Torrential rains. That is one of the seasonal rewards of living on the Praries. Sure, everyone hears of the -40 degree winters, cold enough to stop your mind as well as your heart; yet people are less familiar with the Scorching Blazes of July, which lead to, as I mentioned, Torrential Rains.
Now, it seems that not only is Manitoba getting it’s usual quota of precipitation these days, but Barrie, Ont. has gotten flash floods, Alberta’s Bow River region has swelled to enormous preportions, and Hay River has been put into two states of emergencies. The water is making it’s way east, and now, back here on the Great Plains, we’re getting some more rain.
Now, I’m not meteorologist, per-say, but I have an itching feeling that this weather is a little unnatural. I’m not trying to be an alarmist here, trying to imply that the Apocalypse is coming, but I should pose this: Have you at your age, (likely under age thirty), caught yourself saying “Well, back in MY day, I could remember when we had normail weather.”? If so, you may want to get a head check, since climate normally determined by a thirty year span of time in any given area. If you find that your given area has been privy to some major twists, such as frozen lakes in the end of May, in 1997, or not a flake of snow until December of 1999, then you may want to start wondering. Don’t go as far as seriously pondering Junk Science, like Global Warming/Ice Caps Melting because, that, my friend is alarmist.
It’s raining torrentially right now, and the thunder is constantly rumbling. I’m huddling in the basement, which is why I’m talking of weather. Water causes me to melt. And lightning causes me to die.
I can’t stop quoting you. “Water causes me to melt. And lightning causes me to die. ” Oh, you are too endearing for the words I am currently at a loss for.
i love the rain.
it makes me want to curl up and watch movies and drink coffee and talk all day. i love it.
it could always rain and i’d be happy
except when i want to go to the beach. then i’d be sad forsure.
but today i loved the rain.
the end.
it’s the masses of mosquitoes that come after the rain in the praries- yikes! the big black clouds of them hovering and clustering and the incessant buzzing. even though the summer is warm (to too hot) i prefer the praries in the fall or even the winter
“Don’t go as far as seriously pondering Junk Science, like Global Warming/Ice Caps Melting because, that, my friend is alarmist.”
this is a pretty brave statement, cause i’m pretty sure this is exactly what kevin costner’s character in water world said just before the world flooded and he was left floating across the ocean on his little sail boat while drinking his own urine. i saw it on the extended version dvd. yeah, there was an extended version, it was four and half days long.