Too Much To Dream

Yes, I actually pedaled my bicycle in to work this morning (three miles), into that 25 mph north wind. Now, if I only go about 12mph, how did I manage to get here at all? Today's high temperature was at four am- not a good sign. Tomorrow's low here (Clearwater, Florida) is supposed to be in the high 30's- and we have a 100 mile motorcycle ride scheduled around Tampa Bay. Bbbbrrrr!!!!

Looks like I'll have to relax and let all my plants die tonight.

Not to be mean, but I'm really having a hard time finding any sympathy for the weather you Floridians are experiencing.

Up here in Indiana, it's supposed to hit 6 degrees tonight. And it's a balmy 12 right now, with wind chill.

And we have about 3 inches of snow from yesterday...

Funny thing about that, Demosthenes: I feel the same way about anyone who lives north of I-10. We might cry and moan over a little cool weather, but at least it will be back up into the 70's next week.

We have some pretty odd weather up here, Chip. This winter has been pretty consistently, well, effing cold, but it isn't always like that. We've had Christmases of 60 degrees before; then last year, we had an ice storm at the end of March/early April.

I'm just jealous:)

Chip,

It's all relative. Miami-Dade legislators and their staffs consistently bitch about the cold here in Tallahassee during session. Some of them genuinely have never even seen snow in person.

I remember getting out of a movie in DC a few years ago, and overhearing fellow members of the audience all in a panic about less than an inch of snow. They were worried they "wouldn't make it home," and wondering if they needed snow chains for their tires, etc. OTOH, maybe they were right; this was still in the heyday of the Barry Administration, when the District didn't actually have any snowplows of its own and had to go begging to the adjoining counties of Maryland and Virginia if there ever was any serious accumulation. But then, I guess that's what happens when you re-elect a mayor who smokes crack.

My father was born and raised in DC. He used to tell me they were always like that when it snowed up there. "Snow! Who -- how -- that wasn't on the schedule!" Rain too.

There is no temperature in Northen Wisconsin. None, zip, zero degrees.

Try driving in the infamous San Joaquin Valley fog. This is one of the few places on the planet not by the ocean where you can have a heavier fog roll in at 9:00 A.M. than was around at 5:00 A.M. We don't have to bundle up or spread salt on all our roads, but all you folks can SEE where you're going.

We get fog like that, but it's usually gone by 9am.

One hour after Camelot.