What's up with this crazy weather?

Saturday, I was sitting in the dark thinking. (No power and I couldn't go anywhere because of the trees blocking the road) One of the reasons that I love living in the greater Seattle area is that the climate is mild. Not too hot, not too cold. No tornados or hurricanes, so the weather is not likely to hurt you. This year has been crazy. We have had floods, snow, and wind in great excess. We are used to getting one major event every few years but all three? And it's only early January. We're just sitting around waiting for the plague of locusts over the land.

Now I know all of you from the east coast are laughing at us for being such wusses. The problem is that because it doesn't happen very often, our infrastructure is not equipped to deal with it. It is not cost effective to have a bunch of snow removal equipment when some years we don't get any lowland snow at all. I just wanted to say that it's been a wacky year.

Thought for the day -

We only think that we have control over our environment.