It’s entirely beyond me why the weather in St. Louis chooses to behave as it does. It went from 75°F to 35°F overnight and then, 48 hours later, dumped 6 inches of snow in half a day. Not to mention that the Cardinals are due to open their regular season at home in just 4.5 days.
I suppose things could be worse, though. I was in Arkansas in January 2009 during the ice storm that pummeled both Arkansas and Kentucky; President Barack Obama declared the region a federal disaster area. The University of Arkansas closed for four days, and roughly 600,000 in the northwestern part of Arkansas lost power at one point. The destruction that ice brought was a little surreal. Trees bent and broke under the weight of the ice, and it looked a little like a tornado had blown through. Trying to rescue a car from an exoskeleton of ice two inches thick wasn’t a particularly easy task, either.
Needless to say, I do not readily welcome winter weather, and I’m particularly against winter weather when it’s now a full week into spring and when baseball season is just days away. Of course, I say that now, and it’ll be 100°F with 90% humidity later this week. There never seems to be any stability to midwestern weather.
For those of you not in the gateway city right now, I thought I’d provide a little proof of the unkindly precipitation. If you’re a fan of snow, you’re more than welcome to take ours away from us. You can have all you want.
