Last I checked, it was February

Posted by E-George on February 21, 2008

So, what’s with all this blasted, wretched, dingy-dangy-hecktah-fooey SNOW doing on the ground?  Well, in fairness, it’s melted now, but it was there this morning.   Here’s how the story goes:

It’s 3:20am and I’m woken by a persistant nagging that I have now come to recognize as my 3rd nightly trip to the bathroom (more on this later), and I am immediately cursed with the Curse of Waking Up In The 3 O’Clock Hour.  A witching hour, one could say, where I simply lay awake through the rest of the hour and well into 4:00am waiting for another rem cycle to loop around.  So, I’m laying there, wishing deeply that I hadn’t woken up just then and wishing even more deeply that I could go to sleep when all of a sudden a giant gale of wind picks up and moves all of the plastic lawn furniture from where it was piled up on one end of the yard to a new pile on the opposite end of the yard.  The wind whips and howls and generally sounds awful when through the noise I can suddenly hear the prickly noise of snow crystals striking the windows and the skylights.  This continues building for what seems like an eternity (and was actually 40 minutes) until I’m just about to start having a very quiet tantrum (so as not to wake up Matthew who is, of course, sleeping quite soundly) over my wide-awakedness compounded by all the racket.  Next thing I know, I’m temporarily blinded by a giant flash of lightening and rattled by a thunderous clap of lightening.  It’s snowing.  AND thundering and lightening.  I didn’t know those two things could exist in such violent harmony.   Eventually the wind calms down, but the barometric pressure had dropped (or raised or whatever the hell it does when storm fronts  descend with absurd alacrity) because I was stuffy-nosed and headachy and barely slept until it was time to get up.  And when I do get up?  There’s snow everywhere.  Except on the streets.  So I still have to go to work. 

 After all of that, there was no justice.  No relief.   So, I ask again:  What’s with this weather?  Usually by late February the spring winds have come along and are busy pushing winter where it belongs: Somewhere Else.  Snow storms become rain storms.   But nooooOOOOooooo.   Normally, I don’t advocate the bitching about weather because it can just lead to a general bitching attitude about everything, but I really do feel like winter season has gotten out of control.  

It needs to be stopped.  Time to contract Mr. Heat Miser to kick Snow Miser’s ass.

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