Going into this winter, I figured it would be statistically improbable to follow up the Snowiest Winter In NorthEast Ohio History™ with a season just as bad or even worse, but I had no idea the weather was going to swing completely the other way as it has so far.It seemed initially that we were in for one very long winter as it was already colder than hell and blowing snow all over the place on Thanksgiving Day, and we found ourselves pretty well blitzed by heavy snow storms over the early weeks of December as well. And then, something utterly unexpected happened as we hit the calendar start of winter: the season just stopped, and seemingly on a dime at that.
Now, I am not exactly complaining about all of this, mind you. Outside of a two-week period around Christmas and New Year's Day (as I've said elsewhere, green Christmases are a real spiritual drag), we could stay completely snow-free all winter long and I'd be totally O.K. with that. I like watching snow falling and seeing a fresh blanket of white in the morning as much as the next guy: it's driving though said conditions (especially with other people on the roads) that makes me dread this time of year.
So, perhaps as a karmic treat for enduring the unending hell of 2005, I have been given a Dream Winter (or at least a Dream January ... we won't be in the clear for "no snow" until May) this year. For the last three weeks (save for a two-day false alarm last weekend), there has been no snow, no blasts of steel arctic suffering, and a temperature reading that is seemingly incapable of dropping below thirty degrees. Hell, Sarah (snowbunny incarnate) tells me we're due to hit fifty degrees on Thursday. Muahahahaha.
Tennis, anyone?
NP Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation The Mighty Rearranger
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