excuse me, please
It is not winter when it is 62 degrees and rainy outside. But for some reason this year, winter in Chicago is described just like this - balmy and mild.
WHAT??!??!??!!
Are you kidding me? Winter in Chicago is 2 feet of snow, 20 degrees below zero and 40 below with the wind chill. The chill is no joke.
So what gives this year? Maybe global warming and we shall soon see the glaciers melting into little memories. Maybe we just got a lucky break - after all, the Second City deserves a break every now and then.
Or maybe there was a tear in the space-time continuum and the whole winter season fulfilled its cycle within the span of a week (the one "cold" week we had) and now it is really May 5 but nobody realizes it just yet because the tear didn't affect our clocks.
Hm. Well.
Happy Cinco de Mayo! Felicidades!
Comments
guess i'm finally going to have to invest in some gloves. my first real winter in eight years. well, i AM excited.
Posted by: Jay | November 24, 2003 11:41 PM
aaaaahhh... now THIS is november!
Posted by: delara | November 24, 2003 10:28 PM
yeah me too. I lost my breath because of the wind. :-P
Posted by: Sholeh | November 24, 2003 03:56 PM
You spoke too soon, Delara -- I almost caught frostbite on the way to work this morning.
Posted by: +mojan. | November 24, 2003 10:18 AM
Felicidades Chicagoans!
Greetings from Winter! It was 18 degrees last time I went out at 7pm this evening. No joke... 18 degrees. And its been snowing since last evening when I missed my friends' wedding ceremony due to lack of knowledge of Minneapolis streets and slow, slippery traffic jams. I made it to the reception, which was a lovely reunion. But I realized when I found the place that I've had more years of driving experience in Chicago than in the town next to my hometown! See you back in summer (read Chicago) in a week!
Posted by: kari | November 24, 2003 01:01 AM