Blizzard 2011

One of my earliest memories is of seeing snow drifts piled up to the peaks of my childhood home. Today's blizzard warning in Kansas City brought that memory to mind. The recent local headlines concerning the blizzard have contained some of the local snowfall history and records. My memory could have been from 1958 when high winds drove 11 inches of snow into large drifts. A later memory is a snowfall that created 4-5 foot drifts in our yard. I was then old enough to dig snow tunnels and caves into the drifts with my neighborhood friends. Based on the history of largest KC snowfalls, that may have been 1962.

Today's blizzard warning is only the second ever issued for Kansas City. I now know that a blizzard is defined as a minimum 3 hour period of winds over 35 MPH with falling or blowing snow that reduces visibility to less than a quarter mile, a pretty rare occurrence. But this is the second blizzard warning in the past 13 months here. None for the entire recorded history of Kansas City, and then 2 within 13 months. That's odd. What's the deal?

If you listen to the followers of the failed Mother Earth religion who preach manmade global warming, you know their answer. Their explanation for everything is global warming. If it gets hot during the summer, that is a sure sign that man is heating up the planet. So is a warmer than average winter. Now that the U.S. is getting blasted by storm after storm, that too is evidence that man's greed has spoiled our planet. I once heard Danny Glover, a global warming fanatic, say the Haiti earthquake was a result of global warming. As he put it, the planet was angry at man for our disregard. All you can do is smile. But I am laughing hysterically inside as I enjoy the beauty of a blizzard from the warmth of our sun room.