Dear Weather Gods,
Written February 11, 2010. Posted under My Life, Rants. 8 comments.
I think we need to have a talk. I know I said that I wanted a blizzard this year- who doesn’t want a ton of snow on their senior year!- but I had no intention of you taking that request literally. Ever.
You see, I enjoy getting time off of school. But enough is enough. The big snowstorm on Saturday was nice- a near-record breaking 30 inches, and two days off of school. But to send another storm, complete with blizzard-like (Okay, so it wasn’t blizzard-like. It was an actual blizzard.) winds, to dump another two feet of snow before the initial 30 inches had had a chance to fully melt? In case you hadn’t noticed, that’s more than forty inches of snow. And, Weather Gods, I don’t know if you realized, but usually you only give us about eighteen inches of snow. IN A SEASON.
Snow drifts taller than I am? Roads that haven’t been plowed yet- and probably won’t be for days? This is not upstate New York, Weather Gods. This is the Mid-Atlantic. This is freaking Maryland. You just don’t dump that much snow on the D.C. area at one time, especially when we’re not used to getting that much snow, even over the course of two or three months.
Now, Weather Gods, you’ve imprisoned me- and, from what Facebook tells me, pretty much everyone else I know in our houses for approximately a week while the snow melts and the roads clear. I haven’t left my house since last Sunday, and probably won’t until next Sunday. I’m going to go crazy in here- if I haven’t already- for being stuck in the house an entire week with the exact same people (no offense, family type people).
So, in conclusion, I believe that three massive snowfalls is enough for this year, Weather Gods. Let’s give this stuff a chance to melt and go away. I know I might have said I wanted a blizzard, but I didn’t mean that I wanted a blizzard blizzard, let alone one on top of the other. Enough with the snow and ice. Bring on the sunshine and seventy-degree weather, please.
Sincerely,
Make The Snow Stop in Maryland, A.K.A. Emily.
P.S. I do thank you, though, for allowing our house to keep our power. Normally, it’s not very stable, but by some miracle, through this whole thing it only flickered once. God is in the small things, I guess.
(TL;DR? Just had two massive snow storms within three days of one another. Am now experiencing approx. 40 inches of snow with some very large snow drifts, which I do not like. I would now like spring, kthnx.)
8 Comments
I completely agree. I live in Rhode Island and we haven’t gotten this much snow since I was two. The Weather Gods have their heart set on a blustery, blizzardy winter. But I am definitely ready for spring. In fact, I cannot wait. Snow days are nice, but when you are stuck inside your house… then they lose a bit of their shiny appeal.
→ Posted by Fuzz on February 11, 2010
Aw, Emily, that’s so unfair you’re getting snow =O *pounds the walls* I think the Weather Gods sent their apprentice to control the weather this winter; and the apprentice hasn’t learned geography yet
I’ve been waiting and waiting for a nice storm, but our last good one (that wasn’t just flurries building up to three inches, you know?) was in October. OCTOBER!!! I love getting days off, and once when I was in second grade we got the awesome six feet of snow. Last year we got four feet as the record of the winter. But we have only had ONE real snowstorm this winter. It makes me sooo mad, especially since it’s cold out so it’s not like the ancient snow can melt.
By the way, the part about blizzards with winds made me laugh. It’s just that we’re used to super high winds up here in the mountains. I remember once in elementary school, we couldn’t go out for recess because the winds were over a hundred miles per hour. It didn’t seem any more windy than usual at the time, though
Mountain perspective vs. flatland perspective, I guess.
→ Posted by Lighty on February 11, 2010
Ha-ha, ditto Em. I live in New Jersey- approximately 3 feet of snow. But, with every new seasons, comes new whether. I’m fairly certain it should melt, and I pray to the Whether Gods that we don’t get another one. Because, in the end, there’s nothing we can do.
→ Posted by Ravyn on February 12, 2010
*sighs* Sorry Blizz! I am one of the Weather Gods!
I’m the Weather GODDESS!! 
Btw, how do you get the shadowed headers? XO
→ Posted by Swifty on February 13, 2010
@Swifty- it’s a CSS3 property:
text-shadow: #000 #px #px #;
The hex code is the color of the shadow, the first two numbers are the offset of the shadow from the original words to the left and bottom, and the last number is how blurred the shadow is.
Because it’s CSS3, which doesn’t have to be supported by major browsers (yet), it works in new versions of cool browsers like Firefox and Opera, but doesn’t show up in cruddy ones like Internet Explorer. Which kind of stinks, but that’s what people get for using I.E.
→ Posted by Emily on February 13, 2010
→ Posted by Swifty on February 13, 2010
You know, the Hagerstown Almanac -which has correctly predicted all three storms- says we’re going to get three more feet of snow in the beginning of March. So the Gods don’t like you.
→ Posted by Hannah on February 17, 2010
Ahahaha you should live in Maine, we have no snow at ALL.Well, some melting puddles on the ground I guess…
Crazy winter.
→ Posted by Heather on February 21, 2010
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