December 20th, 2004
Brrr…
It is so cold in Raleigh today. Right now weather.com says 15 degrees with a wind chill of 2. This has to be some kind of record.
I’m sure you yankees reading this are laughing at me and thinking I’m a wimp, because if it were 15 degrees where you are you’d be outside in a swimsuit, laying in a lawn chair, applying suntan lotion. What you have to realize is that 15 degrees with a wind chill of 2 is the absolute coldest it can get in North Carolina, on the coldest day, in mid-January, at night…in a meat locker…
This morning Jack Frost was not “nipping at my nose.” He was beating me with a sock full of quarters. While telling jokes about my mother. All I can do when I walk outside today is talk with a mid-western accent (see the movie Fargo) and shovel my driveway. And I’m not going to let the fact that there is no actual snow on the driveway stop me.
Granted I’ve been demanding some cold weather lately. But I just wanted enough for it to feel like Christmas-time. I know, I know, be careful what you wish for, but everyone was walking around Raleigh in shorts last week. Seriously.
See we may not have –40 with six feet of snow. Or 120 in the shade. But what we lack in extremes we make up for in sheer unpredictability. When it’s raining and hailing at the same time, despite the fact there wasn’t a cloud in the sky an hour ago, and it’s 30 with an expected high of 67, even though we didn’t get out of the 40s the day before, we can gather around the office water cooler, and say “Well that’s North Carolina for you,” “If you don’t like the weather, wait a minute,” etc., etc.
Also, we have relentless humidity. And mosquitoes. Giant mosquitoes.
They’re the real state bird. Don’t believe that cardinal crap for a second.
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