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It has been snowing since I arrived home from my business trip on Wednesday 12/17.   We have shoveled and blown nearly 25 inches of snow from our sidewalks and our driveway.  I just want it to stop.

What we are hearing on the news is that the record snowfall for a 24 hour period was somewhere in the neighborhood of 13 inches back in 1950.  The National Weather Service on last report that I looked at had us at 19 inches in a 24 hour period.   Absolutely shattering the prior record.  (They’ve been keeping records here in Spokane since the early 1880s.)

Now for the most part I am like the snow.  I was born and raised with it and know how to drive in it and we have the equipment to help use remove it, etc.  What I don’t like about it is the way others deal with it.    Take the City of Spokane for example… they can’t seem to figure out how to keep our city streets clean.  When we lived in Chicago we would get a major storm and within 24 hours things were back to normal.  Chicago I believe at one point was going to impeach a mayor because they couldn’t get the roads cleaned efficiently.  It’s no surprise we are going to get snow… Why does it take so long to get the streets open?   Another example is the amazing impatience that people have with one another… particularly when driving.  Conditions call for a slower speed… remember that as you are wrapped around the light pole and spending the night in the emergency room.

This is two winters in a row now where Spokane has experienced record snowfall.  And preceding this snow we had some incredibly low temperatures to boot.  I’d like some environmentalist or expert on our world’s environment to tell me how this is all a part of global warming?   When even Las Vegas gets snow…Well maybe hell has frozen over and we are going to now get what we have coming?