Bad weather

[Tachikaze]

That snow is so you will have water to drink for the next 12 months. The British Isles get a lot of rain. They also have a very lush, green countryside.

Why complain about the weather? It is there for you. Snow is precious water. If you want a warm Christmas, you can move to San Diego, where the natural landscape is dry and barren.

Of course, we steal water from areas where they get lots of snow to water our lawns, 82 golf courses, and millions of trees, none of which are native here.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Well Tachi, you can have the water I bailed out of my basement, what's your mailing address?
The weather has been fickle here since early on the 23rd. We had six inches of snow till early that morning when a "chinook wind", warm south wind, blew into the area with heavy rain and melted it all. The sudden influx of water overwhelmed the drainage ditches, and my poor little sump pump pumped it's guts out, but had no where to pump the water to because all the ditches were full. It froze later that night and on the morning of Christmas Eve we had ten inches of fresh snow. I did some shoveling and cleared the drive way. When I got near the main road I jumped off the tractor to get the newspaper and mail from the box. I stepped onto a hidden patch of ice, my feet flew out from under me so hard one of my boots came off, and I did a half flip and landed on my shoulder blades a millisecond before the back of my head slammed onto the blacktop. After the faded to I retrieved my boot and the mail, then put the tractor away. Since I have just survived brain surgery for an anuerysm this past summer, my wife insisted that she take me to the emergency room to be checked out. The prognosis, extreme clumsiness with mild concussion, sore muscles and bruises. Fortunately I learned how to fall during all those UDT training sessions and apparently did so instinctively, which lessened the damage. My daughter saw the whole episode from the living room bay window. She only scored it a 9.4 because I missed the landing, kid. That's my girl.