I was on the phone with my friend from Texas the other day. He mentioned the weather. I chuckled and asked, “What, is it cold down there?”
“Yeah, sometimes it gets as low as 40 degrees,” my friend responded.
Amused, I mentioned the weather we’ve been having lately. “Wednesday is supposed to feel like 60 below zero,” I told him confidently.”
“You’re crazy,” he chimed back.
Are we crazy for living here? To be honest, is the weather really that bad that it warrants moving to another state? I don’t think so. I love living here in a small town. Who can imagine going south for the year? Are we not already in Southern Minnesota? That has the word south in it, I think that counts.
We’ve been experiencing some more drastic than usual temperatures this week. When you talk to people who have lived here for awhile, they will tell you that cold winters have been a common experience in the past. Those winters have begun to feel like just that, a thing of the past.
I was reading the news the other night and one headline in particular stuck out to me. It said that people under 25 in Minnesota, will experience the coldest temperatures of their lives this week. I told Jessica about this and her response summed up what it is like living here. “Don’t you remember when we were younger and everything froze for like three days?” Apparently there was a three day span where we went without power.
My first memory of a winter power outage was one of my favorite winter memories. Dad had purchased a generator for the winter, probably in response to the previous winter. We kept the refrigerator, microwave, TV and DVD player all hooked up. I remember we spent the entire weekend eating food out of the microwave and marathoning Friends episodes courtesy of Jessica.
To summarize, don’t get too bummed out about the weather this time of year. Before we know it, the weather will be warmer, spring will come along and with it one last snowstorm. But then, when spring is finally over, cough cough, I mean when our winterspring is over, summer will be here and the snow will finally have melted away.
Thought for the week: Stay warm and venture outside with caution.