The weather has been playing catch me if you can. One week it’s ice, then it turns pretty just long enough to tease your senses, followed by the snow. Didn’t Roland Emerick do a movie on this, Day After Tomorrow?
Nature has been playing tag since man started hunting for food. I’m not declaring that global warming hasn’t had an impact on our world, but long before industrialization it was snowing, monsoons were hitting and sand storms ravaged. It’s the reason the concept of only strongest survive became so popular. Think dust bowls and the time before electric air conditioners and heaters. We build houses that encroach along unsettled ocean and are outraged when the ocean invades what we decided to claim for ourselves.
And I’ll admit I’m one of those people that keep thinking it would be great to live on the ocean or in the mountains. Instead, I live in tornado alley. I have a job where when it snows 24 inches, like it did four years ago, they send someone to my home to pick me up and bring me into work. Only, they don’t guarantee a ride home, only lodging at the hospital. Everyone else can be ticketed for being out, but as nurses and doctors we are told it is our duty. I was picked up by a rackety jeep and a fearless driver and we swung by to pick up a physician. I had to laugh and wondered seriously what qualified the driver to take my life in his hands on the steering wheel.
At heart, I am a candy ass. My preference is to look at the snow from the inside of a warm house. When the rain is lashing out, I like to hear it on the roof and watch the trees sway. In the midst of it all, I will drink hot chocolate or tea, curl up and read a good book. I may take my handy pad of paper and pen to write. As I’ve gotten older, I feel less inclined to brave the weather. On the survivor scale, I’m avoiding the Eskimos, cause I don’t want to be put on an ice float. If you see me floating by, throw some marshmallows my way for my hot chocolate.
I promised rambling, didn’t I.
And on the theme of wacky weather, tell me your thoughts on the subject and your favorite weather or disaster movie.
Rhianna
I kind of like when storms or wacky weather hits. Not the inconvenience of course, but the thrill of something out of the ordinary happening. I also like that feeling that Mother Nature shows her power and kind of slaps us in the face telling us who’s boss sometimes. It’s rather awe inspiring and humbling.
I hate when we get strong wind storms by me, though. Our house is surrounded by huge pine and cedar trees and I’m very paranoid of a tree falling on the house. It happens a lot in the Pacific NW.
Not weather related, but I love being in earthquakes.
I loved “The Day After Tomorrow” it was a good flick. My favorite disaster movie favorites are all earthquake or volcano related though.
Comment by MB (Leah) — March 10, 2008 @ 10:39 am
Hi Leah! I know exactly what you mean about watching mother nature. We’ve had some wind damage in this area and almost three years ago a tornado that killed twenty five people. Once you’re dealing with the aftermath of that, she just just a bad tempered mother.
I worked as a travel nurse for a year and spent a total of six months in California. I didn’t like that earthquakes. It was during the San Fransico time. It was odd, mother nature was after me. I was in conneticut and they had a tornado there for the first time in 25 years. I went to Ohio State hospital and they had floods that killed thirty people. My sister finally told me I must be a freak not to relaize he was shooing me home to Indiana. But, I discovered I was being hounded here too…can’t cathc a break!
Seriously, I like disaster movies.
Rhianna
Comment by Administrator — March 10, 2008 @ 11:30 am
Yes, there is always the death and destruction part of mother nature throwing her weight around, which is really sad and painful.
Um… please don’t come to Seattle area. Stay in Indiana. *snort*
Comment by MB (Leah) — March 10, 2008 @ 2:18 pm
I was just checking out your blog and couldn’t help commenting. You caught my attention with your comment on tornado ally. I’m in that same ally but further north in Michigan. I’ve seen a number of twisters over the years. And my mother told the story of how as a baby in Cleveland, Ohio a tornado came through and took the 2 houses on either side of ours. And I still prefer Mich. to California. I agree on temperatures too. I’m hoping to retire to Arizona someday and not have to deal with ice and snow.
mamasand2
Comment by mamasand2 — March 13, 2008 @ 4:41 am