Monday, 19 July 2004

Trust your local weatherman (or person), if you dare
As you know, we've been experiencing some really unusual weather up here in Alberta.

I remember when I was a kid that tornadoes in Alberta only occurred maybe once every 50 years. Now it's a regular occurence.

It snows from October to at least the end of April. And the summer usually isn't something that one would call warm. Basically, if hell froze over, we'd be right at home.

But the last several years, we've been having really strange heatwaves and rain storms. For about 2 or 3 weeks, it was really hot up here. Around 30 degrees C. (not sure what that is in F.). Then we had rain for about 2 1/2 weeks straight. My garden was completely flooded over. And then just this last weekend, we had a really bad rain/hail storm. Of course everyone has heard about the flooding of West Edmonton Mall. Parts of the roof collapsed.

Then, just this morning, they were taking about the rain in the east. There was one house where the water was 8 feet high in the basement. Beats the hell out of anyone up here.

So, with all of this going on, they ask the experts. The guys who study all of this stuff. Their brilliant answer: I don't know. Beats the heck out of me.

In my world, things run much more smoothly (This is based on the assumption that I would be able to control the weather). It's nice during the day...sunny, slight breeze. That kind of stuff. Then between about 1:00 am and 3:00 am, there's a really good, hard rain. Just enough to water everything. Perfect as far as I'm concerned.

Well, lots more planned in my world. Fill you in on how I would deal with people who illegally park later. There's fire involved, so it's kind of neat!

B

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Updated: Tuesday, 20 July 2004 8:34 AM MDT

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