Okay...seriously?
A week after the unprecedented cancellation of the UP 200 sled dog race because of a lack of snow we're now on track, beginning later today, for a winter weather event that could see two feet—TWO FEET--of snow dumped on us over the next 36 hours.
What the what, Mother Nature?
Now, I know we've broken the planet. I know that climate change has caused weather to act in stranger and stranger ways. But to get two feet of snow in one day, just a week after having not enough snow for a winter activity, does kind of boggle the mind, even in an era when mind-boggling events seem to occur each and every day.
Gulp.
And, of course, what's scary is this—as mind-blowing as the possibility of the next few days seems,in a couple of years we may end up looking upon it in quaint fondness. Because it wouldn't surprise me if in a few years, when we get four feet of snow and a zombie apocalypse in the same day, that we look back on what may be coming tomorrow and think to ourselves...”boy, what I wouldn't give for just two feet of snow in one day”.
Although, I'm guessing, if you're going to have a zombie apocalypse, having it while four feet of snow is falling WOULD better your odds of survival.
Hopefully, whatever comes the next two days is survivable. Maybe we'll get the full two feet, or maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised by a smaller amount. In the end, I guess, it really doesn't matter. I guess we can just consider it practice for whatever comes in the future.
Because, even without a zombie apocalypse, you know that whatever DOES come in the future will be a lot worse than what we'll be getting tomorrow.
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