Bad weather ahead, bring it on
here it comes, the bad weather ahead. An alert on my phone says high winds are in our future, along with a bad storm that should be engulfing us over the Thanksgiving holiday.
I feel let down more times than not. The promise of bad weather and then nothing. I’m talking about all things white Christmas. We haven’t had a white Christmas since longer than I can remember.
bring on the bad weather
as far as bad weather goes, we haven’t had what I would call “bad weather” since I was a kid! Now they alert you for a few inches of snow on the ground calling it “bad weather”. And that winter weather storm? You may get lucky and accumulate 5 inches!
long gone are the days of real bad weather. At the risk of dating myself, I can remember when the tires were allowed to have studs in them. At that time salting roads wasn’t as it is now. We are also talking about a few feet of accumulation, not inches.
Really?
I remember no school for a week due to the snow being so deep we had a drift that was as tall as the house. We had to exit out the least snowed in door to shovel out access to the house. I remember I dug a hole through the snow drift and played for hours. Looking back on that now I’m not so sure that compromising the integrity of the drift was one of my better ideas…
the pond would freeze over and my skates would have to cut through the snow; that virgin snow that saw no one or thing but me and my attempts. Wearing a snowmobile suit that was bulky and layered underneath with thermal underwater, flannel shirt and sweater. Doubled up socks challenged the strings of my skates once I could get them out of my wool lined snow mobile boots.
Yes, really!
I’m not exaggerating the bad weather I refer to even made Wikipedia and has its own Michigan site!
Yep, those days are gone and replaced by freezing conditions one minute and a heat wave of 50 degrees the next. Or, freezing at night, melting abundantly during the day. It’s hard to believe that the beautiful sunset I took pictures of last weekend are lost in a bad weather alert, but alas those are the times we are living in.
