December 12, 2007
From TheKCGuy
I miss winter. I don't mean this sissy near-winter stuff that we're getting in Kansas City these days. I mean the winters that we used to get 20 years ago. (Again, I'm beginning to think that I'm becoming an old and curmudgeonly.) I recall building snow forts and igloos that several people could hang out in over in Prairie Village. I don't mean several of my small friends, either. I mean Uncle Jim was in there with us. He's fully grown.
It seems like it was commonplace for us to have a good 12" dumping of snow at least once each winter. The kind of snow that could get us out of school for more than one day, and still have snow left on suicide hill for the second day. Now, we're lucky if we get 6" or 8" of snow. I say we bring back the 80's when we had good snow, or at least 2002 when we had a good ice storm.
Maybe I'll write a letter to Gary Lezak to ask him if I'm just imagining things or if we're really getting screwed on our winters these days.
Oh, and don't tell me that this is evidence of global warming. This is only possibly anecdotal evidence of local warming. It may be colder than Dick Cheney's black heart somewhere else on this Earth.
Events
- Tom Brokaw speaks today at the Mariott-Muehlebach tower at 12th and Wyandotte Downtown. Ticketing information at kmbz.com
- Then, see Brokaw at Unity Temple tonight at 7 brought to you by Rainy Day Books
