’t it?

Winter is finally here. A hurricane-force winter blast just bombarded our east coast, and dumped troublesome amounts of snow on New York. Shots of buried cars on the un-plowed streets look worse than one of our Minnesota snowfalls. It made me feel I have less to brag about. It got me to wondering about why Minnesota has a reputation for being a place of such extreme winter when other cities get hit just as hard. Then an insight came to me as I was struggling to remove the snow from my roof. The snow was over 3 feet deep in places, and working the shovel through it all revealed it was actually multiple layers from all the storms since before Thanksgiving. Oh yeah, that is one of the reasons it is extreme here.

Now we are under siege from a nasty mix of precipitation that threatens to wreak havoc on all things snow-fun related. It’s the dreaded wintertime melt when temperatures break the barrier of freezing and snow conditions degenerate significantly. This is NOT igloo-friendly weather. The forecast is for rain today. Ugh.

That’ll give people something to talk about.