Let's talk about the weather. . .

Tom Obert writes:
Weary Alexandrians yearn for the sanity of winter days with 20 below temperatures with bright, sunny skies and no wind!"
Yesterday, we awoke to temperatures above freezing (for only the 2nd time in a month and a half) - with lots of wind and drizzle. I attempted to go out for my mall walk - I slid through the first stop sign and slid past my first left turn. With great difficulty, I turned around and returned home. Once home again I learned schools were closed. The locals hunkered down for a day of gloomy, slushie, yuckie, dreary, crappy, meltie winter weather - we just aren't used to it!
Last night, we had a Central Lakes Concert Association concert. It was still warm and drizzly. When we got to the parking lot, we thought we had the wrong night. Hardly anyone was there. It was weather related - people weren't going to venture out in that weather, give them a good blizzard instead! So, the smallest crowd we've ever seen at a CLCA concert enjoyed Joe Trio anyway - their YouTube performance of Black Dog Rondo was their first song.
During their second song, a gentleman loudly collapsed out of his chair - the concert was put on hold while we all awaited the ambulance. Unfortunately, when they put the gentleman on the stretcher, I recognized him as a fellow mall walker. Fortunately, as they wheeled him out, he was conscious and appeared to be OK. Just a continuation of a strange day in which we heard the hospital had to deal with FOUR broken hips as a result of falls on the slippery outside.
It's senior night for the girls' hockey team tonight. It's still warm and drizzly out there. Uh-oh!!