Clean off Your Rhetoric

It's that time of year. The time when the weather pundits begin to predict the winter's precipitation. Will it be like last year, scant, or like the year we were buried in snow and ice dams were the topic of conversation? That year people spoke about leaks and waiting for people to clean off their roof.

That year folks spoke of ice the thickness of arctic ice, of icicles with the girth of a grown man's waist. Buried cars, bushes buried for months, parking spaces at a premium...
The Farmers Almanac predicted a mild winter with a blizzard in February.

 It's beginning...