Through over the last month or so, I have continued to watch a 15-second clip of a weatherman from Arizona dishing out to International Falls four years ago, and I have been laughing over and over and over. I share this, not being angry or frustrated, but with some hilarity and levity to make some fun with our Icebox, and allow some perspectives from our lifestyle.
Quote (as the weather channel showed cities around the country): “It’s fifteen below in International Falls…why don’t they just abandon that town? What is the purpose of it?! Do we need a neon sign that says, ‘Get out!’?! I don’t; I don’t get it.”
I hope part of this article adds a bit of humor as many of us are ready for spring, but we can still stand and be proud of God’s country (and add some chuckling with other people around our country).
I think this clip was hilarious. The man’s quick litany of questions for life, questioning why people live towards the end of the world, why there was a purpose for someone living (*ahem) “15 below” (which isn’t even close to our record, 55 below zero on January 6th, 1909), let alone the wind chill!
Also, as many of you have learned my “bloodhound” type of personality, my neurons were fired on with many questions about weather in other places in our country. Let's start, for instance, Phoenix, Arizona. Does our friend lives in a house with an airconditioner 24/7/365 when its record is 122 degrees? Were the schools in Pheonix closed on February 2nd, 1939 with 0.4inches of snow? Or, what did happen with that city for Groundhog Day with that chilling snowy day within our history? (https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2014/06/26/5-extreme-phoenix-weather-days/11432009/)
Consider natural disasters with tornados, hurricanes or cities below the sea level (aka New Orleans), or even states that could be drifted away from our continent, let alone creatures like poisonous snakes, alligators or tarantula spiders!
Finally, I am curious about that neon sign with “Get out!”—Would anyone living in “Minnesota nice” write something like that? Or, could that neon sign even survive through a frozen night in northern Minnesota (as the official thermometer in Embarrass was broken on January 20th, 1996 as Tower took over the record, 60 below zero, [https://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2018/04/the-keeper-of-the-embarrass-minn-thermometer-retires/])?
Anyhoo, on forward brothers and sisters in Northern Minnesota—God’s country!—especially as our calendar is moving forward (already into mid-March), and so is Lent!
God Bless!
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