February 9, 2011
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brrr.
After our mild and dry fall/early winter, true winter has struck with a vengeance since the turning of the year. Last week we had a snow/cold day followed by the first out-and-out cold day I’ve witnessed here. There wasn’t that much snow on the roads, it was just frigid, -15 and below, and most schools decided it was unsafe for students to be out waiting for buses, etc. Despite being gifted two days at home, I didn’t catch up on my grading as much as I’d hope, so when I heard another nasty blowing snow day was forecast Tuesday (today), I decided I’m taking a sick day, no matter what. I got stuck driving in the crap Thursday and Saturday afternoon, both events unexpected by meteorologists. Tonight is just going to be F-U-cold again, well below zero.
To anyone who thinks this disproves global warming, that is drawing a simple conclusion about a complex system with the same level of empirical evidence once used to say that since the ground is flat, the whole earth must be also.
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I was surprisingly shocked when I walked outta work this morning to find out it was not frigid. It was cold… but not sub zero… and it was supposed to be. It was a whopping 11 F… but, that’s better than -11 F, yes? Sounds like it’s all up hill from here, temp wise, which is good. I’m tired of this stupid weather. Seriously.
And yeah. I’m near-ish to you. Sorta. In the grand scheme of things. But not like… right next door.
Well well, look who’s here. I guess we take turns, since I’ve been somewhat absent from xanga lately. Sorry about the cold. It may be that the world is reacting to global warming. All that ice melting and the water flowing to us. It could be somewhat self regulating, but it can’t last forever. On the other hand, if we suddently stopped greenhouse emissions, maybe we would have a freeze. Just a theory that I hope we can test.