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12/07/2005
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
I love snow. Delicate, white crystals of infinite variety fall silently, smothering everything in a cotton ball reality.
It's snowing today, in fact. Fine, tiny, very cold flakes are right now interlocking one to another in the streets and sidewalks of Kansas City. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, if you ask me.
But this town can't handle it. The weatherpersons go ballistic at the slightest hint of frozen precipitation. "Stay tuned for news of a major winter storm, coming up after the break!" is the hallmark of KC TV weather reports. Of course, what you consider a major winter storm and what I consider a major winter storm are probably two completely different things. And my Wonderful Wife and her hardy northern family have another concept altogether.
Out here in Cowtown, if we get an inch or two, they close schools and shut down businesses. Back home, growing up, they might not have even reported it. Of course, times have changed. People are more litigious, hence schools and businesses are more cautious. It's a shame, really, because I think the challenge of a little snow makes us stronger. There's the shoveling, and the dealing with the slop, and the cold and the overcoats and the boots and school closings. Yes, they are all inconvenient. Yes, they make life miserable for some. But for most of us, it is a minor inconvenience that challenges us to dig a little deeper and find a little more goodness so we can respond properly when we walk through the slush to do our Christmas shopping or pick up stamps at the post office.
So I say, if you find yourself slogging through slop on your way to the car, just remember, it could be worse. It could be 110 in the shade!
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